Senate Proceeding on Mar 2nd, 2009 :: 0:50:00 to 0:51:29
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Thad Cochran: quorum c mr. coburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mr. burn: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. coburn: what we just heard on the floor -- mr. inouye: mr. president, will the distinguished senator eld? mr. coburn: i'd be happy to yield to the chairman. mr. propose an amendment? mr. coburn: i told you i will

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Speech By: Thad Cochran

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Thad Cochran: not propose an amendment at this the american people ought to pay attention to this. what we have right now is a bill that's $410 billion. it's $363 million a page and now we have instructions from the majority leader that no amendments are to be allowed to be offered. that's what the intent of the

0:50:37 to 0:50:57( Edit History Discussion )

Thad Cochran: quorum call was just that's why the honorable chairman asked me, the only way i can talk now on the floor is if i agree not to offer an amendment to $410 billion worth of spending per

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Thad Cochran: what are we coming what are we coming to? now we can't offer a i reached out to senator reid and said i would work with him on packaging amendments in a way that would not delay this bill. in a way that we could still have a good debate and amendments offered. my goodness, you got 58 votes,

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Thad Cochran: 57 votes. you can win almost any vote here. why do you not want to have amendments? don't want to have amendments because they really don't want the erican people to know what's in this bill.