Tom Harkin: “I did not realize until now the Senator is making the point that the average person out there, maybe listening to what I…”

“I did not realize until now the Senator is making the point that the average person out there, maybe listening to what I said about the fact that we have not brought up or voted on a Patients' Bill of Rights or prescription drugs or Medicare or an increase in the minimum wage--we haven't brought any of those up--might say: Why don't you bring them up? The Senator has pointed it out--we cannot because we are blocked. Again I ask the Senator, to again clarify this one more time. This motion to proceed that has been here for a month and a day--is it the observation of the Senator that nothing has been done to move to that? We have not gone to that bill. It has just been sitting there.”