[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 
1, the prescription drug benefits bill first thing this morning. There 
are two amendments currently pending to the bill: an Enzi amendment 
relating to pharmacies and mail-order prescriptions, and a Bingaman 
amendment regarding asset tests. These amendments are being reviewed, 
and we will have one of those votes some time early today. The other we 
will be voting on over the course of today. In addition, of course, we 
will be considering other amendments both today and tomorrow.
  The chairman and ranking member will continue to work together to try 
to get Senators to come forth and offer their amendments, or to let 
them know what those amendments will be so we can establish a queue for 
those amendments to be considered today, tomorrow, and, indeed, into 
next week.
  I do encourage, as I did yesterday morning, all Members to come 
forward and let the managers know what amendments they are considering 
offering. It is important to do so. For example, today we are waiting 
on one of the amendments to get an official scoring back from the 
Congressional Budget Office, so even after we hear about the 
amendments, it takes some time to process them. So it is absolutely 
critical that we hear from our colleagues in terms of what amendments 
they intend to offer.
  We will have rollcall votes throughout today's session. We will be 
voting tomorrow as well.
  (Ms. MURKOWSKI assumed the Chair.)

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