The Floor
SENATE SCHEDULE

There will be a period of Morning Business until 12:30pm, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The Senate will recess from 12:30pm until 2:15pm to allow for the weekly caucus meetings. At 2:15pm the Senate will proceed to the consideration of S.223, FAA...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. There will be no roll call votes during Monday's session of the Senate. However, the Majority Leader hopes to reach an agreement to begin...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of several resolutions relating to changing the Senate rules, en bloc. There will be up to 8 hours for debate equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. The Senate will recess from 1:00 until...

Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 10:30am with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. The Republicans will control the first half and the...

Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The Senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15pm to allow for the weekly caucus meetings. The Senate is in recess until 8:30pm. Senators are asked to gather in the...

Following the presentation of the certificates of election and the swearing in of elected members, there will be a required live quorum. All senators are asked to report to the floor at that time. The Senate is in a period of morning business. Following the remarks of Senator Harkin (up to 45...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the New START Treaty, post-cloture. Time during the adjournment or period of morning business will count post-cloture. We hope that we will be able to yield back some of the post-cloture debate...

Following any Leader remarks, Senator Alexander will be recognized to speak for up to 10 minutes in morning business. Following his remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to concur with respect to H.R.3082, which is the legislative vehicle for the Continuing Resolution (CR...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to Executive session and resume consideration of the New START Treaty. The Senate will recess at 1:30pm and reconvene in closed session at 2:00pm in the Old Senate Chamber. Following the closed session, the Senate will reconvene in open session...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume Executive Session to consider the New START Treaty. There will then be 3 hours of debate with respect to the Risch amendment #4839 with the time divided as follows: one hour under the control of Senator Kerry or his designee and 2 hours under the...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume executive session to resume consideration of the New START Treaty. Following any Leader remarks in Executive session, the Senate will turn to Legislative session and be in a period of morning business until 10:30am with senators permitted to speak...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the New START Treaty. The treaty will be open to amendments tomorrow. Senators are encouraged to come to the floor to offer and debate their amendments. Roll call votes are possible to occur throughout the day. As a reminder,...

Following any leader remarks, the Senate will turn to Executive session and begin consideration of the New Start Treaty. Amendments are in order to the treaty and, as a result, roll call votes are possible throughout the day. Senators will be notified when any votes are scheduled. This evening...

Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 11:00am with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. At 10:00am, Senator Bayh will deliver his farewell remarks and at 10:30am Senator Voinovich will deliver his farewell remarks. At 11:00am, the Senate...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the House Message to accompany H.R.4853, the vehicle for the tax agreement, post-cloture. Senator Bond will be recognized at 11:30am to give his farewell speech. - Senator Gregg will be recognized at 2:15pm to give his farewell...

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to concur with respect to H.R.4853, the vehicle for the tax compromise. The time until 3:00pm will be equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. At 3:00pm, the Senate will proceed to vote...

Morning business with Senator Sanders recognized to speak at 10:15am.

Following any Leader remarks, Senator Durbin will be recognized to speak for up to 10 minutes. Following his remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of S.3992, the DREAM Act, with the time until 11:00am equally divided and controlled between the Leaders or their designees. At 11:00am, the...

Following any Leader remarks, there will be a live quorum to resume the court of impeachment of Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. Once a quorum is established, the Senate will proceed to a series of up to 5 roll call votes in relation to the impeachment motions and articles.

At 10:00am there will be a live quorum to begin the Court of Impeachment for the trial of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. Senators are asked to be on the floor at 10:00am. At 12:30pm, the Senate will proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with Senator LeMieux recognized to speak for...