Harry Reid: “we worked for several hours this afternoon on the conference on the omnibus. Significant progress was made. The DC title…”

“we worked for several hours this afternoon on the conference on the omnibus. Significant progress was made. The DC title was closed. The VA-HUD title was closed. The Commerce-State-Justice is one open item. But that should be resolved quickly tomorrow, which leaves Agriculture and Labor-HHS. I think that is what we have left. I think progress was made. Another couple of hours tomorrow and we should be able to finish that. That would bring that very important bill to the floor. At this stage, it appears that Senators Stevens and Byrd have done an outstanding job, having just dealt with those appropriations bills and not extraneous materials, as some talked about doing. I think this is something that, in a relatively short period of time, if things continue like this in conference, should not take a lot of floor time.”