Over the last two days, the Senate has been considering a bill that, just about everyone can agree, is of singular importance.
The Senate has allotted itself ten hours of debate to consider the bill and five amendments offered for it.
Compare that to the three days of debate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) provided in June, to consider the Marriage Protection Amendment (and even after that, the amendment failed). At the time, Democrats complained that Frist was eating up precious floor time with a political stunt.
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), one of the main backers of measure, objected: “If it was purely politics, let me assure you we’d be debating this in September.”
