[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following any remarks that I make and the 
Republican leader does, if he chooses to do so, we will begin 
consideration of H.R. 6, the Energy bill, with 30 minutes of debate on 
the DeMint amendment No. 1546. A vote in relation to that amendment is 
expected to occur at 10:10 or 10:15 this morning. Last night cloture 
was filed on the Baucus-Grassley amendment, and cloture was filed to 
the substitute amendment and the Energy bill itself.
  Last night I stated the obvious. Every step of the way for 6 months 
we have had to procedurally jump through every hoop the complicated 
Senate rules allow. That is unfortunate. We, as Democrats, have been in 
the minority, and we never did anything similar to this. There were 
times when it was necessary, because of what we did not allow, that 
cloture was filed. But this is untoward, what is happening now.
  I hope the Republican leadership would look at this. Is it necessary, 
if we get cloture on the substitute, to have to go forward on a cloture 
vote on the bill itself? I hope not.
  Germane first-degree amendments to the substitute and the bill need 
to be filed at the desk by 1 p.m. today. There will be votes today and 
into the evening.

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