[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            PRODUCTIVE TIME

  Mr. REID. Madam President, we have had a very productive time in the 
Senate so far this year. We have done things that have led to the 
President signing the bills. One of the things we talked about--the 
first thing we did was the lands bill. We are going to do that again. 
We passed the Lilly Ledbetter legislation. That has been signed into 
law. That puts women on a more equal footing with men as regarding pay. 
We passed the children's health insurance initiative, giving more than 
4 million poor children the ability to go to a doctor when they are 
sick or hurt. We passed the economic recovery package which is now 
beginning to filter money into the States. It should start happening 
quite rapidly in the next few weeks. And then, Tuesday evening, we 
passed the makeup work from the Bush administration, passing that 
appropriations bill that was a makeup of all the bills we could not get 
done during the last few months of the Bush administration.
  Now we are going to, as I indicated, do these nominations. So we have 
had a very productive time. We have a lot more to do. But we should 
look satisfactorily on what we have already done.

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