[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 25191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to be in a period of morning 
business until shortly after 3 o'clock, with the time equally divided 
and controlled. The majority will control the first part, with Senator 
Byrd taking our time. The final portion will be controlled by the 
Republicans.
  Shortly after 3 p.m., the Senate will proceed to the conference 
report to accompany H.R. 1495, the Water Resources Development Act. The 
debate time on that conference report will extend until quarter to 6 
tonight. The majority manager, Senator Boxer, and Senator Inhofe will 
be here shortly after 3 to proceed forward with the debate.
  Mr. President, I have to comment on this remarkable piece of 
legislative work. Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe--you could have no 
two different political ideologies than the two of them. One is the 
chairman of the committee, one is the ranking member. That was 
reversed--Inhofe was the chairman, Boxer was the ranking member last 
year. They worked together well last year, and they worked extremely 
well together this year, as evidenced by this bill, which I think sets 
a good example for all of us here. You do not have to have ideological 
parity to get things done around here. This is a good example of that.
  The vote on the conference report is expected around 5:45 p.m. today. 
This could never, ever have been accomplished without these two 
Senators working together. Once the Senate completes action on the 
conference report this evening, we will decide what we have to do. We 
have a lot to do this week. I am going to spend some time with the 
Republican leader and determine how we are going to accomplish what we 
have to do.
  We have, perhaps, SCHIP, we have a continuing resolution, we have a 
debt limit extension, and we have to finish this bill, which means we 
probably will not finish this bill this week, but it is something we 
have to do. So everyone should watch closely what is going on, and we 
will try to work our way through this. There have been a number of 
procedural hurdles to get through.
  I yield the floor.

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