William H. Frist: “let me take a moment and update everybody on the schedule. We are going to have one additional vote scheduled this…”

“let me take a moment and update everybody on the schedule. We are going to have one additional vote scheduled this evening. We will be starting that momentarily. We have 14 additional amendments pending at this time. We should be able to lock in a voting sequence for tomorrow morning, and thus we will have one more vote tonight, and then we will have a series of stacked votes beginning tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. As we have said again and again, we will be completing the bill this week, and we can complete the bill late tomorrow night but, if necessary, we would go into Friday. But we will finish the bill this week. Senators should be prepared to stay late tomorrow night. We will have one more vote starting shortly, and we will start stacked votes at 10 in the morning. We will work straight through tomorrow, hopefully finish tomorrow night. We will be in on Friday as well, but I think we can finish this bill tomorrow night. Amendment No. 1112, As Modified The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are now 2 minutes of debate equally divided on the Akaka amendment. The Senator from Hawaii is recognized.”