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“SCHEDULE” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S10312 on Dec. 16, 2010.
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SCHEDULE
Mr. REID. Madam President, following leader remarks, if any, the Senate will proceed to executive session to consider the New START treaty. Rollcall votes are expected to occur throughout the day in relation to amendments to the treaty. The managers of this bill, Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar, are two of our most experienced Members, and they will do an outstanding job of managing this legislation.
The current continuing resolution expires Saturday at midnight, so we need to take action to consider a funding resolution sometime in the next few days.
Just an update on the schedule: The tax package which we passed yesterday is now in the House. They are going to consider that very likely today. We have the omnibus or the continuing resolution we have to deal with in the near future because, as I have indicated, the funding expires at midnight on Saturday.
The DREAM Act is something we need to work on. It is an extremely important piece of legislation allowing young men and women to join the military. If they serve 2 years in the military, they would be eligible to get their green cards. It also allows them to continue their education. It is an extremely important piece of legislation.
We have the 9/11 health matter; we need to reconsider that. We hope we can move forward on that matter. There are thousands of people who are desperately ill who need to be helped as a result of the terrorist attack that took place on 9/11.
Yesterday the House passed don't ask, don't tell, and we are going to have to deal with that in some way.
We have nominations, including that of Jim Cole, the Deputy Attorney General, we have been trying for several months now to get cleared--
that second ranking person in the entire Justice Department. It seems to me we are having trouble getting even a vote on this individual. So that is going to have to be resolved before we leave. It is extremely important we do that.
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