Collin Peterson: “I rise to correct the record. This bill has had a long and tortuous path, and now, unfortunately, is the victim of an…”

“I rise to correct the record. This bill has had a long and tortuous path, and now, unfortunately, is the victim of an unintended clerical error, and I just need to set the record straight about what happened here. I notified Mr. Goodlatte, who I worked on this bill with on a bipartisan basis, as soon as I found him after I found out about this. We also talked to Mr. Blunt before the vote. So we had discussions on a bipartisan basis. This error, apparently what happened here is that there was a procedure that used to be in place where people would initial each page after they had done the enrollment on the parchment, but that was eliminated apparently 10 years ago when the Republicans were in charge, for whatever reason. So a mistake was made on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House vetoed a bill that was missing this title. We sent a bill down there that was missing this title. So that was the reality of what happened. I notified everybody before the override immediately about what the situation was. So that is what happened.”