Pete Domenici: “before the distinguished minority leader leaves the floor, might I say we, too, are prepared to move quickly to the…”

“before the distinguished minority leader leaves the floor, might I say we, too, are prepared to move quickly to the Durbin amendment. Senator Bingaman and I are writing up a list we would agree on as to how we would proceed the next couple days. The problem is, the pending amendment is the Campbell amendment on Indians, and we were going to ask if we could set it aside so we could proceed with Durbin and then proceed with the subsequent amendment on automobiles which is just pending, and right on down--we have a list-- including getting the amendment on electricity offered today for debate. But there is an objection to our proceeding. So that means we probably will have to take one of two actions: either put the electricity amendment on the Indian amendment, which I do not like, or we do the Indian amendment first. I don't know if we can do that. So it is too bad. Whoever is objecting, it would be good if they would not object to just setting the Indian amendment aside. It is being worked on. It is not a game breaker; it is just a question that there are now people who want to work it out as compared with fighting over it.”