[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15040]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will be 
in a period for the transaction of morning business for Senators to 
speak for up to 10 minutes each. There will be no rollcall votes today. 
Tomorrow Senators should expect a cloture vote on the motion to proceed 
to the Travel Promotion Act. That will be prior to our weekly caucus 
luncheons.
  This week, we are going to do the best we can to complete the Travel 
Promotion Act and the supplemental bill. We should be able to do that 
and, hopefully, get some nominations done. Next week, we have other 
things we need to do, including the Homeland Security appropriations 
bill. I spoke with the Republican leader on a number of occasions on 
that issue. To get to it next week, we need a consent agreement because 
the House will not act on it until probably Wednesday of next week or 
something like that. It does not give us enough time, and we need to 
start earlier. We will work on that and see what we can come up with.
  We have announced before that the 5 weeks after we get back from the 
Fourth of July recess will be very busy with a lot of work. The HELP 
Committee and the Finance Committee are going to have their bills 
reported out of their committees before we leave a week from Friday so 
we can start working on the health care legislation in the Senate.
  The next work period will be very heavy, although we have--I cannot 
complain--we have been able to complete a tremendous amount of 
legislation. I was told over the weekend the work we have been able to 
do to this point is as much as any President has ever accomplished and 
Congress has accomplished with the President during the first 5 months 
of a legislative session but for the first time of Roosevelt.
  We passed some major legislation. We should all feel good about that. 
But there is so much more to do. We have to roll up our sleeves and 
work even harder with health care and energy not far down the road.

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