Jon Kyl: “I note that under the regular order, my amendment is the first in line, having been offered on Thursday. These are…”

“I note that under the regular order, my amendment is the first in line, having been offered on Thursday. These are subsequent amendments. It seems to me our colleagues would be willing to take up these amendments in the order they were offered. What is curious to me is why some amendments are more worthy than others to be voted on. Maybe it is that people don't want to vote on certain amendments because they are troublesome. But if the object here is to try to get this bill completed, then we have to agree on some fundamentals, and that is that all the amendments that have been offered ought to be voted on. It is logical they would be voted on in the order they were laid down. There is no reason anyone can give me why there shouldn't be a vote on the amendment I laid down and that that should not precede the other amendments. I consider mine at least as worthy as the other amendments, particularly because it goes directly to a point in the underlying bill, and to my knowledge, the other amendments, by and large, do not do that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.”