Cord Byrd: “I say further, if I may, what I have said is no reflection on the distinguished manager of the bill. He has been an…”

“I say further, if I may, what I have said is no reflection on the distinguished manager of the bill. He has been an excellent chairman of this new subcommittee and this is the first time we have appropriated on a full bill for this new Department. The Senator from Mississippi could not have performed better. He has been very fair with the members of his subcommittee. He has always been very fair with me. What I have said is not to be taken as any reflection or criticism of him whatever. His work is trying to get this bill passed. As the co-manager, I am interested in moving it along, too. But speaking from a personal viewpoint--and I don't call up many amendments of my own--I want to state to the Senator and to all Senators, while they are thinking of stacking votes, I have three amendments that I don't want in a stack. I want to vote on them when we have completed our debate. I don't want any 2-minute summation between other rollcalls. I think we have fallen into a kind of slipshod way of acting in the Senate. This is no fault of the Senator from Mississippi. I am voicing my sentiments with respect to my own amendments. I don't think it is a very good way to legislate, to line up six or eight votes.…”