On the recordJuly 30, 2010
If you're Peyton Manning, the football great for the Indianapolis Colts, and you come to the line of scrimmage, you have the right to do an audible call at the line of scrimmage. I mean, Peyton's a champion. Time and time and time again he's come out, he sees the play, he recognizes that the play has to change, he shouts out the play to the team, and they score and they're famous and they're successful. Unfortunately, Madam Speaker, we don't have any Peyton Manning's on the other side of the aisle who are driving this process. In other words, there is nobody that has the breadth and the depth and the comprehensive understanding--there's, frankly, nobody in this Chamber that has that--to come in and say, You know what? New plan. We're going to do something completely different. Last night, ironically, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee was on this very floor in that very seat and said, There are no excuses to vote against this bill. He said that once or twice or three times. I jotted it down. And I reminded him of that during the debate last night, and yet, ironically, within that very short period of time, it's my understanding that the chairman, himself, found that there was a reason to vote against the very bill that moments before he was arguing for. And why is that? Because the Founders have a process in place that is a process of deliberation.
