[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              IMMIGRATION

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, for those who are watching, I have spoken to 
people doing the negotiating on immigration, and they tell me they are 
80 percent of the way. Well, that is fine, but the other 20 percent is 
hard. I don't think we lose a step by the agreement that we have just 
had. It will allow the people who have been working on this matter for 
a number of weeks to have a few more days to do that.
  It would be different if we had nothing else to do here, but this 
will kind of clear the deck so we can, hopefully, complete WRDA, the 
budget, send something to conference on the supplemental, and then next 
week we have to do the conference report on the supplemental, which 
shouldn't take long, and then spend that time, if we can get an 
agreement, on immigration. That is why we have done what we have done 
with this consent agreement.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator Sessions have up 
to 3 hours under his control to speak on Monday, May 21; that the hour 
prior to cloture be reserved for the two leaders or their designees; 
and that Senator Sessions also have 2 hours under his control on 
Tuesday, May 22, when and if we go to the immigration matter.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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