Trent Lott: “I heard through the news media that the Senator was proposing a process to have those votes back to back, and, oh, by…”

“I heard through the news media that the Senator was proposing a process to have those votes back to back, and, oh, by the way, they are going to be king of the hill; that the last one who wins, you know, wins. That's it. I did not have that proposal come to me in any form, and I would not agree to that. I am prepared to say we are going to get a vote on Gramm, and in some logical order, I assume, we have a deal here where we are alternating back and forth--we offer an amendment; you offer an amendment. And the Democrats could offer an amendment at some point on taxes in the regular order. We could not prevent you from doing that. But that was not the way it came to me. And it did come to me through the media in a way that certainly would not be acceptable.”