[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 27984]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, under the time agreement that we just 
entered into this evening, we have a number of motions to instruct 
conferees with respect to the deficit reduction bill that we will 
debate and vote on over the next 2 days. We will vote on three of those 
motions--the Baucus motion on Medicaid, the Carper TANF motion, and the 
Harkin food stamp motion--during tomorrow's session. These votes will 
start somewhere between 11:45 and noon. We will finish the remaining 
motions to instruct on Thursday.
  Over the course of this week, we will be very busy, as I pointed out 
earlier this morning. We will begin voting around midday tomorrow, and 
in all likelihood we will be voting Thursday afternoon as well. We will 
be stacking votes Thursday afternoon. We will be voting on Friday and 
may well go into this weekend if we are unable to finish our business 
by late Friday. That means possibly Saturday and then maybe into next 
week. We have a whole slew of bills that we need to address, that we 
have been doing and will be doing over the next several days.
  Tomorrow I will have more to say about the schedule.

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