On the recordJuly 12, 2018
If our committee is going to function like this moving forward, it will be the Rules Committee in name only. Regular order will be a thing of the past. Bills are already developed by the majority behind closed doors. The majority already blocks every single amendment. Now we will not be allowed to even speak. The majority has already turned this Congress into the most closed Congress in history. Now they are going to close off important debates in committee, and that is outrageous. I take my work on the Rules Committee very seriously. As a matter of fact, the last time this happened, I sat there, patiently, quietly, listening to the debate, although I completely disagreed with what my colleagues were saying. I was respectful to them, and I waited for my turn to speak. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has again expired.
