[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will be in a period 
of morning business for an hour, with the time equally divided. The 
majority will control the first half and the Republicans will have the 
final 30 minutes.
  The Senate then will resume consideration of S. 1082, the FDA bill.
  For the information of the Members, there is a filing deadline at 
10:30 this morning for second-degree amendments to the substitute 
amendment and the bill.
  At 11:50 this morning, we will change course and proceed to executive 
session to consider the nomination of Frederick Kampala, to be a U.S. 
district judge in northern Illinois. There will be 20 minutes of debate 
and then a vote. Following the vote, the Senate will recess for our 
regular conference meetings.
  Yesterday, cloture was invoked on the committee substitute. I hope 
that at some point we will be in a position to agree to the amendments 
by unanimous consent or to get cloture for completing action on the FDA 
bill. There are still a number of amendments pending, and a preliminary 
review by all the Parliamentarians indicates some of them are arguably 
germane postcloture.
  I would say on this matter, I informed the Republican leader 
yesterday we would not have any votes after 4 o'clock today, but that 
doesn't mean we would not be in session. If we can't get some agreement 
on running out the 30 hours, we will have to be in session until that 
time expires, around 10 or 11 o'clock tonight. Then we would in the 
morning come in and finish this FDA bill. Then it is my understanding--
the Parliamentarian can correct me if I am wrong--that there would be a 
cloture vote on WRDA at that time, unless some agreement is worked out 
on that, to move to that bill.

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