Rob Portman: “What we do here, I guess the gentleman and I have a different view of this place. The gentleman's sense, as I have tried…”

“What we do here, I guess the gentleman and I have a different view of this place. The gentleman's sense, as I have tried to write down what he said, is there has never been legislation around here where the costs have not been fully debated. I do not know that there is any legislation, including the banking bill we just passed, where we ever understand what the full costs are, whether it is to the public sector or the private sector. Maybe the gentleman's staff reads all the legislation and gives him a cost breakdown, but mine certainly does not, and I do not know that that is true of any other Member. What we need is to have some debate on the cost, because the rest of the debate is always about the benefits.”