William H. Frist: “today following the time for the leaders, we will have a 60-minute period for morning business. Following that time…”

“today following the time for the leaders, we will have a 60-minute period for morning business. Following that time, which will end at approximately 10:45 or so, we will return to the consideration of the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. Last night, we reached consent for a vote in relation to the Stabenow amendment on interoperable communications, which will again be at 11 a.m. That vote will be on a motion to waive a budget point of order with respect to Senator Stabenow's amendment. As I stated last night, we have been on this bill for 5 days now and we need to finish our work on this legislation today. The two managers have done a good job working with Members on their language and have been able to accept a number of amendments. There are others that we will need to vote upon and we will be scheduling those for today and into this evening. We need to be prepared to go late into the evening, if necessary, to complete the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. I hope we can finish earlier, but if we do have votes on many of the remaining amendments and Members insist upon that, it will be necessary to work late. The hearings on Judge Roberts continue today in the Judiciary Committee. We have tried to accommodate that schedule with the least number of interruptions. However, we have to continue to get our work done on the Senate floor on these important appropriations bills.…”