Lisa Murkowski: “I encourage Members to have our staffs try to work a little more closely so we can avoid duplication. Clearly, I…”

“I encourage Members to have our staffs try to work a little more closely so we can avoid duplication. Clearly, I personally had not been notified, although I was off the floor. I was across the street with some of the folks who were putting on a press conference. As a consequence, I had staff going back and forth. Rather than belabor that point, I think the recognition that clearly we had an alternative, as the senior Senator from New Mexico indicated, under a budget provision, suggests that in the future we could work a little more closely to ensure we move along because there may be other points of order on other amendments that will be coming up. I encourage Senator Bingaman to proceed with his proposed amendment, and we will move on with this process. We look forward to participating.”