Durbin's office claim that can't speed it up and that they would be doing this into late into the night. Then when I said there has to be a way to speed it up, he admitted they are trying to take 3 amendments at a time. I said well reduce the time or take more amendments. The admendments are only stalling tactics to slow down the budget process.
He was trying to play cute and tell me there were no stalling tactics on Terri's bill. I said I realized that the stall is on the budget amendments.
Evidently the budget bill has amendments that were placed on it just to slow down the budget process. They know most of the amendments are junk.
They must be feeling the heat since they changed it from 15 minutes to 5 minutes and are considering 3 amendments instead of one.
re amendments: when I called sen nelson's ofc a while ago
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aide said he has introduced some changes as it is right now in discussions. as I understand it, and not sure if there's more, he wants to make it easier to people to make their end of life requests known, as organ donation is now.
i am hoping these changes might be in order to bring in more support.
with that in mind, I just called sen reid --
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and said my sen is trying to get other dems on board, please help bc needs to pass. it took 6 min on hold but i did get through while i typed this w/one hand!
I am calling other dem sens now as a floridian to get on board w/sen nelson.