[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3090]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I hope everyone understands we have a number 
of amendments--in fact, we have now pending seven amendments--and we 
are going to continue working through these. I don't want to get more 
than about 10 pending at any one time. So we have three more that can 
be offered and then we will vote and get rid of some of these, because 
we can't have a bottleneck if in fact we arrive at a point where we 
have a bipartisan amendment that we need to move forward on. And I 
think that time will come.
  I will tell all Members I think we are going to be spending a lot of 
time here today. I am being a little bit futuristic, but between 5 p.m. 
and 7 p.m. today I am confident we will have something to vote on that 
would be kind of the big picture of what we need to do to move this to 
conference.
  I would be happy if my colleague, the Republican leader, wishes to 
respond or to ask any questions or express any concerns that he may 
have about the schedule. I haven't had the opportunity this morning to 
talk to him about the schedule. I normally try to do that on days like 
this.

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