Bob Dole: “I would be prepared to go, I think, further than many of my colleagues would be prepared to go. We would call up another…”

“I would be prepared to go, I think, further than many of my colleagues would be prepared to go. We would call up another revenue bill--and there are some on the calendar, I guess; H.R. 2684 comes to mind--and modify the text of that with the repeal of the gas tax and that would be considered, 1 hour of debate--I know the Senator from Massachusetts would only take 30 minutes on the minimum wage proposal; it is in the Record a couple of times--and then I would offer an amendment which would be the amendment discussed by the Senator from Massachusetts on minimum wage, 45 cents and then 45 cents, which would raise it from $4.25 to $5.15, and we would add to that the so-called TEAM Act. So it would be repeal of the gas tax, the minimum wage proposal tendered by my colleagues on the other side, with the TEAM Act, and we would have 1 hour on that and then we would vote. Now, that seems to me to address all the concerns raised by my colleagues on the other side. It would be the win-win that I read about over the weekend.”