Haley Stevens: “I should notify the Senator from Indiana that these are amendments offered to the Armed Services Committee amendment…”

“I should notify the Senator from Indiana that these are amendments offered to the Armed Services Committee amendment, and we do not intend to support any amendments to the amendment until we can determine if there is going to be a time agreement on the basic underlying amendment. The full Armed Services Committee bill contains some 80 amendments already and has some 240 other amendments pending. I object, and I hope the Senator will confer with us on procedures so we might be able to work this out. The amendment is subject to rule XVI. I do not believe we should take the time of the Senate to agree to the amendments on which we are going to raise a point of order under XVI unless there is a time agreement on the overall amendment offered by the Armed Services Committee. We will object to any amendments to this amendment, and we will further, at the appropriate time, raise this point of order under rule XVI to the amendment offered by the Senator from Virginia, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.”