Scott Garrett: “None of these things, as good as all these ideas are, are going to happen unless the majority party, the Democrat Party…”

“None of these things, as good as all these ideas are, are going to happen unless the majority party, the Democrat Party, Speaker Pelosi agrees they are actually the right thing to do and are willing to move the legislation. Your bill that would move in the direction that the American public wants us to move, to rein in excessive spending, to rein in earmarks, to put a clamp or a lid on them, to move in the direction of moving them out entirely or at least scaling them down, will not move unless the Speaker, Speaker Pelosi, says that is a good idea and she will post the bill. The legislation that you spoke about at the top of hour regarding the discharge petition that the Republican leader has that would expand earmark information to not just appropriation bills but also to authorizing legislation, to clean up some of the areas that have given them the latitude to actually continue to hide this information from the American public. That piece of legislation will not move unless the Democrat Party and Speaker Pelosi finally hear from the American public and realize this is what the American public wants us to do and wants us to move that legislation.”