I have not seen that. That is not the leader's fault. That may have been my office. It has not been called to my attention. I will discuss that with my staff. The leader knows we are very short in our staffs--shorthanded. I will go back and take a look at that. There is one thing I thought I had clearly understood, and that was when we have an agreement and we go to third reading and part of the agreement is to the effect that we go immediately after third reading without further action or debate to final passage, I objected to that last year, but I see that the agreements that are being proposed now go back to that same kind of phraseology. I am a little troubled by that.
Cord Byrd: “I have not seen that. That is not the leader's fault. That may have been my office. It has not been called to my…”
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Addressing concerns about legislative agreements and procedural issues during Senate floor discussion.
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