John Conyers: “I disagree with his interpretation, but I am pleased he realized if he did proceed on the course that he outlined this…”

“I disagree with his interpretation, but I am pleased he realized if he did proceed on the course that he outlined this morning, the issuance of his blue slip would have caused thousands of pink slips across America. However, my primary concern now that he has not exercised what he intended to is what will happen when we go to conference because the chairman of the conference committee has publicly said within the past several days that what we need is a cooling-off period, a cooling-off period. Rather than expeditious action, he has publicly called for, it has been printed in the paper, a cooling-off period. We need action. We need action before we recess. We are not cool right now. We are hot. We want action while we are hot because that is when we can get a tough law on the books. We do not need time to cool off. We need to pass a tough bill and send it to President Bush and he will sign whatever we send to his desk and we know that. Let us make it good and tough.”