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March 13, 2008
Reid Spokesman On DeMint Earmark Claim: How Can You Vote On Something That Hasn't Been Offered?
Washington, D.C.—Rodell Mollineau, Communications Director for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, made the following statement today in response to disingenuous claims made by Senator Jim DeMint on earmark provisions and the budget. Senator DeMint has falsely claimed Democrats are holding up his legislation, but he has yet to even offer it.
“We are voting on amendments in the order in which they were offered. As of 1 p.m. Thursday, Senators DeMint and McCain have still not offered any amendment dealing with earmarks.
“Senator DeMint has been talking about this amendment for three days. If it’s so important to him, why didn’t he offer his amendment earlier in the week, as more than 20 Senators did? He could be voting on his amendment right now instead of issuing disingenuous press statements.
“Perhaps Senator DeMint has spent so much time over the last 15 months blocking legislation that he has forgotten how to offer it.”
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The Senate will convene at 9:30 a.m. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the House Message on H.R.1586. There will be 1 hour for debate equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees, with Senator Murray controlling the Majority time.
Upon the use or yielding back of time (around 10:40 a.m.), the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1586, with Reid for Murray amendment #4575 (FMAP and Teacher Funding).
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