Arlen Specter: “I will pick up on comments made both by the Senator from Arizona and the Senator from Illinois. When the Senator from…”

“I will pick up on comments made both by the Senator from Arizona and the Senator from Illinois. When the Senator from Illinois says if you have a 1-year extension, nobody will get serious about it until 11 months, 3 weeks, and 6 days, I agree with that. But if you have a 3-month extension, nobody will get serious about it until 2 months, 3 weeks, and 6 days. The Senator from Arizona has made the comment that we are going to be around here for a while. I usually like to agree with Senator Kyl, but I hope he is wrong about Friday, or maybe, long about Thursday, I will hope he was right about Friday. We may be here longer than Friday. But we know we have a cloture vote on Wednesday. So that means we have 2 days, which is twice as long as the Senator from Illinois postulates if we have a 1-year extension. That is twice as long, 2 days, to work on it. I do not know what the House of Representatives is going to do. I know that Chairman Sensenbrenner has been very cooperative, but I don't know what his rejoinder would be. He is talking about an extension, or I have heard a rumor that there is talk in the House about an extension for 4 years. I do not know what the President is going to do. He said he will not sign an extension. I do not know what the majority leader is going to do. He said he is not going to bring it up. But I am ready, willing, and able to sit down with the Senator from Idaho, who is in the Chamber. I cosponsored his so-called SAFE Act.…”