Barney Frank: “this is fourth effort by the minority to get exactly the same thing voted on. Apparently, this strategy has become if at…”

“this is fourth effort by the minority to get exactly the same thing voted on. Apparently, this strategy has become if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again and again and again. I am disappointed at the poverty of their ability to obstruct. Now, here is where we are. We have a bill that is strongly supported by the administration and by the business community, their erstwhile allies. We were asked by some on the Republican side and in the business community to get a closed rule, because they were afraid of irresponsible and silly amendments. I rejected that request, and now I see, frankly, some people who asked me to support a closed rule voting for the amendments that came forward because we had an open rule. Apparently the motto of some of my Republican colleagues, when it comes to rules is, stop me before I obstruct again. I don't intend to do that. I don't intend to protect you from your own worst impulses. After all, no one has protected me from mine. We have a bill which says we do not want foreign investment which is good for this country, which is job producing and economically stimulative prevented by fears that unnecessary security interests will be raised.”