Harry Reid: “On our side, as the Senator knows, we have pushed very hard for this bill authored by you and the late Senator Paul…”

“On our side, as the Senator knows, we have pushed very hard for this bill authored by you and the late Senator Paul Wellstone. It was an odd couple, Wellstone-Domenici, but it was one bound with friendship. The two Senators found a place where they agreed and they went to all ends to make sure that legislation passed. As the Senator told me when I was talking a few minutes ago, we need to do this for a lot of reasons, but one is to respect the memory of Paul Wellstone. On our side, we would be willing to take up that bill and spend 1 hour. We will do it at midnight, 6 o'clock in the morning. One hour is all we want. We will only take 30 minutes of that hour. I want everyone to understand, on our side, we want 30 minutes. If that is too much time, we will cut it down. Does the Senator understand we will do everything? Everyone knows we have worked closely together for so many years on appropriations. What the Senator has done on this mental health parity will go down in the history books. We need to make sure it passes, and the history books have something definitive, not a matter only initiated.”