[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 40 (Friday, March 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S2856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           AMENDMENT PROCESS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, let me say that the majority leader and 
I have spoken on a number of occasions about the importance of the 
amendment process to all 41 Republican Senators. In fact, all 41 
Republican Senators sent the majority leader a letter some time back 
indicating how important we believed it was. We are proceeding 
correctly on this bill. I say to my friend the majority leader, we 
basically have compiled our list of additional amendments. My Members 
believed strongly that we should have an opportunity to offer those and 
get votes. We will be able to do that. We will be able to move forward 
sometime next week. The manner in which he has outlined that we will 
proceed Monday and Tuesday makes sense, and we will be as cooperative 
as possible in moving forward with our amendments and getting votes on 
them.

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