[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Madam President, following any leader remarks, the Senate 
will be in morning business until 3 p.m. today. During that period of 
time, Senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The 
Republicans will control the time from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., and 
the majority will control the time from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
  We are working on an agreement to complete action on the small 
business bill. It has been a difficult thing to do. We have a number of 
amendments that are pending. Some Senators will not allow an agreement 
on those amendments unless they get their amendments. There are a lot 
of amendments, and we are trying to work our way through them. The 
three amendments at the top of the list are one offered by Senator 
Cornyn, one by Senator Hutchison, and one by Senator Sanders.
  We have not been able to work through this legislative morass. We 
have spent more than enough time on this bill. I am going to continue 
working on that with time here not being so heavily used. Certainly 
yesterday was a case in point. Everyone is looking forward to the final 
conclusion of this fiscal year 2011 budget. We are going to have a vote 
this week to complete that. Everyone, I guess, is anxious to get that 
done. We need to get the small business jobs bill done.
  Additionally, the text of the long-term CR has been filed in the 
House and is available for review. We expect to receive it from the 
House sometime tomorrow--of course, from my perspective, the earlier, 
the better. So I ask Senators to come and talk about this resolution. 
If they have any problems, things they like or dislike, they can come 
and talk about this bill. This would be the time to do that because we 
will be cramped for time when the bill gets here. Senators, of course, 
will be notified when votes are arranged.

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