Jon Kyl said "I am not willing to withdraw my request. What I am afraid of, quite frankly, is that we are not going to be able to get unanimous consent before a cloture vote on the treaty and we are going to be iced out here. I have propounded a unanimous consent request. I will be happy to read it again. If there is an objection, fine. I want to get agreement on this, if at all possible. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If the Senator from Arizona could repeat his request, that would be helpful." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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I am not willing to withdraw my request. What I am afraid of, quite frankly, is that we are not going to be able to get unanimous consent before a cloture vote on the treaty and we are going to be iced out here. I have propounded a unanimous consent request. I will be happy to read it again. If there is an objection, fine. I want to get agreement on this, if at all possible. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If the Senator from Arizona could repeat his request, that would be helpful.

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