[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15055]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 VOTING

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, through the Presiding Officer to the acting 
leader, as we announced on Friday, we, the minority, would be willing 
to move to the resolution without a vote on a motion to proceed. We are 
willing to do that and set a time whenever the leader desires on 
Wednesday to vote on the resolution. Of course, that is with the 
understanding there would be no amendments to the resolution. We think 
that would be a fair way to approach this very important issue. There 
would be whatever time the leader wants. If he wanted to vote on 
Thursday, that would be fine. Whatever time is deemed necessary to the 
majority leader, we would be willing to abide by that. It would avoid a 
lot of the extraneous issues. It allows us to proceed without any 
procedural impediments and move right to the resolution.
  We want to make sure there is no misunderstanding, that it is very 
simple. We are willing to move at any time convenient to the majority 
to a vote on the resolution itself, of course, with no amendments.

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