Bob Barr: “I rise just to see if I got this straight. Yesterday we heard some very interesting arguments about interpreting the…”

“I rise just to see if I got this straight. Yesterday we heard some very interesting arguments about interpreting the rules of this House so broadly that the potential scope of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, according to folks on the other side, knows no bounds whatsoever and that the committee should, indeed can and indeed should, as they say on the other side, investigate all sorts of things. We have heard additional ones this morning perhaps that they want the committee to go into. I think I have that right on their side, and I think also I have right their position on the other side that the modest increase in funds that we are proposing in funds on this resolution to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight is too much money. So on the one hand, they want the most expansive reading of the jurisdiction of this committee, and on the other hand, they do not want the funds to do it. Something is not right here, Mr. Speaker.”