[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 27929]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today the Senate will begin 60 minutes of 
morning business. Following that 60-minute period, the Senate will 
proceed to executive session for the consideration of Executive 
Calendar No. 310, the nomination of William Pryor to be a United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
  At the conclusion of that debate time, the Senate will proceed to a 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture on that nomination. I do hope 
cloture will be invoked and that this qualified nomination could then 
receive an up-or-down vote of the Senate.
  If cloture is not invoked, the Senate will resume consideration of 
the Agriculture appropriations bill. We made good progress on that bill 
yesterday, and I hope we can complete that appropriations bill at an 
early hour today. We will have rollcall votes throughout the day.
  A number of Members have inquired about scheduling. I made it clear 
that it will be important, for us to achieve a departure day of 
November 21, for us to work 5 days a week, and we will be voting on 
Mondays and Fridays as we go forward.
  It is likely that once we complete Agriculture, we will go to the 
Internet tax bill, and then I hope we can complete that in a reasonable 
period of time and we will follow that with the appropriations bills 
and will continue to address the VA-HUD bill at some point and 
Commerce-Justice-State. I am working very hard to try to get these 
appropriations brought across the floor, debated, and completed in a 
reasonable time.

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