[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14117]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            RETURN SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. The question was asked six or seven times last night as we 
were leaving. Tuesday, when we come back, the leader has indicated 
there will be a vote sometime after 2:30. Those from the West are 
wondering if that might be closer to 5 o'clock. Has the leader made a 
decision on that?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we will have a decision made before we 
close down this morning. We are right now looking at the schedule. That 
day we will likely be scheduling a judge, which will require some 
debate prior to that. For right now, what we have said is that vote 
will not occur before 2:30, Tuesday, July 6. We will modify that based 
on discussions.
  Mr. REID. On our side, the Democratic leader has indicated he will 
hold the regular caucus on Tuesday. Do you plan to do the same thing?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, that is correct. We have announced to our 
caucus, as well, we will hold our policy lunches, our caucus lunches, 
on Tuesday. Tuesday will be a full day. We will be coming in Tuesday 
morning, in all likelihood, at 9:30 Tuesday morning. It will be a full 
and hopefully very productive day.
  That week we are going to class action which we agreed to. Hopefully 
we will have one judge and go straight to class action. We will spend 
next week on class action. With so few legislative days when we come 
back after the recess--we have a total of 3 weeks, but we are not going 
to have that first Monday--we have a lot to do in that 2\3/4\ week 
session. Therefore, we will have to be pushing hard on Tuesday, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week.

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