[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, today the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business, with Senators Grams and Durbin in control of the time 
until 11:30 a.m. Momentarily, I intend to propound a unanimous consent 
request that provides for debate on two FEC nominations, beginning at 
11:30 a.m., and consuming the remainder of the day. There will also be 
debate time on several judicial nominations, with any votes ordered 
during today's session to occur on Wednesday.
  For the information of all Senators, it is my intention to begin 
consideration of the legislative branch appropriations bill, as well as 
the Agriculture appropriations bill, later this week. It is hoped that 
the Senate can complete action on both of these very important spending 
bills prior to the Memorial Day recess.
  Now, again, for the information of Senators, we will have this debate 
on the nominations throughout the day. Beginning tomorrow, in the 
morning, I presume, right after the opening activities, we will go to 
the legislative branch appropriations bill. We hope to be able to 
finish that in a reasonable period of time. But regardless of that, 
sometime in midafternoon--I presume, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30; we will have to 
look at the time and work out that exact time--we will begin a series 
of votes that will probably mean votes on either four or five or six--I 
hope it is five or four and not the full six, but we could still have 
as many as six votes in a row Wednesday afternoon. Then we hope to turn 
to the Agriculture appropriations bill.

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