Zoe Lofgren: “this is a very good bill that should become law. I am a little bit surprised that we are standing here tonight. We did…”

“this is a very good bill that should become law. I am a little bit surprised that we are standing here tonight. We did not realize that the bill would be brought up this evening and actually when I learned that it would be, I was standing in line buying a new computer to replace my computer which had its memory burned out in a power surge recently. I was glad I was able to get into the car pool lanes and get here in time to talk about why this bill deserves our support. It was about a year ago that I began drafting some of the measures that ultimately found their way into the bill passed by the Senate last night. But I was not the only one on our side of the aisle who worked on this bill. A core group, including the gentleman from California (Mr. Dooley), the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran), the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo), and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Smith) really put in the extra effort as a drafting committee and certainly the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), the ranking member, has been a leader in moving this forward along with the gentleman from California (Mr. Matsui), and finally our hero in this on our side of the aisle, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), the minority leader, who has been stalwart in his efforts to make sure that we would get a bill such as this passed. Mr. Speaker, I have to give the Senate credit.…”