Bob Wise: “the gentleman from Colorado movingly referred a moment or two ago to his friends in Colorado who speak common sense and…”

“the gentleman from Colorado movingly referred a moment or two ago to his friends in Colorado who speak common sense and my friends, Betsy and Al and others, are of much the same mind. They know a couple of things, too. They know people have to pay their bills on time, and they sure hate it when they lose their job because somebody else did not do their job. That is what this debate is about. There is a lot of talk about martial law and whether it is an unusual remedy. It depends on the circumstances. Yes, Democrats did use it for 5 days over a 2-year period and then limited it to one bill at a time. In the Republican majority in this Congress, not yet finished, they have used it for 4 months and covered whole classes of bills. The definition of an emergency is interesting. They are approaching the definition of emergency about as long as Fidel Castro and Chiang Kai-shek and Generalissimo Franco used their definitions of emergency. Because what is this martial law resolution? It permits you to skip committees, it permits you to avoid 1-day layovers so Members can read bills. It sets up a situation so your representatives do not know what is in those bills when they vote on them. This is a very, very serious matter. Now they want another one, the 11th this year, to go until April 1, not 1 day, not one bill, April 1. The gentleman from Colorado speaks about economic common sense. Let us talk about common sense, economic common sense.…”