Mike Levin: “Let me describe what this is about so we can be thinking about it before it is offered. There were 71 amendments…”

“Let me describe what this is about so we can be thinking about it before it is offered. There were 71 amendments, approximately, which were cleared. We spoke about those before. If anyone had an objection, they were not cleared. So by definition there is no objection on the substance of these amendments. However, there is objection for other reasons, one of them being that if an amendment was modified to make it germane, there would be an objection on that basis. So what Senator McCain and I are talking about--and we will put it in a unanimous consent proposal and then you all can decide if you want to agree to this--is that we would work--we pass a bill tonight and do all the other things we need to do because that has to be done. We have to get to conference. In the next couple of days Senator McCain and I, working with the Parliamentarian, would go through the 71 amendments, or whatever the number is. The Parliamentarian would then advise us as to which of those amendments is germane and were germane--and these are all cleared amendments. And for that group, whatever the number is, that we are informed by the Parliamentarian is germane and were germane, we would then put in a bill which would be introduced next week. If we can get that done, then the unanimous consent request would have that bill introduced, read a third time, and passed. That would be the most we could ask for.…”