Judd Gregg

That is a good outline. I note that if Members want to speak, it would be nice if they would give us a call and tell us they want to speak, and we will make sure they have time to speak. We want to make sure everybody has the time they…

Prior to yielding to the Senator from Colorado, I am going to take a minute and a half, which would be the minute Senator Schumer had and the half minute which we so graciously gave the Senator from North Dakota. I would simply point out…

All we are trying to do is get people to have time to speak. Senator Brownback was to go next, and Senator Stevens, and when we go into a quorum call the time comes off the bill in an equal way, equal time. That is my understanding.

My point was, if there had been a vote which had invoked cloture so that we could have completed the business of the PATRIOT Act, we would have a vote on final passage of the PATRIOT Act, and it would have been put into law because a…

But wouldn't we be able to complete the business of the PATRIOT Act if cloture had been invoked?

I will reserve until the Senator has used his 1 minute, which I hope the Chair will discipline very precisely.

If we had been allowed to go forward without cloture, isn't it true that the PATRIOT Act would have been on the floor, if the Democratic membership had voted for cloture?

If the majority or even a few Members beyond the two who voted for cloture had voted with the Republicans for cloture on the PATRIOT Act, isn't it true that the PATRIOT Act would have been on the floor?

We are now on the deficit reduction conference report. We have 10 hours of debate, 5 hours equally divided. I know my colleague from North Dakota wants to speak tonight. Just for the edification of our membership, we will run some time off…

There is an irony today as we look at Iraq. As democracy is flourishing, the Democratic Party in the United States has tried to contract the democratic process by attempting to mute the New Hampshire primary. The New Hampshire primary is…

There is general feeling that the Baucus proposal is--I don't use this in a pejorative sense--benign enough so that everybody can agree to it. But I do think it is important to understand, relative to the Medicaid issue, that Governors, in…

This will be a 10-minute vote, as well as the following vote, so I hope Senators will stay around to accomplish those votes promptly. Second, we intend in conference, should we be successful in going to conference under the leadership of…