[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4640]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. REID. Tomorrow, the Senate will conduct a period of morning 
business until the time when the Senate recesses for the conference 
work periods.
  Madam President, we had a vote scheduled for 9:30 on cloture of the 
Commerce aspect of the homeland security work we are going to be doing 
in the next couple weeks. Because of various clerical problems and just 
the way the Senate works, the bulk of the homeland security work we are 
going to be doing--probably 65 percent of it--deals with the Homeland 
Security Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Lieberman. The ranking member 
is Senator Collins. About 15 percent of what we are going to be doing 
deals with Banking and about 20 percent or thereabouts--these are all 
rough estimates--deals with the Commerce Committee.
  We are going to invoke cloture on the Commerce aspect--an effort to 
move it forward by 1 day--because with the first amendment, after we 
got on this legislation, we would move to put the homeland security 
legislation in, which basically has it all in it anyway.
  I have spoken at some length with the distinguished Republican 
leader, and it was felt by both of us it would be better if we could 
speak to our two caucuses tomorrow during the lunch hour to see how we 
should proceed tomorrow afternoon. That is why we changed the time for 
voting from in the morning until 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.


                           Order of Procedure

  Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote occur 
tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Tomorrow, the Senate will conduct a period of morning 
business until the time when the Senate recesses for the conference 
work periods. I will continue to discuss the schedule with the 
Republican leader with respect to the 9/11 Commission legislation, as I 
indicated. So for scheduling purposes, Members should be here at 2:30 
for the cloture vote. If we are able to vitiate that vote, Members will 
be notified in a timely fashion.

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