On the recordNovember 19, 2013
I am going to announce a consent agreement, and I will read through it in just a minute. It seems to me this debate we had today was extremely important. As I said last night, one of the issues in this bill is Guantanamo. I felt it was appropriate--even though I agree with the language in the bill--that the Republicans have an opportunity to see if they could change it. That is what this was all about this afternoon. On the sexual assault issue, there is language in the bill that Senator Gillibrand and others want to change. Senator Levin and especially Senator McCaskill have come up with a side-by-side, just like we had today, and that deserves a full debate. That is an issue which has been in all the papers over the last several months. The Senate deserves and the American public deserves this debate. I hope we can get this done.
