Angie Craig: “for my fellow Senators, let me try to bring us up to speed on where we are. We now have all of the amendments filed and…”

“for my fellow Senators, let me try to bring us up to speed on where we are. We now have all of the amendments filed and are looking at them and have studied a good number of them over the last hour and a half to determine how we might dispose of them. We are hoping we can put something together. Senator Warner from Virginia is here to talk a bit more about his legislation. I see my colleague, the floor manager from the Democrat side, also here. I do want Members to know we are working to see if we cannot bring some finality to this process in a precloture environment or resolve that issue so we can complete our work on not only this but clear the issue of an energy conference which is privileged, a CAFTA recognition of the House bill versus the Senate vehicle, which is privileged, and that can come before us so that we can complete our work in a timely fashion tomorrow and not spill ourselves into Saturday, as could be the case strictly under the rules of the Senate. We hope we may be able to avoid that. I hope that within a little while, we may be able to look at a package and offer it to our colleagues for their consideration.”