There's a deal made by the top four leaders in Congress and that's hoisted upon the members, usually at the end of the year, right before a holiday, in an omnibus spending bill. Sometimes the bills are thousands of pages long and it's always said that few members have fully read it or understood it. That's largely true because they weren't involved in the process. So when I became Speaker, I've been doggedly determined to make this House and the Senate work again, to do … (16:07–16:15)
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Asserts that bills are sometimes thousands of pages long and few members have fully read or understood them.
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