[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 18574-18575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT--S. 2666

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask on Tuesday, September 21, at a time 
to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the 
Democratic leader, the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar 
No. 635, S. 2666, the Legislative Branch appropriations bill; that the 
four managers' amendments at the desk be agreed to, and no other 
amendments be in order. I further ask that there be 1 hour of debate 
yielded back of the time, and the bill, as amended, be read the third 
time and returned to the Senate calendar.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. FRIST. I further ask that the Appropriations Committee then be 
discharged from further consideration and the Senate proceed to the 
consideration of H.R. 4755, the House-passed Legislative Branch 
appropriations bill, that the text of the bill relating solely to the 
House remain; that all other text be stricken, and the text of the 
Senate bill, as amended, be inserted, and the Senate then proceed to a 
vote on H.R. 4755, as amended, all without any intervening action or 
debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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  Mr. FRIST. I further ask upon passage of the bill the bill be held at 
the desk as if a House message.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I think the work that we did this past 
several days on the Homeland Security appropriations bill should set 
the tone and the direction that we can take the next few weeks to 
complete any number of appropriations bills. If we continue with the 
same bipartisan spirit that we have had before--I know we have had a 
lot of extraneous matters, just dealing with the matters dealing with 
the appropriations bills as we started the Homeland Security 
appropriations bill with more than 200 amendments. We were able to work 
through those. I don't know how many votes we had, but we had a lot of 
votes. I would hope that next week we can make some serious progress on 
some of these appropriations bills before we get into the last 2 weeks 
of being here when we have to deal with the September 11 report and 
other such matters. We have the right to pat ourselves on the back for 
the work we have done the last few days in the Senate relating to this 
appropriations process.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the request is agreed to.
  Mr. REID. And I say this, too: Senator Byrd and Senator Stevens did 
some good work in allowing Members to get to this work, along with you 
and Senator Daschle, so the whole body should be favorably inclined. 
This has been hard work. We read off a few words, but it is easier to 
read them than what it took to write this down. I personally appreciate 
the work of the two leaders of the Appropriations Committee and the 
Democratic and Republican leaders in their work.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, that same spirit is what we plan to 
continue to address in this appropriations bill, and we will continue 
to address in other appropriations bills as they become available.

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