[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           FOLLOW HOUSE RULES

  (Mr. SENSENBRENNER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speaker, shortly, the House will begin its 
consideration of the so-called ``patent reform'' bill.
  At last night's meeting of the Rules Committee, when the debate on 
the rule within the committee wrapped up, the chairman chastised the 
Judiciary Committee for voting out a bill in violation of House rules, 
and specifically the House CutGo rules. However, the Rules Committee 
also voted a waiver that allows the CutGo rules to be ignored. That 
waiver is described by its supporters as a technical correction. This 
technical correction involves $700 million, hardly something that is 
technical.
  It seems to me that the best thing that should have been done was 
that the Rules Committee ordered the bill re-referred to the Judiciary 
Committee so the Judiciary Committee could do it right in conformity 
with the House rules, like the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) 
did when he was the chair and which I did when I was the chair. We 
ought to know this when we're debating it.

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