Chuck Grassley: “when I spoke prior to Senator Pryor's amendment, I made a pitch that I want to repeat about the opportunity we have now…”

“when I spoke prior to Senator Pryor's amendment, I made a pitch that I want to repeat about the opportunity we have now, after four Congresses--this is the fifth Congress--to get this bill to the President. It has passed the House so many times, and we have never been able to get it to finality in the Senate. We have the House in position now, even after all of these compromises we have made which have diluted the bill more than I would have liked to have done, of passing a bill the leadership in the House of Representatives tells us they will take the way we pass it and send it to the President as long as there are no changes, and this assurance about no changes comes from two standpoints. One, in the previous Congress we made compromises to get Democratic votes with the idea that once those changes were made and we got this bill through the Senate, they would not be changed in the House. We also got the assurance from the House that they would not change it, even though the House has passed much stronger legislation a couple of times.”