Bob Dole: “we understand the parliamentary situation. It is my hope we can work out some agreement and complete action on this…”

“we understand the parliamentary situation. It is my hope we can work out some agreement and complete action on this bill. We have been on it a number of days. I think it is a very important piece of legislation. We would like it to pass. I think it has strong bipartisan support, as indicated by the cloture vote last evening. I think it should be limited to germane amendments. We made a proposal on minimum wage to the leader on the other side. It has been temporarily rejected. Perhaps it will be revisited. We understand the daily comments about this issue, but we are trying to complete action on the immigration bill. If it is determined that is not possible because of an effort to offer nongermane amendments, then we will move on to something else.”