Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “We talked about trying to override, unsuccessfully, a veto on stem cell research. We did that and the Pledge of…”

“We talked about trying to override, unsuccessfully, a veto on stem cell research. We did that and the Pledge of Allegiance bill, and we did gay marriage. We engaged in the politics of distraction, because the only way that the Republican leadership here can take the focus off of all the horrendously bad things that they are doing on the priorities of the American people is by focusing on that. I had a social studies text book with me last week, I am not sure if we still have it, but last week I really wanted to bring a social studies textbook to the floor because essentially there is no point in using it any more in our public high schools. At the end of the day, the Republican leadership here has thrown out the concept of how a bill becomes a law. That Pledge of Allegiance bill we brought here last week? I sit on the House Judiciary Committee. That bill was defeated in committee, and yet we still saw it on this floor. When we teach high school civics, we teach that a bill has to go through the committee process, it has to garner a majority of the committee members to move on then to either the next committee or to the next point of reference in the legislative process.”