On the recordSeptember 29, 2010
We were assured of a number of things when this Congress started. For one thing, the swamp was going to be drained. We were told that. There have been a lot of allegations. There's been no draining of anything. We were told this would be the most open Congress in history. And yet, instead, the exact opposite. For the first time in the history of the United States Congress, we have gone right up, and as I understand we're not going to be back in session before this election, we will have gone through this entire Congress without having a single open rule for a vote, where anybody could make any amendments. The old saying is, ``Democracy ensures that people are governed no better than they deserve.'' The people have deserved better. They deserve bipartisan. When one chairman, Dingell, wanted to make a bipartisan approach to a bill, he was eliminated. We deserve better. And may God grant we get it.
