House Proceeding 06-16-09 on Jun 16th, 2009 :: 1:00:40 to 1:02:00
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David R. Obey: limit the number and time of amendments to that amount of -- or to that number and that amount of time that would enable

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Speech By: Jerry Lewis

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Jerry Lewis: us to cut that 23 hours down to about seven or eight hours. and i would be happy to yield to the gentleman. mr. lewis: i was interested in your commentary regarding the number of amendments in the past on this bill and other bills like it. i, too, am very concerned about

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Jerry Lewis: the time difficulty we are having. i would prefer to have it get back to regular order where we have open rules on these bills. at this point in time, because of the requirements of the majority, the preprinting requirements, there are a lot of members who are frustrated by this bill and they would like to make some seris changes but

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Jerry Lewis: find themselves in a position that they can't provide amendments. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. arcuri: i yield an additional two minutes. mr. lewis: we can continue in this exchange. as a result of the change in the rules and the way we can provide amendments, there had been as many as 127 amendments preprint

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Jerry Lewis: odd this bill. 104 of them by the minority who feel they have been cut out of the process. because of that and because of the importance of the issues in this bill, i can't agree to a