Arlen Specter: “We have been engaged in extensive discussions to try to move the schedule along. What we plan to do is to take Senator…”

“We have been engaged in extensive discussions to try to move the schedule along. What we plan to do is to take Senator Kerry's amendment and accept it, with 15 minutes to Senator Kerry. He says he will try not to use all of it. Tomorrow morning we will go to Kyl-Cornyn, and since people are still looking at it, we do not have a time agreement. Senator Kennedy says he will make a good-faith effort to limit debate to 30 minutes tomorrow. Then we will go to the amendment of Senator Obama, and once we have had a chance to analyze it, we will see if we can accept it. Then we will go to Senator Sessions. The majority leader has authorized me to say that there will be no further votes tonight.”