Steny Hoyer: “reclaiming my time, on behalf of all the parents and grandparents, the acting majority leader and I had a brief…”

“reclaiming my time, on behalf of all the parents and grandparents, the acting majority leader and I had a brief conversation about my 3-year-old granddaughter, who this past weekend had the opportunity to show me the costume she is going to be wearing on trick or treat night, and she said, Hey, Pop, can you go with me? And I appreciate the gentleman's making that time available on behalf of his side and my side for all of us who might be doing that. That is a treat early, not a trick, and we appreciate that very much. First of all, Mr. Speaker, the leader heard me have the discussion with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions) of the Committee on Rules. I wonder if perhaps you could comment. We do not know the status of the manager's amendment, as the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions) indicates. The acting majority leader does not know the status of the amendment, and I presume that is being worked on. But we have concerns that a very critically important provision of the bill, an overwhelming bipartisan bill, 65 to 7, might be changed and might have added to it a condition for the receipt of money by faith-based charitable organizations, nonprofit organizations to receive money to build housing; that if they received such money that a condition of the receipt of that money would be that they could not participate in voter registration efforts. We have a letter from Catholic bishops very concerned about that.…”