[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 25]
[Senate]
[Page 34401]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              COOPERATION

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I wish to defend the majority leader's 
decision to go to cloture on the farm bill last night under the consent 
agreement we had.
  He consulted with me, and I share his view that we could have been on 
that bill into January at the rate we were going. It was time to bring 
it to conclusion. So I applaud the majority leader for his decision. I 
think it was the right thing to do.
  Secondly, we do have a chance to get additional progress this morning 
with the FHA matter. There is also the Defense authorization bill. I 
think we are making good progress this week, and the majority leader 
will have some excellent cooperation on this side of the aisle in that 
direction.

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