John Hansen: “I want to hearken back to 2 years ago. We stood here with a bill that had more titles in it, more bills in it than we…”

“I want to hearken back to 2 years ago. We stood here with a bill that had more titles in it, more bills in it than we have today, and we heard exactly the same thing: oh, this one will be vetoed. How many of my colleagues were with me as we stood in the oval office while the President put his John Henry on that and said, this is a great way to do legislation. The President of the United States said that. I do not know if I agree with him that it is a good way to do legislation. But now we hear these other arguments. It has all these things in it that we have not had hearings on. We have not had time on these things. Well, guess what? Most of these are so minuscule, so infinitesimal that they amount to nothing. The bills in here that have got things of substance in it we have had hearings on. We have had a lot of them on the floor. And when we start looking at some of these others, they are almost infinitesimal. What is this rule about and this bill about? It is about compromise. The whole thing is compromise.”