Rob Woodall: “And I want to thank my colleague from Pennsylvania for yielding me the time. She and I have the pleasure of serving on…”

“And I want to thank my colleague from Pennsylvania for yielding me the time. She and I have the pleasure of serving on the Congressional Modernization Committee together--a bipartisan committee--and it is not infrequent that we will have identified a problem and she will have identified a solution, and I will think: Why haven't we come up with that before. And we will move forward in partnership together. I think that is the way the American people expect this House to run, and doggone it, we are close to getting there today, Mr. Speaker. But I listened to my colleague as she laid the mantle of blame at the feet of our friends in the Senate and our friends in the White House, for why can't they get more things done? The truth is we have opportunities here to get things done, and I will tell you, Mr. Speaker, the mantle of responsibility sits with us, and we are missing some of those opportunities today to come together and do things in a partnership way. Over the weekend, Mr. Speaker, I was with our colleague, Denny Heck from Washington State. We were in a forum on polarization in Congress, and we were talking about what that has meant, how that has come to be, and how legislation is affected by that. Mr. Heck said something that I thought was very profound and not really understood outside of the Halls of Congress.…”