Don Nickles: “To correct my colleague, the bill we are trying to bring up is H.R. 3529, and it contains reformed corporate AMT. The…”

“To correct my colleague, the bill we are trying to bring up is H.R. 3529, and it contains reformed corporate AMT. The bill the Senator is referring to did pass the House earlier. It is not what this Senator is trying to bring up? The House, as I am sure my colleague also knows, passed the subsequent measure. That is the measure that has bipartisan support. That is the measure the President supports. That is the measure we are trying to pass. That is the measure that Senator Daschle wants to pass and then strike the language on the House-passed bill and insert it in. I suggest we take up H.R. 3529 and amend it. Again, we just want to make sure. H.R. 3529 is the bill we are trying to bring up, and Senator Daschle is trying to bring up his four-point bill. I have some reservations about that bill. My colleague from Illinois, I know, said a couple things he likes about it. There are a couple things I do not like about it. I am suggesting we take up the House-passed bill, what Senator Daschle is planning on eventually striking, and amending it with whatever we come up with. I suggest we take up the House-passed bill which does not include any provisions that would benefit Enron, which I think may have been implied earlier.”