[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 25710]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today, following the 1 hour for morning 
business, we will resume work on the Department of Defense 
authorization bill. Under the agreement reached last night, we have two 
rollcall votes to begin at 11:30 this morning. The first vote is on 
Senator Talent's amendment relating to C-17s, and the second vote is in 
relation to the Dorgan amendment on a special committee. Yesterday, we 
made good progress on the bill, and we will finish the bill today.
  In addition to a couple amendments already pending, there are only a 
few remaining amendments in order to be offered. Senators should be 
prepared to offer those amendments this morning. I hope we can finish 
this bill at a reasonable time today. I encourage the two managers to 
move forward with the bill if Senators do not show up to offer their 
amendments. We must finish the Defense bill today, along with three 
appropriations conference reports that are now at the desk. I do not 
expect a great deal of debate on those conference reports, but we will 
need to schedule rollcall votes on each.
  Having said that, we will have a full day of voting to finish our 
work, but with the cooperation of Senators, we can complete our work at 
a reasonable time today.

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