[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24173]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning we will have a period of 
morning business which will allow Senators to come to the floor to make 
statements. I announced last night that there would be no votes today, 
and I do not anticipate a lengthy session. We expect to consider some 
executive nominations over the course of the morning, and we also will 
be able to consider any other cleared legislative items before closing.
  On Monday, under our order from last night, we will begin 
consideration of the deficit reduction bill. I will have a few comments 
on that shortly. That bill does have a statutory 20-hour time limit, 
and we now have an order which divides that time over the course of 
Monday. Also, we have set out a time for Tuesday and Wednesday of this 
coming week. We will not have any votes during Monday's session, but 
Senators can expect a very busy week on that deficit reduction package. 
I will have more to say about the course of next week later today and 
will outline the voting schedule, as we know it, a little bit later 
this morning.
  I congratulate, once again, Chairman Specter and Senator Harkin for 
completing the work on the Labor-HHS appropriations bill last night. 
That was the final of our 12 appropriations bills to be considered by 
the Senate. Senator Cochran has done a tremendous job throughout the 
appropriations process, and we thank him for his efforts and his 
committee members for shepherding the bills through.

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