Mike Levin: “Perhaps our recollection is different, but I am not sure it makes a major difference. My recollection is in the original…”

“Perhaps our recollection is different, but I am not sure it makes a major difference. My recollection is in the original draft of this motion, the Senator from Washington had used the word ``recommend.'' I may be wrong on this, but this is my recollection, which I have shared with my good friend from Nevada so we are all straight with each other, as we always are. The word at some point was changed to ``proposed,'' and then a number of us on this side of the issue urged the word ``recommend" be used instead of ``proposed'' to avoid any implication that this was a proposed rulemaking. That was the reason that word did have some relevance. There is no intention here that there be a proposed rulemaking which be authorized in any way by this motion. The word ``proposed'' could create an implication which was unintended, whereas the word ``recommend'' does not have that implication. That was my recollection. If I am wrong on that, then I certainly want my friend from Nevada to know historically that was my recollection, and that is what I represented to him.”