I have no problem agreeing to this amendment if the Senator wants to ask unanimous consent for its approval.
Judd Gregg
The Public Record
All right. Great. So that leaves us with your amendment No. 1189, dealing with air cargo, and amendment No. 1190, dealing with hazardous materials; is that correct?
If I can get the attention of the Senator from New York, as I understand it, we reached an understanding on your amendment No. 1184, as modified. Are you going to send a modification to the desk? We can just agree to it now.
My hope is that we can accept the amendments of the Senator from Colorado, then we will have further discussion of the pending amendment of the Senator from Michigan, probably with a point of order being made at that point, and then we…
I have sent the amendment to the desk on behalf of Senator Ensign. I do not necessarily support this amendment as the chairman of the subcommittee, but as a courtesy to the Senator, I wanted to send it up to get him in the queue. We look…
What is the regular order under the bill? What is the pending amendment? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The pending amendment is amendment No. 1217 offered on behalf of Senator Stabenow.
Thank you. Today, Mr. President, we are going to try to continue to move forward on the Homeland Security appropriations bill. I hope Members, if they have amendments, will bring them to the floor so we can expedite this bill. I understand…
I ask that the amendment be reported. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Gregg] for Mr. Ensign, proposes an amendment numbered 1124.
I thank the Senators. ] The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New Jersey is recognized.
Well, since it is my point of order, I would like to go last, and I will need about 5 minutes.
I leave it to the good offices of the chairman of the committee, who is an exceptional floor leader, to tell me when he wants to have a vote.
Did the Senator from Louisiana wish to respond to my time agreement? I was going to speak.