[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, first of all, I should welcome everybody 
back because this is the formal convening of the second session of the 
108th Congress. As everyone knows, we have a fairly short legislative 
session this year. I know in our leadership meeting this morning, and I 
am sure in the Democrats' leadership meeting this morning, we both 
began to outline the agenda for the year. When you look at the calendar 
and you look at the amount that we will be addressing, it is going to 
be challenging. We all recognize the challenge that is before us. 
Everybody is returning rested and ready to go, and I am delighted to 
have everybody back once again.
  Under the order entered into on December 9, the Senate will resume 
consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2673, the 
Omnibus appropriations measure. A cloture vote will occur today on that 
conference report at 3 p.m., and that will be the first rollcall vote 
of this session. The consent agreement allows for equally divided 
debate until that vote on invoking cloture.
  As a reminder, the Senate will be in recess from the hours of 12:30 
today to 2:15 for the weekly party conferences to meet.
  I also want to remind my colleagues that this evening at 9 p.m. the 
President will deliver the State of the Union Address and therefore 
Senators should assemble in the Senate Chamber at 8:35 so that the 
Senate may proceed at approximately 8:45 this evening to the Hall of 
the House of Representatives for that address.
  I do thank all Members for their attention and I look forward to a 
productive second session.

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