Haley Stevens: “before I respond, I again would like to request Senators to come forward, and let us see their amendments. Earlier today…”

“before I respond, I again would like to request Senators to come forward, and let us see their amendments. Earlier today I said of the 46--it is now 47 amendments that we know of--that we had agreed to accept 23 of them. My staff informs me that the difficulty is we can't accept them because we haven't seen the final version of them. We hope that those will be produced here so we can dispose of the amendments that we are willing to accept expeditiously with very short comments from Members. We are going to have over 50 amendments. We are going to finish this bill by tomorrow. I advise Members and staff to start bringing in cots for people to rest on tonight unless we get through them very quickly. Mr. President, I have to confess to my friends, both of them who have spoken in favor of this amendment, that this Senator is at a loss to understand section 9012, which says that no funds can be used to pay the travel expenses and per diem for the participation in conferences, exchanges, programs, et cetera, of any national from the People's Republic of China who is the head or political secretary of any Chinese Government-created or approved organization.”