[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16081]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN MEASURES

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am wondering if the majority leader could 
give us an idea of whether we might get to the Morocco Free Trade 
Agreement this week, and also do we have any word on the childcare 
conference report? It is my understanding that the Appropriations 
Committee is going to report out of the committee the military 
construction and legislative branch bills this week. I would ask about 
Moroccan free trade, the childcare conference, and those two 
appropriations bills, military and legislative branch, if we are going 
to be able to get to those this week?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, all four issues are issues important to the 
Senate. Progress is being made on all of them. With regard to Morocco, 
we will need to check with the chairman and the ranking member to see 
what their intentions are, which I will do and get back with the 
assistant Democratic leader.
  The conference report on the child credit, again I very much would 
like to see action on it over the course of the week. I know there was 
discussion over the last several days and over the weekend itself. I 
will be able to update him once people return to town in the course of 
the day.
  On the appropriations bills, we will see what progress can be made 
before we leave. It would be nice to be able to make progress on those 
appropriations bills. We will need to aggressively consider all of 
these appropriations bills, either now or in September, and finish 
before we complete the session.

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