Steny Hoyer

I appreciate that. The last question will not come as a surprise to you, I know. We still have yet to pass one appropriation bill.

We have passed the others, but it is still out there. It is a large bill that deals with the education of our children, the health of our people, and the ability of our working people to succeed. I know that there is great attention being…

They found 1,500. Can the gentlewoman cite me one instance of a criminal charge being proven that that is the case? I don't doubt that you can assert that some people said there is fraud. Yes. Can you cite me one conviction of anybody who…

Can I respond that I do agree with the gentlewoman that fraud does occur, and when it occurs, we ought to prosecute it. When fraud occurs, we ought to put those people in jail, because they undermine the rest of us who are voting honestly…

I am very interested in it, and I would hope we could move it. Notwithstanding the fact that I told your extraordinarily able staffer who sits behind you that it was going to take about 45 minutes for this colloquy, I will yield back the…

On H.R. 4844, the Federal Election Integrity Act, I have not talked to any members of the committee nor the Rules Committee. As you know, I was the sponsor of the HAVA act, along with Bob Ney, and very interested in this entire issue. Can…

I thank the leader for that. And I did not know whether our Democrats had worked with people on your side of the aisle. If that is the case, then when I read the resolution, I am sure I will be pleased. But if there are questions, I will…

I understand. On the following Friday, the 22nd, as the gentleman knows, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on that day. That is the first day of Rosh Hashanah. One of the problems, as you know, that we have is Members getting back to the…

That happens, I have noticed. With respect to the schedule that you have just announced, would it be fair to conclude that if we do not have additional conference reports, and you indicate that you will take conference reports if they are…

Reclaiming my time, one option, of course, is the Republican Members from the House of Representatives that are participating in these meetings indicate to our Senate colleagues that they are not prepared to proceed unless there are…

I hope that is the case, Mr. Leader, and again, I take you at your word. While you are not the chairman of the conference, you are the majority leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives.

We could go on a long time on this. We probably ought to move along with the schedule because you and I have a different view as to who is going to be lame and who is going to be the duck and other issues of great importance to the…

To proceed with whatever legislation we decide ought to be considered, realizing we won't be sworn in until January as the majority party.

Reclaiming my time, I was very pleased to hear that we are going to be dealing with the Horse Protection Act. I am sure that all of us are concerned about that. I say that seriously. But can you tell me when we might be doing the Worker…

Reclaiming my time, I hope that is the case. And perhaps I will privately discuss with you whom these consultations have been with because on my side of the aisle, they have not talked to me yet. But I thank the gentleman, and I will talk…

So if you were trying to keep the three bills relatively together at the White House, is that what I am hearing you say?

Thank you, Mr. Leader, for that information. Tuesday is the marriage amendment. Would it be fair to believe that these, they are listed relatively in chronological order, therefore, the pledge protection bill would come on Wednesday…

If it were Wednesday, are you going to try to keep the other two bills that would come over from the Senate with that bill? Are you going to try to do all three of them at the same time, or is that not necessarily the case? I yield to my…

On the veto override, you expect H.R. 810 to pass the Senate and then be vetoed and come back to us at that point in time, which would be either Thursday or Friday, depending upon how quickly we were doing our business?

I think Perry Mason would be very proud of Mr. Davis on this effort. I understand, you and I have talked about it, it is an important effort. I sympathize and am going to vote with Mr. Markey, but I nevertheless think that your effort is…

I thought you would. Mr. Leader, the Health IT bill and other health care-related bills, I know this was supposed to be Health Care Week. I may have missed it, but in any event, if it went by me, it is Health Care Week. Can you tell me…

Reclaiming my time, that was my assumption as well, that there are other issues. But in terms of the gentleman's observation regarding the rules, just as typically it has been our observation that if the majority wanted something on the…

Clearly the appropriation bills have been bills which I know the majority wanted to move, and I would hope, notwithstanding the fact that there is a provision that the committee approved, that we would not subject that to a majority vote…

This is obviously, from our perspective, I think from your perspective, a very important bill and we thought we had bipartisan agreement on the bill. It came out of committee, as you know, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Do you have an…

Okay. And you have just answered my question on Friday. Let me ask you, we are talking about Fridays, after the July 4 work period, the schedule tentatively has on there working Monday through Friday on the 3 weeks in July. We have been…