William H. Frist: “today we will begin the Senate's session with a 60-minute period for morning business. Following morning business, we…”

“today we will begin the Senate's session with a 60-minute period for morning business. Following morning business, we will return to the pending business of the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. We made substantial progress over the course of yesterday and last night, and although we were unable to finish the bill, the chairman was able to reach a consent limiting the number of amendments we will handle today. Many of those amendments may be worked out or perhaps not even offered. Therefore, we expect we can finish the Foreign Operations appropriations bill at an early hour today. We will have rollcall votes throughout the day until final passage of that measure. As a reminder to my colleagues, we filed a cloture motion on the Dorr nomination. That nomination is to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development. That cloture vote will occur on Thursday morning. There are a number of other important issues we have mentioned over the course of the last couple days, including last night, that we will continue to work toward agreements on. I will keep all of our colleagues apprised as the schedule changes. ____________________”