[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 19995]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we will begin today's session with a period 
for morning business that will extend for an hour, until 3. At 3, we 
will resume consideration of the Commerce-Science-Justice 
appropriations bill. We are prepared for Members to come forward to 
offer their amendments to the bill so that we can complete action early 
this week.
  We reached an agreement to limit amendments to the bill, and now is 
the time for Senators to come and debate their amendments. There is a 
vote scheduled for this evening. At 5:30, we will begin a 1-hour period 
of debate prior to a vote at 6:30 on the motion to proceed to the 
resolution of disapproval on regulations relating to mercury. If that 
motion is not agreed to, we would return to the Commerce appropriations 
bill. If the motion is agreed to, then we would begin 2 hours of debate 
on the pending resolution.
  Having said that, we will be continuing the appropriations process 
this week, with many of these bills having disaster-related language. 
It is important that we continue to expedite our efforts on all fronts, 
and therefore we will be voting throughout the week.
  In addition to our floor business today, Chairman Specter opened the 
hearings on the nomination of Judge Roberts at noon, now 2 hours ago. 
We will make every effort to not interrupt those hearings as we 
continue our work on the floor, and therefore we will be looking to 
stack votes around lunchtime each day or later in the evening 
throughout the week.

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