[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Pages 6613-6614]
[From the U.S. 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

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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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