Don Nickles: “I can tell you, my colleagues--who might have listened to my very good friend, Senate Domenici, who says, let's vote for…”

“I can tell you, my colleagues--who might have listened to my very good friend, Senate Domenici, who says, let's vote for this amendment--this amendment is going absolutely nowhere, even if it is adopted--and it is not going to be adopted--because it is on the Department of Defense bill, I tell my colleague. It does not belong on the Department of Defense bill. I have urged Senator Warner and Senator Levin that they should table this amendment. It does not belong on this bill. Maybe we will make a budget point of order it is a little higher--it does not belong on this bill. I am on the Budget Committee. Let's bring the budget before the Senate. Then we can have a good debate. Are we going to change points of order? Are we going to change on whether or not you can have end-of-year spending gimmicks that we have banned in the past, which evidently this one-day budget is going to do? Are we going to reverse that? I would like to know.”