I say to my friend from Oklahoma, he has not put me in an awkward position at all. We would have been happy just to vote on this. That being the case, what I will do--and I alert everybody we are not going to rush this, so people will have time to get here--I move to table the motion to proceed. I ask for the yeas and nays.
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