Mike Levin

There will be up to four rollcall votes at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. ____________________

Oh, I did not state that correctly. I believed, and I am now wrong, that there would be a time agreement on each amendment that we would attempt to arrive at. That is not what this says. This provides, and I am going to read it again, and…

The only time agreement we have in yet is the time we come in, not a time for a vote. Mr. McCAIN. I wanted to clarify.

There will be no morning business--that we then proceed. Now we don't have time agreements yet on these five. That is going to take a few minutes. My unanimous consent request is that immediately after prayer tomorrow we move to these five…

We are going to be making a unanimous consent request, and would like to do it right now, that tomorrow morning there be debate and votes on the following five amendments: Senator Sessions on bilateral discussions with Afghanistan…

Let me thank Senators Durbin and Inhofe for again focusing on a critical issue. I know Africa seems far away and some of these events seem far away, but they have tried to bring them home to us and, hopefully, we will be listening, all of…

And we are working on it. But if the Senator could just not proceed to call it up but speak to it, we would appreciate it.

I hope not. I don't even know what is in the amendment. But we are trying to accommodate the process where everybody could have a chance, hopefully, to call up their amendments. We have to do it in order where we know what is in the…

I wonder if the Senator would speak on the amendment, though, without calling up the amendment.

Reserving the right to object, I am wondering if the Senator from Alabama would repeat the request.

We are significantly over our time, I believe. We would be happy to accommodate Senator Feinstein or others.

It is. As part of that point, it cites the Quirin case, which says: Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of…

The Feinstein amendment provides an appropriate signal to Congress that in an authorizing context they should be aware of detention authority issues. Therefore, I intend to vote for the Feinstein amendment. I yield the floor. The ACTING…

I wonder if we could get to the Feinstein amendment. I am sure Senator Feinstein will be happy to yield time to the Senator from Utah. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from California. Amendment No. 3018

The pending business is still the Ayotte amendment. I am just wondering if the Senator from Utah might indicate what it is that he will speak on.

Let me, first of all, commend Senators Inhofe and Coons. This is a very important amendment, and the determination to go after Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army is essential not just in terms of the values that we so dearly believe in…

I understand. Let me then ask unanimous consent that Senator Inhofe, on behalf of Senator Coons and himself, offer a cleared amendment at this point. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 3201

So under the existing UC, we are now moving to the Feinstein amendment, and that is now the pending business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. It has not been called up yet by the Senator from California.

Would the Senator from California agree that there be 5 minutes added to each side?

Reserving the right to object, how much time is left on each side? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Time in opposition is 5\1/2\ minutes. The proponents of the amendment have no time remaining.

There is 20 minutes evenly divided? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There will be. The Senator from New Hampshire. Amendment No. 3245

What is the pending matter? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is now in order for the Senator from New Hampshire to offer an amendment.

I call up a list of 12 amendments which have been cleared by myself and Senator McCain: McCaskill amendment No. 2929, McCaskill amendment No. 2942, Boxer amendment No. 3230, Hatch amendment No. 2966, Inhofe amendment No. 2973, Boxer…

We could. Let us report this amendment first and then why don't we do that. It will just take us a couple minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, amendment No. 3090, as modified, is agreed to.

The Senator is correct. These are not the last two votes tonight necessarily at all. As of now, we are still planning on having votes tomorrow. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard to the filing deadline request.