Rob Woodall: “For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter)…”

I appreciate my friend from Massachusetts yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, this may very well be the last rule I do down here on the floor of the House, and I was sad when Susan was reading from the rule because I have…

I think my friend from New York is right that in the time of a healthcare pandemic that having a closed rule could have been a possibility. In fact, I have no doubt that the only reason we have any amendments at all available on the floor…

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…

When we have a natural disaster on our public lands, we have an opportunity, right after that disaster, to go in and salvage some of the timber that has fallen, some of the timber that has been affected. But there is a clock on how long we…