[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15814]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today we will return to the pending 
business of the Homeland Security appropriations bill. We have six 
amendments that were called up yesterday and are currently pending. The 
two managers have been working on the sequencing of amendments. 
Therefore, we should have an additional lineup of amendments that are 
expected during today's session.
  As we stated at closing last night, we have two Senate delegations 
today, one attending the funeral of former Senator Gaylord Nelson and 
another delegation in Florida. It is lining up in such a way that we 
will have very productive debate over the course of the day, but we 
will be voting later this evening. I do not know exactly what time that 
will be. We will have the exact timing of these votes announced later 
today as we look at the appropriate schedules. I doubt that there will 
be voting before 7:45 or so tonight. We will be voting tonight.
  I have said on many occasions that we will be finishing homeland 
security legislation before we leave this week. I believe we have a 
good shot at completing that bill tomorrow night. I don't know what 
time that will be. We will go to another bill on Friday. That bill will 
be determined over the course of today.
  The funding legislation we are currently addressing in the Senate is 
too important to not complete this week. We will be using debate time 
throughout the course of the day. We will have the votes this evening. 
We will have a very busy session tomorrow.
  I also wish to take the opportunity to remind my colleagues we will 
have an all-Senate briefing this afternoon, for those who are 
interested, from 3 to 4 o'clock by Director Negroponte. I believe 
Secretary Chertoff will also be coming by as well.

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