J. Exon: “I want to explain exactly what a sense-of-the-Senate resolution is, so that everyone outside the Senate knows what it…”

“I want to explain exactly what a sense-of-the-Senate resolution is, so that everyone outside the Senate knows what it is? A sense of the Senate merely means that the Senate is saying, without having any effect whatsoever of law, that this is probably something that we should do. Therefore, the sense-of-the-Senate proposition offered by the Senator from Texas is not binding, is not going to accomplish anything, but it might make some people feel good, and it may well be a good political base for the majority party in the U.S. Senate. It is not unlike the amendment previously offered in this regard by the Senator from Missouri that I have made some comments on. I happen to feel that while we can have differences of opinion on all of these things, I simply say that the world is not going to turn around, nor is any law going to turn around, by long debate, as if it were fundamental to the free enterprise system, or wasting time on sense-of-the Senate resolutions. That, in my view, does not make sense.”