[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 22]
[Senate]
[Page 29966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Tomorrow morning there will be 1 hour of debate prior to a 
cloture vote on the energy conference report. I hope the Senate will be 
able to invoke cloture on this long overdue issue. It is important that 
the Senate invoke cloture to allow the Senate to have an up-or-down 
vote on the bill that will strengthen the Nation's energy security by 
establishing a national energy policy.
  I would also announce that the conference committee on the Medicare 
reform legislation has finished its work. That conference report will 
be filed in the House. We hope to consider and complete that measure 
just as soon as possible.
  In addition, we have the Appropriations Committee which is completing 
its work on the appropriations process. And we will shortly consider 
that conference report as well.
  Having said that, we will have rollcall votes tomorrow. A number of 
people have asked about the weekend schedule, and we have been very 
clear over the last week and a half that we will be in session this 
weekend. But the specifics of the weekend schedule, hopefully, we will 
be able to announce sometime midday tomorrow.

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