[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24721]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING MINORITY LEADER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we started on our side last night with 90 
amendments. We are down to 31 now. I am not sure all of those will be 
offered, but I think the end is in sight. If we work hard today and put 
in a fairly decent day tomorrow, we will be able to finish this bill. I 
know the Presiding Officer, the President pro tempore of the Senate, 
has worked hard and was able, with his wisdom, to get rid of a number 
of reporting amendments that took a lot of pressure off of everybody. 
Those will be taken to conference and the decision will be made as to 
what will be done rather than having 70 different reporting amendments 
on relatively the same subject. I think we have the opportunity to 
finish this most important bill in the next day or two.

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