Senate Proceeding on Aug 1st, 2008 :: 0:06:53 to 0:08:59
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Speech By: Chuck Grassley

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Chuck Grassley: i was not part of his conversation with the majority leader as to when he was going to offer his unanimous consent request. he offered itt after the chairman of the finance committee had left and virtually

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Richard Durbin: all the members of the senate lefoft. and whether he had an opportunity to do that before, i don't know.do he did not make a request of me. i wasn't aware of t but he certainly met with senator baucus

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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: during the course of this week and had ample opportunity to raise this issue. and it's something that should have been resolved between the two of them before senator baucus left, and i think he would

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Richard Durbin: understand, as i do, that that is a problem for senator baucus to be gone and to make a unanimous consent request. the one thing the senator from iowa did not say was why he objected to this bill.

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Richard Durbin: again, he voted against it. now he objected again. this bill that does contain assistance for my state and his state because of the recent flood disaster. the simple reason is he disagrees with many

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Richard Durbin: of the provisions of this bill and decided that he would vote against t that is his right as a united states senator. i will tell him again, i may find his bill that he's offering today to be the right

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Richard Durbin: bill for my state and for his state as well and support him. even if he is -- his unanimous consent request prevailed today, the house is gone. we'll be gone in just a matter of hours. nothing is is

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Richard Durbin: going to happen to his request until we return in september. maybe after an august break and a little bit of time and reflection, we can come back and find what we need and that is a bipartisan approach

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Richard Durbin: to helping a lot of innocent victims of this flooding in the midwest and victims of other disasters across the united states. as much as i feel for my own home state and his state of iowa, there are

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Richard Durbin: many other disaster victims that need a helping hand as well, and i think we at ought to consider all of them when we return. so, at this point, mr. president mr. president, i'm going to yield the

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Richard Durbin: floor and say to the senator from iowa, we have work worked closeically on things before, but when he raised my name on the floor this morning, when i wasn't present, i felt like i had to come down here and explain

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Richard Durbin: what happened last night and the situation we find ourselves in today. and i yield the floor. mr. grassley: mr. president? mr. durbin: mr. president, i'm sorry. i have one unanimous consent request to

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Chuck Grassley: ask, which i don't think has an objection.. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed -- i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar 869, s. 2291, the plain language

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Speech By: Chuck Grassley