[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16604]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Democratic leader is recognized.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I have indicated to the majority leader 
that I intend to work with him today to schedule as many of these votes 
and to work through the pending amendments.
  As he noted, there are approximately 50 pending amendments. It is my 
hope that our managers might look carefully at many of them and perhaps 
accept them on voice votes, but those requiring rollcalls I hope can be 
scheduled earlier rather than later throughout the day.
  We will work on our side to perhaps offer them en bloc, where we 
could have a sequence of rollcall votes throughout the day, but we 
certainly will work with the majority leader to see if we can 
accomplish as much as he has laid out for the schedule, with an 
expectation that perhaps by the end of this evening we will have 
completed our work on the bill.
  I yield the floor.

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