[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 29065]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will conduct morning 
business for 1 hour, and the time will be equally divided and 
controlled, with the Republicans controlling the first half and the 
majority controlling the second half.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of 
the motion to proceed to H.R. 3963, the children's health insurance 
legislation. Cloture was invoked on that motion to proceed yesterday.
  As I indicated, after the cloture vote, if we have to stay here to 
run the 30 hours postcloture, that time will expire at 12:50 a.m. 
tomorrow morning.
  I have had several conversations with Senator McConnell with 
reference to this legislation and how we can move forward with 
concluding action in a manner that would not cause the Senate to remain 
in session over the weekend. But there is no guarantee we can do that.
  In the interim, our debate will continue on the motion today. If and 
when an agreement is reached with respect to moving forward, Members 
will be alerted to the schedule.
  There are some Senators working to come up with another compromise, 
and I hope they can do that. If they can, I will be the first to have 
that matter effectuated. At this stage, that hasn't been done. I had a 
number of meetings yesterday with interested Senators, but talking 
about it and getting there are 2 different things. We will work to see 
what we can do.

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