Will the Senator from Montana agree that we are not moving; that we have a circumstance where a bill is brought to the floor, and we are virtually tied in knots with a procedural tree, which is not unusual? It has been used before, and used by Democrats as well. But it is rarely used. And it is used in most cases, I am told, to stop legislation.
Discussing procedural issues related to a bill on the Senate floor.
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I spoke on the floor of the Senate a number of times about general aviation and its importance to this country.
I know that everyone sitting at this table has a passionate desire to fix these problems.
I spent much of my time as Chairman of this committee focused on increasing funding for the IHS and trying to force some systemic changes in the bureaucracy that plagues that agency.
Senator Byron Dorgan's 68-page Report of 2010 addressing the critical conditions of all the Great Plain's Regional IHS was brought to the attention of McSwain.
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