Byron Dorgan: “I fully agree with the notion we need to move along, address these amendments, try to get through this budget…”

“I fully agree with the notion we need to move along, address these amendments, try to get through this budget resolution, but I also understand, as do most of my colleagues, that the potential of military action is imminent--perhaps hours, perhaps a day, perhaps two days, I do not know, but my expectation would be when military action is commenced and our sons and daughters of America are ordered to military action and in the field, almost every Senator will want to address and discuss that issue. My hope and expectation would be at that moment, when we see what is the most serious decision faced by our country, that is, sending our young men and women to combat, that we would want to leave the budget and have an ample amount of time for every Member of the Senate to address that issue.”