Marshall Sanford: “I come down on the side of this being a bad bill, for the simple reason that if you care about Corps reform, or if you…”

“I come down on the side of this being a bad bill, for the simple reason that if you care about Corps reform, or if you care about reform to the agencies basically underlying this bill, this bill is a very bad bill. I say that, first of all, if you look at the bill itself, we have in place a somewhat bizarre process, and that is for weeks now we have been sort of in the military mode of ``hurry up and wait'' and ``hurry up and wait'' as we have been waiting for conference reports. Yet, when this bill comes along, it basically speeds through the process with a closed rule, despite the fact it has not been marked up in committee, and the question is why? Why does this speed through this way? Why do we not deal with reform right now? I think the answer, very clearly, is in the way that this bill has spiralled out of control. It spiralled from basically being a $2 billion bill to a $6 billion bill. To me, this bill is similarly nothing more than a feeding frenzy. Sharks are supposedly the ones that feed; but this is a piggy feeding frenzy, when I think about this bill.”