[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3333]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND 
    FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2013--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I now move to proceed to Calendar No. 21, 
H.R. 933.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 21, H.R. 933, a bill 
     making appropriations for the Department of Defense, the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs, and other departments and 
     agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and 
     for other purposes.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, we expect to adopt the motion to proceed 
to this bill this afternoon and start on the amendment process. I have 
spoken to the Chair and the ranking member of this committee, and we 
are anxious to move forward and start doing some legislating.
  As I said this morning when I opened the Senate, this is exemplary, 
the work done with the two managers of this bill, and we need to make 
sure we move forward on it. It would be good if we would have 
amendments that would be in some way germane and relevant to what we 
are doing, but we are going to take all amendments and try to work 
through them as quickly as we can. I hope people would agree to very 
short time agreements. I would hope we do not need to table the 
amendments. I hope we can move forward and set up votes on every one of 
them.

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