[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 16254-16255]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 AGENDA

  Mr. REID. I will spend a minute and talk about what we have to do 
this next week, 1 week, 2 weeks--hopefully not 3 weeks, but we may have 
to be here through the weekend. I hope everyone understands that our 
most important task at hand is to pass bills to fund our government, 
keep it from shutting down.
  We have a number of vitally important nominations that must be 
confirmed.
  We need to consider an extension of tax cuts for working families and 
businesses and we are going to work hard. I had a conversation today 
with Senator Wyden.
  We need to work on reauthorizing Defense authorization legislation. 
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have a lot to do, and there isn't much time to accomplish it, so I urge 
all Senators to work hard and work in a timely and efficient fashion. 
We may have to be here the week before Christmas--and hopefully not 
into the Christmas holiday--but there are things we have to get done.
  I talked to the Secretary of Energy today. He has seven nominations 
to fill. These are important positions in the Department of Energy--
Chief Financial Officer, head of the science division, fossil fuels--
all of these important issues that these people deal with. We need to 
confirm these Cabinet-level officers, so I hope people will cooperate 
and help us get these done.
  Will the Presiding Officer announce the business of the day.

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