Russ Feingold: “If he will yield for a question, I suggest to the Senator that if I tell a group of my constituents that I cannot find a…”

“If he will yield for a question, I suggest to the Senator that if I tell a group of my constituents that I cannot find a vehicle, they would offer me a ride. They would say: Do your job; here is your ride. That is the problem. I ask the Senator if he would agree, if we are forced to talk to our constituents about the minutia of Senate procedure, and if that is the kind of conversation we have to have with our dairy farmers in Wisconsin instead of talking to them about what we should be talking about, the substance of the legislation--let us worry about the Senate procedure--then really the opponents of any kind of change have won because that is not something they should have to concern themselves with. It is very interesting; great. But that is not what dairy farmers in Wisconsin need. They have some great ideas about how to do things differently, and we should be able to come out here and have an amendment or a bill. In fact, I ask the Senator from Minnesota if he would agree with this. We are not used to getting a lot of votes sometimes. Sometimes we don't get many votes on our amendments. Sometimes there is a little laughter about how Wellstone and Feingold only got 10 or 12 votes. But at least we got a chance to get some votes.”