[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17726-17727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.

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  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, for the information of the Senate, it is 
my intention to ask the majority leader to bring the Defense 
appropriations bill before the Senate on Monday. That will be announced 
later, I hope. We hope we can have the Defense Appropriations 
Subcommittee bill, then the Labor appropriations bill, then the 
Homeland Security bill considered next week by the Senate.
  I thank the Senate for their cooperation on this bill. This is 
another 10-minute vote; is that correct, Mr. President?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, let me just very briefly add to that.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. FRIST. Once we have this last vote, there will be no more 
rollcall votes today. We will be voting on Monday. We may have several 
votes on Monday but after 5 o'clock. We will be on Defense on Monday, 
and, again, we probably will have several votes Monday evening.
  After this vote, we will be going back to State Department 
authorization. We would like to finish that bill. In order to do that, 
we would need to be considering amendments that have something to do 
with State authorization and not nongermane amendments. The intention 
is to attempt to finish that bill. We will not have any rollcall votes 
today. But again I make the plea with my colleagues to stay for 
amendments that are on State Department authorization as we go forward.
  Again, this will be the last rollcall vote, this one right now, until 
after 5 o'clock on Monday.

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