[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning there will be a period of 
morning business with the time equally divided between Senator Cornyn 
and the minority leader or his designee. Following morning business, 
the Senate will resume debate on the Department of Defense 
authorization bill. Two amendments are pending which relate to TRICARE. 
This morning, the chairman and the ranking member will be working on a 
time agreement as to when we may dispose of those pending amendments. 
Rollcall votes are, therefore, expected prior to the recess for the 
respective party luncheons.
  Other Members who intend to offer amendments to the Defense 
authorization bill are encouraged to notify the chairman and ranking 
member in order to schedule consideration of their amendments. Senators 
should expect rollcall votes on amendments throughout the day in order 
to make progress on this important bill. It is hoped that we can finish 
the bill either today or tomorrow. As a reminder, this week the Senate 
will consider the debt limit extension under a previous consent 
agreement.
  Finally, I would add it is hoped that final action on the jobs and 
economic growth package from conference will be voted on this week. In 
fact, I want to notify my colleagues that it is my intention, as soon 
as we receive that conference report, to bring it to the floor. An 
agreement is being reached between the two Houses on this conference 
report. I am very optimistic that we will be able to address that this 
week.
  We will have a very busy week with the Department of Defense 
authorization, the jobs and economic growth conference report that I 
just mentioned, the debt limit, and we are working to make progress on 
unemployment insurance which has to be addressed also this week. That 
expires on May 30. Thus, we are responsible for acting on that as well 
this week.

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