[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 20367-20368]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            THE EXECUTIVE CALENDAR AND APPROPRIATIONS BILLS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, let me just say, and spread on the Record 
today, these are 20 nominations that have been approved today, not 
counting those military promotions that are also part of the Executive 
Calendar. We have approved four judges. We have approved some very 
important Department of Justice nominations, including

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U.S. attorneys. We have an Assistant Attorney General. There are some 
very important matters we have done today. I think it is important we 
have done this.
  I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, speaking for 
Senator Daschle and all of us on this side of the aisle, we are very 
happy that we are moving to the appropriations bills. We need to work 
together. We are glad we are able to do that now.
  We are so happy we have been able to confirm these nominations. We 
look forward to confirming a lot more in the immediate future. We also 
look forward to working through these appropriations bills.
  The two managers on the foreign operations appropriations bill--
Senator Leahy, the chairman of the subcommittee, and the ranking 
member, Senator McConnell--are two of the most experienced legislators 
we have. I think we should be able to move through this legislation 
very quickly.
  I am happy that in the morning we will have something on which to 
work. The Senator from Minnesota is going to be in this Chamber to 
offer amendments. We have every intent of finishing this bill tomorrow 
afternoon as early as possible.

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