Trent Lott: “We had in our budget resolution provisions that stopped sense-of-the-Senate resolutions from being voted on repeatedly…”

“We had in our budget resolution provisions that stopped sense-of-the-Senate resolutions from being voted on repeatedly, over-- well, 45 of them right at the end of the session. Now, somebody said we are trying to shut down Senate debate. We had debate. We had 6 or more hours on this issue. We debated it 4. We had debate on it last week on the so-called gun issue. We had debate and votes on it last year. As a matter of fact, we have bills in conference on a number of these issues on which we are going to act. I am working on them one by one. We have the FAA authorization conference report. We have the African trade conference report. We are working, in a bipartisan way, to see if we can get the bankruptcy conference report. We are working on e-commerce. Nobody is trying to shut the Senate down. We are trying to get the Senate to move forward and do its work. As far as order and comity, I support that. I am going to do everything I can to continue to support that.”