[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 21257]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Tomorrow we will resume statements on the nomination of 
John Roberts, those statements having begun at about 1 o'clock today. 
Moments ago we locked in a time certain for the vote on the 
confirmation of the Roberts nomination, and that vote is now set for 
Thursday morning at 11:30 a.m. I do ask all Senators to be in the 
Chamber and seated at their desks on this historic day for this 
historic vote.
  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning will be devoted to continued 
statements on Judge Roberts. Now that the final vote is set, I 
encourage Members to come over early for their statements rather than 
waiting until Thursday morning.
  In talking to the Democratic leader, in all likelihood, as we look to 
later this week, we will be voting on Friday. I make that statement 
recognizing that we are going to complete this Thursday morning, and we 
plan on going directly to the Department of Defense appropriations 
bill. Over the course of this session, we have not voted on a lot of 
Fridays, but now we are going to have to begin voting on Fridays. I 
wish to give people notification on both sides of the aisle given the 
fact that we have so much business going on and, in such a short period 
of time, so much to do. We will give Members as much advance notice as 
possible, but I do want to notify people that we will be voting on this 
Friday.

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