William Pryor: “under the circumstances--and the circumstances are these--I have been waiting since January to offer this amendment. I…”

“under the circumstances--and the circumstances are these--I have been waiting since January to offer this amendment. I think, as a Member of this body, I am entitled to have a vote on this amendment. Maybe it is a tabling motion. I am not objecting to that. But I think on this particular amendment and on this language, this Senator is entitled to this body deciding, yes, we do want this amendment or, no, we do not. That is all I have asked for all year. It is all I am asking for now. It is apparent I am not going to get that, so I am not going to send up an amendment at this time, and I will wait until next week or I might wait until next July or I might wait until next September, whenever. But I am going to offer this amendment, and I hope to get a vote on it. I hope my colleagues will allow me to get a vote on it. I have never second degreed an amendment here in 18 years--never. In fact, I have never even been tempted to. And I am not going to second degree my own amendment. I am not going to get cute, parliamentarily speaking. I hope my colleague from Utah will understand and the managers will understand, but I just do not think it is protecting of my rights now to offer an amendment.”