Angie Craig: “I come to the Chamber this morning to express my frustration to my colleagues about where we are as a Senate in trying…”

“I come to the Chamber this morning to express my frustration to my colleagues about where we are as a Senate in trying to resolve some very important issues for the American people: A Transportation appropriations bill on which I understand we will have a cloture vote at 11, and if cloture is successful, then we will be on that bill, I would guess, through its duration. That, therefore, replaces the current activity on the floor of dealing with the Supplemental Ag Emergency Act of 2001 that many of us believe is very important. What is most important about this particular legislation is the timeliness of needing to deal with it before the August recess. I also understand that the majority leader filed cloture on the Ag supplemental. That could ripen on Friday. If it does, and we are not on that debate until Friday, then we will work through the weekend. There is a complication in dealing with the Ag supplemental emergency legislation prior to the weekend. If we differ from the House-passed version--and it is very possible that we will --those differences will have to be worked out. We know that is called a conference.”