Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a cloture petition and filled the amendment tree, limiting debate on the must-pass FY 2007 CR. GOP Senators, dismayed by the $3 billion cut in BRAC in the House version of the CR, seem unmollified by assurances from Reid and Appropriations chair Robert Byrd (D-WV) that the funding would be restored in the upcoming $100 billion-plus supplemental war spending bill, which is not subject to spending caps. No go, says Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchision (R-TX), who demands an opportunity to offer an amendment adding back the $3.1 billion, and proposes to offset it with a 0.73 percent across-the-board cut in all other programs, exempting defense, homeland security and veterans. Echoes Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), in today's Congress Daily PM: If you want to be considered the party of fiscal responsibility and transparency, this is not the way to do it. If they want to increase spending by that much, be honest about it.