John Tierney: “Mr. Chairman, this bill started as a bipartisan committee effort. It was done in order to fund the emergency needs for…”

“Mr. Chairman, this bill started as a bipartisan committee effort. It was done in order to fund the emergency needs for defense and homeland security. That is why it was so grating to sit here last night and again today while many of our Republican members, including chairpersons and others who want to do the right thing, agree that the original bill was focused on emergencies, but that their leadership hijacked it and changed that bill, still all have the audacity to stand up here and wave the flag and insinuate that other people who want to talk about things that are extraneous to the bill are somehow unpatriotic. They shamelessly join in and make those insinuations, and somehow they want to know that they or their proxies are the ones who are changing the nature of this bill. Every American knows and every Member of this House knows that Members on both sides of this aisle support and continue to support the security of this country and the protection of our troops. Shame on those who try to hide their shenanigans by implying otherwise. The question is, do they have no shame.”