Cliff Stearns: “The second point is that the sense of Congress is the only avenue we have available to try and put in place a feeling…”

“The second point is that the sense of Congress is the only avenue we have available to try and put in place a feeling that the United Nations should look at another location. The United Nations does not have to be forever in New York City. So I think the fact that the United Nations could set up a commission to look at alternative selection sites is not an unreasonable sense of Congress, if you will, because that is the only avenue we have under this bill without it not being germane. This is the only way I could do it. We do sense of Congresses on the House floor all the time. It is not something that is new. I think the Members should realize that we have probably done 30 sense of Congresses in the last 60 days, so it is not a new type of parliamentary procedure, it is not a new type of procedure.”