[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15599]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning we will return to executive 
session for the consideration of the nomination of Jerome Holmes to be 
U.S. circuit judge for the Tenth Circuit. There are 2 hours remaining 
for debate on this judicial nomination, and therefore, if all that time 
is necessary, we will vote just before 12 noon today. We will be 
recessing from 12:30 to 2:15 today to allow for our weekly policy 
meetings. When we resume business at 2:15, we will begin consideration 
of the child custody protection bill under an agreement that we reached 
last Friday. There are up to four amendments that can be considered 
before we proceed to passage of that bill. We will stay in session this 
afternoon and evening in order to finish the child custody protection 
bill, and I hope some of that debate time will be yielded so we can 
finish that bill at an earlier hour.
  I remind everyone again that there will be a cloture vote on the 
motion to proceed to the consideration of the Gulf of Mexico Energy 
Security Act tomorrow morning. That vote will occur sometime around 10 
a.m. so that we can conclude that vote before we go to the scheduled 
joint meeting. We will proceed to the House of Representatives in order 
to hear the 11 a.m. address by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq.
  The vote will be sometime around 10 a.m. tomorrow, and a little after 
that we will convene here in preparation for going to the House of 
Representatives.
  We have had a very productive few weeks since the Fourth of July, 
addressing the issues surrounding the alternative stem cell technology 
bill, the fetal farming prohibition bill, the child protection bill, 
Homeland Security appropriations, the Voting Rights Act 
reauthorization, the Water Resources Development Act, and confirmed 
four judges.
  We have made great progress over the last few weeks, but we have a 
lot to do--most immediately the Child Custody Protection Act--today, 
and then we will move to the deep sea energy exploration issue. 
Pensions is currently on the way to conference, and I am very hopeful 
that the conference will be completed at some point in the near future. 
And we need to address the DOD appropriations bill. So these are very 
busy times.
  The House of Representatives will be going out this week, and we will 
be here through next week before the recess.
  I yield the floor.

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