[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 21 (Thursday, February 11, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following the leader remarks of Senator 
McConnell and myself, the Senate will proceed to a period of morning 
business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. 
We are going to lay down our jobs bill today so we can begin its 
consideration when we return after the recess. There is no question the 
snow has interfered with our work. It would be nice if we could say: 
OK, then, we are just going to move on next week and pretend next week 
was this week, but as I told somebody outside before I came in here, 
when we leave Washington, we do not go home to relax and take it easy. 
We have constituencies in the State of Minnesota, the State of 
Kentucky, the State of Illinois, the State of Nevada. We have to take 
care of it. We have appointments and things we have to do, and we 
schedule them long ahead of time.
  So we are going to come back after the Presidents Day recess 
energized and make up for this snow day, snow week, and do the very 
best we can. The jobs bill we are moving forward on is not as big as 
the one in different elements of the legislation, but it is one that is 
extremely important. It is going to deal with jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs--
four times--because all four elements of our jobs bill will deal with 
creating jobs immediately, as the Congressional Budget Office said, 
creating jobs immediately.

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