Dick Durbin said "Mr. President, earlier this week, the Senator from Kentucky made the same request. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said to the Senator from Kentucky: I will give you a chance to come to the floor with your paid-for amendment, fully debate it, and put it up for a vote. If you can convince a majority of the Senate to do that, you will prevail. If you can't, then we will treat this as we have so often, as emergency spending, and proceed to help these unemployed people. The Senator from Kentucky rejected that and said he did not want to bring this matter to the floor for a vote because he might lose. I think it is possible he might lose. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The time of the Senator has expired." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 26, 2010

Mr. President, earlier this week, the Senator from Kentucky made the same request. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said to the Senator from Kentucky: I will give you a chance to come to the floor with your paid-for amendment, fully debate it, and put it up for a vote. If you can convince a majority of the Senate to do that, you will prevail. If you can't, then we will treat this as we have so often, as emergency spending, and proceed to help these unemployed people. The Senator from Kentucky rejected that and said he did not want to bring this matter to the floor for a vote because he might lose. I think it is possible he might lose. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The time of the Senator has expired.

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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