House Proceeding 03-12-10 on Mar 12th, 2010 :: 0:14:00 to 0:20:00
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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: the house bill. so my friend is well aware of what's in the senate bill or the house bill. as well, the president put online his proposed compromises between the house and the senate which have been the subject of great discussion, including the bipartisan meeting that the gentleman and i attended at the white house, an extraordinary, historical meeting which the president invited leaders from both

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Steny H. Hoyer: parties and both houses to come and discuss what he believed to be an historic opportunity to provide health care for -- accessibility for all americans. so i say to my friend that we will certainly give as much notice as ssible, but i'm not

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Steny H. Hoyer: going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test, per se, because that which we have voted on already in the house and the senate have given

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Eric Cantor: members months' notice, andthe american public months of notice on the substance of the propositis th are pending before us. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman. again, i'm a little bit taken aback that now the 72-hour rule has been completely cast aside since nobody in the house has seen what's in the reconciliation bill.

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: at least i speak to the members on our side of the aisle that have had not an opportunity to see what's in the reconciliation bill and i would nadge would have some of the provisions that -- imagine would have some of the provisions in the president's plan put up online prior to the

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Steny H. Hoyer: blair house meeting. again, it's rather disturbing, madam speaker, that the 72-hour rule has now been completely cast aside -- mr. hoyer: will my friend yield? mr. cantor: i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank my friend for yielding. first of all, the 72-hour rule, i didn't say that we were casting aside any rule. nor did i say that we may not

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: have more than 72 hours' notice. you may well have more than 72 hours' notice. what i said was i am not going to commimyself and then have a 70 hours as opposed to 72 hours and think i violated some representation i made. we want to give as much notice as we possibly can. this has been a very difficult

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Steny H. Hoyer: discussion, as you well know, members on your side of the aisle in the other body have indicated they're going to do everything in their power to

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Eric Cantor: stop passage of this legislation. so we need to get business and engage, if you will. mr. cantor: well, i thank the gentleman. i guess the gentleman may begin to understand why it is that some on our side of the aisle, including yours truly, depicted this ramming the bill through. i mean, if we can't even get a commitment that he -- that the

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: gentleman as well as the speaker had indicated prior that we would have 72 hours to

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Steny H. Hoyer: review -- mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yield? mr. cantor: legislation to come to the floor. i think that's consistent to the depiction that there is a mming through going on. i yield. mr. hoyer: the gentleman had 72 days, i tell him, to review the bill that he refers to. 72 days, not 72 hours, 72 days

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: in final form to review the bill. now, you can keep sayin this, you can keep telling the american public that somehow we're ramming something through. you have had, i tell the gentleman, and you know you've

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: had 72 days at least to review the bill as it stands today. mrcantor: madam speaker, i tell the gentleman again, we are expecting, as he has said, to see a new bill, a reconciliation bill on the floor next week. that bill no one on our side of the aisle has had an opportunity to see. perhaps the congressional budget office has had 72 hours

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Eric Cantor: to see it but we haven't. no one, i believe, has had 72

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Steny H. Hoyer: hours in this body to see the reconciliation bill. that is the bill that i'm speaking to. mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yield? mr. cantor: i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank you. let me repeat the process that i'm sure the gentleman knows well. the budget committee will meet. they will report out the bills that are to be reconciled. the rules committee will then take them under consideration

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: shortly thereafter and will present a reconciliati bill. we will all see it at that point in time. it will obviously do exactly what the instructions that we adopted in the budget a year ago instructed it to do and that is to reconcile these bills and we'll have a fiscal

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Steny H. Hoyer: positive effect, in my view. i haven't seen it finally, but my expectation will have a positive fiscal impact and we will all see that, but it will simply will be following the instructions that the budget committee in which the budget passed -- a majority of the house did vote for it.

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Steny H. Hoyer: i know that the other body doesn't like the majority will. maybe that's not the case here, but i will tell the gentleman that, yes, he's going to see the reconciliation bill. and as i said, the reconciliation bill, which will be drafted by the rules committee after the budget committee reports to it the process that you followed on a

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Steny H. Hoyer: regular basis when you utilized reconciliation, we will hope to have as much notice of that particular piece of legislation as possible. but i tell my friend again, when he refers to the health care bill, the senate bill or the house bill, you have had months to review the substance of that bill. you don't like it. we understand that. you're going to oppose it. we understand that as well. but the fact of the matter is

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Steny H. Hoyer: you cannot say that you have not had notice of each and

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: every one of its provisions for over two months. . mr. cantor: i thank jt, madam speaker. again it seems as if we are not going to get an up or down vote on the senate bill in the house, but we will be voting on reconciliation measure. and the instruckses that were included in the budget -- in