Dale Bumpers: “If I may continue on what the Senator from Ohio was saying, I am not a signatory to the contract. I was not asked to…”

“If I may continue on what the Senator from Ohio was saying, I am not a signatory to the contract. I was not asked to sign it, and, of course, would not have signed it had I been asked. It does not apply to me. What applies to me is to do what I think is best for the country and to make certain that these bills are not rammed through here before people who have legitimate interest in them, and who want to improve them, have an opportunity to do so. I have never seen a time when the Senate, for the most part, was not better served when it slowed things down and forced the Members of this body to think about it, rather than to do what was political. Last night, the senior Senator from Maine came over and said, first of all, he did not know I was going to bring the amendment up. He said he was at home and did not know it was coming up. Let me say to the Senator from Maine and everybody else, I am not in the habit of calling people, particularly people I think are going to be opposed to my amendments, to tell them when I am going to bring up an amendment.”