Jim Webb: “So you are basically just taking the medical condition at the time and assigning a disability rating to it?”

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Virginia.

I ask to speak on an amendment I have sent to the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Amendments are not in order at this time, but it can be submitted.

For these reasons, I strongly believe that recognition for these six Virginia tribes is justified based on principles of dignity and fairness.

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.