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On the recordDecember 20, 2005
I will return later tonight to make further announcements about the schedule for tomorrow. I wish to emphasize what the distinguished minority leader has said. There will be a lot of votes tomorrow. We will begin voting around 10 minutes after 9 tomorrow. Thereafter, we are going to have a whole series of votes, with the goal of getting people out sometime tomorrow. It is going to take everybody's patience and cooperation. We will start bright and early. I will have more to say on that later.
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William H. Frist
Tennessee
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