Speech #1040203584

Then back on the bill itself. Senator DOLE had to maintain two amendments. a firstdegree amendment and a seconddegree amendment. Therefore. we were in the absurd position last week where Senator SIMPSON had to offer a Simpson seconddegree amendment to the Simpson firstdegree amendment to the Simpson motion to recommit to the underlying illegal immigration bill. Look at what they had to go through from a parliamentary point of view. So you are not going to get a chance. These are the uses and abuses. I would say. of Senate rules to deny what is a clear majority position on an issue that has been understood. debated. discussed. and which over 80 percent of the American people support. We also ended up with a Dole seconddegree on illegal immigration. a Dole seconddegree to the first degree. a Dole firstdegree amendment to the illegal immigration bill. Then after each of these amendments had been adopted. we had to go through a half dozen unnecessary votes to adopt amendments to fill each of these slots. Senator DOLE had to then undo each of the amendments that had been adopted.