David Obey: “the practical result of the point of order lodged by the gentleman from Florida is to make the credit card companies the…”

“the practical result of the point of order lodged by the gentleman from Florida is to make the credit card companies the only people in America who can raise the price of something you bought after you bought it. If people are comfortable putting themselves in that supine position, I cannot do anything about it. But I find it interesting that the gentleman is a member of the Rules Committee, which cleverly left this measure exposed and then exploited that failure on the part of the Rules Committee in order to knock this language out of the bill. That is a nice sleight of hand operation. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Sec. 946. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none of the funds provided in this Act or any other Act may be used by an executive branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the prepackaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. Sec. 947. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to administer, implement, or enforce the amendment made to section 515.533 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, that was published in the Federal Register on February 25, 2005. Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Simmons”