[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26228]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, following leader remarks, there will be a 
period of morning business, with Senators allowed to speak for up to 10 
minutes each. The Republicans will control the first hour and the 
majority will control the next hour.
  I anticipate that the Senate will adopt the motion to proceed to H.R. 
3548, the Unemployment Benefits Extension Act of 2009. We also expect 
to receive the conference report to accompany Interior appropriations. 
I have spoken to the Speaker and the majority leader of the House, and 
they expect to have that to us early this afternoon. The conference 
report contains a continuing resolution that funds the government 
through December 18. We hope to reach a short time agreement to 
consider that conference report today. If we are not able to do that, 
we are going to have to have some votes tomorrow and it could spill 
over into Saturday if we can't work anything out. We have to get the 
unemployment done. We have millions of people who are waiting for that 
money.

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