Nancy Pelosi: “What I heard the gentleman say is that the rules of this House are rigged against working families in America; that the…”

“What I heard the gentleman say is that the rules of this House are rigged against working families in America; that the rules of this House under his interpretation are rigged against bringing a bill that would create jobs, that would invest in infrastructure in our country and immediately create jobs which would help address the concerns of cities, States, and localities in terms of homeland security needs so important to the American people; that it is rigged against extending unemployment benefits to America's workers where the money is there for that purpose and which would inject demand immediately into the economy, immediately creating jobs because of people having to spend that money on necessities; and that the rules of the House are rigged against fiscal responsibility. The Democratic proposal was at a cost of zero. It paid for itself. It was offset. So if the rules of this House do not allow us to come here and fight in a very direct way for working families in America, for the middle class in America, then the rules of the House should be changed.”