Reid sets Dec. 21 as target date for ending session

[maddezmom]

Source: The Hill

Reid sets Dec. 21 as target date for ending session
By Manu Raju | Posted: 12/05/07 1:00 PM
December 05, 2007


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday he wants to conclude the first session of the 110th Congress by Dec. 21, adding that he hopes the laundry list of items left for the Senate to tackle will not keep lawmakers on Capitol Hill through the week of Christmas.

“We would like to finish the business of this body by two weeks from Friday. That's our goal. I hope we can do that,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “I hope we don't have to work on Christmas week. It's possible we might have to do that.”


Reid’s statement likely throws out any hope that the Senate might adjourn by Dec. 14, when the current stopgap measure funding the government expires. Reid wants to tackle a patch of the Alternative Minimum Tax, a farm bill, an overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and an omnibus bill that will cobble together 11 of 12 appropriations measures before Congress leaves town. Additionally, the Senate will act on temporary funding for the Iraq war and an energy bill currently being considered by the House.

“I would hope that we can hold hands here a little bit, in the next couple weeks,” Reid said in a plea for GOP cooperation. “It’s a lot of work to do.”




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The Republicans just put ojected to the AMT bill and the farm bill.

[balantz]

1. Will somebody be signing in daily to keep an eye on things?

[bdamomma]

3. they better unless they want recess appts. but funny how they

snuck in Wolfowitz with no congressional approval, we are dealing with some very slimy corrupt thugs here.

[rcsl1998]

2. Let The Recess Appointment's Commence... nt

[flaminbats]

4. neocons love using the ATM to bash Democrats..

if the Republicans abolished the ATM without increasing the national debt, why would they run for office? after all..they could no longer accuse Democrats for being unpatriotic, tax and spend, anti-American, counterculture, problem causers! :crazy: