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On the recordOctober 20, 2005
tomorrow the Senate will begin consideration of our final--our final--appropriations bill for this fiscal year. We will not have any rollcall votes during tomorrow's session, and the next vote will occur Monday evening at approximately 5:30. I do want to congratulate Senators Bond and Murray for getting the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill completed today. And I thank all of my colleagues for allowing the Senate to make orderly, steady progress during today's session. I encourage all Senators to notify the bill managers if they do have amendments to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill as quickly as possible so that we can finish that bill in a timely manner next week. ____________________
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William H. Frist
Tennessee

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