[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23488]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a 
period of morning business until 4 o'clock today, with Senators during 
that time able to speak for up to 10 minutes each. Following morning 
business, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of H.R. 2847, 
the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. Today will be for 
debate only. There will be no amendments today or rollcall votes today.
  We have two of our experienced managers, Senator Mikulski and Senator 
Shelby from Alabama, my dear friend. He and I came to the Senate 
together. We had our offices next door to one another in the Longworth 
House Office Building. So we have two extremely fine managers. We hope 
to move through this bill as quickly as possible. It is a very 
important piece of legislation. We would have moved more quickly, but 
Senator Mikulski had an accident and was in the hospital and had 
surgery. But she is up strong and ready to take this on and get on it 
as quickly as possible.

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