On the recordDecember 16, 2011
We're here because this bill is the product of our committee, but most importantly, it's a product of our subcommittees, Republicans and Democrats. They're the ones who put this bill together. Collectively all of those nine subcommittees are represented in this package here. It's been vetted by Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate, all the way through, there are no earmarks here, there are no air-dropped provisions in this bill, it is a good bill. It's not perfect. I don't like omnibus bills. But in cleaning up the mess left us, this bill is a good-faith effort to get '012 out of the way so that in '013, this January, we will be able to go to work on getting the 2013 bills done in the regular way. I want to thank the staff for all the hard work they have done all year long, and I thank our colleagues.
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