[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 20, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H10001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS, APPOINT YOUR CONFEREES

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, we've had an awful lot of conversation this 
afternoon. It twists on the idea that somehow the 100 Members of the 
Senate are so much smarter and so much brighter and so much more 
intelligent than the 435 Members of the House of Representatives.
  Our colleagues from the other side of the aisle would ask us to 
simply accede to whatever the Senate does as ludicrous as it is. A 2-
month extension is nonsense. It has no commonsense value whatsoever. 
Everyone in this Chamber knows that. Yet speaker after speaker says 
that we need to just accede to the wisdom of the Senate. The wisdom of 
the Senate is represented by a 2-month extension that is not paid for 
by anything that makes the remotest amount of sense.
  We can fix this this coming week, and we think we should. Have them 
appoint their conferees, Mr. Speaker, so we can fix this for the 
American people. Then all this doom and gloom that's being spouted out 
down here goes away with a 1-year extension of unemployment, with a 1-
year extension of the payroll tax, and with a 2-year extension for our 
doctors.

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