J. Exon: “everything he said I second. The way we are going we will not be through even if we would stay here all weekend…”

“everything he said I second. The way we are going we will not be through even if we would stay here all weekend including Sunday. The way we are going that would not be enough, we would not get out of here until July 4 sometime, and I am not saying what year. We must move this ahead, not only because I think we are wasting a lot of time but because we have other things that we must address. I say to the leader, we are sending out a hotline at the present time to try to get an agreement that all the Democratic Senators would file amendments with me by 4 o'clock, or maybe 5 o'clock. I think something like that would very likely be acceptable on my colleague's side. Then we would know how many amendments we have and we might be able to work out something so we can maybe come to a reasonable agreement and if necessary go over sometime until next week, which I think everyone would like to do. But we are not going to do that, I suggest, following up on the statement of the manager of the bill, the chairman of the committee, as he has just indicated, unless we can have some movement. I think we can get that small amount done, and that small amount is simply to get the amendments listed as we have previously. I think that can happen, but I cannot commit to that now because we are running a hotline. But I believe that will come to pass. I think the immediate thing we have to do is decide where do we go from here?”