David Obey: “What is the legislature going to do? Are they going to accept those line item vetoes or not?”

This bill also provides for a 1-month extension of the Recovery Act Small Business Lending program and provides an additional $60 million for that program. Through March 12 of this year, the Recovery Act Small Business Lending program has…

this Congress is broken. This place does not work.

But the truth of the matter is that I think we know better and that it does matter.

I would simply say, Mr. Speaker, that the White House submitted this request for disaster relief over a month ago. Everyone in this institution has known about it; in addition to which, the gentleman's staff has known for a good 2 weeks…