[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17226]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING MINORITY LEADER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I may direct a question through the Chair 
to the distinguished majority whip, what is the pleasure of the 
majority leader as to what we are going to do on Friday? Is there a 
determination yet as to whether we are going to have votes on Friday?
  Mr. McCONNELL. It is my understanding that the leader does expect 
there will be votes on Friday. We anticipate being on one of the 
appropriations bills.
  Mr. REID. I certainly have no prior knowledge about amendments being 
offered on the very important State Department authorization bill. But 
I think it will be difficult to finish the bill by tomorrow evening. If 
that is what the leader wants to do, we will certainly try.
  As I indicated, I don't know what amendments will be offered. We will 
have a better idea before we get on the bill, and we will inform 
Senator Biden and let him know what amendments there are, so the leader 
can have an idea as to what the week holds for us in that regard.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I think the plan of Senator Frist is to 
get started and see how it goes and to hope that we can move that bill 
rapidly.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if it would be OK, the time, as the Senator 
from Kentucky has indicated, is evenly divided--the Chair will announce 
it shortly--until about 11:10; is that true?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
  Mr. REID. One-half hour of the time we are allotted I will yield to 
the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer, to speak on Judge Wolski.
  I have been advised by staff that 25 minutes would be adequate 
because he has 5 minutes prior to the vote. So I will yield 25 minutes 
to the Senator from New York.

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