[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today, the Senate will be in a period of 
morning business until 4 o'clock, with the time equally divided and 
controlled by the respective leaders.
  The Senate will resume consideration of S. 1082, the FDA bill, at 4 
p.m. today. Upon resuming the bill, the Senate will begin several 
votes: first, the Cochran second-degree amendment to the Dorgan 
amendment, then the Dorgan amendment, and then the cloture vote on the 
substitute amendment.
  I understand the managers will be here very soon to seek consent to 
dispose of amendments they have already worked out. Also, Members have 
until 3 o'clock today to file any first-degree amendments. In addition 
to filing cloture on the committee substitute amendment and the bill, I 
also filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 1495, the Water 
Resources Development Act, which is known as WRDA. It is a bipartisan 
piece of legislation, led by Senators Boxer and Inhofe. I am hopeful it 
will not be necessary to have that cloture vote and that we will be 
able to proceed to the bill once action is concluded on the FDA bill.
  Members should be ready for a number of votes starting at around 4 
o'clock today. The first vote will be 15 minutes, and the remaining 
votes will be 10-minute votes. Everyone should be alerted to that.
  Another matter which I mentioned last week is going to conference 
with respect to the budget resolution. The House was slated to take 
that up this evening. I think now it may be tomorrow when they will 
take it up, so that message may not get to us until Wednesday.
  This is a very busy week, so everyone should be aware of the 
different votes that may be necessary. We hope we can complete work on 
the FDA bill tonight. That is certainly possible; otherwise, maybe in 
the early morning.

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