Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I had a professor in school who would tell us that when you are going to argue a case in court, if you can, first argue…”

“I had a professor in school who would tell us that when you are going to argue a case in court, if you can, first argue the law. If you cannot argue the law, then argue the facts, if you can. And if you cannot do that either, then argue lack of fairness. And I remember that, because today my distinguished colleagues on the other side of the aisle are arguing, and I think will be arguing, not so much the law or the facts, but we have already begun to hear them argue lack of fairness, lack of equity, and quite frankly, I would submit that that argument is unfair, that the argument that we are not being fair today is unfair when we analyze the facts with regard to this proposed law. We are calling for in this rule, Mr. Speaker, not only 1 hour, for 1 hour of debate on this rule, which will guide the debate with regard to the remainder of this process, but we are calling for 2 additional hours of general debate on the proposal, and an additional 10 hours for the amendment process. That is for a total today on this one bill of 13 hours, 13 hours in addition to the fact that we had almost 1 hour already of debate on this supposed lack of fairness when we debated just a few days ago on a motion made by the majority leader to permit committees in this House to sit while the House is meeting today on this particular rule.”