[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 8817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, the Senate has made a lot of progress on 
the immigration bill. After spending almost 2 weeks on the bill a month 
ago, we brought the bill back this week, and not knowing exactly what 
to expect, I set out with a pretty high watermark, a pretty high goal, 
and that is to consider a number of amendments in an open and free 
debate and have those amendments voted upon. We have accomplished 
exactly what I had set out to do.
  We are going to have another busy week. We have a recess, Memorial 
Day recess, after next week, so we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 
Thursday, and Friday to conduct a lot of business. Senators are using 
the day today--some of them have come to the floor to speak and to 
debate and talk about the various issues. Others are using it to study 
amendments for next week. Our next voting will be with two rollcall 
votes on Monday, at least two votes, maybe others, beginning at 5:30.
  The chairman will be here Monday working through the afternoon, 
working with Senators on their proposed amendments. It is important 
that we have the language on amendments people might be offering.
  We have a lot of other work to do. The supplemental bill is currently 
in conference. Our colleagues are working very hard, in the House and 
Senate, so that we can complete that supplemental bill before the 
Memorial Day recess. The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh also is pending. 
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to the circuit court, and we need to 
bring him to the floor before we depart for that Memorial Day recess.
  A lot of other issues are underway. The pensions conference report is 
being worked on aggressively, day in, day out, and I look forward to 
having that completed so when it is available we will be able to take 
it to the floor.

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