[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 686]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                PROGRAM

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, a few minutes ago I filed cloture on the 
House message to accompany the omnibus bill. Under the rule, the vote 
will be Friday morning. I have had a number of requests to see if that 
can be moved forward. I am waiting to see if we can get consent to do 
that.
  We also had a lot of activity on the floor today regarding flood 
insurance. On our side, Senator Landrieu has worked extremely hard with 
others, but she has been the lead person. On the other side, the 
Republicans have had Senator Isakson working extremely hard.
  I hope that we can move forward. We are going to move forward on it 
one way or the other. If we are not able to get an agreement to move 
forward on it, setting up the situation to have some amendments and 
move forward, which we have agreed to, then we will file cloture.
  It is a shame that we would have to do that on a totally bipartisan 
bill. But that is how things work around here sometimes.

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