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Russ Feingold: I say to the leader, that is what the amendment process is for. Your amendment came up and, quite frankly, didn't…

On the recordSeptember 10, 1998
I say to the leader, that is what the amendment process is for. Your amendment came up and, quite frankly, didn't prevail. Our amendment came up and did prevail, and there were many other amendments and we just stopped. I recognize there may be another version of the Paycheck Protection Act that may prevail. My problem is that it stopped at that point, and that is not the normal procedure. That is what I am asking for, that everybody do their amendments, and at the end of the day, I know, unless you change your mind--and I recognize you don't need to--that we still need 60 votes, but to have the amendments, to have everybody's ideas presented and voted on, is what we are asking for here.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Discussing the amendment process related to the Paycheck Protection Act.

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