Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding. Certainly, my colleague from Massachusetts knows my deep affection for him, but since I walked on the House floor tonight, I keep hearing this reference to this rules package, that somehow it is not posted on our website and that we are debating something else called an addendum to the rules package. I wanted to come to the House floor as someone who worked quite passionately last week on behalf of our new Speaker, working on an agreement with all of my colleagues so that we are unified in the House Republican Conference, to say that there is no addendum to this package, Mr. Speaker. There is no 3-page addendum. There is no extra stuff. Everything in the House rules package is posted on the House website. We made one addition as a Conference, and that was the change in the vacate the chair motion. Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear in the Congressional Record, for those watching on C-SPAN, and to my colleagues: There is not a 3-page addendum to the rules package. I greatly respect my good friend from Massachusetts and my friend from Oklahoma. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for my friend, but really? I mean, come on. What were the last 4 days about? I mean, again, days and days, and 15 roll call votes, and reporting by multiple sources tell us that there is this signed agreement with the House Freedom Caucus that deals with some of the most controversial concessions. So, you know, I know it exists.…”