[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, we will have the opening statement from the 
leader ready in a moment. He has been detained, but he will be here. I 
will review the schedule.
  I do believe the first schedule of events would be statements 
regarding the nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge 
Charles Pickering of Mississippi. I believe we will be ready to begin 
with that momentarily.
  Mr. President, this morning we will be proceeding to the debate, as I 
just outlined, on the nomination of Charles Pickering to the Fifth 
Circuit Court of Appeals. There will be an hour of debate prior to the 
vote on invoking cloture on this nomination. The vote will occur 
sometime shortly after 10 a.m.
  Following the vote, the Senate will return to debate on S. 139, the 
climate change legislation. There will be 2 additional hours for debate 
prior to the vote on that legislation.
  Following the vote, the Senate will resume consideration of the 
Healthy Forests bill. We expect to have rollcall votes on amendments to 
that bill throughout the afternoon and hopefully we can complete action 
on the bill today. It sounds to me as if those involved in that 
legislation made real progress on the bill. It would be very positive 
if we could complete that action today.

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