[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 1340-1341]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will not be in session tomorrow 
due to the winter storm that has battered our area again, the 
Washington, DC area. Despite the storm, we are going to make progress 
on the JOBS bill. I had a good conversation earlier today with the 
Republican leader, Senator Grassley, Senator Baucus, and others. We 
will continue to work with everyone on an agreement to move forward 
with this matter and Senators will reschedule any votes. I doubt 
seriously there will be any votes this week. It appears, from what I 
have been able to hear, people now cannot get planes to get here and 
they are having trouble getting planes to get out of here, so it has 
made for a very difficult situation. We will keep them informed as to 
what our schedule will be Monday next.
  For the information of Democratic Senators, we are going to have a 
caucus on Thursday at 12:30, a very important caucus. We must do that. 
I want

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every member of the caucus to understand the JOBS bill, why we are 
moving forward. My friends, Senator Durbin and Schumer--I was engaged 
with the Speaker and was not able to be on the floor during that vote. 
A number of Members have raised questions with my leadership, including 
Senator Murray. I want to make sure everyone understands clearly what 
is going on.
  We have had a difficult time, as everyone knows, with the storms 
being such as they are. We were unable to have our caucus today, which 
would normally have given everyone the idea of what was going on, so I 
tell all Senators, I hope you can be here on Thursday. You certainly 
can't leave if you want to, the storms being such as they are. We are 
going to have that caucus at 12:30 on Thursday. The DPC luncheon will 
be put over until we get back, which is also extremely important. That 
is based on the retreat we had.

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