Harry Reid

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. Thereupon, the Senate, at 6:24 p.m., adjourned until Monday, October 17, 2011, at 2 p.m. ____________________

I appreciate the courtesy of the Presiding Officer, the patience of the Chair and all the staff for working through this afternoon to get where we are. It will make next week go smoother. The next rollcall vote will be at 5:30 on the…

We have worked hard to be in the posture we are in today to have votes on these trade bills. My friend, the Republican leader, has heard me say this too much, but I do not favor these bills. But a majority of this Senate does, and I…

H.R. 2681 is at the desk and due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 2681) to provide additional time…

Following leader remarks, the Senate will begin consideration of the free-trade agreements. There are three of them. There will be up to 12 hours of debate on these matters. The Senate will have its normal recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:48 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, October 12, 2011…

We will consider the three trade agreements tomorrow. We expect to complete action on these bills sometime tomorrow. If everyone uses their time, it is quite obvious it will be a late, late day. But maybe people will get tired of talking…

I say through the Chair to my friend, I was happy to have that dialog. As we have indicated, if at some time we get on a jobs bill, we will have--as I have indicated, I appreciate the comments of a number of people in the press today…

Around here we can do anything by unanimous consent. The work the Republican leader and I went through--perhaps a little easier on his side than mine--to get the trade bills in the position they are in was fairly difficult, and it would…

Following leader remarks, the Senate will be in morning business until 5:30 this evening. At 5:30 p.m., there will be three rollcall votes. The first vote will be on confirmation of the Triche-Milazzo nomination. That is a vote for a…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 10 p.m., adjourned until Friday, October 7, 2011, at 12 noon.

There will be three votes starting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The first vote will be on confirmation of the judge I previously mentioned. The second vote will be on the passage of S. 1619, the China currency bill. Finally, there will be a…

So that everyone understands, there was some discussion in my caucus on Tuesday, and I have spoken with the House. I have been given a guarantee from the Speaker that the trade adjustment assistance bill will pass there next week…

We will have no more votes, and I have confirmed that with the Republican leader. ____________________

I will try to respond to my friend. People around here are talking as if this is something that never has happened before. This has happened--I don't remember all the times since I have been in the Senate that the Chair--as brilliant as…

What I said is that--my friend from Mississippi is right. Unless someone has an objection, we will set things up to vote Tuesday evening; otherwise, we would have to vote tomorrow afternoon.

So unless someone has some objection, we will leave here for the evening and the staff will work out a proper unanimous consent agreement that I will announce at some subsequent time after conferring with the Republican leader.

That is what I said. Mr. McCONNELL. That means the President of South Korea will have the opportunity to address the joint session on Thursday, having, hopefully, seen the United States approve these long-awaited trade agreements.

Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. What I hear the majority leader saying is we are going to vote on the trade agreements on Wednesday. Is that what my friend is saying?

Yes. Mr. President, as I have said, the list we were given on the motions to waive that have been filed, we did not include on our list Vitter, Brown or Johanns. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I would like to try to modify the majority…

Yes; that is right. Mr. McCONNELL. So the majority leader has substituted from the list I gave him a Paul amendment--the number of which I don't have----

That is true. So I will go over this once again, Mr. President. Mr. McCONNELL. It included McConnell No. 735 on stimulus?

The minority leader is correct. Mr. McCONNELL. It included DeMint No. 689 on right to work?

It included Coburn No. 670 on foreign aid, yes. Mr. McCONNELL. It included Barrasso 672 on cement regs?

If I could respond to that. On the list we have, there were other amendments for Vitter, Brown, and Johanns. It is my understanding we have accepted a vote on all those, except those three. So that is a pretty good batting average. Mr…