Jerry Nadler: “I was intending to offer an amendment to this title of the bill, but the amendment is to increase the appropriation in…”

“I was intending to offer an amendment to this title of the bill, but the amendment is to increase the appropriation in the bill by $5 billion for the purpose of stationing American inspectors in every foreign port from where ships leave for the United States in order to inspect every container before it is put on a ship bound for the United States. Unfortunately, I could not find a $5 billion offset in this bill. What I wanted to do, obviously, was to reduce the tax cuts, the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts, by $5 billion to offset this. But the rules of the House do not permit that, so my hands are tied. Let me address for a moment the necessity of this amendment, if not in this bill then elsewhere. The greatest danger this Nation faces, which we are not addressing in any real shape or form, is that some foreign terrorist group, al-Qaeda, whoever, or some rogue nation, will get hold of a nuclear bomb and attack the United States.”