David Obey: “If I can just, under my reservation of objection again, note that I am informed that so far staff has found at least 50…”

“If I can just, under my reservation of objection again, note that I am informed that so far staff has found at least 50 mistakes in the Senate version of the State-Justice-Commerce bill as it was sent over here. I am not saying that by way of criticizing, I am saying that by way of alerting Members to the fact that it is essential that we have enough time to read out those bills at a staff level, and perhaps Members of the leadership who have not served as committee chairs do not sufficiently appreciate the need to make certain that we have these things right before we proceed. But my concern is that a lot of Members want to know whether they should cancel their Veterans Day plans. If they are going to be back in their districts for Veterans Day, they are going to have to leave here Monday. We are being told that people should expect to be here Monday, and I think, frankly, I doubt very much that a 1-day CR is going to be enough, and I would ask why we have not just proceeded with a CR that is 4 or 5 days so that Members would have some clarity about what is going to happen on Veterans Day.”