[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16043]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        COOPERATION OF SENATORS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say this to my colleagues or their staffs 
watching. We have spent considerable time on this bill. Yesterday was a 
little disjointed because of the funeral of Gaylord Nelson and the 
space shuttle blastoff that did not occur. We had a number of Senators 
who had gone to both of those events.
  Under the order now before the Senate, the leader and I have the 
ability to offer amendments. I have one Senator who has come to me, and 
I think the amendment he has asked that I offer is appropriate, and I 
will do that. I will confer with Senator Judd Gregg before I offer that 
amendment.
  All good things need to come to an end, and we need to stop any 
amendments we now have with the dozen pending now. I prevailed upon the 
majority leader not to file cloture yesterday or Tuesday. I think that 
is appropriate.
  For Members who have amendments to offer, if they have something they 
believe is extremely important, they can come to me, and I will make 
every consideration I can.
  It is time we finish this bill. I don't know if we can finish it 
tonight. I hope we can. The leader said we will stay in tonight and 
work through as long as we need to. It is my understanding, regardless 
of what we do tonight, that we are going to try to move to another bill 
tomorrow, which is fine with me.
  I say to my colleagues, if there are Members who have something to 
say on this amendment or any amendments filed, do that because there is 
a time when the sun goes down and everyone will be in a hurry to get 
out of here. The fact is, if we have a lot of amendments stacked, we 
will not be able to do that.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

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