Bob Kerrey: “I say again that voting against this motion to table is the right vote. Those who want to cut defense can vote for the…”

“I say again that voting against this motion to table is the right vote. Those who want to cut defense can vote for the amendment of the Senator from Oregon. And there are some in this body who might think that that is an appropriate thing to do. I will vote against the amendment of the Senator from Oregon. There will be others who do not like certain aspects of the now 12 Members who are on the bipartisan amendment that is called Kerrey-Brown, and they can vote against that, as well, or vote for it as they wish. We do not have a good procedure to bring to the floor this kind of an amendment. As I have said on a number of occasions, it comes as a consequence of the culmination of the rescission package in the dire supplemental that we are even approaching the dire supplemental bill in this fashion. But it does illustrate the difference. If we want to move an appropriations bill very rapidly, particularly since we do not have to pay for it, we will just deficit finance it all.”