Cliff Stearns: “Mr. Chairman, this is a tough call, and I want to say frankly I am one of the original cosponsors of the Roemer…”

“Mr. Chairman, this is a tough call, and I want to say frankly I am one of the original cosponsors of the Roemer amendment, and I support what he was doing until I had a better understanding what the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McIntosh] is doing. So I say to my colleagues, let me just say how I view it: That the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McIntosh] has done something here which to the manufacturing home industry in itself is perhaps something they want more than the Roemer amendment, but the Roemer amendment has a chance in the sense there is a lot of consensus, a lot of people that favor it up here in Washington. In the beltway a lot of people think this is the best thing to do. But if my colleagues go back to my home congressional district, in fact if they go back to Nobility Home and they talk to Terry Trexler, who is the president of this company who has struggled in the trenches with this regulation and has dealt with this for years, he says he would rather have the McIntosh amendment than the Roemer amendment. So what we have here basically is we have an amendment which will affect the people who are working in the industry better than the Roemer amendment, so I say to my colleagues reluctantly I would like them to support the McIntosh amendment.”