[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14959]
[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 until 3 p.m. with Senators permitted to 
speak for up to 10 minutes each.
  Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of 
the motion to concur to H.R. 1586, which is the legislative vehicle for 
FMAP and education funding. The time from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. will 
be controlled between the leaders or their designees, with the majority 
leader controlling the final 15 minutes. At 5:45 p.m., the Senate will 
proceed to a rollcall vote on that matter.
  I have completed a meeting with the Republican leader and we are 
working to find a way to complete our work this week. We are going to 
have that vote tonight. There will be a consent agreement to move to 
take care of the Cobell, Pigford funding matter. That will be after we 
vote tonight.
  We are going to start the Kagan nomination in the morning. I haven't 
had the chance to call the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator 
Leahy, and I am sure Senator McConnell hasn't had a chance to call 
Senator Sessions because we just completed our meeting, but we should 
be ready to start that early in the morning.
  Interspersed between that debate, we have other things we want to 
accomplish. We are going to have competing energy bills that we will 
set up a time to have debate on, and we will have competing cloture 
votes on those two measures--the Democratic and Republican energy 
issues that we have put into bills for a vote prior to the recess.
  There is a consent agreement that the Republicans are looking at 
dealing with child nutrition. It is my understanding that both Senator 
Lincoln and Ranking Member Chambliss have signed off on that agreement.
  We also have to work on the Defense authorization bill. We are trying 
to see a path forward on that so debate can start on that as soon as we 
get back in September. But we want a path for that to be accomplished. 
We have a number of nominations at which we are also looking.
  So I think I have covered about everything we have to work on this 
week, which is quite a bit. But with each of them, I think we have a 
way forward to get this done.
  On the small business matter, we are pretty close to having an 
agreement. The Republican leader has to check with his people on a 
number of issues. I have to check with mine. But I think we are headed 
so that we can have a number of votes and complete that matter before 
we leave.

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