Mark Dayton: “I received a call from a colleague on a matter this morning and indicated a desire to change, modify this amendment and…”

“I received a call from a colleague on a matter this morning and indicated a desire to change, modify this amendment and make it more acceptable to the administration. I would like to ask if that was the Senator's intent, to make this one that would be more acceptable to the administration? Let me say also parenthetically that, as a member of the other political party, I do not intend this amendment in any respect to be something that is referenced to this particular administration. I respect the role the administration has taken, that the trade ambassador has taken with regard to the steel products, as the Senator indicated. I thought it was a very strong position the President took with regard to the lumber coming from Canada; that, as the Senator said, this administration is far more aggressive than its predecessor in that regard, and also with regard to Canadian wheat. My concern in offering this was not with regard to any particular administration. My interest was in protecting this Congress for many administrations to come on this matter.”