At the veryminutethat we're privileged to be here on the floor of this Senate, exercising freedoms of speech and debate, young men and women in our armed forces are in harm's way.
They have a tremendous amount of power, because they can insert things at the very last minute, a la the bridge in Alaska that gets on everybody's nerves.
So my question is: What is being done at the moment to prevent the kind of nail-biting that we saw last week with the very last-minute deal being brokered on the debt ceiling, given the magnitude, as you described it, of not raising it?