[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kyl). Under the previous order, the 
leadership time is reserved.
  The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, while the leader is on the floor, I state 
for the minority, we are here; we are ready to work; we understand the 
tremendous load of work that we have. We only have about 35 legislative 
days until we adjourn this Congress.
  In addition to the appropriations bills, there are other pieces of 
legislation we can move along. The leader has indicated a couple of 
things he is interested in accomplishing this week. We are happy to 
work on those. It is also important that we don't lose sight of the 
fact we have a number of matters in conference. We have to complete the 
conference committee reports so we can come back and vote on those. We 
have issues that are out there, not the least of which are the 
Patients' Bill of Rights, prescription drugs, gun safety, a minimum 
wage increase for families around America, and education. I hope we 
also can focus on some of these issues during the next 35 legislative 
days.
  The minority is here; we are ready to move. I think we have worked 
very hard on these appropriations bills in the last 6 weeks. I think 
the last week we were able to get a lot done, including the emergency 
supplemental, which is so important. We would also direct the leader's 
attention to the fact that there are other matters originally contained 
in the supplemental we need to complete in the immediate future.

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