[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16388]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume legislative session.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, if I could say a word before closure takes 
place, I know the burden on the majority leader is significant. There 
is so much to do and so little time to do it. Through the Chair, I 
express my desire to the majority leader that we figure out a way--he 
figure out a way--we can move to the DOD authorization bill at the 
earliest possible date. I think it is so important we do that.
  I visited Walter Reed yesterday. It is important we set the right 
tone for those men and women fighting over there. Part of that would be 
to do the DOD authorization.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we have a lot to do in the next week and a 
half. DOD authorization, as the Democrat leader and as my colleagues 
know, is a high priority. We also are doing our very best to come to an 
agreement on how to bring stem cells to the floor of the Senate, to 
bring the native Hawaiian issue to the floor of the Senate, and gun 
liability issues we talked about earlier this morning.
  We are making progress. We did not quite finish foreign operations 
today but we will tomorrow. As we complete that bill and we finish with 
the Dorr nomination, we will hopefully be able to accomplish all of 
those bills. It is asking a lot.

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