Patricia Schroeder: “I must say if this bill is being brought to the floor under sunshine and happiness, I am not happy. I think this rule…”

“I must say if this bill is being brought to the floor under sunshine and happiness, I am not happy. I think this rule should be defeated. I think it is outrageous this rule is waiving the 3 days so that we can look at it. I was on the conference committee, and at 7:40 a.m. this morning was the first time I got the full bill. Let me show you what was attached to it. These are the proposed technical corrections. This is page 1, this is page 2, this is page 3, this is page 4, this is page 5, and this is page 6. We have six little pages of technical corrections. Now maybe the rest of you are quicker than I am, but we have been trying desperately to go through all of this and figure out what these six pages of technical corrections are really going to do to this bill, and because we do not have 3 days, we have until probably about an hour and a half from now, that is it, and I think when you are talking about a seventh of the economy, when you are talking about something that is trillions of dollars, and I come from a district that is very impacted by this, because we have regional Bells, we have long-distance companies, we have got cable companies, we have got all of that. We would like to know what this means, and the idea of 'trust us, hurry out and vote,' I think is wrong.”