Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 695, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements related to the bill be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read the third time and that a budgetary pay-go statement be read. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 4010) was ordered to be engrossed for a…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements related to this…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. 4010. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will state the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 4010) for the relief…

Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 662, S. 3991, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, and I have a cloture motion at the desk I wish reported. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented…

Mr. President, I stress the importance of all Senators attending the impeachment proceedings. I urge them to be in the Chamber at 10 a.m. tomorrow for a live quorum, which will begin at that time, prior to the commencement of the…

Let me make sure, Mr. President, that we have this down right. We are going to, at 12:30 p.m., proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business, and during that time there will only be one speaker--Senator LeMieux--who will…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:51 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 662, S. 3991, occur upon the conclusion of the impeachment proceedings and the Senate resumes legislative session; that the Senate then…

Mr. President, there is a recurring gag in the comic strip ``Peanuts'' with which we are all familiar. Charlie Brown is getting ready to kick a field goal. Lucy is holding the ball while Charlie runs up to the ball. At the last second…

Yes. The fourth is the $250 COLA. Madam President, we would do the votes an hour after we come in. We will try to work something out to do it after we complete the impeachment. The other thing I have indicated--in fact, we had a number of…

That is true. We are going to have to start early Tuesday morning. We need to complete the impeachment as quickly as we can to make sure everything is fair, and we will make sure that is the case. We expect some work to be done on Tuesday…

Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. Is it not correct that we need Senators to be here Tuesday morning in that regard?

Madam President, I would like to tell the Senate what the schedule is going to be, but we can't do that unless we are able to hear each other. The Republican leader and I had a conversation this morning, and here is how we are going to…

I object to any further proceeding with respect to this bill. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard. The bill will be placed on the calendar. ____________________

Mr. President, S. 4006 is at the desk and due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 4006) to provide for the use of unobligated…

Mr. President, following any leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the House message to H.R. 4853, which is the legislative vehicle for the tax cut extensions. Under a time agreement, there is up to 2 hours of debate…