Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for his question. Let me read through this so I reach every point that I think each Member needs to know. Following the next vote, the House will stand in recess subject to the call of the Chair. As all Members know, we are waiting for some technical pursuits of the budget and reconciliation process to be completed. The House has completed, as I think all of you know, 1 hour and 40 minutes of the 2 hours of debate on the Build Back Better Act, so there will remain 10 minutes on each side prior to the passage of the Build Back Better Act. We are waiting, as the gentleman indicated, for the completion of a privileged scrub from the Senate Parliamentarians necessary for the reconciliation process. Once we have received that information, the Rules Committee and Mr. McGovern will meet to report a rule with an additional manager's amendment to make technical corrections to the bill, which will be considered on the floor so that the Parliamentarian's concerns will be met in that technical amendment. We are also awaiting the final two committee estimates from CBO. We expect CBO to have estimates--and I want to make it clear that this may not be the CBO score of the overall piece of legislation. We have just heard from those who are going to be reading that through the night, I know. We are also waiting for the final two committee estimates.…”