On the recordNovember 17, 2011
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2112, an act making consolidated appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development and related programs; that there be up to 90 minutes of debate, equally divided between the two leaders or their designees; that upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate proceed to vote on the adoption of the conference report; further, that the vote on adoption be subject to a 60 affirmative-vote threshold. Before there is a response to my request, I would tell everyone we are going to be in session tomorrow. I have spoken to the two managers of the bill. We will likely not have votes tomorrow. In fact, I don't think we will have votes tomorrow. But I would say to all Senators if they have amendments to offer, they should offer them because the time for the Defense authorization bill is winding down. People can't sit around and say we will do something next week because next week may be a lot shorter.
