Sam Farr: “People come here from all over the world to watch Congress in session. It is an opportunity to see how in this country…”

“People come here from all over the world to watch Congress in session. It is an opportunity to see how in this country laws are made. What we are about tonight is the special order talking about what is going on in a room upstairs here called the Committee on Rules room, where they determine the rules to bring bills to the floor: whether the bill will come to the floor, what kind of amendments can be offered to the bill, how much time there will be for debate, whether the amendments are in order. As we saw, this was the promise that this would be the week that these issues would all be addressed on the floor. We are here at almost 10:30 at night in Washington, DC, and we have no resolution to this promise that was made to this Congress.”