Richard Burr: “I want to take this opportunity to say to my colleagues, we are now at a point where we would like to consider…”

“I want to take this opportunity to say to my colleagues, we are now at a point where we would like to consider amendments. So if you have improvements to this bill, it is now after lunch. Before you take a nap, come down to the Senate floor, offer your amendment. Let's talk about it, and let's process as many as we possibly can. It is our intent to consider amendments for the majority of the afternoon, at some point--with the cooperation and agreement of leaders on both sides--to set a time that we would then vote on the amendments that have been processed, hopefully continue to take some amendments early in the evening, but our intent would be not to have votes tonight so that the schedules are predictable, and to come back in the morning, with the leaders' agreement, at a specified time to consider the votes that might be stacked, any additional amendments that need to be debated and voted on, and it would be Senator Mikulski's and my intent, and it is our goal--and when she has a goal, let me say to my colleagues, she will achieve that goal--it is our intent and our goal to finish this bill tomorrow afternoon.…”