[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1856]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2007--Continued

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
resume consideration of S. 2248.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I just finished a conference with the 
distinguished Republican leader, and we both believe this is the best 
way to go. We will, at some time, finish the intelligence conference 
report one way or the other, and following that, we will likely move to 
the Indian health bill to try to complete that.
  We have had a productive day. It is my understanding there are only 
two speakers left on the FISA legislation, and that is Senator Dodd and 
Senator Specter. If there are others, they should notify the cloakroom 
forthwith.
  We have eight votes we are going to do tomorrow, and staff is working 
on a consent to get to those votes. If we finish them, regardless, it 
would be better if we do this by consent. We are going to start the 
votes early in the morning. There will be no morning business tomorrow. 
We have eight votes to do tomorrow and complete a lot of talk on this 
bill, and that way we can send it to the House very quickly and they 
will come back and tell us something, we hope, by the end of the week.
  We all hope it is not necessary that we have an extension, but time 
will tell.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate 
resumes S. 2248 on Tuesday morning, February 12, the sequence of votes 
on remaining amendments occur in the following order: Whitehouse 3920, 
subject to a 60-vote threshold; Feinstein 3910, subject to a 60-vote 
threshold; Feingold 3979; Dodd 3907; Feingold 3912; Bond-Rockefeller 
3938, as modified; Specter-Whitehouse 3927; Feinstein 3919, with a 60-
vote threshold; and that each leader control a total of 10 minutes of 
debate time to be used prior to any of the votes; that the provisions 
of the previous order governing debate limitations and vote limitations 
remain in effect.
  We are going to do as many of these as we can before the weekly party 
conferences. With a little bit of luck, we can finish all of them.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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