[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, this morning after a period for the 
transaction of morning business, the Senate will resume consideration 
of the Military Commissions Act. Under the agreement that was reached 
yesterday, we have a limited number of amendments to consider and 
debate. Yesterday, we defeated the Levin substitute amendment, and 
Senator Specter offered his amendment on habeas. The Specter amendment 
is the pending amendment, and we will have more debate on it this 
morning.
  Following the disposition of the Specter amendment, there are three 
additional amendments in order followed by a vote on passage of the 
bill. Once we conclude our work on this bill, we will return to the 
border fence bill with a cloture vote.
  We still have a number of important items to complete before the 
recess, including the DOD appropriations conference report, additional 
conference reports that become available, executive items and 
nominations, and the child custody bill, on which I filed cloture 
yesterday.
  We will have votes throughout the course of today's session and into 
the evening and over the remaining days until we complete our work.

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