Jon L. Christensen: “I rise because of the process of this bill more than anything. As my colleagues heard earlier today, at about 4 o'clock…”

“I rise because of the process of this bill more than anything. As my colleagues heard earlier today, at about 4 o'clock we got this bill, 40 pounds, 4,000 pages, $500 billion, and nobody, nobody has read this bill. Maybe a few staff people, maybe a couple of people behind closed doors have read this bill. But the American people are going to find out through the news media over the next week what is in this bill, because we sure do not know what is in this bill, but we have heard a lot of things that are in this bill, but by golly, we are going to find out a whole lot more over the next few weeks of what is in this bill. That is the way this process has been done. Mr. Speaker, I came here 4 years ago talking about tax cuts, smaller government, doing the right thing. Well, I am not running for reelection, I am done, but this is not the way that I came to Washington, and this is not what I came to do, to vote for a bill that is $20 billion over, has very little tax cuts in it, is not what we told the American people we would do. This is an embarrassment. This is an embarrassment for the American people that this process, the process has been done this way. There are a lot of good projects in here, but no Member of Congress should be able to sleep with themselves tonight knowing that they voted for a bill they have no idea what is in here. They do not know what is tucked in here.”