Mr. President, I have an announcement to make. Members of the Senate, we have made progress today. We are going to come in at 9:30 tomorrow. There will be amendments processed until we leave to go to the joint session. We will come back as…

Mr. President, following any leader remarks, there will be an hour of morning business with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The Republicans will control the first 30 minutes; the majority will control the next 30…

Mr. President, we worked late last night trying to take care of some of the final discussion on this legislation before cloture today. The reason we have an hour of morning business is to give Senators some time to say whatever they want…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the Senator from Wyoming, Mr. Barrasso, be recognized for up to 15 minutes; that following his remarks, the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Brown, be recognized for up to 15 minutes; that following that, the…

Madam President, we have been trying now for many hours to get a consent agreement to let us move forward on some of these amendments, important amendments--some not so important but amendments. I do not know if we will ever arrive at that…

Madam President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to reconsider is entered.

I ask unanimous consent that the cloture vote on the bill be withdrawn. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, Al Gunderson was a paratrooper, a blackjack dealer, a sailor and a voracious reader. He was a lawyer, a justice, a mentor and a teacher. He was a humanitarian. And he was a loving husband to Lupe for 45 years and a wonderful…

Mr. President, months ago, one of the most respected names in finance, Paul Volcker, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, made a commonsense proposal to protect taxpayers from the risk- taking on Wall Street. The essence of…

In a conversation we had over here a few minutes ago, the Republicans and Senator Dodd and his staff thought it would be appropriate to bring up your amendment dealing with annuities. That was part of the general agreement we had worked…

Mr. President, we are trying to have more votes, but we will have to see if we do. We will have this vote. I think it is fair to say it may be difficult to have more votes tonight. We are going to work--we are scheduled to have the vote an…

Mr. President, today I wish to recognize Mr. Richard Moe on the occasion of his retirement for the outstanding contributions he has made during his half-century career in American politics and the preservation of our Nation's rich…

I am not going to belabor the point, other than to say to my friend, there has been a tentative agreement between the two managers of the bill, including offering your amendment dealing with annuities. That is an important amendment. I…

I guess my question through the Chair to my friend from Iowa is, rather than going into a quorum call tonight, you could always do that some other time. I think it would be more productive if your amendment, which is dealing with…

I say again through the Chair to my friend, it seems that it would be better that you would have the opportunity at least to get the annuity amendment, which a number of us believe is a very important amendment. I think it would be better…

In the conversations we just continued over here, I tried to work something out. It was my understanding that the minority, the Republicans, agreed to allow the Senator's amendment dealing with annuities to come up.

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant editor of the Daily Digest proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, the fundamental principle behind Wall Street reform that we are going to finish this week is accountability. Those who created the mess bear the responsibility for cleaning up the mess. One of its most important provisions…