[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15748]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT--H.R. 5297

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now ask unanimous consent that when the 
Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, September 16, and after any 
leader remarks, it resume consideration of H.R. 5297; that all 
postcloture time be considered expired at 10:45 a.m.; that upon the 
expiration of time, all pending amendments be withdrawn, except 
amendment No. 4594; that for the duration of this agreement, no other 
amendments, motions, or points of order be in order except as noted in 
this agreement; that the only motions in order be a Hatch motion to 
suspend the rules with respect to research and development and a 
Grassley motion to suspend the rules with respect to biodiesel, with 
Senators Baucus, Hatch, and Grassley, or their designees, each 
controlling a total of 15 minutes; that the votes with respect to the 
motions to suspend occur in the order in which offered, beginning at 
10:45 a.m.; that after the first vote, the succeeding votes be limited 
to 10 minutes each, and that prior to each vote there be 2 minutes of 
debate equally divided and controlled in the usual form; that upon 
disposition of the aforementioned motions, the chairman of the Budget 
Committee's pay-go letter be read into the Record, the substitute 
amendment be agreed to, and then the time until 12 noon be equally 
divided and controlled between the leaders or their designees; that at 
12 noon the Senate proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
H.R. 5297, as amended; that if cloture is invoked on the bill, then all 
postcloture time be yielded back, the bill be read a third time, and 
the Senate then proceed to vote on passage of the bill, as amended, 
without further intervening action or debate; further, that the motions 
identified in this agreement be those which have been submitted at the 
desk when this agreement is entered.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, first of all, I express my appreciation to 
everyone who worked to this end. I wish we had not had to spend the 
time we did, but we did, and now we are at a point where we need to be. 
I have had a number of conversations with the Republican leader, not 
only to work toward this but on how we can complete our work for this 
work period prior to the elections. So we are working on that. We do 
not have it done yet, but Senator McConnell and I have had a number of 
conversations today and several yesterday.

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