Lisa Murkowski: “Recognizing the extended effort that was gone through in the time sequence we spent on the floor, I am sure my friend…”

“Recognizing the extended effort that was gone through in the time sequence we spent on the floor, I am sure my friend from New Mexico would agree, had we been able to proceed within the committee process, having the educational activities associated within the committee structure as opposed to on the floor of the Senate, it would have saved us a lot of time. Nevertheless, I think my friend from New Mexico would agree this was a dictate by the Democratic leadership. I think he would also agree that the House did move on their energy bill much earlier than we were able to because we had to go through the floor process. I think my friend would agree the general understanding is the House intends to name conferees as soon as we return from this recess.”