[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning there will be a period for 
morning business until the hour of 10:45 a.m. At 10:45 a.m., the Senate 
will resume consideration of H.J. Res. 2, the appropriations bill. 
Under the order of last night, at 11 a.m., the Senate will proceed to a 
series of up to three votes in relation to the pending amendments to 
the appropriations measure. The first vote will be in relation to the 
Feingold amendment No. 200 regarding expanded international military 
education. The second vote will be in relation to the Mikulski 
amendment No. 61 on public-private competition. The third vote will be 
on the Murray amendment No. 39 regarding the community action program. 
Following those votes, the managers will continue to work through any 
remaining amendments. It is hoped we will be able to complete action on 
this bill at a reasonable time today.
  I thank the Democratic leader and whip for their assistance in 
reaching short time agreements on the amendments that were offered 
yesterday. We made tremendous progress over the last 36 hours. I thank 
all Members of this body for their cooperation in coming to the Chamber 
to offer their amendments and limiting their remarks. A great deal of 
progress was made yesterday, and if we are able to continue that good 
work over the course of today, I believe we will finish this bill and 
complete these 11 appropriations bills sometime today.
  Again, I announce to my colleagues if we complete this bill today, 
there will be no session of the Senate on Friday.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Allard). The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, under the direction of the Democratic 
leader, we have been able to move a lot of amendments. We also have 
about six amendments left on this side at this stage, or maybe a couple 
of others may pop up, but that is what we have. The managers of the 
bill are going to try to move a bunch of amendments shortly. I think we 
have an opportunity to finish this bill some time early this evening.

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