On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, let me be clear, just to clear up a couple of things here. One, let me be clear that nothing in this rule or the amendment waives the normal Rules Committee hearing process. It simply provides us with the flexibility to consider bills on the floor sooner while the Pope is here. It does nothing to waive the normal committee process for bills that should go to Rules, just to clear up that. I do appreciate the gentleman from Colorado's concern about our speakers and the fact that he was counting today. I was glad to see that he had three people come to speak on the rule that had nothing to do with the bills in the underlying rule. So that was pretty impressive. I will stand with one person speaking on the rules and the truth of the fact that regulatory burden has a crushing role on business. I will stand, one, by myself all day. And then in just a few hours, when we discuss this in the debate process, we will have plenty of people to discuss the actual bills themselves. So let me close up by talking about what we are here for. My friends across the aisle want to portray House Republicans as being against things and against people. Yes, it is true we have said ``no'' to bad policies and priorities of the administration. We have refused to turn a blind eye to those who exploit our legal system. We have said ``no'' to the Federal regulators who are indefinitely delaying projects that would put Americans back to work.…
