[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10894]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business until 10:30. The first half is under the control of 
the majority leader; the second half is under the control of the 
Republican leader. The Chair will announce that shortly. At 10:30 the 
Senate will resume consideration of the Department of Defense 
authorization bill. Pending is the Feingold-Conrad amendment. It is an 
extremely important amendment dealing with budgeting. There should be 
some important discussion on that that should go for a significant 
amount of time. It is up to the parties as to how long we will be on 
that, but it is an important amendment. The two managers are working 
their way through amendments that they believe can be accepted. We 
would like to make a big chunk in this bill today. There is a lot more 
to do. The majority leader has indicated that if we finish this bill, 
it will give us the opportunity to go to some of the other issues that 
are so pressing. The leader has indicated there will be votes tomorrow.

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