Haley Stevens: “I am going to make a rather technical statement here now about this amendment, and I hope Senators will listen to it. I…”

“I am going to make a rather technical statement here now about this amendment, and I hope Senators will listen to it. I will put a chart in the Record and put that chart on everyone's desk. Last night I served notice that we are not going to permit this amendment to take the whole time today. We are going to finish this bill today. And as soon as a reasonable amount of debate has taken place, I intend to move to table this amendment. If we are going to finish here tonight in the time that both leaders have urged us to do-- it is a matter of courtesy. If the Senate will remember, last week at this time we finished a bill in time for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to attend an annual meeting together. Ours starts tonight--early tomorrow morning really. But we are going to finish this bill tonight. This is one of the amendments that could be debated all day. We took over a day when we debated this matter last year.”