[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 115 (Monday, August 2, 2010)] [Senate] [Pages S6557-S6558] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] SCHEDULE Mr. REID. Mr. President, following leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 3 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to concur to H.R. 1586, which is the legislative vehicle for FMAP and education funding. The time from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. will be controlled between the leaders or their designees, with the majority leader controlling the final 15 minutes. At 5:45 p.m., the Senate will proceed to a rollcall vote on that matter. I have completed a meeting with the Republican leader and we are working to find a way to complete our work this week. We are going to have that vote tonight. There will be a consent agreement to move to take care of the Cobell, Pigford funding matter. That will be after we vote tonight. We are going to start the Kagan nomination in the morning. I haven't had the chance to call the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Leahy, and I am sure Senator McConnell hasn't had a chance to call Senator Sessions because we just completed our meeting, but we should be ready to start that early in the morning. Interspersed between that debate, we have other things we want to accomplish. We are going to have competing energy bills that we will set up a time to have debate on, and we will have competing cloture votes on those two measures--the Democratic and Republican energy issues that we have put into bills for a vote prior to the recess. There is a consent agreement that the Republicans are looking at dealing with child nutrition. It is my understanding that both Senator Lincoln and Ranking Member Chambliss have signed off on that agreement. We also have to work on the Defense authorization bill. We are trying to see a path forward on that so debate can start on that as soon as we get back in September. But we want a path for that to be accomplished. We have a number of nominations at which we are also looking. So I think I have covered about everything we have to work on this week, which is quite a bit. But with each of [[Page S6558]] them, I think we have a way forward to get this done. On the small business matter, we are pretty close to having an agreement. The Republican leader has to check with his people on a number of issues. I have to check with mine. But I think we are headed so that we can have a number of votes and complete that matter before we leave. ____________________