Senate Proceeding on Aug 5th, 2009 :: 0:03:05 to 0:06:15
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Harry Reid: justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., august 5, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tom udall, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd, president

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Speech By: Harry Reid

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Harry Reid: pro tempore. mr. reid: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks there will be a period of morning business until 10:00 this morning with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. following that morning business, the senate will resume nsideration of the nomination of sonia sotomayor to be an associate justice of the supme court of the united states.

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Harry Reid: debate will be controlled in alternating times with the majority controlling the first hour. that is starting at 11:00. and the time between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. equally divided and controlled with the majority controlling the first 30 minutes and the republicans controlling the fin because of the

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Harry Reid: that the democrats are having, we'll be in recess from 3:00 until 5:00 p.m. when the senate senate will r alternating blocks of time with republicans controlling the first hour. mr. president, in addition to the supreme

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Harry Reid: need to deal with, there are two major items thate nd to complete before we leave here for the august first we've got to have some way of moving forward on the travel promotion and on the cash for clunkers. i will -- if we don't work

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Harry Reid: something out on the cash for clunkers, i will file a cloture petion this evening, which means we'll have to have a cloture vote on friday. and if people want to use the 30 hours, it goes over until saturday. i've had a number of very good conversations with the republican leader, and we all acknowledge there's a significant majority that want

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Harry Reid: to move forward with this le period of days almost 300,000 vehicles. and for us, mr. president, the taxpayers, it creates jobs, helps our manufacturing base, and helps the taxpayers in

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Harry Reid: effect loan money though these two manufacturers. and this will help repay money. it's rlly been stimulative, and we all that having been said, there are some people who still don't like the program. we have to figure a way to move through that. it's my understanding the democrats have one amendment. i've explained what the

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Harry Reid: amendment is to the the of amendments that they're going to have to whittle down to a reasonable number so that we can deal with i hope that we can work something out so that we can meet our responsibilities. we also have a number of nominations that have been held up as a result of the supreme

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Harry Reid: court nomination. we hope all that can be taken care of as soon as she's confirmed.