Tom Harkin: “He is a gentleman, and a good friend. I know he is serious about this because he is a small business owner himself. As I…”

“He is a gentleman, and a good friend. I know he is serious about this because he is a small business owner himself. As I said earlier--and I want to make sure we are clear--that under this gobbledygook, the filling of the tree--no one understands what we are talking about out there--because of the way the bill is laid down, the majority leader, under the rules of the Senate, today offered amendments to the bill so that we can't offer amendments. There is no way we can now offer amendments. If cloture is invoked tomorrow, then we have 30 hours on the bill, and that tree could stay filled. So we can never offer an amendment to this bill. We would then have a final vote on S. 1955 without being able to offer any amendments. Is that not so?”