What Senator Heitkamp said is really exactly right which is that what we are doing here is trying to accommodate the fact that we cannot get cloture or we are not going to be able to get unanimous consent.
Schatz emphasizes the challenge of achieving unanimous consent for a bill including Native Hawaiians.
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