[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 447]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, this morning the Senate will continue 
to debate the motion to proceed to the Keystone XL Pipeline bill, with 
the time equally divided until 12:30 p.m.
  Some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue to 
filibuster the motion to proceed to the bill. All Senators should know 
that we will get on this bill today and begin the amendment process. We 
can do it the easy way or we can do it the hard way. Either we will get 
on it this afternoon by consent or shortly after midnight without 
consent. But we will get on it today.
  It is surprising to me that some Democratic Senators are choosing to 
exercise their procedural rights in order to block their own colleagues 
from offering amendments to the bill, although at this point the only 
Senators who have filed amendments at the desk are Republican Senators.
  I want to make it clear to everybody that we are committed to an open 
amendment process but not an open-ended one. So we are hopeful--I have 
read that Democrats have a number of amendments--that we will be given 
a chance to get on the bill and begin to offer amendments so the Senate 
can work its will.

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