[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16259]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY,
                             JULY 21, 2004

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the 
Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on 
Wednesday, July 21. I further ask that following the prayer and the 
pledge, the morning hour be deemed to have expired, the Journal of the 
proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be 
reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate then begin a 
period of morning business for statements only for up to 90 minutes, 
with the first 45 minutes under the control of the Democratic leader or 
his designee, and the last 45 minutes under the control of the majority 
leader or his designee; provided that following morning business, the 
Senate resume consideration of S. 2677, the Morocco trade bill, as 
provided under the previous order.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I could ask a question of the majority 
leader, we are going to complete our vote at about 12 o'clock tomorrow. 
Does the leader have an idea as to what we might do tomorrow afternoon?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, over the course of the next several hours, 
we will be working on a number of pieces of business that we might be 
able to address. Just for general information, the work we need to do 
over the next several days includes the DOD conference report; we will 
know within an hour or so when it will be coming back. We will proceed 
with that as soon as we can, as soon as it is available; we are still 
in discussions over some tax extensions that we have been in 
discussions on in the last several days. We would like to proceed with 
that at this juncture, until we see what the discussions entail. The 
resolution of that, I would expect, will be in the early afternoon, but 
it is uncertain.
  Mr. REID. It is my understanding that there are events tomorrow 
night, so we should not be in late tomorrow night. Would it be 
appropriate to indicate that for Members on this side of the aisle?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, indeed, we will not be going late tomorrow 
night. It will be early. I am not sure exactly what time, but there are 
events planned tomorrow night. We don't expect to be in tomorrow night.
  In terms of scheduling, because we are waiting for certain bills from 
the House, we will be in close touch and let our Members know. We 
understand that we have events beginning this weekend and some 
beginning on Friday as well. I had discussions with the Democratic 
leader earlier. We have a lot to do, and a lot of it is not seen on the 
Senate floor, but it is being produced. We have to address it before we 
leave.
  The cloture vote I just filed on the circuit court judge we will be 
debating for some time after tomorrow morning, so that may be what we 
do tomorrow.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.

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