[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 8406-8407]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, tomorrow, following morning business, the 
Senate will resume consideration of the FSC/ETI JOBS bill. We made 
excellent progress on the bill today, disposing of four amendments. I 
hope we can continue that process and that progress tomorrow with 
respect to relevant amendments to the bill. Senators should expect 
rollcall votes on amendments throughout the afternoon. The Senate may 
also act on executive nominations during tomorrow's session; therefore, 
additional votes are possible.
  In particular, I look forward and hope we would be able to act on one 
very important nominee, John D. Negroponte of New York, to be 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to Iraq. Many members have had the opportunity to get to know 
this particular nominee, to discuss his plans for the future, and it is 
critical we act as soon as we possibly can on this nominee who will be 
our ambassador to Iraq. It is critical we do that

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as soon as possible. It is my hope and expectation to do that tomorrow.

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