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Don Nickles: “Just knowing postcloture, if the Senator from Tennessee offered the substitute section dealing with collective…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2002
Just knowing postcloture, if the Senator from Tennessee offered the substitute section dealing with collective bargaining, dealing with Presidential flexibility, I can assure you--or my guess is--that 90 percent of those would be ruled nongermane. And that is just the facts of the postcloture rules in the Senate. I understand what you are saying. One way we can nibble, we can strike. We can always strike, but if we wanted to have strike-and-insert language, most of those amendments would be ruled nongermane. That is the reason why I am urging my colleagues to vote no.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of postcloture rules on amendments during Senate debate.

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