[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will resume 
consideration of S. 14, the Energy bill. Under the order from last 
night, Senator Dorgan's amendment regarding hydrogen fuel cells will be 
debated under a 30-minute time limit. A vote will occur in relation to 
that amendment at sometime this morning before the recess for the 
policy luncheons. The Senate will recess for the policy meetings from 
12:30 to 2:15 today. Other Energy amendments will be debated during 
today's session, and therefore Senators can expect votes throughout the 
day.
  Again, I will state that each day we continue to work towards a 
filing deadline or a list of amendments to the Energy bill. I will be 
consulting with the Democratic leadership to see when we might lock in 
a list of amendments to this bill. I am very hopeful we can do that as 
soon as possible. It is also our hope to reach a consent agreement to 
allow the Senate to consider the Burma sanctions bill introduced by the 
distinguished Senator from Kentucky, the majority whip. He will want to 
speak on this issue shortly. We will continue to press for a consent 
agreement on this measure.
  At this juncture, I will withhold a few of the comments I want to 
make on an issue we will be addressing in 2 weeks on Medicare and 
strengthening Medicare, but at this juncture I will yield to the 
assistant minority leader for comments and then the Senator from 
Kentucky.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, responding to the majority leader, we are 
hotlining later today a time tomorrow people would have to give us a 
list of their amendments, that we would have a finite list. As I 
indicated, Senator McConnell and I and the two managers of the bill 
would immediately begin working through that to see what we can do to 
expedite passage of the Energy bill. We are on track to do that 
sometime tomorrow. We have the ranking member of the Finance Committee 
here today to deal with the matter about which Senator McConnell is 
going to shortly make a unanimous consent request.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kentucky.

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