[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16073]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Following leader remarks, if any, the Senate will resume 
consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act. The filing 
deadline for second-degree amendments is 4 o'clock today.
  At 5 p.m., the Senate will proceed to executive session to consider 
the nomination of Paul William Grimm to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Maryland. At 5:30 p.m., there will be two rollcall 
votes: first on confirmation of the Grimm nomination, and then on the 
motion to invoke cloture on S. 3254, the Defense bill I just spoke 
about.
  Mr. President, significant progress has been made on this 
legislation. The two managers of the bill, as I indicated, know how 
this place works, and they worked extremely hard to clear a lot of 
amendments. We soon will be approaching 100 amendments that have been 
dealt with in this legislation. In fact, for all I know, they could 
have already done it since this morning, so I think we have made great 
progress. I know there is more progress that can be made by their 
continuing to work on this.

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