[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 24]
[Senate]
[Page 32664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ORDERS FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the 
Senate completes its business, it adjourn until 11 a.m., Friday, 
December 18; that the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the 
morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be 
reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate resume 
consideration of the House message with respect to H.R. 3326, the 
Department of Defense appropriations bill, postcloture, with Senators 
permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each; that following 
any leader remarks, the time until 12 o'clock be equally divided 
between the two leaders or their designees, and with the time from 12 
o'clock until 4 p.m. equally divided and controlled in 30-minute 
alternating blocks of time, with the Republicans controlling the first 
block and the majority controlling the next block.
  Further, I ask that the time until 4 p.m. count postcloture.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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