Richard Burr: “I thank my friend and colleague for withholding on that quorum call. We have made tremendous progress. Our joint staffs…”

“I thank my friend and colleague for withholding on that quorum call. We have made tremendous progress. Our joint staffs worked well into the night with Members who have amendments to this bill that they think improve the bill. We have worked aggressively to try to work out as many of those as we possibly can, and I am here to report to our colleagues we have made tremendous progress. We have processed, since we started yesterday, a number of amendments and this bill has become better. We still have several on both sides that we are still working on with our Members to try to accommodate their intent with language that is acceptable and continues to improve this bill, and we will do that. Let me say to our colleagues who still might have amendments, if you have them, we need you to come to the floor. We need you to offer those amendments. If you have amendments that have yet to be cleared, I would urge you to come to the floor and work with Senator Mikulski and myself and our staffs to figure out how we can process those in a timely fashion.…”