[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18216]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, today the Senate will resume consideration 
of the Defense authorization bill, with approximately 25 minutes to be 
equally divided prior to a 10 a.m. cloture vote. I just left the 
majority leader and he hopes we can invoke cloture and we can complete 
consideration of this bill today. The two managers have worked 
extremely hard. They were here until 8 last night working on as many 
amendments as they could clear.
  The Senate will be in recess from 12:30 to 2:15 for the weekly party 
conferences.
  I am on the floor a lot. I appreciate the work done by the managers 
of the legislation. The work done by Senators Levin and Warner has been 
exemplary. They have worked diligently and very closely, trying to work 
on this most important piece of legislation.
  I say to everyone, Democrats and Republicans, it would be a 
tremendous blow to these two men and how hard they have worked--as well 
as to the Senate and this country--if cloture is not invoked on this 
most important piece of legislation.

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