Bob Corker: “in responding to the good Senator--the Senator with one of the best temperaments in the Senate, the Senator from…”

“in responding to the good Senator--the Senator with one of the best temperaments in the Senate, the Senator from Alabama, someone I enjoy working with--I respond that there is no question that our amendment is 119 pages long and that it does incorporate input from other Senators. What I would say is that the Senator was a great jurist from the State of Alabama. He worked on all kinds of legal documents, I am sure, before he came to serve in such a distinguished way in this body. I know that he understands well--because I know he has had to do it many times--that when you have an amendment that touches many parts of a bill or you have a contract that has changes that touch many parts of the contract, what people do to cause people to understand how it is written better--and actually it has to be a rule of construction here in the Senate--is add those 119 pages throughout the text of a bill that has been around since May that the Senator from Alabama was able to go through in detail as a member of the Judiciary Committee and offer all kinds of amendments. He has seen that base text now for a long, long time. He went through it more--I know more than most here in the Senate. So, yes, we added an amendment. It does have other concerns. That is what you do when you try to write a piece of legislation that solves the problem. It is 119 pages, and it was added to the base text. That is true.…”