Collin Peterson: “Again, one of the reasons that we were moving was because the extension of the current law expires Friday and we were…”

“Again, one of the reasons that we were moving was because the extension of the current law expires Friday and we were trying to make sure we got the work done so that we could finally get this bill passed into law, after all the time that we have been working on this. If people think that I made the wrong decision here, I will take responsibility for it. But I talked to minority members. There were some on the other side that agreed with the process that we were setting forward. I apologize. There is nobody that has spent more time working on this bill. I personally looked over everything that has been in this bill. I guess the one mistake I made was that I didn't personally read the enrolled copy of this bill and actually check each page of it before it was sent to the White House. I guess I should have done that. A procedure was eliminated that used to be there under the Republicans. I think that procedure is now going to be reinstated after this experience. Really, this is just an error. And now we have to fix this. So what we are doing with this rule is allowing us to pass the whole bill again, send it over to the Senate.”