[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20769]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THANKING SENATORS

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, shortly I will go into a quorum call while 
we wait a few minutes for Senator Talent, but let me thank my 
colleagues on both sides of the aisle. We have had a very productive 
day, a very productive week. We set out with an objective several weeks 
ago of completing this very important intelligence reform bill. With 
the cooperation of all of our colleagues, we will complete this bill 
tomorrow.
  Following completion of that bill, we will proceed to our internal 
Senate oversight reforms, and look forward to hopefully addressing that 
late tomorrow afternoon.
  There are a number of other issues we laid out in the course of the 
day that are underway, including the FSC/ETI jobs manufacturing bill 
and the Homeland Security Appropriations bill. So we have a lot of work 
to do in a short period of time during the remainder of this week.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. TALENT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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