[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11658]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this morning, there will be 60 minutes for 
morning business, with the Republicans controlling the first half, and 
the Democrats controlling the second half.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of 
the FDA legislation. Last night, due to the hard work of Senator Enzi 
and the staffs of Senators Kennedy and Enzi, they were able to come to 
an agreement to complete action on this legislation today. I compliment 
the hard work of the many individuals who worked to accomplish this, 
especially Senator Brown who, in the absence of the chairman, was here 
throughout the day to assist in moving the process along. In addition, 
I would like to single out Senator Enzi, who has worked so hard on this 
legislation in the committee and, of course, with it being on the 
floor. He has worked very well with Senator Kennedy in the entire 
process of getting this legislation through the committee to the floor 
and now toward completion.
  Through the hard work of these I have mentioned, we have only three 
amendments that are in order to the bill, and we have 60 minutes of 
debate time. Votes on the remaining amendments and passage of the bill 
will occur around 11:30 this morning.
  Following final action on the FDA bill, the Senate will consider, for 
up to 3 hours, the nomination of Debra Ann Livingston to be a circuit 
court judge. Upon the use or yielding back of that time, then a vote on 
confirmation will occur.
  Once the judge has been confirmed, I have every belief that the 
Senate will begin and complete the process of going to conference on 
the budget resolution. I have spoken to Senator Conrad earlier this 
morning. He and Senator Judd Gregg get along extremely well, and they 
will work out the time on the number of motions to instruct and how 
many motions to instruct the minority will require. So Members should 
be prepared to work into the evening on this most important item.
  Finally, the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the water 
resources legislation will not occur before tomorrow morning. Today 
will be a busy day, with votes occurring throughout the day, so Members 
should plan accordingly.

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