[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22118]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, if any, the Senate 
will proceed to a period of morning business until 3 p.m., with 
Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. Following 
morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the Interior 
appropriations bill. There will be no rollcall votes today. Senators 
should expect a vote or votes prior to the caucuses tomorrow.
  At 3 o'clock, we will, as I have announced, return to the 
appropriations bill dealing with the interior. At that time, the two 
managers of the bill, Senator Feinstein and Senator Alexander, will be 
available to listen to Senators who want to speak on the bill or offer 
amendments. It is my understanding that Senator Bingaman has some 
amendments he wants to offer.
  Senator Feinstein was unable to be here on Friday because of the 
Jewish holiday. She will be here at 4 p.m. today. Between 3 and 4, 
whenever she gets here, Senator Alexander, who is managing the bill 
with her, will be here to accept amendments. They have total trust of 
one another; that is, Feinstein and Alexander, and her not being here 
should not in any way alleviate the need for anyone to come and offer 
an amendment. We have all night tonight to offer amendments, and we 
have all day tomorrow.
  We have to move past this bill, and we are going to do it fairly 
quickly because we have to move the Defense appropriations bill and 
other things before the end of the month. We would hope sometime this 
week the work on the Finance Committee health care bill will be far 
enough down the road they will report something out. I don't know if 
they will do it this week. It is anticipated it will be this week, but 
things always take longer than we expect. The main thing, though, is 
that in the next 24 hours people should be offering amendments on this 
Interior bill if they have any to offer.
  Would the Chair be good enough to announce morning business.

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