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On the recordJune 24, 2013
As I understand, this is under Senator Leahy's time. The cloture vote tonight is not as was described a minute ago. The cloture vote tonight is only on this amendment. It is not on the bill. So for someone to say they are losing some kind of cloture rights down the road, it is not true. The cloture vote we are having tonight is on an amendment that has five strong border security measures that every Republican has talked about for years. It doesn't mean we vote for the bill. We are talking about the amendment. The moneys are appropriated. The cloture vote is only on the amendment. I just wanted to clear that up. The CBO--which the great Senator from Alabama works with daily and quotes daily--has said if this bill passes, it will help tremendously with this deficit we know is weighing our country down today.
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