Pete Domenici: “The time has come to move back to this bill. I want to say to Senators it happens frequently, when things are going…”

“The time has come to move back to this bill. I want to say to Senators it happens frequently, when things are going well, that nobody is very interested in moving along. So we have to push you along by making sure Senators, or their staffs, understand this has to be a day where we get rid of three or four amendments, including a couple of very important ones that are here for the Senate to consider. There is a pending amendment Senator Cantwell has before us. We are trying right now to work out a unanimous consent agreement whereby we will move off that amendment and have a time for a vote. Then we will move onto an amendment--we are thinking that will be an amendment by Senator Bingaman--with a time agreement, somewhere around 3 hours equally divided. We will share that with Senator Bingaman and others. Then there is a third amendment from our side of the aisle which, for the sake of naming it, we will call the DeWine amendment. It is not necessarily the name, but he is one of the Senators. We know he has an amendment. We hope we can lock that in to follow after the Bingaman amendment. We will agree on the time. Then the DeWine amendment will have a certain amount of time after which it will be ready for a vote. I am thinking with some degree of certainty we will have three votes. That will take us into the evening.…”