[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, we are going to resume consideration of the 
housing legislation. There will be 2 minutes for debate equally divided 
between the proponents and opponents of the amendments. The Senate will 
proceed to vote in relation to the Voinovich amendment, to be followed 
by a vote in relation to the Landrieu amendment. I have been told those 
two amendments will be modified. I think they will be approved.
  I would say to all Members of the Senate, I have spoken to the 
Republican leader. We have a cloture motion ready to file sometime this 
afternoon. If we can, we will come up with a consent agreement that we 
can have a time for final passage on this bill on Tuesday. Before doing 
that, we would have to know what amendments are going to be offered. We 
would have to have a finite list of amendments so we knew that. We will 
all be in communication with the Republican leader. We will either go 
cloture or we will go with a consent agreement to finish on Tuesday. 
There has been a good debate on this bill. There will be managers 
available all afternoon to offer amendments that Senators want to 
offer. We will be available here on Monday. People can offer 
amendments. So there is plenty of time to offer amendments on this 
bill.

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