Kendra S. Horn: “just to get a few things clarified, we are not shy about holding hearings in this committee and subcommittee. We have…”

“just to get a few things clarified, we are not shy about holding hearings in this committee and subcommittee. We have had over 80 subcommittee hearings in this Congress, as my colleague, the gentleman from Ohio, knows. When we had this markup last week, it was strictly understood that it was a voice vote. Nobody asked for a rollcall on this. And we did that as a courtesy to the minority, I believe, on a couple of bills. Then, when it was not scheduled by the full committee, that was a decision at that level, not our level; that it looks like this will go through, why do we not get it on the consent calendar since the full committee cannot meet until Thursday and the last day of the Congress is presumably Friday. And the decision was, ``Well, it seems to have been worked out, the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Sununu) has met with the various agencies, so let us just put it on the calendar here.'' Now, of course, I am afraid we have a little bit of the politics of the full committee rather than the politics of the subcommittee, which I would think the gentleman from Ohio would admit is one of the most bipartisan subcommittees in this Congress. And I would hope we would support this measure.”