[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10640]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, today we will be in for a period of morning 
business. We do not expect a lengthy session over the course of this 
morning for today.
  Last night, we reached an agreement to begin consideration of the 
Department of Defense authorization bill on Monday at 3 o'clock. 
Chairman Warner and Senator Levin will be in the Senate inviting 
Members to deliver their opening remarks. We expect amendments to be 
offered later in the day on Monday. There will be no rollcall votes on 
Monday. I anticipate debating amendments and setting votes to occur on 
Tuesday morning. Therefore, we expect at least one vote to occur 
Tuesday prior to the policy meetings.
  As a reminder to our colleagues, we will have the official photograph 
taken in the Senate Chamber at 2:15 on Tuesday. Senators should be 
seated at their desk promptly at 2:15 to avoid missing that photograph.
  Following that, we have a debate period set aside prior to a cloture 
vote on a mine safety and health nomination reported out of the HELP 
committee back in March.
  Early next week, we will be considering the supplemental 
appropriations conference report when it arrives from the House. We 
hope to dispose of that conference report in a reasonable amount of 
time in order to return to the Defense authorization bill.
  Clearly, there is much to do next week. We will need everyone's 
assistance as we schedule these items.
  We currently have a lot of things going on in addition to what is 
going on in the Senate Chamber. The supplemental conference bill, as 
most people have heard, is coming along and has come along very well. 
We will be doing that next week. There is a pensions bill in 
conference. There is real progress being made on that particular bill 
as well.

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