Cord Byrd: “So I want to say to my friend, as Napoleon might have, he would say let us stick with the question. Let us stick with…”

“So I want to say to my friend, as Napoleon might have, he would say let us stick with the question. Let us stick with section 5. That is the question that has been raised this afternoon, in the main, on this floor. So, is the Senator telling me that we should run the risk of adopting a joint resolution each fiscal year in which our national security is in jeopardy? We should run the risk of adopting a joint resolution and that he is willing to subject this country's security to the necessity of a supermajority vote--a mini-supermajority vote, a majority of those Senators chosen and sworn?”