[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following any leader remarks, the Senate 
will be in morning business until 11 a.m., with the Republicans 
controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. 
I would ask at this time that the morning business hour be a full hour, 
not stop at 11.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  Mr. REID. The filing deadline for second-degree amendments to S. 782, 
the Economic Development Revitalization Act, is at 11 a.m. this 
morning.
  Following morning business, the Senate will be in executive session 
to consider the nomination of Michael Simon to be United States 
District Judge in Oregon. Then, at noon, there will be a vote on 
confirmation of the Simon nomination.
  Following the vote, the Senate will recess until 2:15 p.m. today for 
the weekly caucus meetings.
  At 2:15, the Senate will consider the nomination of Leon Panetta to 
be Secretary of Defense, with 2 hours of debate. At about 4:15 this 
afternoon, Senators should expect up to three rollcall votes: the first 
on confirmation of the Panetta nomination; the second will be a cloture 
vote on the EDA bill; and, if cloture is not invoked, there will be a 
third vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to the Presidential 
Appointment and Streamlining Act.
  I might note that this, or some version of this, we have talked about 
for a long time. When Senator McConnell and I were both whips, we 
talked about this legislation and spent a lot of time on it.

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