[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18160]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning, following a brief period of 
morning business, we will resume consideration of the port security 
bill, with an hour of debate equally divided, followed by a vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the bill. That cloture vote should occur at 
approximately 11 this morning, and that will be the first vote of 
today's session. I anticipate that cloture will be invoked, and I 
encourage all Senators to vote in favor of cloture. The bill managers 
have been diligently working through the amendments and working through 
the bill. If we invoke cloture, we expect to complete the bill at a 
reasonable time today. I encourage all of our colleagues to help the 
managers so we can finish that bill sometime in the late afternoon 
today. It means not doing our usual thing of trying to talk and spend a 
lot of time and then voting later into the night. We really do want to 
finish this late this afternoon. Senators are reminded that rollcall 
votes are likely throughout the day and that the filing deadline for 
second-degree amendments is 10 a.m. this morning.

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