Cord Byrd: “What we have before the Senate is a massive piece of legislation with 480-odd pages, that has been virtually dropped…”

“What we have before the Senate is a massive piece of legislation with 480-odd pages, that has been virtually dropped into our laps within the last 36 hours, allowing for yesterday and thus far today. This is a virtually new bill, as I see it; is it not? It is something that was--I read about it in the newspapers--something to the effect this is a compromise that was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. It is now under discussion in the Senate. The distinguished Senator from Connecticut is performing, as I see it, a great service in addressing his remarks to this monstrosity. That is my word for it. It is a monstrosity. It is almost 500 pages, and it is just suddenly dropped into our laps. This is not the bill which came out of the committee chaired by the Senator from Connecticut, is it?”