signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. reid plap? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in period of morning business. senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. there will be no roll call votes today. senators dorgan and martinez, the managers of the travel bill that's before the senate, have indicated that they're ready to move forward on amendments being laid down. we'll have a series of votes monday night. and we'll move toward completing that legislation as quickly as possible. important legislation it is. we look forward to completion of that legislation. as the debate escalates over the best way to ease the crushing burden of health care, it is easy to become sidetracked by misrepresentations or attemp teo point fingers. when we do those things, we lose sight of what is at the heart of this debate: this reform. i want to remind all of us what this is all about -- the health care debate. it's about hard-working americans. they deserve better than to

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for up to one hour. senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes eesm the majority will control the first 30 minutes and the republicans will control the final 30 minutes. following that morning business, the senate will proceed to consideration of the concurrent resolution relating to an apology for slavery. there will be up to an hour for debate equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees prior to a vote. we do expect that vote to be a voice vote. upon disposition of the concurrent resolution, the senate will resume consideration of the conference report to accompany 2346, the emergency supplemental appropriations bill. we hope to reach an agreement that would allow us to vote on motions to waive points of order. a time for a vote on adoption of the conference report. but if we're unable to reef an agreement, there

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following morning business, the senate will be in a period of morning business for up to 10 minutes each. tomorrow senators should expect a cloture vote prior to our weekly caucus luncheons. this week we're going to do the best we can to complete the travel promotion act and the supplemental appropriations bill. we should be able to do that and hopefully get some nominations done and inequity week we have some other things we need to do including the homeland security appropriations bill. i've spoken to the minority leader on a number of occasions to do that. to get to this next week we need a consent agreement because the house will not act on it until probably probably wednesday next week or something like that. and that doesn't give us enough time. we need to start on it a little earlier. we'll see what we can come up with. we have announced before that five weeks after we get back after we get back from the 4th of july will be

signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will be in a period of morning business for up to one hour. then we will resume the consideration of s. 1023, the travel promotion act. the time from 4:30 until 5:30 is equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. at 5:30 the senate will proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the dorgan amendment to the travel bill. filing deadline for first-degree amendments is today at 3:30. mr. president, later today democrats will try to move forward on a bill sponsored by democrats and -- the presiding officer: if the leader will suspend? mr. reid: of course. the presiding officer: so the senate may receive a message from the house of representatives. >> mr. president, a message from the house of representatives. the clerk: mr. president, i've been directed by the house of representatives to inform the senate of the appointment and the managers on the par

signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: at 10:00 or thereabouts we'll proceed with the impeachment matter. quorum call:

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. ^ mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks there will be a period of morning business for up to one hour with senators allowed to speak for ten minutes each and the republicans will control the first 30 minutes and the majority will control the second 30 minutes. following that the senate resumes consideration of tobacco legislation. there's up to one hour of debate only with time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. we do hope, however, we can reach an agreement to dispose of the pending lieberman amendment and several additional amendments upon the use or yielding back of the debate time on the bill -- that's one hour -- and disposition of the lieberman amendment the substitute amendment will be agreed to, the senate will vote on a cloture vote on the underlying tobacco bill so there will be a vote around 11:30. we have about 25 nominations that the republicans have held up. they're important. i was visited yesterday by secretary salazar regarding hill

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, we'll be in a period of morning business for an hour, senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the republicans will control the first half, the majority will control the second 30 minutes. following morning business, the senate will resume the motion to proceed to the travel promotion act, postcloture. following adoption of that motion to proceed to travel bill later this afternoon we'll turn to the consideration of the emergency supplemental appropriations conference report. mr. president, i'm disappointed that we are again wasting time on a heavily bipartisan bill, the travel promotion act. wide support by both the democrats and republicans. but the republicans forced us to have a vote on cloture to allow us to get on the bill. all the republicans voted for it. they're filibustering things that they even agree with, just to stall for time. now, mr. president, this is 30 hours we could

signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: madam president, with the senate chaplain, admiral black, standing by, we all listened to the prayer of one of our jewish brethren from las vegas, rabbi harlig. the chaplain, i'm sure, was pleased with the prayer. those of us here were pleased with the prayer. it was a wonderful, meaningful prayer. i want to welcome rabbi harlig for helping us open the senate and for the beautiful prayer that he uttered. rabbi harlig and his wife dina opened a center in their living room in 1990. it was -- it has grown dramatically since then, and successfully grown. there are now five such community centers in southern nevada. the organizing rabbi harlig and his friends -- i'm sorry. the organization rabbi harlig founded has taught many children and many adults and done so many good deeds for so many people. as rabbi harlig mentioned in his invocation, the day is significant. it's significant because it's the day of the chabad community -- importa

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: i ask that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. senators will be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. the majority will control the first 30 minutes and the republicans will control the next 30 minutes. following that morning business, senate the senate will resume the motion to proceed to s. 1023, the travel promotion afnlgt there will be within hour for debate prior to the cloture on that motion to proceed. senators should expect a vote to begin as early as 11:45 today. the senate will recess, as we do on every tuesday, from 12:30 to 2:15 for our wkly caucus luncheons. mr. president, every day, like every senator, i get mail from men and women across my state. people

signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: mr. majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators to be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. republicans will control the first 30 minutes and the majority will control the next 30 minutes. the senate will be in recess from 12:30 to 2:15 today to allow for weekly caucus luncheons, to continue work on an agreement to continue the legislative branch appropriations bill, to be able to reach an agreement senators could expect votes in relation to that bill during today's session. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the "help" committee be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 1777. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 1777, an act to make technical corrections to the higher education act of 1965, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate proceeds to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent

>> senator robert c. byrd made sure that we had the funding necessary to build the place. but both the first bush administration and the clinton administration requested funds for the project and supported the project. >> and how many buildings are here? >> we have about 17 buildings on about 540 acres. >> how long did it take for it to be built? >> took us about three years. >> what can i book like douglas brinkley's writing about conservation and about theodore roosevelt do for the kind of work you do? >> it can do a lot. first, it can help our employees enjoy more and recognize their own heritage. it helps the american public realed that just like mona lisa or any other historic art fact, these parks and refuges are really historic items and it helps a lot of people realize what we do. a lot of us gives talks at schools that last for an hour or so. really useful if we can turn it into a substantive history book like doug's. >> your background. i know you graduated from harvard -- what year? >> i graduated from harvard? 199 with a ph.d. in history and science. >> how lon

. >> this place, tell me if i'm wrong, it wouldn't be here without robert c byrd, a west virginia place, $150 million came into build this place, all done specific to this requirement here. do you think roosevelt would be surprised if he saw this? >> he would love it. >> would he be surprised, though? >> no, i don't think he would because his sense of grandeur was so large. i mean, he was creating conservationist foot soldiers. i talk about the cartoonist who joined his crusade. what he was doing was creating a movement, roosevelt. it would be like martin luther king creating a civil rights movement. roosevelt was spearheading the conservation movement for perpetuity. many of the first rangers in the west were rough riders who served with him. he wanted to militarize areas because he was able about poaching, people stealing petrified wood. he was doing law enforcement and saying we were going to protect our heirlooms. he would call these places like wind cave or yosemite or mesa verde national club which he created. they're training people how to be conservationists in west virginia. >>

signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. ^ mr. reid: mr. president, following the remarks of the leaders the senate will be in morning business for one hour with senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes and the majority controls the first 30 minutes and the republicans control the second 30 minutes. then the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 1256, family smoking prevention and tobacco control act. last night, cloture was invoked on that matter and we also agreed last night that we would have a vote in relation to the burr substitute amendment at 4:30 p.m. today and i hope we can reach an agreement to consider other amendments prior to the vote in relation to the burr amendment. senators will be notified if any other votes are scheduled. staff is working now trying to come up with a list of amendments we can vote on. the senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 for caucus luncheons. mr. president, h.r. 31 is at the desk and it is my understanding it is due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the bil