STATEMENT ON THE C5 RESOLUTION

Everything is transactional. The C-5 mess started and is about to end using
transactional politics. One question immediately comes to mind - what did
the 12 senators vote on? There is not even a committee report out for
deliberation on the floor.

While it may be true that a majority of senators can express the sentiment
of the Senate as a collegial body, it seems inappropriate to vote on a
committee's recommendation that is yet to be routed for signing by its
members and presented on the Senate floor.

It is a slap on the face of the chairman of the Committee of the Whole who
happens to be the Senate President. It is a mess and an ugly one at that.