[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following any leader remarks, there will be 
1 hour of morning business, with the Republicans controlling the first 
half and the majority controlling the final half. Following morning 
business, the Senate will resume consideration of the America Invents 
Act. There will be four rollcall votes starting about 4 p.m. That time 
could move a little bit but not much. We are doing that in order to 
complete action on this patent bill that is so important for the 
country. It will be the first revision of this law in more than six 
decades.
  Senators should gather in the Senate Chamber about 6:30 this evening 
to proceed as a body to the House for the joint session with President 
Obama. When we return this evening, there will be an additional 
rollcall vote on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 25, which is a 
joint resolution of disapproval regarding the debt limit increase. As I 
indicated to everyone last night, if the motion to proceed prevails, we 
will be back tomorrow to complete that work, and that could take as 
much as 10 hours tomorrow. If the motion to proceed fails, then we will 
have other things to do tomorrow but there will be no votes.

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