[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, for the information of all of our 
colleagues, upon the conclusion of morning business at 11:30 tomorrow 
morning, the Senate will return to the budget resolution and resume 
consideration of several pending amendments. I expect that we will have 
several rollcall votes. We made tremendous progress today. We conducted 
23 rollcall votes on amendments, and we adopted several other 
amendments and resolutions by voice vote. I wish to thank all my 
colleagues for their cooperation.
  That being said, we will be voting throughout the day tomorrow on the 
remaining amendments with a final vote on the resolution to occur no 
later than 4 p.m. tomorrow. Therefore, tomorrow will be a very busy 
day. I am hopeful we can finish the resolution before 4 p.m. I 
encourage all my colleagues to remain in the Chamber during tomorrow's 
votes on the budget.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I wish to say we, too, believe this has 
been a productive day. This is the way this Senate ought to operate. It 
was well organized, and I thank the chairman for his contribution to 
that organization and to the tone that was evidenced throughout today 
in terms of the debate. I really thought the tone today reflected the 
best of the Senate. These were real debates on real substance and 
conducted in a way that I think we can all be proud.
  Again, I thank the chairman for helping to set that tone and also for 
his participation in the organization of these amendments so that 
colleagues could know what was happening, what was going to happen 
next. I thought it went very well.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I thank my colleague and very much 
appreciate his cooperation.

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