On the recordOctober 19, 2011
I will yield the floor very soon. I say to my friend from Kentucky, I will say again: We put this bill online 1 week ago Tuesday. Some of the mail the Senator is talking about, the letters came in after that because they read the bill. I think the primary objections on all those letters had to do with teacher evaluations and what we were going to do in the bill on teacher evaluations. That is what we fixed in the managers' amendment that we laid down Monday morning. I am told--I have not seen it--but I am told the National Education Association, for example, has withdrawn from that letter because of the fix we made. That is why we put the bill online. I said that earlier. We put it online. A lot of objections came in. We modified it in the managers' amendment to move forward on that bill. That is exactly how we do it. I say to my friend from Kentucky that we have had a whole week. Again, my friend filed 74 amendments to the bill. How can you file 74 amendments if you haven't read the bill? It seems to me that if you file 74 amendments, you must have read the bill. I assume that last week the Senator must have read the bill and then filed 74 amendments. You cannot have it both ways--say I haven't read the bill, but here are 74 amendments. That doesn't hold together logically. Again, I will close on this note. The Senator from Colorado is absolutely right. We are here talking about process and who is up, who is down, all of this kind of stuff.…
