Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I am very pleased that the last two distinguished colleagues from the other side of the aisle who spoke thanked the…”

“I am very pleased that the last two distinguished colleagues from the other side of the aisle who spoke thanked the majority on the Committee on Rules for issuing an open rule, especially after there had been so much confusion brought forth previously with regard to, and with much imagination, I might add, imagination with regard to the fact, for example, yesterday a number of bills were brought to the floor with open rules; in other words, with the ability of any Member to present any amendment that any Member wishes to, and yet, with a lot of imagination, objection was made to that. It was said, ``Well, you should not do that. You should waive the rules,'' and put it on something called the suspension calendar or something. And there was imagination used today on this floor, with good faith I am sure, that this open rule was maybe not an open rule, it was something else because we want to give notice to colleagues here on the floor by urging, by encouraging Members who are going to present an amendment to notify Members beforehand by publishing them beforehand that they plan to introduce an amendment, not requiring, but giving incentive, giving encouragement to Members to provide our colleagues with notification.”