Edolphus Towns: “more than 50 percent of the people that serve on the committee now are brand new. They were not even on the committee in…”

“more than 50 percent of the people that serve on the committee now are brand new. They were not even on the committee in the last Congress. I am saying to the gentleman that these are the new Members in the Congress, this is not the same bill that was dealt with last year, so therefore, for the gentleman to say that we had hearings on this bill, that is not accurate. This is a new bill. It was not the bill last year. Let me just say to the gentleman, further, the bill last year was sponsored by me so I know what the bill said versus that this bill says. I am saying to the gentleman that his Contract With America does not mean that he should ignore input coming from America. I think if that is the contract the gentleman had, he had better divorce himself from it.”