[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 11387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, Senators should expect rollcall votes in 
relation to the two pending Vitter amendments beginning at about 5:30 
on Monday.
  We have a long list of amendments, and I would ask Senators--and 
certainly at this time of the day there are staff--to make sure they 
understand these amendments are going to have to be offered. We are 
going to finish this bill on Tuesday, one way or the other. People 
should come and offer their amendments. There will be debate and we 
will move to either accept or reject them. Let's try to get this done.
  We have a lot more work to do following this. Before we leave here--
just to go over briefly what we have to do--we have to do the 
legislation dealing with credit cards, which was passed in a huge 
bipartisan vote in the House yesterday, and we have to do the 
procurement bill, which is also a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators 
Levin and McCain. We, frankly, are not going to be able to get to the 
tobacco legislation this work period. I am disappointed we can't do 
that, but we would not be able to. Then we will have to work very hard 
that last week to do the supplemental appropriations bill. So we have a 
lot of work to do.

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