Mr. President, Senator Mikulski has asked that I control the time for our side, so I will stay on the Senate floor. What time does that time expire? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator controls 37\1/2\ more minutes.
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Mr. President, since we are kind of reversing things, I ask unanimous consent that my friend control the time right now. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
My friend is very knowledgeable and very smart. People tend to look at a provision, I say to my friend, in a very narrow way. They say: Oh, what is the difference? It doesn't matter. But my friend is right on the bigger picture. If all the…
So we could ask for that by unanimous consent--to have such an amendment, and I want to make sure that after I make that, I would not lose the right to the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
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