What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that’s what the American people are expecting. The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 [the House-passed bill] will be the law of the land.
— House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), quoted by the Washington Post, forgetting that bills — even symbolic ones — cannot become law without also passing the Senate and receiving the President’s signature.
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It seems that Representative Cantor may be just slightly too old to have watched Schoolhouse Rock when he was a kid.