Karen Thurman: “I am going to call this the stay tuned rule, and I call it the stay rule because we are talking about this being an open…”

“I am going to call this the stay tuned rule, and I call it the stay rule because we are talking about this being an open rule, pre-printed amendments and we go on about that. The problem is that what is going to happen in the next hour or so is we are all going to get up and we are going to offer our amendments, and we are going to be told that they are nongermane; that they are not and will not work within this piece of legislation. Well, that is fine, except for the fact that I will agree with my colleagues that we should have gone to committee to talk about these issues because we all feel passionately about it. I do not think anybody on this floor wants to go home and face angry people about the prices in this country. We know what it is costing them. We know what it is costing our senior citizens. We know what it is costing to get goods to service. We understand that. There is nobody that feels as passionately about that as any of us here in Congress. But the fact of the matter is, you know, the last crisis we had was 20 years ago; and we have had opportunities over the past 20 years to try to solve these problems. There are pieces of legislation that have been introduced in this Congress that have been introduced in the last couple of Congresses. I am just going to bring one to you that I think needs some attention and has needed some attention and has a bipartisan caucus in this Congress, and that is for renewable energies.…”