C. W. Bill Young: “We have to finish this bill today, whether this legislative day runs over until tomorrow or Saturday or whatever. The…”

“We have to finish this bill today, whether this legislative day runs over until tomorrow or Saturday or whatever. The reason is very simple. We have to have the weekend to prepare for a conference with the other body early next week. Now, if we do not have that conference with the other body early next week, we do not get a conference report back to the House before the end of next Friday. And if Members recall, the following week is scheduled to be a district work period. So if we extend this bill beyond today, in effect, we cannot get to the conference until next week sometime, and we cannot have a conference report by the end of the next week. So what I would hope is that we could look at some of these amendments, and if there are redundancies and duplications, why bother with them? Why do we not just do one on a subject rather than three or four? I am trying to get this job done tonight to let us prepare the conference over the weekend, give the membership a conference report next week, and then do what it is that everyone plans to do back in their districts during the district work period.”