[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, there will be no morning business today. 
Following the remarks, if any, of myself and Senator McConnell, the 
Senate will resume consideration of the energy legislation.
  There is currently pending a Bingaman first-degree amendment 
regarding renewables and a Domenici second-degree amendment on the same 
subject.
  I am going to be meeting with the managers of the bill as soon as 
possible to find out how we are doing and what they think can be done 
to move us toward finalizing this bill. We have, in Senators Bingaman 
and Domenici, two real professionals in this body. They are both from 
the same State, both on the same committee, one is chairman and one is 
ranking on the committee, and that has gone back and forth in recent 
years. So I am confident we can move toward resolving this issue.
  The other issue that is difficult that we need to work on is dealing 
with the efficiency of automobiles, the CAFE aspect of the bill. There 
should be an amendment laid down by Senator Levin on that matter. He 
thought he could do that today, so perhaps, when we dispose of this, we 
can move to that.
  These are the two big issues, as I see them. There are other 
important issues, such as coal and gas, that a number of Senators want 
to debate, and we can do that. It is an important bill and, I repeat, a 
bipartisan bill. This is not a Democratic bill or a Republican bill. 
The only matters that came before the Senate were bipartisan bills that 
were reported out of the various committees, and we put those together 
and that is what is now on the floor.

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