[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DUAL TRACKING OF LEGISLATION

  Mr. REID. Madam President, we are trying something in the Senate that 
we have tried on a number of other occasions but not often. We are 
going to do two bills at one time. It is dual tracking. We are going to 
take up the Interior Appropriations bill in the morning and go until 12 
noon on that legislation. At 12 o'clock, we will have an hour of 
morning business, and then we will go back to the Homeland Security 
bill. We will do the same thing on Thursday.
  We hope that people will be ready on both pieces of legislation to 
offer any amendment or amendments they might have. I would feel that we 
were wasting a lot of time if, for example, tomorrow we did not have 
some amendments offered on the Interior Appropriations bill. The leader 
has indicated that he expects late votes after tomorrow, which will be 
Thursday.
  We have to stop early tomorrow because former Vice President Mondale 
will be here to address Members of the Senate. We have a lot of work to 
do and a very limited amount of time in which to do everything we need 
to do before our adjournment. Members are put on notice we will be 
working on Fridays and Mondays, and we will have votes later than 
normal on Fridays and earlier than usual on Mondays, with the exception 
of a week from next Monday.

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