[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1045]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, let me say that we are going to work real 
hard tomorrow and the next day to get a lot of work done. We have so 
much to do. This is a relatively short work period. We have the 
stimulus package. We have foreign intelligence that we have to do. We 
have a lands bill from the Energy Committee. We have an agreement to 
move forward on that. We would like to finish the Indian health bill, 
if we can. We have a lot to do.
  That being the case, we are going to have to have a vote this coming 
Monday. We are going to do it later rather than earlier, but we are 
going to have to work on Tuesday. Tuesday is Super Tuesday. I had 
talked to the Republican leader earlier hoping we could work something 
out, that we would not have to be in. Certainly, it is no one's fault, 
even though there is a lot of finger pointing going on. But we were not 
able to get much work done yesterday and today. So losing those 2 days, 
I do not see any alternative.
  I know a number of people would like to go home on Super Tuesday, but 
they can vote absentee, and I think the country will survive without 
Senators being there on election day. I hope everyone here understands 
we have a limited amount of time to do a lot of work.

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