[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20478]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, in a few moments, we will return to the 
consideration of the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. We 
are very close to an agreement which will allow us to finish that bill 
at an early hour today. The two managers have worked diligently over 
the course of the last week and this week--it has been now 2 weeks on 
the bill--and we are now ready to proceed to final passage after we 
dispose of a few remaining issues. I expect that we will line up a 
series of stacked votes beginning sometime around 10:45 or 11 this 
morning, and we will alert Senators once we lock in that time.
  Once we complete the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, we 
will start consideration of the Agriculture appropriations bill. 
Senators should begin preparing for that bill and I encourage Senators 
to notify their respective chairman and ranking member if they intend 
to offer amendments. It is helpful for the two leaders and the bill 
managers to know in advance what amendments will be offered so that we 
can proceed in an orderly way.

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