John Conyers: “were it not for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jerry Nadler), this bill, one of the worst anti-people bills I have…”

“were it not for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jerry Nadler), this bill, one of the worst anti-people bills I have ever seen in the Judiciary, would be quietly going through this body. The President of the United States, I say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), has pledged he will reward the majority with a veto for not listening to the senior ranking member and going off on the deep end. He will veto this bill. And even if it is put in an omnibus bill, he will veto it. So we are talking serious defects. I want to address the distinguished chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania. He and I have toiled in the Judiciary vineyards together for so long. How could the gentleman put a provision in, first of all, that takes out the few good provisions that we had? The bill was bad enough on its own, but then he gutted the provision, which passed with over 100 of his Republican colleagues, that would have ended the practice of credit card companies cutting off accounts. Why? Why would the gentleman drop the provisions that would prevent the horrible tobacco companies, the bad guys of American industry, from using bankruptcy to get out of their judgments? Why would he endanger youth? I know he is a pro-family man, like me, pro-family values. Why would he endanger child support, alimony payments, in a bill coming out of the committee with his name on it? Why would the gentleman harm small businesses? We represent the little guys.…”