John Hope Bryant: “I would strongly oppose the gentleman's amendment now that I learn that it is in addition to rather than in place of…”

In order to have effective bankruptcy reform, we need to have in this bill a set of uniform standards as to whether or not someone should be allowed to file in Chapter 7 or in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The reason I oppose this amendment is…

H.R. 833 is a necessary bill, and this is a good rule to support to move that bill forward. H.R. 833 restores fairness and common sense and personal responsibility to a bankruptcy code that, in many ways, is out of control. Current…

I think it would have been best, frankly, had my good friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Gallegly], who I believe to be quite sincere about this, had simply brought to the floor the original amendment which says flatly that we are…

I do want to emphasize what she said in her opening statement; that this is certainly a bill that, I believe regardless of whether we might be pro-choice or pro-life, we can support. Because what we are talking about here in the underlying…