J. Exon: “I want to join in the appeal. I say to my friend, the chairman of the committee, that I have made two appeals earlier to…”

“I want to join in the appeal. I say to my friend, the chairman of the committee, that I have made two appeals earlier to date. I renew it again, and invite all to take advantage-- both Democrats and Republicans--to come down and offer your amendments. The view that I have of this right now is that we have 25 amendments that have been debated and are stacked for votes tomorrow. Then we have, as near as I can tell, 47 to 50, amendments on a list that still could be offered. We do not know. Their could be second-degree amendments to that. That would make the list even longer. But the situation basically is this: we know we are going to have at least 25 votes. If we take those 25 and even figure 10 minutes to a vote--and history tells us they run a little longer than that--that is 6 hours as of right now for voting tomorrow. The manager has just said that when we finish tonight about 10 o'clock there will be only 8 hours remaining on the resolution. The 6 hours of voting will not count toward the 8 hours remaining and there will be more votes after that. It is very clear, therefore, that we are going to have another one of those ridiculous situations where amendments are going to be offered. There is going to be no debate, and then we are going to vote. It looks terrible for the U.S. Senate to engage in that procedure. But we are going through it again. I will say that the figures that I have just used include no time for debate. That is just voting.”