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Patrick Leahy: if somebody comes, I will be willing to enter into a different consent agreement, if somebody comes seeking the floor on…

On the recordAugust 1, 2006
if somebody comes, I will be willing to enter into a different consent agreement, if somebody comes seeking the floor on the other side, but I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business but with the time to be running as it normally would. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Leahy are printed in today's Record under ``Morning Business.'')
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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