Mitch Landrieu: “No, I will not yield. So we have this bill that is over here. All I have asked my colleagues is this. As the leader…”

“No, I will not yield. So we have this bill that is over here. All I have asked my colleagues is this. As the leader knows, I am not even asking for a record vote. Even though I think our guardsmen and reservists deserve a recorded vote, because I think we should go on record, but I am not even asking for that. I am asking for a voice vote--a voice vote, not a recorded vote--to take that IRA bill, put this amendment on it and simply send it back to the House. This filibuster will be over. That is all I am asking. Let me say one other thing. I am not opposed to one item in this bill--not FDA, not the pork issue. I have tried to be respectful of other Members. I would ask that same consideration. I am not opposed to any provision in this bill. There is $137 billion in this bill. This bill was supposed to be about $50 billion. Of course, when you open a tax bill, everyone in America would like to be in it. They have done a good job because everybody is in here. The only people who are not in here are the men and women taking the bullets on the front line. Six hundred and forty-three thousand Americans on the front line, and we couldn't find one page, not one line, not one paragraph for them. This is disgraceful. It is not our fault. The Senate did not do that. But somewhere between the Senate and the House, the papers got lost. I don't know why they get lost. I don't know why we can't remember them in the tax bill because we sure remember them in photographs.…”