through the Chair, I expect, because of the large amount of interest, that we will stay here until everybody does have that opportunity to speak. We will have the cloture vote, and you and I can discuss shortly the timing. But likely we will do the cloture vote possibly late tomorrow morning. We do want to give people an opportunity. We have spent 26 hours over the course of 3 days, but in all likelihood it will be a very late night tonight.
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