[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1137]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, the Senate will 
resume consideration of S. 47, the Violence Against Women Act. The time 
until 5:30 p.m. will be equally divided and controlled between the two 
leaders or their designees.
  At 5:30 there will be several rollcall votes in relation to 
amendments to the bill. Right now there are up to seven rollcall votes 
remaining. We don't know if that, in fact, will take place. I have been 
advised that National Airport has been closed off and on during the 
day, or at least flights haven't been coming in because of some kind of 
a weather problem, low-hanging clouds. We have had a number of calls 
from Senators who are saying they may not be able to be here. I will 
keep in touch with the Republican leader and we will go from there.
  The way things are scheduled now, we have up to seven rollcall votes 
starting at 5:30 today. We are going to complete work on the Violence 
Against Women Act, or hope we can do that, tonight. We are going to 
have the State of the Union tomorrow and we hope on Wednesday and/or 
Thursday we will be able to finish the Hagel nomination.
  There has never in the history of the country been a filibuster on a 
Defense Secretary, and I am confident there won't be on this one. I am 
told the committee will report this matter out tomorrow, and we will 
move this to the Senate floor as quickly as possible.
  We have a work period, and when we get back we will try to complete 
the National Security Director, Mr. Brennan, and we will move on to Mr. 
Lew, who will be the Secretary of the Treasury.
  We have some votes, and we will line up this week what we are going 
to do when we get back after the work period we have at home for 5 
days.
  I look forward to a productive night. I hope we can complete these 
votes, because there are people working very hard on this, not the 
least of which has been the President pro tempore, the chairman of the 
Judiciary Committee, who has worked on this matter for a number of 
years. I hope we can complete this very quickly.
  The Chair may announce the business of the day.

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