Bob Dole: “I am rather new at this, but it seems to me, when you get what you want plus you get a little icing on the cake, you get…”

“I am rather new at this, but it seems to me, when you get what you want plus you get a little icing on the cake, you get to vote to repeal the gas tax, you ought to take it. But now we are told--I did not know the President was opposed to this. I thought certainly he would be flexible on something like this. He probably is. But I know the labor unions have been in town and they dumped $35 million into different races, and they have certain priorities. I thought their priority was passing a minimum wage increase, not killing the TEAM Act, which is really minor. It is minor legislation. So here we are prepared--I will probably get a lot of criticism on this side for doing this, but I am prepared to make this very generous offer to give my colleagues on the other side of the aisle a chance to vote to repeal the gas tax and to have their minimum wage proposal adopted. Who could be opposed to that? All we ask for is just one small, one little amendment. It probably would be hardly noticed by anybody. It simply says that employees can talk to management. They can talk about--in one case, they were talking about no smoking policies, and that was a violation of the NLRB. It seems to me we need to have a little common sense enter this debate. I have listened. I have been persuaded by the Senator from Massachusetts we ought to take 30 minutes and pass a minimum wage, and we can add another 30 minutes for the repeal of the gas tax.”