Mike Levin: “If my good friend will yield for a comment on that, I happen to share with him the desirability of moving this bill, but…”

“If my good friend will yield for a comment on that, I happen to share with him the desirability of moving this bill, but I also understand the need of colleagues to offer legislation in the Senate. That is why we are here. The way I would accomplish the goal which the good Senator from Virginia has just laid out--a goal I share--would be to encourage colleagues who feel strongly about amendments, as the Senator from North Dakota does, and understandably so, to agree to short time agreements. The shorter the time agreement we can get on some of these amendments, particularly amendments which have been debated for a long time before, is a way in which we can expedite the passage of the bill, and that is the way in which I think effectively we can do that.”