[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ORDER OF PROCEDURE

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess until 8:30 
p.m. tonight and proceed as a body at 8:40 p.m. to the Hall of the 
House of Representatives for the joint session of Congress provided 
under the provisions of H. Con. Res. 96; that upon the dissolution of 
the joint session, the Senate adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, 
January 26, 2012; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of 
proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, 
and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the 
day; that following leader remarks, the Senate begin consideration of 
the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 98 under the previous order.
  Madam President, before we move on that, the reason we are not going 
to be in session tomorrow is the Republicans are having a retreat. 
These are normally done at the beginning of every Congress. We are 
going to do ours in the next week or so--the next week or 2 weeks, I 
should say--and we will be out of session that day also. So this is why 
we are not working tomorrow.
  We have work that we are going to complete Thursday, and the next 
week we have some fairly heavy legislation we are going to start. The 
reason we have not been working real hard this week is the IP bill, 
which we expected to work on this week and next week, things came up 
and we were unable to do that.
  So I ask the Chair to rule on my request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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