Bob Dole: “We are not lurching forward you know, but we are moving a little bit. And it seems to me that, again, as I said, I think…”

“We are not lurching forward you know, but we are moving a little bit. And it seems to me that, again, as I said, I think the majority leader has been in good faith. I think he feels strongly we should not move without Mr. Fiske. There will be a meeting tomorrow, as I said, with Speaker Foley and Bob Michel and I understand Mr. Fiske or his representative so Mr. Fiske can tell Congress we can go ahead and do our job. It seems to me it is kind of strange. We ought to do our job and tell Mr. Fiske he should do his job and not interfere with him. The Senator from New York has made it very clear we are about to do that. But I would guess--and I have indicated this to the majority leader directly and I think indirectly--that if we cannot come to some agreement, we are just going to have to offer amendments here and have votes. I know they can second degree anything we offer. But we did have a vote, as I said, of 98 to zero a couple months ago that we were going to go ahead and do these things. I think the Senator from Mississippi and all of our colleagues who are here today and others have been very restrained. We have not been out here beating on everybody every day, saying: Why do we not do this? Why do we not do this? Why we do not do this? We think, collectively, it is about time. I want to thank, again, the Senator from New York for his dogged determination and for the preparation he has already made.”