[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22346]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. The Senate has made tremendous progress on the bill today. 
It has been a very long day. The chairman and ranking member have done 
a superb job working with other chairmen and other ranking members 
throughout the course of the day to bring us to this point. I do want 
to congratulate Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye for their great 
work. We will finish this bill before we leave on Friday, as we set out 
to do now about 7 or 8 days ago. We will have a very long session 
tomorrow. We have a lot of work to do. We are in this postcloture 
period. There are a lot of amendments to be processed and to be voted 
upon.
  We are still working toward an agreement on the pensions bill. I hope 
to have progress to report on that front tomorrow. Aggressively, people 
have been working to bring resolution to that bill, and I am confident 
we will be able to do that but do not yet know the timing on that.

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