[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 20, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H10002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ANOTHER DAY IN CONGRESS

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, there are some funny things that go on 
here. We watched the supercommittee operate for about 10 weeks and 
produce absolutely nothing. So today the Speaker comes out here and 
says, we want a conference committee. Now, the supercommittee was 12 
members, three from each caucus; a conference committee, three members 
from each caucus. We're going to create another one, and we think that 
somehow it will solve this problem.
  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again 
and expecting a different result, and clearly we're not going to get a 
different result. The Senate sent us a compromise between two people 
that can't agree on the time of day, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, 
and they got 90 votes for it. That is America. Ninety percent of 
America agreed on that; and the Speaker wouldn't even allow it to come 
to a vote. He said, Let's create a committee.
  Don't forget it in 2012.

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