a lot is happening very quickly now. In a very few minutes, we are going to get to the Senator from Wisconsin who has appropriately requested 25 minutes, and the unanimous consent request will be that the time would come off the bill and it will be as in morning business. Just to clarify, he has said his intentions representing the other side of the aisle to offer a resolution to censure the President of the United States for a program that I have said and will restate is a lawful program, is a program that is constitutional, and is a program that is vital to the safety and security of the American people. My response to that unanimous consent request was if that is the case and if that is the position of the Democratic Party, that we are ready to vote at 5:30 or after our 5:30 vote today. That unanimous consent request was objected to by the other side of the aisle. Then the second unanimous consent request that I propounded was that we would vote after a series of stacked votes tomorrow on the resolution to censure. There was an objection from the other side of the aisle. When we are talking about censure of the President of the United States, at a time of war when this President is out defending the American people with a very good, lawful, constitutional program, it is serious business. And if it is an issue that the other side of the aisle wants to debate or debate through the night, I guess we are willing to do that as well.…
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