[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18018]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
resume consideration of H.R. 1, which is the legislative vehicle for 
the supplemental appropriations bill involving the terrible storm that 
struck New England. The filing deadline for the first-degree amendments 
is 1 p.m. today. We will work on an agreement for amendments in order 
to complete action on the bill.
  We are also hopeful that we can complete the extremely important 
Defense authorization bill today, and we are moving forward on FISA 
today. We are moving forward one way or the other. I hope we can get an 
agreement to move forward. If not, we will move forward without an 
agreement.
  We will need everyone to pay attention as they always do but maybe 
more so today. There are a lot of things going on here, and people need 
to understand that we have things to do if we want to be able to get 
home for a few days for Christmas, even though we will be back on the 
Thursday after Christmas.

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