Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I want to stand up in support of my colleague from Georgia's amendment. I spent 12 years in the Georgia House in the…”

“I want to stand up in support of my colleague from Georgia's amendment. I spent 12 years in the Georgia House in the minority. What I tried to do for that 12 years is change the process, because the process was broken. When the process is broken, the product is flawed. When I came to Congress, I came as a freshman in the majority, and found that the process was still broken. So I found myself going from being in the minority trying to change the process, to being in the majority trying to change the process that the majority was using. Now I find myself back in the minority still trying to change the process, because the process in Washington is broken. I think Mr. Gingrey's amendment highlights that, in that we adopted rules in this House on first day, but we keep waiving those rules when those rules don't fit what we want to do. But when you let public opinion, and you let political winds determine public policy, then the taxpayers of this country pay for it. That's exactly what the majority party is doing.”