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The Senate schedule for May 12:

The Senate will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will be in a period of morning business with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each, with the time until 5:30 p.m. equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. There will be no roll call votes on Monday.

Senators should be prepared to vote as early as 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday in relation to the following items: the McConnell amendment No. 4720 (energy) with a 60-vote threshold; the Reid amendment (energy) with a 60-vote threshold; passage of the flood insurance legislation (either S. 2284 or H.R. 3121); and cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 980 (collective bargaining).

If cloture on the motion to proceed is invoked, all post-cloture time will be yielded back and the motion to proceed will be agreed to.

DPC Hearing

Have Bush Administration Reconstruction and Anti-Corruption Failures Undermined the U.S.Mission in Iraq?

Monday, May 12, 2008
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
406 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Click here for information (pdf).

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The Democratic Approach to America's Energy Future Will Stop Gas Price Gouging and Hold Oil Companies Accountable, While the Republican Approach Will Not: Senator Durbin contrasts the Democratic and Republican approaches to the nation’s energy future in a speech on the Senate floor on 5/8/08 (02:57). Additional videos are available on the DPC Video page.

The latest reports published by the DPC are listed below.

Chronological Listing of all Reports available from the DPC
S. 2991, The Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008 (05/07/08)
S. 2284, the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007 (05/06/08)
National Security Index (05/05/08)
Mission Accomplished: Five Years On (04/30/08)
Middle-Class Life Under Bush: Less Affordable and Less Secure (04/30/08)

Search all documents and related materials available from the DPC and the Democratic Leadership.

Staff at the DPC Oversight and Accountability Project work with whistleblowers, non-profit groups, Executive Branch agencies, and their colleagues on Capitol Hill to protect U.S. taxpayers, uncover waste, fraud and abuse, and hold government officials accountable.

The DPC has focused on contracting abuses in Iraq and in the Gulf Coast region following Hurricane Katrina, pre-war intelligence failures, and continuing homeland security vulnerabilities, among other issues.

Learn more about the Oversight and Accountability Project and access materials related to hearings held by the DPC.

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Sen. Byron L. Dorgan
Chairman, DPC

The Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) was established in January 1947, after President Harry Truman signed legislation to create majority and minority party policy committees in the Senate. Since its creation sixty years ago, the DPC has served Senate Democrats by providing research and legislative support, developing policy proposals, publishing reports on important legislation and policy issues, tracking roll call votes, holding hearings and forums, and differentiating Democratic policy positions from Republican positions.

You can learn more about the DPC here.

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