[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today the Senate will resume consideration 
of the Energy bill, which we will complete this week. Chairman Domenici 
will be here to continue working through amendments. We made very good 
progress on the bill last week. We are on track to complete the bill 
later this week. As I announced at the end of last week, it may be 
necessary to file cloture on the bill tomorrow. If we file cloture 
tomorrow, the cloture vote would then occur on Thursday, which would 
allow us to complete the bill this week.
  I hope we do not have to file cloture, but I think it is important 
for people to realize we are going to finish the bill this week. People 
had the opportunity at the end of last week to offer amendments. They 
will have the same opportunity today and over the course of this week. 
I do ask our Senators to work with the bill managers to expedite 
consideration of their amendments early in the week.
  This evening, we will have a second cloture vote on the nomination of 
John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations. As announced 
earlier, the debate for that vote has been scheduled between 5 and 6. 
We plan on having that vote at 6 p.m. today. We have a very busy week 
as we move through the Bolton nomination and the Energy bill. I expect 
we will have votes every day this week, including Friday, as we wrap up 
work on the energy legislation; therefore, Senators should be prepared 
and should adjust their schedules accordingly to remain available until 
we complete passage of this important bill.

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