Dick Durbin: “I see my colleague from Minnesota is on the floor, and I just want to say that this exchange is the reason why we are…”

“I see my colleague from Minnesota is on the floor, and I just want to say that this exchange is the reason why we are going to miss Senator Stabenow of Michigan when it comes to the Agriculture Committee and many other areas. She does her homework. She understands that in the complexity of a big bill, that there are real-life human issues that face us, and there are real people who are waiting for us to get our job done. Thank you for doing this and doing the committee. I sincerely hope we can get this done before the end of the year and the disastrous consequences that you described. I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Minnesota.”