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“ORDER OF BUSINESS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Senate section on pages S9278-S9279 on July 11, 2003.
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ORDER OF BUSINESS
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, for the information of the Senate, it is my intention to ask the majority leader to bring the Defense appropriations bill before the Senate on Monday. That will be announced later, I hope. We hope we can have the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee bill, then the Labor appropriations bill, then the Homeland Security bill considered next week by the Senate.
I thank the Senate for their cooperation on this bill. This is another 10-minute vote; is that correct, Mr. President?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, let me just very briefly add to that.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Mr. FRIST. Once we have this last vote, there will be no more rollcall votes today. We will be voting on Monday. We may have several votes on Monday but after 5 o'clock. We will be on Defense on Monday, and, again, we probably will have several votes Monday evening.
After this vote, we will be going back to State Department authorization. We would like to finish that bill. In order to do that, we would need to be considering amendments that have something to do with State authorization and not nongermane amendments. The intention is to attempt to finish that bill. We will not have any rollcall votes today. But again I make the plea with my colleagues to stay for amendments that are on State Department authorization as we go forward.
Again, this will be the last rollcall vote, this one right now, until after 5 o'clock on Monday.
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