Chairman Leahy has agreed to hold a hearing as soon as possible after the legislation is introduced, and has promised to have unlimited debate and amendments during the committee mark-up.
He said dates had not yet been determined for committee mark-up and vote, but it was hoped that the bill would move forward in September, after the August recess.
Later this week, Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is expected to announce a series of hearings for the coming days before his committee marks up legislation in October.
The next major spending milestone is expected to occur when Mikulski's committee marks up NASA's 2012 budget.
A committee mark-up of Mendelson's legislation was held earlier this week and the bill was forwarded to the full D.C. Council for consideration.
The Democratic pledge to post bills online for 72 hours before a floor vote will be extended to committee mark-ups.
The key amendment targeting the PhRMA deal in committee mark-up came from Sen. Bill Nelson from Florida, which has one of the largest Medicare participant populations in the nation.
In the meantime, while this new round of outreach begins, a version of the bill must be submitted by 5 pm today for the purposes of the committee mark-up tomorrow.
"I would suggest that it is very much the case that those of us in the majority support this legislation because it is the morally right thing to do, but it is also very very true that having a growing population and having new children brought into the world is not harmful to job creation," Goodlatte said at the committee mark-up of the bill.
Since the available research base for prenatal risk factors is presumably the same for all prenatal record review committees, marked differences in the content of provincial prenatal records point to differences in the broader decision-making environment within which these forms are developed and updated.
The current chairman of the foreign language selection committee, Mark Johnson, says he tries to be flexible within the Academys strict boundaries.
