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Senate Floor Schedule for Tuesday, June 15, 2004.

10:30 a.m.: Convene and resume consideration of S. 2400, the Department of Defense Authorization bill for Fiscal Year 2005.

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Blanket Blockage

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., says he will now exercise his ability to block all of President Bush's nominees to the executive branch. Why? Well, Reid is trying to force Senate action on one of his own staffers, whom he nominated to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Nine months ago Democrats blocked a Republican nominee to the NRC, so Senate Public Works committee chairman James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, now says he won't approve Reid's nomination until it's coupled with a Republican one.

But Reid says he won't approve dozens of White House nominees until his is approved. Inhofe tells Roll Call he can live with open seats at the NRC -- "for a while."