[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14433]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will be in a period for the 
transaction of morning business until 3:30 p.m. today. The time is 
divided between the two parties. Following the period for morning 
business, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 1348, the 
immigration legislation. There will be no rollcall votes today.
  I will meet with the distinguished Republican leader this afternoon 
and talk about when, if at all, we should file cloture on this 
immigration bill. We have 14 amendments pending. We need to dispose of 
those amendments, or most of them, before we move on to other 
amendments. The managers will be working this afternoon to come up with 
a package we can start voting on tomorrow. There are important 
amendments on which people who favor the immigration bill and oppose 
the immigration bill will want to move forward. They are key 
amendments, and we need to get them scheduled and disposed of, and the 
managers need to get that done as quickly as possible.
  We had a good debate on this matter the last week we were in session. 
Everyone has been home, and they have been barraged on all sides of 
this issue. There are people who think it is the best thing in the 
world, and there are people who think it is the worst thing in the 
world. We are going to continue to work on this legislation and see if 
we can satisfy people so they think it is good legislation and we are 
working out of a necessity to solve some major problems in America 
today as relates to legislation dealing with immigration.
  I will be happy to yield to my distinguished Republican friend.

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