[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20561]
[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 of morning business for up to 1 hour. Senator Begich will 
give his maiden speech. We all look forward to this. He will have the 
first 30 minutes of morning business time. I note before he starts his 
speech, we are all so pleased with the work he has done. He has done an 
outstanding job for the people of the State of Alaska and our country, 
and I look forward to his remarks. The Republicans will control the 
final 30 minutes.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of 
the Agriculture Appropriations Act. At 5:30 the Senate will proceed to 
a cloture vote on the substitute amendment to the bill. Additional 
votes in relation to the amendments are possible following the cloture 
vote. The deadline for filing first-degree amendments is 3:30 today.
  In speaking to Senator Brownback and on our side Senator Kohl, who is 
the comanager of the bill and who, of course, would love to finish it 
today, Senator Brownback said on Thursday that he thought we could 
finish the bill this evening and I hope that in fact is the case. The 
longer we are on this bill the less time there will be for Sotomayor 
speeches, so we look forward to completing this Agriculture 
appropriations bill so we can go to the Supreme Court nomination and 
listen to what people have to say about the new Supreme Court Justice.

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