Harry Reid: “I appreciate the positive tone of voice of my distinguished friend from Montana, but if we have 20 votes--and that is on…”

“I appreciate the positive tone of voice of my distinguished friend from Montana, but if we have 20 votes--and that is on our side--and there are second-degree amendments to those, and amendments offered on the other side, we are talking about a long night. The best we can do, no matter how hard we try, is three, three and a half amendments an hour. So we are talking about, if we start at 2 o'clock, a lot of hours. I appreciate everyone being confident we will do this. And we will certainly cooperate any way we can. And, as happens, there may be Members who decide not to offer their amendments. That is always a possibility. We will do the best we can. It may be necessary to alert Senators that there may be work tomorrow. The distinguished majority leader is in the Senate, but it is very likely we may not be able to finish all these votes--well, maybe not ``very likely''--but it is certainly possible we may not be able to finish the votes tonight.”