Rob Woodall: “I hope you were listening as the Reading Clerk was going through this rule, because there was a lot of meat in this rule…”

“I hope you were listening as the Reading Clerk was going through this rule, because there was a lot of meat in this rule today. Ordinarily, and, in fact, historically, we will do a bill and we will do a rule; we will do a rule and we will do a bill. This rule today makes three bills in order, three important bills in order. I am proud to be able to carry this rule today. I hope my colleagues will see the merits of it as I do. The rule provides a structured rule for the debate of two bills out of the Financial Services Committee. One is H.R. 477, Mr. Speaker, the Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2017. The second is H.R. 3971, the Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act. The rule also provides for consideration of a continuing resolution, H.J. Res. 123, which provides appropriations through December 22, as final year decisionmaking and negotiating goes on. It also allows the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, to reallocate existing funds for the CHIP program through December 31, 2017. Mr. Speaker, I want to start off talking about the Financial Services bills. We will have some members from the Financial Services Committee come down. They can talk about it in details that I cannot. It was a fascinating hearing that we had in the Rules Committee last night, Mr. Speaker. We had the chairman, Mr. Hensarling from Texas, and we had the ranking member, Ms. Waters.…”