Thomas Daschle: “You can't deal with 15 or 20 amendments a day, much less 70 or 80. I think it minimizes, in some ways it demeans the…”

“You can't deal with 15 or 20 amendments a day, much less 70 or 80. I think it minimizes, in some ways it demeans the debate about energy policy in this country. To say about important issues such as the ones we have outlined again this morning on renewable fuels, on conservation, on nuclear energy, on electricity, on taxes, that we are going to have debates about those extraordinary policy questions and condense them somehow in a matter of a few hours as we debate energy policy that could affect us for the next generation--that is not the way to legislate, certainly not the way to manage an important bill such as this. These issues deserve attention. They deserve our careful consideration, and they will simply not have that if we wait until next week to address these issues.”