[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 23]
[Senate]
[Page 31841]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning, there will be debate prior to 
the first of three cloture votes. The first cloture vote is on the 
Motion to Proceed to S. 2340, the second cloture vote is on the Motion 
to Proceed to H.R. 4156, the House-passed Orderly and Responsible Iraq 
Redeployment bill, and the third vote is a vote on invoking cloture on 
the Harkin substitute amendment to the farm bill.
  All debate time is equally divided between the two leaders, with each 
leader speaking for 5 minutes immediately prior to the first vote, 
which will occur at 9:30.


                           order of procedure

  Mr. President, I now ask unanimous consent that the vote time after 
the first vote be limited to 10 minutes.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, yesterday was a day of real negativity by 
our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. The country could have 
benefitted from passage of TRIA, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, 
which is so important. We must do that before the end of the year or it 
will bring business to a real slowdown here in America.
  We also were unable to get the modernization of FHA done, even though 
it passed the House overwhelmingly and came out of committee here by a 
vote of 20 to 1. It is a shame there was an objection to that.
  And also AMT, Mr. President. We tried a number of different ways to 
get that done. It was objected to every time we tried to do something. 
That is unfortunate. We will continue to work on these things and maybe 
before the day is out, we will get that done.

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