[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 27621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF BUSINESS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, we have worked all day to try to come up 
with some agreement with the Republicans to move forward on the 
Military Construction bill. We are hopeful tomorrow that we can do 
that. Today we have been unsuccessful. We have been unsuccessful, of 
course, in getting an agreement to move forward on the package of bills 
dealing with veterans. We will continue to work on a finite list of 
amendments remaining to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 
Appropriations bill.
  In view of the memorial service in Texas, there will be no rollcall 
votes tomorrow. We have tried to be more definite. I have had a number 
of Senators who have said they would go if there were no votes. I could 
not earlier today give them any indication that there would be no 
votes, but I think at this stage, with the memorial service in Texas 
taking place and a number of Senators wanting to go, we will have no 
votes tomorrow. There was some consideration that we would do it after 
they get back, but we have Veterans Day the next day, so we are going 
to have no votes until next Monday, a week from today. We will continue 
to work on the health care legislation and other things that are going 
to make that week prior to Thanksgiving extremely eventful.
  The regular caucus lunch will be held tomorrow, the Democratic lunch 
at the usual location. President Clinton will be at that lunch to talk 
to us about health care and certainly he is someone who knows a lot 
about health care. The Democratic Members are encouraged to attend the 
caucus luncheon tomorrow. As we know, it starts at 12:30.

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