Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, this is such a bad rule for such a bad bill that even my Republican colleagues had difficulty last week…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is such a bad rule for such a bad bill that even my Republican colleagues had difficulty last week when the time came to vote to report it. For the first time in my memory, and I am assured for the first time in history, the Committee on Rules has reported a rule without recommendation. This rule is so bad that the Republican leadership was forced to postpone its consideration for a week. I was under the impression that campaign finance reform had been envisioned as the centerpiece for Reform Week. But because this rule has engendered significant opposition as evidenced by the manner in which it was reported from the Rules Committee, perhaps it was postponed until a fix for the bad rule and the bad Republican bill could be pieced together. Otherwise it seems that this rule might have been in danger of losing had it been brought to the floor last week.”