William H. Frist: “this morning, following our leader time, we will have up to 2 hours of morning business. That time will be divided with…”

“this morning, following our leader time, we will have up to 2 hours of morning business. That time will be divided with the majority controlling the first 30 minutes, the minority controlling the next 60 minutes, and the last 30 minutes under the control of this side of the aisle. Following that time we will resume consideration of the highway bill. Yesterday, we began the amendment process on the highway legislation, and we will continue working through amendments today and over the course of this week. I do expect rollcall votes today on amendments, and we should have a full day of debate on the highway bill. I do want to take this opportunity to remind my colleagues that we in all likelihood will be considering conference reports this week, as they are made available. One of those will be the budget conference report, which will be debated for up to a 10-hour statutory limit. I hope when we do come to the budget we not find it necessary to use all that time, but Senators should stay on notice that we will complete that very important conference report before we leave for our recess. Finally, I should also mention there are a number of nominations-- actually two specific nominations--that will be completed before adjourning. We are working back and forth across the aisle to see how we can best complete those two nominations. We have three district judges as well that should be voted unanimously.…”