Rand Paul: “I am offering a new modification to your modification and asking unanimous consent that the Senator accept as a new…”

“I am offering a new modification to your modification and asking unanimous consent that the Senator accept as a new top-line number, where 988 appears, that $988 billion appears throughout the continuing resolution, that if your objective is to have a clean CR, let's have a clean CR. I am happy to do it. But we need to do it and restrain the growth of spending in our government because your party has added so much our country is drowning in a sea of debt. If you will agree to a top-line number of $940 billion to replace $988 billion throughout the continuing resolution where appropriate, I would agree to your consent request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from Illinois so modify his modification?”