[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10437]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business until 12:45 p.m. Following morning business, the 
Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of Deborah Cook to be 
a Federal judge for the Sixth Circuit.
  Under the agreement entered into last week, there will be up to 4 
hours of debate on the nomination prior to a vote. Therefore, the first 
vote will occur at 4:45 p.m. today, and it will be on the confirmation 
of Deborah Cook.
  Upon the disposition of the Cook nomination, the Senate will debate 
the nomination of Miguel Estrada until 6 p.m., and at 6 p.m. the Senate 
will conduct its fifth cloture vote on the Estrada nomination.
  The majority leader stated on a number of occasions that we are not 
going to give up on attempting to get Miguel Estrada an up-or-down 
vote.
  In addition to these additional nominations, there are a number of 
other important issues to be considered during this coming week. On 
Tuesday, we will begin debate on the energy bill, although amendments 
will not be in order until Thursday. We are expecting Members to come 
to the floor to begin the debate on this much needed legislation.
  Also, we have been working on agreements that would allow the Senate 
to consider the State Department reauthorization bill, the NATO 
expansion treaty, the bioshield bill, and the FISA legislation. 
Therefore, I will advise our colleagues to prepare for a very busy week 
with rollcalls each and every day.
  Let me also say the majority leader hopes and expects that we will be 
doing the vote on the Roberts nomination Friday morning, which is 
pursuant to the agreement the assistant Democratic leader and myself 
and the two leaders were working on last week. So we hope to be able to 
wrap that nomination up on Friday as well.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cornyn). The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I was listening closely. But the Senator 
said we would take up the energy bill on Tuesday with no amendments in 
order. Then he said Thursday. Maybe I misunderstood.
  Mr. McCONNELL. It is my understanding that there will not be any vote 
on the energy bill until Thursday, but we will take it up tomorrow.

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