[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 16963]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will conduct a 
period of morning business for up to 60 minutes, with the first 30 
minutes under the control of the majority leader and the second 30 
minutes under the control of the Democratic leader.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume executive session 
consideration of Henry Saad to be a U.S. circuit judge for the Sixth 
Circuit. The order from last night provides for up to three cloture 
votes beginning at 11 a.m. on the Sixth Circuit nominations. First is 
on Henry Saad, to be followed by a vote on Richard Griffin and then 
David McKeague. Therefore, Senators can expect the first votes of the 
day around 11 o'clock this morning.
  Also we will turn to consideration of the defense appropriations 
conference report when it arrives from the House. We will be monitoring 
their action on that bill so that we can determine when we may begin 
debate on that bill this afternoon.
  I don't believe there is a need for a great deal of debate on the 
defense measure; however, we will confer with the Democratic leadership 
on a time agreement for this afternoon. There are a number of other 
legislative and executive items we are attempting to clear before we 
depart for the August adjournment. We will be processing those 
throughout the day as well.

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