Bill Frist

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Con. Res. 130.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and any statements be printed in the appropriate place.

Mr. FRIST. I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 414, which was submitted earlier today by Senator Cornyn.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table and any statements related to the resolution be printed in the Record.

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Con. Res. 125 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements relating to the bill be printed in the Record.

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 636, S. 2249.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Commerce Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4226, and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask for a division vote on the resolution of ratification.

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Calendar No. 25, treaty document No. 108-10 on today's Executive Calendar. I further ask unanimous consent that the treaty be considered as having passed through its various parliamentary stages up to and including the presentation of the resolution of ratification; further, that the committee declaration be agreed to, that any statements be printed in the Record, and the Senate immediately proceed to a vote on the resolution of ratification; further, that when the resolution of ratification is voted on, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, the President be notified of the Senate's action following the disposition of the treaty, and the Senate return to legislative session.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. I ask unanimous consent there now be a period for morning business with Senators speaking for 10 minutes each.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. I ask the mandatory quorums under rule XXII be waived and further that the votes on these nominations occur tomorrow in a stacked sequence, on Thursday, following the Saad cloture vote, unless cloture is invoked on any of the nominations.

Mr. FRIST. I now send a cloture motion to the desk on the second nomination.

Mr. FRIST. I send a cloture motion to the desk on the first nomination.

Mr. FRIST. With that objection, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed en bloc to the nominations of Calendar No. 789, Richard Griffin, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, and No. 790, David McKeague, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, last night I filed a cloture motion on the Sixth Circuit judicial nomination of Henry Saad. That vote will occur tomorrow morning. Two additional Sixth Circuit nominations are on the Executive Calendar, ready for consideration. I am prepared to ask unanimous consent for time agreements and up-or-down votes on these nominations; however, I understand that there will be objection from the other side. I ask the Democrat leadership if it is true they would not agree to a time agreement on these Sixth Circuit nominations?

Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the order for the quorum call be rescinded.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, indeed, we will not be going late tomorrow night. It will be early. I am not sure exactly what time, but there are events planned tomorrow night. We don't expect to be in tomorrow night. In terms of scheduling, because we are waiting for certain bills from the House, we will be in close touch and let our Members know. We understand that we have events beginning this weekend and some beginning on Friday as well. I had discussions with the Democratic leader earlier. We have a lot to do, and a lot of it is not seen on the Senate floor, but it is being produced. We have to address it before we leave. The cloture vote I just filed on the circuit court judge we will be debating for some time after tomorrow morning, so that may be what we do tomorrow.

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, over the course of the next several hours, we will be working on a number of pieces of business that we might be able to address. Just for general information, the work we need to do over the next several days includes the DOD conference report; we will know within an hour or so when it will be coming back. We will proceed with that as soon as we can, as soon as it is available; we are still in discussions over some tax extensions that we have been in discussions on in the last several days. We would like to proceed with that at this juncture, until we see what the discussions entail. The resolution of that, I would expect, will be in the early afternoon, but it is uncertain.

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21. I further ask that following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hour be deemed to have expired, the Journal of the proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate then begin a period of morning business for statements only for up to 90 minutes, with the first 45 minutes under the control of the Democratic leader or his designee, and the last 45 minutes under the control of the majority leader or his designee; provided that following morning business, the Senate resume consideration of S. 2677, the Morocco trade bill, as provided under the previous order.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in adjournment under the previous order.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, in closing, under the previous order, we will vote on passage of the Morocco trade bill, which we have discussed today, at 11:30 tomorrow. We are going to have a busy week, as I just mentioned, before going out on a long recess. There is a lot of important legislation that we are and will continue to be discussing.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Appropriations be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4766 and that the papers then be returned to the House of Representatives.

Mr. FRIST

Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read the third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and that any statements regarding this matter be printed in the Record.