[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10976]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a 
period of morning business for up to an hour, with Senators being 
allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The Republicans will 
control the first half, the Democrats the second half.
  Following morning business, the Senate will begin 10 hours of 
statutory debate with respect to the conference report to accompany the 
resolution on the budget. Under an agreement we reached last night, the 
Senate will proceed to the conference report upon receiving a message 
from the House of Representatives with respect to the conference 
report. Senators will be notified when the vote on adoption of the 
conference report is scheduled. We will probably vote on that late this 
afternoon, early this evening. We have 10 hours. There are no 
amendments in order. There are no procedural obstacles to our finishing 
that fairly quickly. I spoke to Chairman Conrad. He certainly will not 
use the 5 hours which we are allotted, so we will yield back a lot of 
that time. Even if the Republicans use all of their 5 hours, we should 
be able to vote fairly quickly.
  As far as the rest of the week is concerned, we hope to reach an 
agreement with the Republicans to begin consideration of the housing 
legislation, which we should be able to start either tonight or 
tomorrow.

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