Jerry Nadler: “the picture painted by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) would be funny if it were not serious. The gentleman…”

“the picture painted by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) would be funny if it were not serious. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), that paragon, supporter and champion of the raging liberal judiciary. Who believes that? The fact of the matter is that I must commend the gentleman from Illinois and the gentleman from Michigan for this amendment, for trying to retain some humanity in the bankruptcy courts. The objective standards of which the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) speaks are rigid and inhumane standards, inhumane standards that this Congress told the IRS to junk last year because we found they were inhumane. They are also standards that ignore the facts. In addition to what the gentleman from Michigan said before about the things they ignore, the fact is these standards are rigid and are averages. If you are a bankrupt and you are going to bankruptcy and they want to figure out how much you can afford to pay, the proper question is, what is your rent? What is your mortgage? Not what is the average mortgage payment in the northeast United States.”