Michael Burgess: “Well, and it does get to your point of playing politics with people's jobs. I just want to say a couple of other things…”

“Well, and it does get to your point of playing politics with people's jobs. I just want to say a couple of other things about the predominant Democratic agenda items that have been pushed through this House of Representatives largely on--well, in fact almost entirely on--party line votes. In fact, the only thing that has been bipartisan about these bills has been the opposition. The health care bill, financial regulatory bill, cap-and-trade, probably more Democratic votes against, and made it a truly bipartisan opposition, and very few Republican votes in favor. But Vice President Biden over the weekend, in talking on an interview on one of the Sunday shows, said, ``Look, these are gigantic packages to deal with the problem we inherited. The vast majority of the American people and a lot of people really involved don't even know what's inside the packages.'' I assume he's talking about people involved in, like, conference committees and people involved in congressional committees who actually wrote this legislation. Going back to quote then, ``People don't know a lot of what's going on in the Recovery Act. Understandably, because this has been so much stuff that's been flowing our way.'' Well, Mr. Vice President, with all due respect, this is the problem.…”