[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, 
tomorrow the Senate will resume debate on the Department of Defense 
authorization bill. Under the previous order, there will be 20 minutes 
remaining for debate in relation to the first- and second-degree 
amendments which are pending to the Defense bill. Following that 
debate, the Senate will vote in relation to the Warner second-degree 
amendment regarding low-yield nuclear weapons. Senators should, 
therefore, expect the first rollcall vote to occur at approximately 10 
a.m. tomorrow morning.
  Following the disposition of these amendments, additional amendments 
are expected, and, therefore, rollcall votes are expected throughout 
the day. It is still hoped that the Senate will be able to complete 
action on this bill tomorrow afternoon so that the Senate may vote on 
final passage of this important legislation at a reasonable time during 
Wednesday's session.
  I will simply add a postscript of my own, Mr. President. I will be in 
consultation with the ranking member of the committee and the 
leadership on both sides of the aisle to achieve some type of the usual 
procedure whereby amendments are made known to the managers at a 
specified time and, hopefully, in that way we can evaluate what remains 
to be done on the bill and expedite its final consideration by the 
Senate.

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