[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 25483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today we are going to begin with a 1-
hour period for morning business, and then we will resume consideration 
of the Department of Defense authorization bill. We made good progress 
on that measure yesterday by disposing of a very large number of 
amendments. Today, we hope to work through the remaining amendments, 
and it is possible that we could finish the bill this evening. The 
chairman and ranking member are expected to line up additional rollcall 
votes throughout today, and we will alert Senators as those votes are 
scheduled.
  The majority leader has mentioned several appropriations conference 
reports that are available or soon will be available. We expect to 
consider the foreign operations conference report today or tomorrow and 
will vote on the remaining bills as we can clear them for action in the 
Senate.
  Having said that, Mr. President, we look forward to further progress 
on the Defense authorization bill during the day.
  I yield the floor.

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