[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today we will begin with a period for 
morning business for up to 60 minutes. Following that time, the Senate 
will resume debate on S. 2271, the PATRIOT Act amendments legislation. 
The debate will be equally divided until the hour of 12:30, and at 
12:30 the Senate will recess until 2:15 p.m. for the weekly policy 
meetings. When we reconvene at 2:15, there will be 15 minutes for 
closing remarks prior to the cloture vote, which is scheduled for 2:30. 
That cloture vote on the PATRIOT Act amendments bill will be the first 
vote of the day. We fully expect cloture to be invoked, and therefore 
we have an agreement that the vote on passage of the bill will occur at 
10 a.m. tomorrow, on Wednesday.
  On Wednesday, in addition to the PATRIOT Act amendments bill, we will 
return to the conference report on the underlying PATRIOT Act. That 
conference report will require an additional cloture vote and we will 
have that vote on Wednesday afternoon.
  I remind my colleagues that on Wednesday we will have a joint meeting 
with the House of Representatives in order to hear an address by the 
Prime Minister of Italy. That address will begin at 11 o'clock tomorrow 
morning, and therefore Senators are asked to gather in the Senate 
Chamber at 10:30 so we can proceed together at 10:40 to the Hall of the 
House of Representatives. I will have more to say about the remaining 
schedule for this week and the next at the close of business today.

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