The contentious floor debate left unresolved a spectrum of issues that must still be settled in conference.
That is a point Republicans in the House have made repeatedly in the floor debate this week.
Reid said he would schedule floor debate shortly after the Senate returns from its upcoming recess in April.
The Thanksgiving holiday is over, and attention now turns to the Senate floor debate on its health insurance reform.
Kennedy objected to Barr quoting his uncle, the late president, during floor debate.
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state, but not without a raucous floor debate initiated by Democrats.
After three days of disappointment, Senate Democrats finally got what they wanted Wednesday: the commencement of floor debate on financial regulatory reform.
Sixteen Republicans joined 52 Democrats and Independents in supporting a floor debate.
"In effect, a vote to invoke cloture is a vote to kill tobacco, " Bryan said during floor debate on the nuclear waste bill.
Once that process is complete, floor debate on the combined bill can start, giving lawmakers the chance to fatten it up with amendments before a final vote.
There's no floor debate on health care this week, but it's still an important time as the Senate decides what is good and not so good from its perspective.
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According to Reid, a bill from the Judiciary Committee was unlikely to include an updated weapons ban, but he would allow a vote on the provision during floor debate.
According to Reid, a bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee was unlikely to include an updated weapons ban, but he would allow a vote on the provision during floor debate.
During last month's floor debate, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn.
In both cases, the Congress has been asked to do so without hearings and with a view to marking up and scheduling floor debate on the relevant instruments in a manner that all but forecloses real deliberation.
The vote came after more than three hours of floor debate and 10 days of intense negotiation since Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the economy was in crisis and urgent action was needed.
During floor debate earlier this month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated the view of many of his colleagues that Halligan met the "extraordinary circumstances" standard, under a 2005 Senate agreement that allowed filibusters of judicial nominees only in extreme cases.
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, tried to bring up the bill after leaders of the Senate and the White House were unable to reach agreement, saying the only way to proceed was to "hear out the other ideas" in a floor debate.
As part of efforts to expedite the House vote, the Rules Committee crafted a narrow plan for floor debate that winnowed about 30 proposed amendments down to six, including three aimed at the controversial core of the bill: the big increase in spending without specific offsets, which must be decided in conference.
Just getting a bill to the floor for debate can require days of tactical gamesmanship between the party leaders.
The negotiators also have pledged to move the bill through the Judiciary Committee and onto the floor for debate by the full Senate according to what's known in chamber jargon as "regular order, " trying to head off complaints from conservatives that the legislation is being rammed through.
Frist is saying that if the Senate Judiciary Committee doesn't have a deal, some kind of package together by Monday night, he will bring a bill to the Senate floor that will debate simply security, border security issues on the Senate floor.
That agreement helped prevent some controversial proposals from reaching the floor, where debate could have delayed efforts to send legislation to Clinton before the April 30 deadline.
And if the changes in many countries remain shallow, the whole floor of public debate has clearly shifted to questions of when and how to reform, rather than why.
And this is a treaty that has -- that was negotiated over the course of many months, signed in April in Prague by the two Presidents, and up for review and inspection since then -- not to mention the debate that has been had on the floor exceeds the time of debate for many treaties in the past.
Democrats and Republicans traded harsh words on the House floor Tuesday in the debate over the bill.
At committee hearings and on the House floor Tuesday, the debate on the repeal measure devolved into repetitive opposing claims about the health care law.
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If one or more articles of impeachment are approved, another debate on the floor of the House will ensue.
But the House Republican leadership has taken no action on it so far, and it has not scheduled a debate on the floor.
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