[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21300]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning there will be two amendments 
that will be debated for a maximum time of 1 hour each. These 
amendments are the Gregg school construction amendment and the Landrieu 
title I targeting amendment.
  For the information of all Senators, there will be two votes on these 
amendments that will occur a little after noon today. Therefore, there 
will be two back-to-back votes at that time.
  As we move forward to complete action on this important 
appropriations bill--and we are going to complete it today; if not 
today, we will complete it tomorrow, but we are going to complete 
action on this bill--Senators should expect other votes throughout the 
day. We have had no recorded votes the last 2 days, even though the 
managers have worked through a number of important issues.
  In addition, the Senate could also act on several appropriations 
conference reports as they become available. The first one is going to 
be voted on in the House about noon today.
  As the majority leader announced yesterday, should we complete action 
on the Labor-HHS Appropriations Act today, and any available conference 
reports, then it is likely that there would not be any rollcall votes 
on Friday, November 2. The managers of the bill have been encouraging 
Senators with amendments on this finite list that has been filed to 
come to the floor and work with them on these amendments.
  When we finish the votes at noon today, Senator Brownback has a 
number of amendments that the managers have been unable to resolve. I 
ask he make himself available at that time to offer these amendments.
  If there are other Senators wishing to offer amendments, they should 
come forward and make their amendments known to the rest of us. We have 
a finite list, but a number of Senators have indicated to the managers 
and to me that they are not going to offer those amendments. We need to 
complete action on this bill so we can move forward to other very 
pressing matters.
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I join the Senator from Nevada in urging 
our colleagues to come forward. It has been very slow making progress. 
There were some 62 possible amendments listed. Most of those are place-
holders, we know. But anybody who has an amendment to offer ought to 
come to the floor now. Senator Harkin and I will be in a position to 
discuss the matters with you, to see what is acceptable, see what will 
require rollcall votes, to try to work out time agreements, and try to 
move ahead to finish this bill as early today as possible.
  It is no secret, Senators have a lot of commitments on Friday, and 
Thursday is the heavy workday. But the sooner we get this bill 
completed, the sooner we can move ahead and try to get it conferenced 
and resolved.
  Mr. REID. Will the Senator yield for a brief comment? I want to make 
sure everyone understands what the majority leader said. We are going 
to complete this bill and conference reports before we leave this week.
  Also, if we complete work on the bill, we could move to the D.C. 
appropriations bill, but at the very least we are going to complete the 
conference reports and complete this bill before we leave, no matter 
how long it takes today or tomorrow.
  Mr. SPECTER. Or Saturday.
  Mr. REID. Or Saturday.

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