I strongly agree with the understanding of my friend, the senior Senator from Arizona. I, too, would oppose cloture on a matter if the majority abused the motion to proceed set out in the order by using that procedure as the high-water mark for the consideration of amendments, rather than as a starting point for a robust amendment process.
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