[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Pages 7697-7698]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, for the information of all Senators, this 
morning there will be a period for morning business until 11 a.m. 
Again, this will allow time for Members to make remarks regarding the 
men and women of our Armed Forces. At 11 a.m. today, we will consider 
the military tax fairness bill under a 3-hour time limitation. Chairman 
Grassley and Senator Baucus will be here to manage time on that 
legislation over the course of 3 hours. I thank them for their hard 
work in getting that bill ready for floor consideration today.
  In addition, we are attempting to reach an agreement for the 
consideration of S. Con. Res. 30 which would express our gratitude to 
the nations participating with the United States in the coalition to 
disarm Iraq. Also, as I mentioned last night, we may also vote on any 
judicial nominations that may be ready for the Executive Calendar 
today. Therefore, there will be votes throughout the day. If we are 
able to finish the work I just mentioned, it would likely be that there 
would be no rollcall votes on Friday. We would return for business on 
Monday with a rollcall vote likely to occur at around 5:30 Monday 
afternoon. I will have more to say about Monday's schedule later today.
  In addition, over the course of today, I am sure people will want to 
come to the floor to make tributes to Senator Moynihan. A number of 
people took advantage of being able to do that last night. But over the 
course of today, people are welcome to come down to make those 
tributes. I do remind my colleagues, we will later, in a week, 2 weeks 
from now, bind all those tributes together in an appropriate volume for 
the family.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, if I can get the attention of the majority 
leader while he is on the floor, we have a number of people on the 
floor today, and I would like to speak a few minutes about Senator 
Moynihan. Senator Hutchison is here. How long does she wish to speak?
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, we were hoping certainly after 
Senator Reid's tribute to Senator Moynihan that we could have the hour 
evenly divided to talk about our troops in the field, which we are 
hoping will be the case every morning while our troops are in the 
field, so that we can honor them in this way.
  Mr. REID. It would be more appropriate then that we leave that full 
time. I will find some time later in the day to speak. We should give 
the full time for people to speak. Senator Nelson is here early, 
Senator Lincoln, and Senator Crapo. We have a lot of people here to 
speak. I will give my speech at a later time. I am sure he might 
approve of that.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, I am grateful to Senator Reid for 
making that concession. Senator Moynihan had the greatest respect of 
all of us. I hope we will all honor him, and the Senator allowing us to 
go forward with this hour that we intend to set aside every day we are 
in battle in Iraq is very helpful. I appreciate it very much.
  Madam President, I know Senator Voinovich has a special message about 
the invocation this morning, and then we would like to proceed. Senator 
Lincoln will be managing the floor for the Democrats. I and Senator 
Crapo will be managing the floor for the Republicans.
  Madam President, the majority leader, Senator Frist, and the minority 
leader, Senator Daschle, have agreed that the Senate will open every 
day now with this hour of tribute to our troops. It will be set aside 
for that purpose only as our way of letting them know that we will 
remember everything they are doing, we think of them every day, and we 
appreciate their service to our country. This is our way to emphasize 
that this is first and foremost on our minds, and everything we do will 
be with them in mind.
  I thank the Chair.

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