Speech #1090122796

Of 400 amendments. 3 have been considered over the last 9 days. It is a process that has been broken. It is a process we have to fix if we are going to be able to address the issues before us. whether it is immigration or other important bills. It has been interesting. listening to some of the comments this morning and last night. and as has been reflected in both the Democratic leaders statements and in mine and others. it is true the Democratic leaderto me this is almost laughablehas said we are going to dictate who is on the conference committee. the minority leader. the Democratic leader. saying we are going to dictate who is on the conference committee. It is absurd.