John Conyers: “Well, is it sufficient that 35 national organizations, civil rights groups, unions, public interest research groups…”

“Well, is it sufficient that 35 national organizations, civil rights groups, unions, public interest research groups, consumer organizations, women's organizations, law organizations, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation, Legal Defense and Education Fund, 34 organizations, I would appreciate it if anybody could tell me why they think all of these organizations do not get the picture, do not understand why this bill should be rejected yet another time? But my emphasis this evening is upon the parliamentary process by which the bankruptcy bill was brought to the floor today, and that is to say that the bill is being brought to a conference and the Senate has never passed this bill. This bill is being brought on the sham of a Chapter 12, 6-month, noncontroversial extension entitled 'The Debts of the Family Farmer,' and that is being used to force a several-hundred-page bill into conference. The Senate has not acted. It is shameful that the leadership, the Committee on Rules of this House, would permit this bill, as large, as controversial, as complex as it is, to be taken, that little tale, and brought in here yet again.”