[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12797]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
proceed to a period of morning business. Senators will be allowed to 
speak for up to 10 minutes each. That will be until 12:30 today.


                           Order of Procedure

  I ask unanimous consent that the Republicans control the first 30 
minutes and the majority control the next 30 minutes.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, today I hope we can return to the small 
business jobs bill. I am confident amendments should already have been 
exchanged. We are in a difficult situation. It is a tax bill. We can go 
back and look through many Congresses in the past. Whenever we get 
close to an election, there is a tax bill on the floor, so we have to 
be very careful how the amendment process works. I hope we can move 
forward in good faith, have amendments offered by each side. I have had 
calls from two Republican Senators wanting to move forward on this 
bill. I hope we can do that. The fact that the so-called tree is filled 
should not bar any constructive consideration of this legislation. 
There is no effort being made to stop amendments, other than amendments 
that will get us into areas we need not get into. This is a bill to 
promote jobs through small business, where most jobs are created. I 
hope we can do that. I also expect to consider the Wall Street reform 
conference report sometime later in the day.

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