[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12242]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT--H.R. 2206

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding 
the provisions of rule XXII, the majority leader, with the concurrence 
of the Republican leader, may turn to the consideration of H.R. 2206 at 
any time.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, H.R. 2206 is the Iraq supplemental.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I was distracted. I am confused as to 
which unanimous consent request was just entered.
  Mr. REID. It was the one, I say to my friend, dealing with Iraq. I 
only indicated just for general information what we were going to do on 
the immigration matter. This is the House-passed version of the 
supplemental that we can move to when we decide it is necessary, in 
spite of the fact that we may be involved, but for this agreement, in 
the postcloture proceedings.
  Mr. McCONNELL. All right.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the prior statement before was to just alert 
those Senators who had called asking that we put the vote over that we 
are going to do that, and we will not vote on cloture on the 
immigration bill on Tuesday afternoon. We will be able to work all day 
on Monday and Tuesday on WRDA. Who knows, we may get lucky and be able 
to complete most of the work or all of the work on that.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me just say with regard to the 
immigration bill, the only chance to get a bill is on a bipartisan 
basis. I agree with the decision of the majority leader to accept the 
recommendation of those who have been involved in that discussion, to 
give us the maximum opportunity to piece back together the bipartisan 
agreement that we thought we almost had a week or so ago on this most 
important legislation.

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