[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 13244-13245]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TERRORISM INSURANCE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am not going to formally ask this UC 
because there is no one here to object, but I want to again offer the 
UC regarding terrorism insurance. I will just lay on the record that 
when we initially offered this, we wanted a ratio of three Democrats to 
two Republicans, which is fairly standard. We were told by the minority 
they would rather have four and three. Remember, this is terrorism 
insurance. So we said: Fine, four-three.

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And now they won't agree to that. It is too bad.
  The country needs this legislation. We can't do it until we go to 
conference. This is only appointing conferees.
  I hope we are able to get this cleared in the immediate future. I ran 
into one of the President's lobbyists out here. The President has three 
or four people who cover the Senate. One of them told me--I will not 
embarrass that person; I don't want to get him in trouble with anyone--
he said: Keep pushing this. This is something we need.
  We know that. But he should not be talking to me, although I am happy 
to talk to him anytime. He should be talking to whoever is holding this 
up.

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