Harry Reid: “as I said a few minutes ago, partisanship is in the eye of the beholder. Obstruction is in the eye of the beholder. I…”

“as I said a few minutes ago, partisanship is in the eye of the beholder. Obstruction is in the eye of the beholder. I think if this were a jury out there, they would say: I heard Senator Reid say he is willing to go to conference in a minute or two. What he wants is to have the conference have six Democrats and eight Republicans. Is there anything obstructionist about that? The distinguished majority leader talks about problems with the Senate Democrats. There is no problem with the Senate Democrats. We want to go to conference. But it appears to me maybe this is all a ploy not to have a bill. It is not unreasonable, when you have the Finance Committee and the HELP Committee, to say there should be three from Finance and three from the HELP Committee. Then, to show how unreasonable this is, the majority leader says: Well, I will have nine and you have six. I would say to a jury, if we were talking to a jury: Who is more reasonable? But it all boils down to the fact that another day has gone by and the Senate has been unable to appoint conferees to the pension reform bill. We have millions of Americans worried about their pensions. This legislation will help and we need to get it moving. Once again, let me be very clear. We want to go to conference. We can name conferees right now and send the bill to the House so they can name their conferees. We are not interested in delaying the bill. We support it and want it to go to conference.…”