Byron Dorgan: “I suggest perhaps a good lesson for others might be to see this meritorious amendment accepted by the chairman. There…”

“I suggest perhaps a good lesson for others might be to see this meritorious amendment accepted by the chairman. There would a rush here in droves to offer them very quickly. But the Senator could think about that for a moment. I wish to ask this question about the point of order. The amendment Senator Inhofe and I have offered is an amendment that dutifully increases part of this bill that we think is critically important, one that still falls far short on the promise that has been made over the years in the funding mechanism we use. It is the funding mechanism, I believe, that in part is used in the underlying bill itself. I guess I am a bit confused about a point of order lying only against our amendment or against some broader construct of what is happening here in the Senate.”