Tom Carper: “I will quote one or two sentences out of the editorial. Other principles used to carry some weight in the U.S. House of…”

“I will quote one or two sentences out of the editorial. Other principles used to carry some weight in the U.S. House of Representatives: allowing lawmakers to vote their consciences, not manipulating voting rules to get the desired result, and opposing a reckless amassing of budget deficits selfishly left for other generations. But that was the leadership of other speakers, and other Presidents. We can do something about it. Our conferees can do something about it. My hope is they will stick by our guns to try to make sure at least for the Senate we adopt those rules that served us so well for 12 years.”