[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4026]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today, we will resume consideration of the 
lobbying reform measure. As I mentioned before the break, it is my 
expectation the Senate will consider the lobbying reform bill and the 
border control legislation during the next 2 weeks. This should allow 
sufficient time to work through these bills, and I hope we can focus 
our efforts and work together across the aisle on both of these bills. 
These bills are nonpartisan, and we should be able to address them in a 
bipartisan way working together.
  On the lobbying reform bill today, first, I hope the Senator from New 
York will withdraw his unrelated amendment. That would then allow the 
two managers to find a way to begin to schedule some of the lobbying-
related amendments for debate and votes. In addition, we have Senator 
Wyden's amendment currently pending, and we are working to set a time 
certain for a vote on that amendment.
  On the border control bill, we have a cloture vote scheduled for 
tomorrow on the motion to proceed to that bill. I will be talking to 
the Democratic leader later today on the precise timing of that vote, 
as we await the work of the Judiciary Committee under Chairman Specter 
that is meeting today.
  With respect to today, I wish to remind my colleagues that we are 
working to set up a vote this afternoon, either on an amendment or a 
nomination. We are expecting that vote to begin at approximately 5:15. 
We will likely have to drag that vote a little bit for a few minutes 
because we are starting that vote 15 minutes earlier than most of our 
colleagues had anticipated.

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