Harry Reid: “I really think we would be doing the President, the Congress, and the country a favor by adopting this amendment. It…”

“I really think we would be doing the President, the Congress, and the country a favor by adopting this amendment. It would take all the talk radio out of all the bad things in this bill--at least many of the bad things. I repeat, I think we would be doing the President a favor by passing this amendment, sending this bill to the House, and then let them handle that bill accordingly. I am confident that they arranged to come back, anyway, for things like this. I think they probably understood it would be very difficult for the Senate to accept their bill exactly as they sent it to us. So, again, I appreciate the Senator yielding. I think anyone saying--as the Senator from Pennsylvania did, and I am paraphrasing him, not saying exactly what he said--that even though there were bad things in this amendment, he saw no alternative but to go ahead and vote to get this thing out of here because otherwise the whole bill would come down, I simply state for the record that will not happen and that is not the case.”