Kent Conrad: “we urge our colleagues who want to make a statement on the budget, this is the time where they could come and do that.…”

“we urge our colleagues who want to make a statement on the budget, this is the time where they could come and do that. We are going to be working very hard. The chairman and I are trying to develop a plan that would give people certainty and that we would have time agreements to shorten the amount of time on each amendment so we could get more amendments concluded before we begin the vote-arama. I think that would dramatically improve the quality of the debate. I think it would improve the quality of experience for Members of this body. The chairman and I have talked about this. Perhaps he would want to comment on what we are trying to do as well, so we alert colleagues and their staff that we are going to be coming to them with relatively short time agreements on amendments with a certainty of schedule so that we try to get our business conducted to the extent we can before we begin the vote-arama. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Acting as the Presiding Officer and as a Member of the Senate, the Senator from Ohio objects. Objection is heard.”