Roy Blunt: “I will say that in that case, nobody in the House ever knew that any changes had been made, and it was alleged that…”

“I will say that in that case, nobody in the House ever knew that any changes had been made, and it was alleged that somehow we were going to be subject to Ethics Committee investigations. I would say in this case that my principal concern would be that the sections of the farm bill that have gone to the President, since they were not part of an entire bill, could be subject to all kinds of future litigation. I do know in the litigation that the minority initiated in February, 2006, 2 years and millions of taxpayer dollars later, we finally ended that litigation at the court of appeals level with the court of appeals deciding that if the Speaker and the President pro tempore certified that this is what both bodies passed, it was what both bodies passed. Here, we're moving forward with both bodies admitting that what this President has seen is not what both bodies passed. This idea that just because a portion of the bill has passed in a bigger bill means that the House was for that portion of the bill, that the Senate was for that portion of the bill, I don't think would stand any reasonable test of a way for us to move forward, and I think this bill does become subject to all kind of challenges from outside this building as well as perhaps from inside.”