Cord Byrd: “this kind of underlines everything I was saying earlier today and last Friday and Thursday. What is all this big hurry?…”

“this kind of underlines everything I was saying earlier today and last Friday and Thursday. What is all this big hurry? Here we are, this is the 17th of January, and why can we not be legislators and take time to understand what is in a bill? I was seeking to have the committees provide committee reports, and it was mainly for that reason that I took the floor and complained that the minority in both committees had been denied that opportunity to have reports in which they could file views, individual views and minority views. Now that has been accomplished. I say, therefore, that the distinguished leader has done, what he has every right to do--he is the leader and he has introduced a cloture motion. But it seems to me that the Senate is now beginning to work its will, now that it has had access to the committee reports, and I do not know what all the rush is. What is there that is coming behind this measure?”