Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, look, 4,155 pages, and that doesn't include the couple of thousand pages of explanation, definition, and all this other stuff. At least with ObamaCare, 2,500 pages, we had time to go through it. I did. I read it, highlighted, made notes. This is 4,155 pages, and we haven't had a chance. Well, the House rules make sure that you can't shove a bill through without people knowing what is in it, and that is the rule that requires that the bill be read. But the majority, for a few days more, decided we don't want people to know what is in it; and as the Speaker previously famously said, we have got to pass it and find out what is in it. That is why the majority in the Rules Committee, in this rule, said, we consider it as already read because we don't want you to know what is in that. That is dangerous because there is so much garbage. There are people struggling, maxing out credit cards to get gasoline, and this bill is going to do for inflation--well, I won't go there, but it is going to do a lot of damage for inflation; and people that can least afford it will be harmed tremendously by the callous treatment that the rules of the House have gotten and that the people that are hurting across America are getting. It should be voted down, and we should have time to look at exactly what is being given away. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House.”