[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today each side will have a half hour in 
morning business. The Republicans have the first half, the Democrats 
the final half. Following that, the Senate will begin consideration of 
one of the most important bills we do here every year; that is, the 
Defense appropriations bill. That will be led by Senators Inouye and 
Stevens. The Senate will recess today from 12:30 to 2:15 for the 
regularly scheduled party conference meetings. We want to finish this 
bill as quickly as possible and move to Commerce-State-Justice, which 
is also important, dealing with law enforcement. We also have some 
judges we would like to get rid of this week, if at all possible. We 
have a circuit court judge and a number of district court judges. We 
need to finish these items this week so that we can come back and start 
the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which is extremely important. If we 
finish these 2 bills, we would have half of them done this year, which 
is good.
  We have received tremendous cooperation from both sides to move 
through the bills. I hope we can continue to get that cooperation on 
this bill. I am confident there will be some amendments offered. Some 
of them will have points of order against them because of too much 
money and they are legislating on appropriations bills. Maybe those 
Senators won't offer them if they check with the Parliamentarian first. 
But we hope we can move through this bill very quickly.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum 
call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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