Political Quotes

“I appreciate the Chair insisting on regular order. It's nice that we have that. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. I am going to yield myself, Madam Speaker, 1 minute. We are here today because sometime this morning the majority decided, or at least they decided to inform the minority, to extend a number of bills, several of which are primary jurisdictional to the Energy and Commerce Committee, of which I am the ranking member. Probably the most important of the bills in terms of economic impact in the short term is the physician reimbursement fix, the DRG fix. If I understand this bill correctly, it has been extended for another month. We also have the Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act, which is totally within the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce Committee. And it is also being extended for 1 month. Madam Speaker, we don't have to do this kind of thing. If we could really get to regular order, we could bring these bills up, we could work in a bipartisan fashion, and we could find permanent or at least annual solutions to these bills. We don't have to hully gully this type of thing. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”