This McClatchyDC article manages to to a great job of summing up the latest migraine-inducing stupidity by Jeb "Make Shit Up" Hensarling, so I don't have to add too much to it:
Congress invokes 'Schoolhouse Rock' in debate, but misquotes it
"Since the dawn of the republic, these are how differences are settled between the House and Senate," Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said on the House floor. "If you don't remember your civics 101, maybe if you have small children like I do, you can go back and watch the 'Schoolhouse Rock' video. It's very clear." Well, no. The 1970s cartoon featuring a rolled-up bill singing about how he becomes a law doesn't specifically mention the conference committee process.
Now, I shouldn't have to embed the clip, as anyone who's familiar enough with SHR to try and quote it should damned well know I'm Just a Bill by heart, but for those of you too young to remember it, here you go:
In his defense, at least Hensarling's mistake only related to his memory of a children's cartoon about his job. This isn't nearly as bad as House Majority "Leader" Eric Cantor's jaw-dropping ignorance about the most basic tenets of his job back in March, when he seemed to be unaware of how a bill actually becomes a law, thinking that all that has to happen is the House passing it without any action from the Senate:
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 getting the President's signature.
Actually, the McClatchy article gives some interesting quotes from "I'm Just a Bill" songwriter Dave Frishberg, but none more chilling than the final paragraph:
Baby boomers and Congress have helped keep "Bill" alive. Frishberg said someone once told him that the "Bill" song and cartoon had been used to orient freshman lawmakers on Capitol Hill. "I was honored, but horrified at the same time, when I heard that," he said.