Bob Dole: “we would certainly be agreeable we could have three separate votes, gas tax repeal, TEAM Act, minimum wage. In fact, we…”

“we would certainly be agreeable we could have three separate votes, gas tax repeal, TEAM Act, minimum wage. In fact, we are prepared, if cloture is invoked, to have three separate votes. We cannot get agreement to have three separate votes. So they will have to filibuster gas tax repeal and increase in minimum wage because of the one deal that upsets the labor bosses. That is certainly a right they have. Somehow the Washington Post and other papers will figure out some way to make it sound good, but the facts are the facts. We are prepared to move right now. The Senator from Massachusetts said on the floor, and I have his quotes here, a couple of times he only needs 30 minutes on the minimum wage. We will have 30 minutes on that, 30 minutes on TEAM Act, and 30 minutes on gas tax. That is an hour and a half equally divided, and then we can vote. The Senator from North Dakota has some amendment, if he has figured out a way to make certain that in every single case the 4.3 cents will go back to the consumer, maybe have to station a policeman at each service station, or a Federal employee, that would be one way to do it. I am not certain what he has in mind. The bottom line is we are prepared to take action. So now we have on this floor the minority saying we will not let you do anything unless you do it our way. We want to do it our way, and even though you are the majority, you do it our way.”