[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16227]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, there will be no more votes today. We will 
have no session tomorrow. When we come back a week from Monday, we will 
have a number of votes beginning at 5:30.
  As I have told everyone more than once, the next 5 weeks after we get 
back are going to be jam packed with stuff to do. Members should 
understand that we will have votes on Mondays and Fridays, with one 
exception which has already been announced: It is July 17. We hope we 
don't have to have weekend sessions. We have a lot to do. Everyone 
knows the workload we have. I would hope that we understand the amount 
of work we have to do. We are going to be in a week longer than the 
House of Representatives, as everyone knows. Because of our rules, we 
can't move as quickly as they do. We have an immense amount of work to 
do. We have the Sotomayor nomination. We have Defense authorization 
that was reported out of committee today by Senators Levin and McCain. 
That is something that is very important for the military and to the 
American people. We have other appropriations bills we have to work on. 
We have health care. We are going to move as far as we can on that 
during that period of time. So we have a lot of work to do.
  Also, on July 14, there will be no votes after 2 p.m. These are 
arrangements I made with one of the Senators, and this will be good for 
the entire body. So there will be no votes after 2 p.m. on July 14.

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