[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9937]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           A PRODUCTIVE WEEK

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, over the next 20 minutes or so, we will be 
wrapping up what has been a very busy but very productive week, moving 
to a period which will begin with the celebration of this weekend, in 
the sense that a lot of people will be with families back at home, back 
with their constituents, back in their communities, but we will move 
very quickly to our Memorial Day recess. I will have a few statements 
to make, a few words to say on what will be going on, on Monday.
  We have had a very successful week in the sense that we have 
completed another nomination thus far. We will have a few more in a 
little bit that we have agreed to on both sides. We have completed an 
immigration bill that we worked on for about a month--initially, for 2 
weeks, then a pause, and then for the last 2 weeks--a bill that, as I 
said yesterday, does reflect the will of this body. Not everybody 
agrees with it. Not anybody, I think, agrees with everything in that 
legislation. But it is comprehensive legislation that demonstrates that 
we are governing, addressing the very real problems, real challenges 
that face us in America today.

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