[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16763]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning, we will have 60 minutes of 
debate prior to the cloture vote on the nomination of Thomas Dorr to be 
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development. This is a 
nomination we have tried to clear for quite some time but were unable 
to do so because of an objection on the other side of the aisle. On 
Tuesday, I filed a cloture motion so we could bring this nomination to 
a vote. I do hope we can invoke cloture and subsequently vote 
affirmatively, with an up-or-down vote, on the President's nomination.
  Once cloture is invoked and we are able to vote on the Dorr 
nomination--once we complete that--we will resume debate on the Defense 
authorization bill. Chairman Warner and Senator Levin were on the 
Senate floor yesterday to consider amendments. There is one amendment 
pending at this point in time. I understand the other side is looking 
at that amendment. It is an amendment relating to armored personnel 
carriers. We will schedule that for a vote sometime early today, I 
hope.
  We will be considering additional amendments over the course of 
today. We, of course, will be voting over the course of the afternoon 
on the Department of Defense authorization bill. We do need to make 
substantial progress on the bill this week. Therefore, we do ask 
Senators to come forward with their amendments.

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