[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[Senate]
[Page 30263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will recess shortly for a joint 
meeting to hear an address from the President of France, Nicolas 
Sarkozy.


                           Order of Procedure

  I ask unanimous consent that the recess order be changed--it now has 
us reconvening at 12:15 p.m.--to subject to the call of the Chair. That 
way, if it doesn't work out exactly at 12:15 p.m., no one will be 
disadvantaged.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, when we reconvene, we will go right to work 
on the Labor-HHS-VA appropriations conference report under the 
parameters of the agreement entered last night. In addition, the Senate 
also may consider the WRDA conference report after disposition of the 
Labor-HHS conference report. Members can expect rollcall votes during 
the day. We will also, of course, be on the farm bill, interspersed 
through all the other work we are doing. Hopefully, at the end of the 
day, we can work something out.
  I had a conversation with the distinguished Republican leader last 
night. There may be something we can work out on the amendments. I note 
for the record, as I explained to my Republican counterpart last night, 
there was conversation on the floor yesterday that the last time the 
farm bill came up, Senator Daschle was the leader. At that time, there 
were 16 or 19 amendments, but they were all relevant amendments, with 
the exception of one from Senator Kyl of Arizona which was a sense-of-
the-Senate amendment dealing with the estate tax. Other than that, they 
were all relevant to the farm bill. That is the way it has been. We 
went back and checked, and that is the way it has been for very many 
farm bills. That is what we should do on this farm bill, as I have 
suggested. But we can work something out with the minority and come up 
with a list of amendments. I will be happy to do that if that is 
something which will make them happy.

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