On the recordFebruary 25, 2010
I appreciate my friend from Iowa, and I appreciate the points that he's been making. You heard so much information today. It was a bit mind-boggling when you think about the number of people that were in the so-called summit today, and not only did they not have a copy of the bills that they were going to try to ram down America's throat, they seemed to be a little miffed when people like Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan had data right at their fingertips to talk about, because it's very discomforting, I would imagine, if you get very indignant and say there's no money in any of these bills for abortion. We heard the same thing right here on this floor just within feet of where my friend from Iowa is. We heard people say when we debated the House bill that there is no money in this bill for abortion. And I don't infer any evil intent or intent to deceive, but I know when people say that, since clearly they have no intent to deceive, they just hadn't read the bill before they came to the floor or went to the summit to try to convince people about. And let's face it. It was called a summit today. Summit meaning height. It was the height of something. And we'll let the Speaker figure out for us what that height was, but it was the height of something, the summit of something.
