On the recordDecember 8, 2011
I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. {time} 0940 Mr. McDERMOTT. In my view, if you're serious, you sit down and you talk about everything. The last 3 weeks of that committee, they never even met. That was dust in people's eyes. Get them to talk about a commission. We had all this talk about a commission. Are they going to do this, are they going to do that, what's going to happen? In fact, everybody around here knew it was a lot of baloney from the start, and that's what this is today, more baloney. You know, Yogi Berra, who is one of my favorite philosophers, said, this is deja vu all over again. We did this last Christmas, we didn't extend the benefits, and we're doing it again this year.
