[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2807]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              IRAQ DEBATE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, with regard to today's schedule, we 
will be working, as the majority leader indicated, on the timing of the 
Kyl amendments. These are important amendments which we are going to 
want to have considered in a timely fashion. Senator Kyl will need to 
be able to debate those amendments. We probably will be able to get to 
final passage tomorrow.
  And then, as the majority leader indicated, he and I have had 
extensive discussions about crafting the various proposals, how many we 
are going to have on each side to address the most important issue in 
the country right now, which is the Iraq war, and that debate, of 
course, will occur next week. So we will continue our discussions 
toward narrowing down and understanding fully exactly which 
resolutions, alternate resolutions will need a vote in the context of 
that debate.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. One final point, Mr. President. We should understand, all 
of us, that we may have to have a vote or some votes on Monday. 
Everyone should understand that. And if we have to have votes on 
Monday, they could occur earlier rather than later. So everyone should 
understand there may be Monday votes. We hope not. As I told the 
distinguished Republican leader and as we have announced on a number of 
occasions, we had our retreat, and the Republicans certainly cooperated 
with us, and we are going to cooperate with them. These retreats are 
extremely important to this body. They allow us to enhance the 
political parties within this great Senate and focus on what is good 
for the country. We have done that, and the Republicans are going to do 
that the day after tomorrow, and I think that is important. We will 
certainly have no votes on Friday.

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