On the recordDecember 6, 2004
Mr. Speaker, I will say to the gentleman that unlike some committees in this House who do their work in secret, this committee does its work in public, in the open. We may have to work late hours, all night long, weekends, and that is a fact. The fact of the matter is this provision, along with every other provision of that section that we are concerned about here, was read word for word, comma by comma, period by period, by 17 staff members who supposedly reported to their chairmen and their ranking members. These 17 staff members were Republicans, they were Democrats, they were from the House committee, and they were from the Senate committee, and they read the entire section, and they reported to the leadership of their respective committees. It was done in public. We do not do our bills in secret.
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