[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6729]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT

  Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, pretty soon we are going to go back to 
the Water Resources Development Act, otherwise known as the WRDA bill. 
I will comment on that soon. We are making terrific progress. I hope 
Senators who may hear my voice would understand we would prefer to deal 
with a number of amendments rather than vote cloture. We have been 
working with almost--I can't tell you--20 different Senators to try to 
accommodate them, to either take their amendments, if they are 
noncontroversial, by voice or to make sure we can vote on their 
amendments or have side-by-sides.
  The bottom line is it is time now--it is past time--that Senators 
decide if they want to move this bill forward in an open way with 
regular order or if they want to avoid these very important amendments 
that we could vote on and go straight to cloture. I hope we can 
continue to work through the morning.

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