John Shaw: “so what? I mean, so far, we have had a discussion of he said, who said, cops came, Sergeant of Arms was called, these…”

“so what? I mean, so far, we have had a discussion of he said, who said, cops came, Sergeant of Arms was called, these types of things, but let us look at the resolution. The resolution says that the House of Representatives disapproves the manner in which the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) conducted the mark-up of legislation in the Committee on Ways and Means on July 18, 2003, and find that the bill considered at that mark-up was not validly ordered reported to the House. Well, I think it is important that we talk about what happened. The only thing that was in dispute is, and that I can see here is, to whether a timely objection was made to dispense with the reading of the bill itself, and the Democrats or the minority party were all back in the library with the exception of one; and he was engaged in a conversation with the staff when the motion was made, and at that time, the chairman said, Hearing no objection, it is considered as read and open for amendment at any time.”