[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 2915]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EXTENSION ACT OF 2004

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now 
proceed to the consideration of H.R. 3850, the highway program 
extension bill, which is at the desk. I further ask unanimous consent 
that the bill be read a third time and passed, and the motion to 
reconsider be laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (H.R. 3850) was read a third time and passed.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, before making further remarks, I wanted to 
make sure that was done.
  As we started about 7 hours ago, we had two issues. One was the 
extension which we passed.
  There have been a lot of people over the course of the day who have 
wondered whether they were going to get paychecks on Monday and whether 
they would show up for work on Monday. After all of this, we have 
settled pretty much both issues in terms of moving forward. The highway 
extension has just been passed. So for those people who were on 
furlough and wondering what was going on today, they are going to be OK 
on Monday.

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