Rob Portman: “When legislation is debated on the floor of the House, the legislation is debated because someone has a good idea. It is…”

“When legislation is debated on the floor of the House, the legislation is debated because someone has a good idea. It is a great sounding idea. We talk a lot about the benefits, and we do it continually. What we do not talk about is the cost to the private sector and to the public sector. This simply permits the Congress to focus on that issue and then determine in its will by a simple majority vote whether to proceed with the legislation or not. So this is good government. It is accountability that will get at exactly what the gentleman earlier stated was his objective, which was to be fully informed about the cost of the legislation.”