[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2051]
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                       BUSINESS BEFORE THE SENATE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Now, Mr. President, in a few moments, I will lock in an 
agreement on a number of important votes tomorrow.
  First and foremost, we have reached an agreement for the Senate to 
conclude the confirmation process of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson 
tomorrow. We will hold a cloture vote tomorrow morning at approximately 
11 a.m., and the final vote for her confirmation is on track to take 
place at around 1:45 tomorrow afternoon, depending on how many Members 
wish to speak.
  It will be a joyous day--joyous for the Senate, joyous for the 
Supreme Court, joyous for America--but we still have a long way to go. 
America, tomorrow, will take a giant step to becoming a more perfect 
nation.
  I will have more to say on this historic occasion tomorrow, but, for 
now, I wish to thank my Senate colleagues for working together to 
advance and finalize this historic nomination to the Supreme Court.
  Second, I will also lock in an agreement to hold a series of votes on 
PNTR and the oil ban tomorrow.
  After many rounds of negotiations with Republicans, we have reached 
an important and crucial breakthrough. This agreement clears the path 
to finally approve legislation that will strip Russia of permanent 
normal trade relations with the United States. It will also allow the 
Senate to take separate action on an oil ban proposal as we originally 
sought. These proposals both have the support of the White House, and 
it is a big, big deal that we are finally getting them done. I wish 
this could have happened sooner, but after weeks of talks with the 
other side, it is important that we have found a path forward to 
getting PNTR done on a bipartisan basis.
  I want to sincerely thank Senator Crapo, who worked in good faith 
with us, together, and we wouldn't have reached an outcome--this 
outcome--without his diligence and good faith.

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