Trent Lott: “I will respond to the Senator, there has been an effort going on to try to work out a process where we could vote on the…”

“I will respond to the Senator, there has been an effort going on to try to work out a process where we could vote on the related amendments, a number of amendments, and bring it all to a conclusion. We have not had the Mexican amendment really before us for quite some time. That was set aside last week so we could move on to other issues. We are about 3 degrees down the line past that amendment. But in an effort to move this legislation, I think an agreement had been worked out that would have dealt with that and a number of other issues so we could bring it all to a vote. But they are related. All of these are related. We have to decide what we are going to do with the Jordan aid, where is it going to go? Of course, it is on this bill but it is not on the DOD appropriations bill, as I understand it, right now. So we are trying to get all these to positions where we can complete all this legislation.”