[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 24132]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning, following any remarks of 
Senator McConnell and myself, the Senate will immediately resume 
consideration of the Transportation Appropriations bill. There are no 
votes presently scheduled.
  Last night, there were discussions about the possibility of the 
Republicans offering an amendment on the subject of Mexican trucks, 
which is the subject of the pending Dorgan amendment. We are all 
hopeful we can work something out on that this morning regarding the 
Dorgan amendment and the so-called alternative amendment to that.
  It is my understanding Senator Coburn is going to arrive about 10:30 
this morning to start offering amendments on problems he has with this 
legislation. As I mentioned last night, he tends not to speak for long 
periods of time, but he does have a number of amendments. He hasn't 
decided how many that will be. We hope we can proceed on that as 
quickly as possible.
  At 12 noon today, the Senate will observe a moment of silence in 
commemoration of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attack. Both 
the Republican leader and I encourage Members to come to the floor for 
this observance.
  Also, the Senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15 for the regular party 
conference meetings.
  Yesterday, I indicated that today would be a late night as we work 
toward completing this legislation. There is no reason we can't 
complete this bill tonight. If we complete it tonight, of course, there 
will be no votes tomorrow. As indicated, there would be no votes after 
1 o'clock anyway, so we should do our best to complete this legislation 
tonight.
  It could be a very late night, but we have two of our most competent, 
experienced legislators doing this bill--Senator Murray and Senator 
Bond--and we do hope we can move forward on this legislation.

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