[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             HOUSING VOTES

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, thanks to Senators Dodd, Baucus, Shelby and 
Grassley and their staffs, we have had some good bipartisan work on 
this housing bill. This bill will help communities, homeowners, and the 
homebuilding industry. This bill is not a silver bullet, but it is an 
important first step, so I hope we can pass it quickly and 
overwhelmingly so we can send it along to the House of Representatives.
  We have nine pending amendments. I have asked my staff to see what 
they can do to work with the Republicans to see if we can come up with 
votes tomorrow morning on those amendments that are germane. The 
Parliamentarian has had a chance to look at those. A number of them are 
clearly germane, and I hope we can vote on them tomorrow morning.

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