[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 8781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today the Senate will conduct a period for 
morning business, with Senators to speak for up to 10 minutes each. 
Shortly, we expect to lock in an agreement for a vote at 5:30 this 
evening on the adoption of a Senate resolution relating to Iraqi 
prisoners. That will be the first rollcall vote of the day.
  The Senate may also resume consideration of the FSC/ETI JOBS 
legislation. I filed cloture on that bill on Friday, and that cloture 
vote will occur Tuesday morning. We are still hoping to work out an 
agreement to allow for a vote on the pending Cantwell amendment prior 
to that cloture vote. I will continue to talk with Members this 
afternoon about that agreement, and I will update Senators as to what 
to expect in the timing of those votes later in the day.
  In any event, it is time that we bring the FSC/ETI JOBS bill to a 
close. We have been on that bill 12 days. We have considered and 
disposed of 20 different amendments on the floor of the Senate--9 
rollcall votes and 11 voice votes.
  Again, I remind my colleagues, if cloture is invoked, germane 
amendments will be offered. As we mentioned at the end of last week, 
those amendments would be discussed and debated for up to 30 hours 
postcloture.
  For the remainder of the week, following the completion of the FSC/
ETI bill, we will proceed to S. 1248, the IDEA, Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act, legislation. We have an agreement as to how 
we will proceed on the IDEA bill. Therefore, we will be able to finish 
that bill this week.
  Finally, I remind Senators that we have 2 weeks remaining before the 
next recess, and we have a number of items we must address prior to 
that recess, including the Defense authorization bill, the budget 
conference report, if available, bioshield, sending the highway bill, a 
very important bill, to conference, as well as nominations. Senators 
should be prepared for full weeks and busy sessions in order to finish 
our work before the Memorial Day recess.

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