President. the Senate will be in a period for the transaction of morning business until 3:30 p.m. today. The time is divided between the two parties. Following the period for morniing business. the Senate will resume consideration of S. 1348. the immigration legislation. There will be no rollcall votes today. I will meet with the distinguished Republican leader this afternoon and talk about when. if at all. we should file cloture on this immigration bill. We have 14 amendments pending. We need to dispose of those amendments. or most of them. before we move on to other amendments. The managers will be working this afternoon to come up with a package we can start voting on tomorrow. There are important amendments on which people who favor the immigration bill and oppose the immigration bill will want to move forward. They are key amendments. and we need to get them scheduled and disposed of. and the managers need to get that done as quickly as possible. We had a good debate on this matter the last week we were in session. Everyone has been home. and they have been barraged on all sides of this issue. There are people who think it is the best thing in the world. and there are people who think it is the worst thing in the world. We are going to continue to work on this legislation and see if we can satisfy people so they think it is good legislation and we are working out of a necessity to solve some major problems in America today as relates to legislation dealing with immigration. I will be happy to yield to my distinguished Republican friend.
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