Despite the defeat of the Democrats' pay-as-you-go amendment, Republicans, like Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, and Democrats, like Senator Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, have been trying to negotiate a less strict version of the proposal.
"If you're kind of clumsy about the way you assert the Fifth Amendment, you're running a lot of different risks".
As I explain in the book, now the problem is, if you're kind of clumsy about the way you assert the Fifth Amendment, you're running a lot of different risks.
"The purpose of the Senate on something this complex and this comprehensive is to be a place where you have debate and you have amendments," he said in an interview.
"If you vote for this amendment, you are voting for soft money.
She told Mrs May: "We know you opposed the amendment, because if you supported it you could have voted for it and it would have gone through.
"You have amendments to the bill or you don't.
"When I asked you to explain the Sixth amendment, you pled the Fifth".
When the Constitution authorizes the federal government to step in on state legislative matters, it's pretty clear if you look at the Fifteenth Amendment, you look at the Nineteenth Amendment, the Twenty-sixth Amendment, and even the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2".
"If 10 of you got together and decided to speak, just as a group, you'd say you have First Amendment rights to speak and the First Amendment right of association," he said.
