Speech #1040207591

I must say. when you load up the tree and deny opportunities for Democrats to have votes on amendments that we care about. I really do not know what option we have. We are not trying to prevent legislation from being considered. In fact. in the last week. there were two examples where we worked through our differences as soon as we were allowed to offer amendments. The immigration bill and the Presidio bill both passed because we wanted to work with the majority to pass them. We did not want to hold up those bills. But we wanted the right to offer amendments.