I suggest to the chairman, maybe if we take about 5 or 10 minutes to engage in a discussion with the people who have these amendments, we can find a way to perhaps accept some of them and go to conference with them at least and deal with the others, and then we can still move to final passage this evening and complete this legislation, which I think is highly desirable.
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