[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 35 (Tuesday, March 12, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S1671]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will be 
in morning business until 12:30 today. The majority will control the 
first 30 minutes, the Republicans the second 30 minutes. Chairman 
Mikulski and Ranking Member Shelby are expected to make opening 
statements about 11 o'clock this morning.
  Just as an aside, this is a new day in the Senate. We are so grateful 
for the hard work of Senators Mikulski and Shelby. The amendment is 
offered as their substitute amendment. I am very proud of the work they 
did. We are going to have to work through a number of amendments, but 
when it is all over, we are going to send over a bill I hope the House 
will accept. If not, we will have a quick conference--I hope that is 
not necessary--and continue the work on our other appropriations bills 
and finish the problems we have had in being behind.
  The CR will fund the government until October 1. We hope by then we 
can complete work on our appropriations bills, so in 2014 we don't have 
to go through all this again--CRs and omnibuses and all that kind of 
stuff.
  We are going to recess from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. today for weekly 
caucus meetings. We have extended that for an extra 15 minutes because 
the President is going to be here today.
  We expect to begin consideration of H.R. 933, which is the 
appropriations bill I just talked about, following the caucus meetings 
we are going to have.

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