Haley Stevens: “I certainly hope that I will not see the day when the Senate will vote against cloture on a defense bill, particularly…”

“I certainly hope that I will not see the day when the Senate will vote against cloture on a defense bill, particularly one that has total bipartisan support; voted out of our committee without objection. I can state to my good friend and partner from Hawaii that I am certain that we have personally reviewed every request made by each Senator and have discussed with each Senator every request made and have accommodated every Senator, or explained why it could not be accommodated. We have had no objection raised, to my knowledge, to any decision that has been made so far. What I am concerned about is that means we are going into cloture on Tuesday, which means we are not going to get through our bill until at least this time next week. I would like once again to see if there is not some way we can work out that question to come in tomorrow and handle amendments that are in agreement, come in Monday afternoon and handle amendments in agreement, and take up the amendments that are in contention on Monday and vote, and vote finally on our bill Tuesday afternoon.”