[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, today, following leader remarks, the Senate 
will be in a period of morning business until 3 p.m. Senators will be 
permitted therein to speak for up to 10 minutes each.
  I know the two managers of the housing bill plan on being here on or 
about that time. As I have indicated, the Senate will resume 
consideration of the House message that accompanies H.R. 3221, housing 
reform legislation, under a previous order. At 5:30 p.m. today, the 
Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on the motion to concur with 
respect to the housing reform legislation.
  Before we left for the Fourth of July recess, we were able to reach 
an agreement on FISA legislation. We will debate the bill.
  I have spoken to the distinguished Republican leader today. We are 
going to try to get an agreement--I feel very comfortable that we can--
and we will complete all the debate tomorrow. There are a number of 
Senators proceeding to North Carolina for the funeral of Senator Helms. 
So they could spend whatever time is necessary to be in North Carolina 
and not feel pressed on coming back, we are going to try to do the 
votes Wednesday morning. I think that will work out just fine for 
everyone's schedule. We will debate the bill then tomorrow afternoon; 
tomorrow night, we have 7 hours set aside. We may even leave a little 
time for Wednesday morning. We will see how that goes. Whatever I do 
will have to be with the agreement of the Republican leader; otherwise, 
we finish everything tomorrow night and no one thinks that would be 
appropriate. Senators will be notified as soon as this is worked out. 
We will try to have a unanimous consent agreement on that at the 
earliest possible time today.

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