[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 11801]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today we will return to executive session 
for the final statements regarding the nomination of Janice Rogers 
Brown. We have the up-or-down vote on her nomination scheduled for 5 
p.m. today. And immediately following her vote, under provisions of 
rule XXII, we will proceed directly to the cloture vote with respect to 
the nomination of William Pryor. I expect cloture to be invoked on the 
Pryor nomination as well. Once cloture is invoked, I anticipate we will 
be able to lock in a time certain for a final up-or-down vote on 
William Pryor.
  As I mentioned over the last couple of days, we also expect to 
consider the Sixth Circuit judges on which we have time agreements 
already in place, as well as the nomination of Tom Griffith to the D.C. 
Circuit Court.
  I look forward to the Senate finally working its will with respect to 
these four or five nominations over the next 2 days. We will have a 
busy week focused on these judicial nominations.
  Mr. President, I have a very brief statement on judges. Does the 
Democratic leader have any comments with regard to the schedule? I 
think our schedule is pretty clear. After discussions between the two 
of us and among our leadership in our various caucuses, we have a good 
plan for the next 4 weeks focused on judges this week, and then moving 
to energy next week, with a concentrated push on energy based on a 
bipartisan bill that came out of committee 2 weeks ago.
  Following that, we will be addressing appropriations bills that are 
currently coming out of the Appropriations Committee.

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