William H. Frist: “we will begin today's session with a 1-hour period of morning business. Following that time, the Senate will resume…”

“we will begin today's session with a 1-hour period of morning business. Following that time, the Senate will resume debate on the emergency supplemental appropriations bill. Last night we agreed to a time limit of 40 minutes with respect to the pending Durbin amendment relating to the National Guard. If we are able to yield back some of that debate time, we would have a vote on the Durbin amendment by 10:50 this morning. If the debate continues past that point, then we will likely delay the vote on the amendment until sometime after noon today, after discussion with the Democratic leader. There are two additional pending amendments at this time, and we anticipate other amendments being offered throughout the day. Chairman Cochran will be here this morning to prepare to have the Senate debate and dispose of these amendments during today's session. I expect we will make considerable progress on the appropriations bill with rollcall votes as necessary over the course of the day. Just as a reminder to our colleagues, the Secretary of State will be giving a briefing to Senators today from 3 to 4 this afternoon for those interested. ____________________”