Tony Thurmond: “there is no more important legislation before this Congress than to get this Defense authorization bill passed. We have…”

“there is no more important legislation before this Congress than to get this Defense authorization bill passed. We have been pleading with the Members to come in with their amendments. They have been delayed, delayed. Now the time has come to act. We ask everyone who has an amendment to come forward and present their amendment by Tuesday at 4 o'clock. We are going to begin acting. We would like to have the amendments all in at that time. I urge all of the Members to do that, especially those on the Republican side. Senator Nunn has spoken about the Democratic side. He and I are working together. We are working together for the good of the country with this bill. It is nonpartisan. We want to get action. We want to get results. We want to help this Nation. To do it, we ought to pass this Defense authorization bill as soon as possible. Mr. President, I also want to commend our able majority leader for all he is doing to help us get this bill passed.”