Ted Poe: “I thank the gentlewoman from Hawaii for her work on this. As you can tell, this is a bipartisan effort. When we took…”

“I thank the gentlewoman from Hawaii for her work on this. As you can tell, this is a bipartisan effort. When we took this legislation 2 years ago and brought it to the House, there were 11 bills that came to the House of Representatives, and they almost all passed unanimously. Then they were sent to the Senate, and the Senate combined them into two bills. The same over there, almost unanimous; and then back over to the House, and the final passage was almost unanimous once again. It is a bipartisan effort, and I thank the gentlewoman from Hawaii for her work on this and her service to our country. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker). He is one of our newest, if not the newest, Members of Congress. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate for a good number of years.”