[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25287]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, today the Senate will vote on a continuing 
resolution that funds Government through tomorrow. I understand that 
the House will be voting on that resolution at approximately 10 or 
10:30. However, it was our hope that we would have the Senate vote on 
the joint resolution immediately this morning. We will be unable to 
reach an agreement to allow that to occur earlier. Therefore, the 
Senate will vote as soon as the continuing resolution is received from 
the House.
  The Senate will also convene on Sunday at 4 p.m. to consider another 
continuing resolution with a vote scheduled to occur at 7 p.m. A vote 
will also occur on Monday to continue Government funding and the vote 
will occur at a time to be determined. Senators will be notified as 
Monday votes are scheduled.
  I thank my colleagues for their consideration as we work these 
different issues out.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The assistant minority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the House is right now voting on approval of 
the Journal. They should vote on the CR momentarily. We should have 
that shortly. I know a number of people have asked when we will 
complete that.
  On Sunday, they are supposed to vote on their CR at 6 o'clock that 
night. I hope that is the case. Senator Stevens and a number of the 
members of the Appropriations Committee are meeting. They met 
yesterday, hoping to wind up negotiations on Labor-HHS, which will be 
the last train moving out of the station. With the compromise that is 
in the air, I hope we can wrap up the tax package and the Labor-HHS 
bill maybe as early as Monday and Tuesday at the latest. I hope that is 
the case.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The acting majority leader.
  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, we had put the continuing resolution on the 
desk hoping we could get agreement with the other side to move 
immediately to accommodate Senators' schedules. That is not going to 
happen. As I have said, we will wait for the House to vote.

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