[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS


                           order of procedure

  Mr. McCONNELL. Parliamentary inquiry: Are the subsequent votes after 
the first one 10-minute votes?
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. That has not been established.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all votes 
after the first vote in the stack which is coming up be 10-minute 
votes.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me add while my friend the majority 
leader is here that I hope he joins my view that having finished this 
supplemental appropriations bill today, we hope the staffs of the two 
Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate will work 
expeditiously to finish the conference so it can be approved, 
hopefully, on the first day we are back, after the House comes back, 
and we can get it down to the President for the inevitable veto so we 
can get through this process again and get the much needed money to the 
troops.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say to my distinguished friend, we hope we 
can have the conference start tomorrow. Tomorrow is Friday, and the 
fact that we will be out of session a week and the House 2 weeks does 
not mean Members of Congress cannot be here working on this bill. We 
all acknowledge, in the first several days--this is a big bill, and 
staff will do a lot of work, as it has always done. The managers of the 
bill, both in the House and Senate, majority and minority, will be 
heavily involved in this conference, and other members of the 
subcommittees--the chairs and ranking members--as necessary will be 
involved.
  This is an important piece of legislation. No matter the time of year 
we do these supplemental appropriations bills, they are important. It 
is an emergency. That is why we are here. While people may not agree as 
to what is in the bill, we all agree something needs to be done very 
quickly. We will move this just as quickly as we can.

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