Arlen Specter: “following this vote, the next scheduled amendment is by the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Inhofe. There are negotiations in…”

“following this vote, the next scheduled amendment is by the Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Inhofe. There are negotiations in trying to work it out. They are supposedly very close. So we are not sure whether we will have Senator Inhofe's amendment and a side-by-side laid down. We will try to determine that while the vote is on. If they are table to work it out--or immediately following that, we will go to the amendment by Senator Akaka. We are going to try to work out time agreements so we can move the bill along on all of them. Let me remind my colleagues, we are going to enforce the rules strictly to 15 minutes and 5 so we can move the bill along. Let me also remind my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee that we are going to have our executive meeting in the President's Room. We had planned to have an executive meeting at 9 o'clock this morning, but then when the hearing on General Hayden was moved by the Intelligence Committee from 10 to 9:30, we could not have that meeting, so we are going to have it in the President's Room immediately following this vote. I thank the Chair and yield the floor.”