Don Nickles: “I am very upset about the procedure and how we arrived here today. I served 22 years on the Energy Committee. I worked…”

“I am very upset about the procedure and how we arrived here today. I served 22 years on the Energy Committee. I worked with Democrats and Republicans to pass historic legislation, to deregulate the price of natural gas. My point is, we passed historic, meaningful legislation in a bipartisan manner through committee markups... We did not do that in this case. I cannot recall in my Senate career a legislative proposal this significant where it bypassed the committee. The committee proposal we have before the Senate had no Republican input. I have not had one chance to offer one amendment to this bill. I am offended by that. I am offended by the process.”