David Obey: “I am not objecting to any bill, and I am not suggesting you did. What…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2005

I am not objecting to any bill, and I am not suggesting you did. What I am doing is using the only avenue available to me since we are operating under some very strange rules in this House to point out that even if these matters had been cleared on both sides of the aisle, there is really no way for the individual Member to protect himself if the leadership of this House is going to depart from what ought to be the custom in this place of not dictating what goes into conference reports.

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David Obey

Wisconsin

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