[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 170 (Sunday, December 19, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S10706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           Order Of Business

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to have one more vote today on 
a circuit judge. It is my understanding the district judge will go by 
voice.
  Mr. President, tomorrow, we are going--first of all, tonight, anyone 
who wants to work on the START treaty, the managers of the bill, 
Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar, have said they are here as long as 
people want to work on it. We are going to come in at 10 in the 
morning. We will work from 10 until 2 on the START treaty, and then a 
number of Senators want to have a closed session. We will do that in 
the Old Senate Chamber. The Chamber has already been cleared by the 
security folks, so we will start that at 2 o'clock and go as long as 
necessary. Then we will come back tomorrow evening and continue working 
on the START treaty.
  We have very few things left to do. The Republican leader and I and 
our staffs have worked throughout the morning trying to come up with 
something on the CR. We are very close to being able to get that done, 
but it is not done. So we have the CR to do. The short-term runs out on 
Tuesday, so we have to have things done by then. We have this START 
treaty, and then, of course, we have the 9/11 health bill and the 
motion to reconsider. Senator Levin has been working on some other 
things, namely defense, on an agreement to get it done.

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