Frank Pallone: “I listened to everything the gentleman said, but I want to just take it one step further. The gentleman pointed out that…”

“I listened to everything the gentleman said, but I want to just take it one step further. The gentleman pointed out that we have no bill, and that is certainly true. The gentleman from Florida, earlier on the Republican side tonight, actually challenged some of us on the Democratic side on the motion to instruct and said that we had not read the bill. And the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown), from our Committee on Energy and Commerce said, well, where is the bill? We have not received it. And, of course, the Republican Member from Florida had no response because they have not shown it to us, if it even exists. But imagine, as the gentleman said, not only do we not have the bill, not only has there been no conference participation by the Democrats, but now these organizations like AARP, AMA, the PhRMA, the drug manufacturers, all mentioned on the other side as endorsing the bill, some of them are even running ads for a bill that does not exist. So I mean the guy who is the legislative chairman, he did not say it in the letter there, but one would almost have to resign knowing that your organization has endorsed legislation that is not even available to look at. It is unbelievable.”