Judd Gregg: “I was just wondering if the Republican leader, and I ask this question through the Chair, believes that the Democratic…”

“I was just wondering if the Republican leader, and I ask this question through the Chair, believes that the Democratic leader is correct in his characterization that we have stopped this in a procedural manner. Is it not true that the Democratic leader controls the procedure as to whether there would be a vote? And is it not true, also, that we agreed to the Democratic leader's request that we offer only one amendment but that we just ask we be able to choose our amendment, and they be able to choose their amendment? We kept paring down the options that we wanted to offer in the course of this debate on the most important issue in the country. And at the end, as the Senator from New Hampshire just suggested, we were down to two: one that the majority leader and most of his party favor--and some of ours--and the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire in support of the troops. Apparently, the majority wanted to tell us which amendment we would offer.”