Trent Lott: “I think it is totally ridiculous that on Thursday afternoon at 3:15, Senators who have amendments on the list to be…”

“I think it is totally ridiculous that on Thursday afternoon at 3:15, Senators who have amendments on the list to be offered will not show up and offer their amendments. This is what makes the Senate look so bad. That is why we wind up working at night, like nocturnal animals, instead of human beings who work in the daylight. Members will show up later on this afternoon and they will want to go have supper with their families, they will want to keep commitments they have made, they will want to see their children before they go to sleep, they would like to have a good night's sleep. They are not going to be able to do that because they will not show up and offer amendments now, in the middle of the afternoon. This is the kind of thing that leads to bad relationships between Members, because they get exhausted. They do not do the work during the day, and then they try to do it at night. I urge my colleagues, this is not a partisan thing, it is not a leadership thing, this is just an individual Senator saying: Please, let us do our work.”