Harold Volkmer: “I would just like to mention one other thing, folks, that is going on here that they are planning to do, this great…”

“I would just like to mention one other thing, folks, that is going on here that they are planning to do, this great majority that is running this Congress. They cannot get a dang thing done. I could use a harder word but it is not permissible on the House floor. They did not do anything the first session. You can look at the total bills that they passed. It is the worst record since 1933. Do you know what these, I do not know what you call them, people are proposing to do today? They are going to finally bring in something here that asks us to vote for it, which we have never seen, and then they are going to say, OK, bye-bye, we are going. They are going to send it to the Senate. They do not know what the Senate is going to do with it. And if the Senate does not pass it that way, because it has to be done that way, you cannot change one t in it, one i in it, one period in it. If they do not take it, then the Government closes down. They are not going to stay here to wait and see if they can work something out with the Senate. No, they want to leave here. Get out of here. I say stay here, stay here until we make sure that the Senate does it. And if the Senate does not do it, we work it out with the Senate. And then after it is all worked out and we know if it takes until tomorrow we know then that the Federal Government is going to continue to operate, then we do it. But the way you are proposing to do it, you are saying to the Senate, take it or leave it.”