[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10097]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
resume executive session and consideration of the nomination of 
Christopher Hill to be Ambassador to Iraq. This is all postcloture 
time. Cloture was invoked last evening. We have 30 hours, if the 
Republicans ask we use all that time. Whenever that time is completed, 
Mr. President--30 hours--we will move to the next matter on which 
another filibuster is being conducted to prevent us from going to S. 
386, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act legislation, which is 
somewhat astounding since it is a bipartisan bill. But that is where we 
find ourselves.
  It is too bad we cannot move to that and start offering amendments 
and complete that legislation, but that is the way the minority wishes 
to proceed--not to allow us to proceed.
  The Senate will remain in session, as I indicated yesterday, until we 
vote on the confirmation of the Hill nomination, and then cloture on 
the motion to proceed to S. 386, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery 
Act. If Senators require the full 30 hours of postcloture debate, we 
will vote at 1 a.m. this morning.
  The Senate will recess from 12:30 to 2:15 p.m. today to allow for the 
weekly caucus luncheons to meet.

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