I know of nobody else who wishes to speak on this amendment--I withhold that so we can hold off and see if anybody else wishes to speak. Mr. President, I know of no further debate on this amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no…

I wonder if we could get a unanimous consent that Senator Casey be allowed to proceed as in morning business to comment on filed amendments for--I am sorry, was it 10 minutes?--10 minutes. I ask unanimous consent that Senator Casey be…

The Senator, we expect now, will be calling up his amendment. And may I, though, correct what I said before. It is possible that there will be a need for a rollcall vote on the Whitehouse amendment. Amendment No. 3180

And I appreciate that. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that there be 10 minutes on the Whitehouse amendment, equally divided between Senator Whitehouse and Senator Coburn. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without…

We know of no objection to the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment? If not, the question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment (No. 2972) was agreed to.

We understand Senator Merkley is on his way and wishes to speak for a minute on his own amendment, so I note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. The…

I am sorry, I say to my friend from Arizona. We have to withdraw that unanimous consent request on amendment No. 3109 at this time. I want to try to see what the problem is. There is an objection to my request on this side. We are going to…

The Senator from West Virginia wishes now to speak on the Merkley amendment. Then it is our intention to move to a vote on the Merkley amendment. AMENDMENT NO. 3096 Amendment No. 3096 would express the Sense of Congress in support of the…

I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, briefly I was just going over the list of amendments that have been filed. I urge my colleagues who want those amendments…

Between the first and second votes we are having now, we will have an announcement as to the next part of this roadmap. I hope all Senators who wish amendments to be considered will come between and during these votes to Senator McCain and…

Unless there are others who wish to speak. A couple of votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas. Amendment No. 3158

I think Senator Cornyn only needs about 5 minutes. We have cleared that amendment. There is support for it. Senator Hagan only needs, I believe, 5 minutes. That means that in about 10 minutes---- Mr. McCAIN. Ten minutes we will be ready to…

That means we would be voting on the amendment of Senator Cornyn first, the amendment of Senator Hagan second. I yield the floor. Mr. McCAIN. That will take approximately 30 minutes? Before the vote?

If the Senator would yield, we thank him for noting that. Senator Hagan did have an opportunity last night to go into her amendment, and she was willing to do that at that time. We understood that, of course, the Senator would like an…

Then we will line up some additional amendments. There are two we can line up now. I thought it was going to be four, but it can only be two at the moment that we would take up immediately after Senator Baucus speaks. I ask unanimous…

it would be my intent, if we need additional time, unless there is something else that is needed at about 9:30 or so when this time runs out, to seek additional time for both-- for anyone who needs it, frankly. I do not know about both…

I very much oppose this amendment. We have a court system in this country which is second to none. To deny this administration or any administration the opportunity, should they choose to exercise their discretion, to charge terrorists as…

I move to reconsider the vote. Mr. McCAIN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. I ask unanimous consent to modify the consent agreement that the Senators from New Hampshire…

I ask unanimous consent that the next amendment in order to be called up is the Cornyn amendment, No. 3158; that after the Cornyn amendment is reported it be in order for Senator Hagan or designee to call up her amendment, No. 3095; that…

I wonder if we could ask unanimous consent at this point to take up the Inhofe amendment. We know of no objection to it. Rather than setting any amendment aside, just simply send it to the desk. Is the amendment at the desk? Just call up…

I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and that the following amendments be called up and agreed to en bloc, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate…

I move to reconsider the vote. Mr. McCAIN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendments Nos. 2888, 2924, 2949, 2960, 2963, 2969, 2991, 3083

in a few minutes I hope to be able to lay out a roadmap for our work here--at least for the next couple hours. We hope to be able to deal with a modified Kyl amendment as well as dispose of, we hope, an Ayotte amendment and a Hagan…

before Senator Reed leaves the floor, I want to first thank him for his comments about myself and Senator McCain and the other members of our committee. Senator Reed of Rhode Island has and will continue to make--and, hopefully, for many…