CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings November 15, 2013
House, there was a meeting of the rules committee that night, democrats were in charge, i presented myself to that meeting with 18 amendments to senate bill h. R. 3590. House bill 3590 that had been passed by the senate. Every one of those was summarily rejected. The problem the democrats had that day was should we change a single word in h. R. 3590 as passed by the senate that the bill would have to go back to the senate and concur with the house amendment to 3590 . The majority leader in the senate having lost his 60th vote in a special election in massachusetts that year, felt he could not ...