[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 11702-11703]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, the Senate will be in a period for morning 
business to allow Senators to pay tribute to President Reagan. As I 
stated earlier today, we will delay action on the Defense bill until 
next week. We do now have copies at the desk of all amendments that may 
be offered to the Defense authorization bill. Although we will not be 
debating those amendments on the floor this week, we now have an 
opportunity for the chairman and ranking member to review the language 
of the amendments.
  Tomorrow we will also be considering any additional resolutions 
relating to the passing of our former President and therefore rollcall 
votes may occur. However, no rollcall votes will occur prior to the 
recess for the party policy luncheons tomorrow.
  I would also remind my colleagues that when the Senate completes its 
business on Wednesday afternoon, we will adjourn until Monday, June 14 
to accommodate the ceremony and services relating to the death of 
President Ronald Reagan. Having said that, I invite my colleagues to 
come to the floor over the course of the next 2 days to express 
themselves during this solemn time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are totally comfortable and think the 
leader has done the right thing regarding the schedule. It is totally 
appropriate and

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we will, of course, cooperate as much as we can to make sure we do our 
work on the Defense bill next week. It is important legislation, and we 
need to complete that.
  I direct a question, through the Chair, to the distinguished majority 
leader. There will be some votes, or at least one vote, tomorrow on 
some resolutions, I would assume. Does the majority leader have any 
idea when?
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we should continue our conversation. We 
will be voting on several resolutions in all likelihood. Whether there 
will be rollcall votes has not been determined. I expect that through 
joint discussions we will decide whether rollcall votes will be 
necessary. We certainly will not be voting, as we talked earlier, 
before 2:15. It may be that we will have no rollcall votes tomorrow, 
but that decision will be made with further discussion among the 
leadership.

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