[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today following the time for the leaders, 
we will have a 60-minute period for morning business. Following that 
time, which will end at approximately 10:45 or so, we will return to 
the consideration of the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill.
  Last night, we reached consent for a vote in relation to the Stabenow 
amendment on interoperable communications, which will again be at 11 
a.m. That vote will be on a motion to waive a budget point of order 
with respect to Senator Stabenow's amendment.
  As I stated last night, we have been on this bill for 5 days now and 
we need to finish our work on this legislation today. The two managers 
have done a good job working with Members on their language and have 
been able to accept a number of amendments. There are others that we 
will need to vote upon and we will be scheduling those for today and 
into this evening.
  We need to be prepared to go late into the evening, if necessary, to 
complete the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. I hope we 
can finish earlier, but if we do have votes on many of the remaining 
amendments and Members insist upon that, it will be necessary to work 
late.
  The hearings on Judge Roberts continue today in the Judiciary 
Committee. We have tried to accommodate that schedule with the least 
number of interruptions. However, we have to continue to get our work 
done on the Senate floor on these important appropriations bills.
  I expect we will be voting throughout the day today and, as I 
mentioned, into the evening, to finish the Commerce-Justice-Science 
measure.

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