[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26988]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST--EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I have a unanimous consent request that 
we proceed to the Pryor nomination. But I would just ask the Senator 
from Nevada if there is a possibility that we could get a unanimous 
consent agreement, however much time the minority would need, to debate 
this nominee so we can give the attorney general of Alabama, who has 
been nominated to the Eleventh Circuit, the opportunity to have an up-
or-down vote on the floor of the Senate, which has been the custom here 
for over 225 years.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I would say to my friend, and the entire 
Senate, we have already spoken on this. There has been a vote to invoke 
cloture. That failed. I am confident if this comes up again, the vote 
will be the same. So I think that actually we are just wasting the time 
of the Senate, with all the many important things we have to do, and it 
would just be a repeat of the prior effort to invoke cloture, which 
failed.
  So I object to my friend's request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection is heard.

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