William H. Frist

Tomorrow, we will be in session at 8:45 in the morning, and we expect to proceed to a vote on the Kavanaugh nomination, to be followed by a vote on the Hayden nomination, and a cloture vote on the Kempthorne nomination. Thus, Senators can…

That means we are, most importantly, on a final glidepath. Those are the amendments which will be considered with those times, and then we will be able to vote on final passage on the bill. Senator Warner's 10,000th Vote Mr. President, I…

Tomorrow morning we will be debating Senator McConnell's amendment related to ballots. That vote will occur at approximately 9:30 a.m., and that will be the first vote of the day. That will be followed by the cloture vote on the…

That is three of the four tetralogies. I know my colleague knows the fourth is that right ventricular hypertrophy. I would be happy to yield to the Democratic leader.

While they are looking at that amendment, the plans will be that in about 30 to 45 minutes we will have 2 rollcall votes, and then we will keep amendments going, and we will be voting tonight. We will do at least several other amendments…

That is the Cantwell-Talent resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with regard to establishing a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week. I am delighted the resolution was adopted. It is an important issue. This is our No. 1 drug…

We have a lot going on on the floor, and we are going to have one more vote today, and it will be up to an hour from now. But what we would like to clarify is who needs to speak from our side. Chairman Enzi is right here. Do we have…

I ask our chairman approximately how much time we would need. What we want to do is try to get the time down as far as we can. We have a number of people who have plans that they need to make, and we would like to vote as quickly as we…

I will close by saying it is important we finish this bill before the Memorial Day recess. I have said that several times in my statements over the last couple of weeks, and I think in my discussions with the Democratic leader, we both…

Tomorrow we will turn to the tax reconciliation conference report under the agreement reached. There will be a maximum of 8 hours of debate prior to a vote on the conference report. I filed cloture on the pending substitute amendment to S…

Through the Chair, the interest in stem cells will be debated in the future, at a time that is mutually set by the Democratic leadership working with the Republican leadership. Stem cells can be discussed but will not be voted upon before…

Through the Chair, on the small business reform bill, we will have 1 hour prior to the cloture vote. And during the day tomorrow, I expect people will be coming to the floor talking, as well, on small business health plans.

That is correct. Someone could offer an amendment tomorrow prior to the cloture vote, if they so desire.

In just a few minutes, at 10 a.m., the Senate will proceed to the vote on invoking cloture on the motion to proceed to the small business health plan bill. Chairman Enzi is here, and there will be a few minutes for closing remarks before…

Over the course of the morning we will have various speakers coming in to talk about a number of issues focusing on the issues I have spoken to on health care and the cost of health care and how it affects people in their everyday lives…

In a few minutes I will set up votes for next week on several measures that we began to discuss yesterday. Once we set the schedule for next week, we have some Senators who would like to make statements on those bills and other matters…

We have set aside the first hour for a period of morning business. After that time, there will be 20 minutes allocated to the chairman and the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee for their closing remarks on the emergency…

This resolution we addressed is a resolution recognizing the 58th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel. I am proud to be the sponsor of this resolution and appreciate my colleagues for joining me on this resolution…

Senators should expect a busy couple of days as we vote on the remaining appropriations amendments today and tomorrow. Finally, I also remind my colleagues that Senators have until 10:30 this morning to file their second-degree amendments…

The unanimous consent request, Mr. President, was that the Senate proceed to a period for morning business--we are calling it morning business--for up to an hour, a total of an hour, with 30 minutes under the control of the Democratic…

Under an agreement reached this afternoon, we will have two votes tomorrow at 12 noon. The votes will be on the Gregg and Reid amendments regarding border security. These will be the first votes of the day. Additional votes are expected…

Following the 1 hour tomorrow for closing remarks, the Democratic leader and I will make statements prior to the cloture vote on the motion to commit. The vote will therefore occur at approximately 9:45 in the morning. If cloture is not…

The leader is aware that one amendment could be pending during that entire 30 hours. The minority could deny Members the right for votes on their germane amendments. I guess I would ask, would the minority leader agree to allow amendments…

I believe that following the cloture, if cloture is not invoked on the Martinez amendment tomorrow, we will follow that immediately with a cloture vote on the bill itself, the border security bill.

The intent is to start down the path of amendments and allow the debate and then to allow the votes. We have stopped short because I have said that our side, since 396 amendments have been offered, needs about 20 amendments--and this…