[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16350]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
resume consideration of H.R. 2112. There could be as many as seven 
rollcall votes. Likely, there will only be six.
  The Senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. for the weekly 
caucus meetings.
  There will be a Senators-only national security briefing at 3:30 p.m. 
in SVC-217. I haven't had an opportunity to speak to the Republican 
leader, but we will discuss whether we should be out of session during 
that hour. It is a very important briefing. I will talk to my 
counterpart to determine whether we should be out of session during 
that important briefing.
  Also, I want to put all Senators on notice that we are going to stick 
to our timelines on these votes. The first vote will be 15 minutes, 
with a 5-minute grace period. The rest of the votes will be 10 minutes, 
with a 5-minute grace period. If people are not here, we are turning in 
the vote. We have two very important caucuses today and we need to 
start them. We cannot have the votes dragging on forever. If you have 
committee meetings, walk out of them. If you have business meetings in 
your office with constituents, leave and come here and vote. I say to 
both Democrats and Republicans, we are going to turn in the votes at 
the end of the expired time. It is not fair to Senators who are here on 
time to wait for others. Senator McConnell and I have caucuses today 
that are extremely important. We need to have the full time. It is the 
only time we have all week to visit with our Senators about what is 
going on in the Senate.

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