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Committee vote. This is about two and a half hours. Well, this Fun Committee is going to come to order. As announce in the markup, im sorry, we have a quorum here and were going to have an exciting and fun day. I havent had this much fun since we went over red snapper. Lets just do red snapper and puerto rico all of the time. Ive never seen so much so much frivolity coming in here. As announced in the markup notice ill give priority to those who filed bipartisan and amendments by the amendment deadline of yesterday at 4 00 p. M. Thank you for doing that on time. Please go back and tell your st...

Everyones information there will not be endorsements from the panelists today one important thing i want to clear up because i think it is important for context of this discussion is that the impression you have in organizations in working on this because in washington d. C. People say on the 6 00 news on the sunday talk shows where is the compromise . Where are the people in the middle that can split the baby and come up with legislation . I think that youre going to hear loud and clear from us but is this about compromise or is this about working towards shared values of principled people on...

Kath kathie mcmoore and working with them, we came up with some language that we drafted and submitted early on the Platform Committee for their consideration and thats the language that i have here today. It is very similar to what in the platform already. The draft platform so what i would do is simply there will be lines of 14 to 36. So there are three praragraphs. I would add in new texts of similar contexts but stating it differently. In working with these offices, there are words that we would like to use in terms of talking about peoples disabilities and the issues that we have been wor...

This legislation as is. Wall street journal and bloomberg have also issued editorials supporting this legislation and saying that it is not going to have a negative impact in the municipal markets at large. To the contrary, if we dont do anything, that could have an impact in the markets because the bonds are held by thousands of investors, institutional and individual, all over america. And we need to get the house in order. Now, in terms of the status of puerto rico, again, i have to say this is not going to set a precedent for the state. I hate that that is the case because i would love pue...

One second here. This is the easy stuff. And allows them to go into other areas. That is why i really to accept this, because it doesnt mandate anything, it is a study. If you want to keep talking on this we can keep talking on this. Anyone else . Any amendments . All those in favor say aye. Opposed say nay. O rollcall. Mr. Bishop. Yes. No. No. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. No. No. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. No. Clerk report. Mr. Chairman, yeas are 19 and nays are 18. Ok. Motion accepted. Amendment passes. Number 2...