On the recordNovember 30, 2012
The work done has been exemplary by the two managers. I appreciate it very much. We have disposed of 75 amendments. We have another batch we are going to approve very quickly. We have had rollcall votes. There has been significant progress made. We are not going to be able to lock in a finite list of amendments. That is always hard to do. But I am confident we are going to be able to get this done. Senators McCain and Levin and their staffs will be available over the weekend, and staff will be available more than the two Senators, who have spent many hours on the Senate floor. We need to make sure people who have problems with the proposal made by the two managers, that they let them know because we need to lock this in as quickly as possible. I am going to file cloture in just a minute. I encourage people to work with the managers. We are going to go out. Senators Levin and McCain are going to clear a few amendments, and then we are going to go out for the weekend. This has been a very productive week. Cloture Motion
