[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, we will shortly begin this morning's 
session with a rollcall vote on the adoption of the conference report 
to accompany the Agriculture appropriations bill. After that vote, we 
will resume the deficit reduction reconciliation bill. All time expired 
last night, and therefore we will begin a series of rollcall votes in 
relation to the pending amendments. We will, in a few moments, enter 
into an agreement which states the order for those votes. At this time, 
there are approximately 16 pending amendments that we would need to 
vote on.
  Following those votes, additional amendments may be offered, and 
therefore the voting sequence would continue. This stacked series of 
votes could be very lengthy, but we will continue voting until we 
complete the deficit reduction bill or up until 6 o'clock tonight. I 
hope and believe we can finish this afternoon, but that will depend on 
the number of amendments and how many will be offered over the course 
of the so-called vote-arama that we will be in a little bit later 
today. We have asked Senators to remain in and around the Senate 
Chamber over the course of the day to avoid missing any recorded votes. 
These vote-aramas are very trying as the day goes on so I do wish to 
thank everybody in advance for their patience during what will be a 
very busy session of voting today.

                          ____________________