[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, shortly the Chair will announce that we are 
in morning business until 3 p.m. today, with the time equally divided 
between the two leaders.
  At 3 p.m., the Senate will begin consideration of H.R. 1495, the 
Water Resources Development Act. Senators Boxer and Inhofe are managing 
the bill, and they will be here at 3 o'clock ready to conduct business. 
There will be no rollcall votes today.
  If there are no amendments on Tuesday, the water resources bill would 
be ready for a vote. If there are no votes on WRDA tomorrow and they 
are able to complete work on the bill, then we will have the judicial 
nomination before the caucuses in the morning.
  Also, I have had discussions with the Republican leader. We finished 
a conversation a short time ago. I indicated last Friday I would delay 
filing cloture on the motion to proceed to the immigration bill until 
today so that negotiations could continue. That cloture vote will occur 
now on Wednesday.
  The Republican leader and I will continue our discussions about the 
best way to proceed with the supplemental. The bill is expected to be 
received from the House today and will be placed on the Senate calendar 
when it arrives. The Senate must complete action on the supplemental 
this week so it can be conferenced with the House and sent to the 
President prior to the scheduled Memorial Day recess. It will occur. 
That is, the conference will be completed or we will delay our recess.
  In addition, the Senate can expect to receive a conference vote on 
the budget sometime later this week. We need to act on that also. Under 
the Budget Act, debate time is limited to 10 hours.
  So a busy week lies ahead for us in the Senate. We have one week 
after this before the Memorial Day break.

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