Dave Camp: “Mr. McCRERY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the bill on the floor today. I have some prepared remarks that I am…”

“Mr. McCRERY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the bill on the floor today. I have some prepared remarks that I am going to submit for the Record, but rather than reiterate the problems that we have with the process that brought this bill to the floor, let me say my good friend Mr. Stark has been talking with us all along about this problem. We have all been aware of it. And, frankly, it was our understanding in talking with the distinguished chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee that we were going to try to let the Senate, our colleagues in the Senate, work out a bipartisan solution to this take that we could then embrace and bring to the floor. They were not able to do that at first in the Senate, so we frankly were kind of scrambling to figure out what we were going to do. But now we are told that our friends in the Senate have indeed reached a bipartisan compromise on this issue. They hope to bring it to the floor within the next day or two. At that time, we could take that bill on a bipartisan basis in the House and embrace it and pass it and get this problem behind us. So why are we doing this today? I am not really sure. It baffles me. This is a bill that does not have bipartisan support.”