Rob Woodall: “Reclaiming my time, so Mr. Kasich was also not consulted and Ms. Murkowski also not consulted. Mr. Speaker, if we are…”

“Reclaiming my time, so Mr. Kasich was also not consulted and Ms. Murkowski also not consulted. Mr. Speaker, if we are talking about a serious issue and we are going to craft a serious response and we want to speak with one voice from this institution, might it be a good idea for there to be at least one conversation between Democrats and Republicans about how to proceed? Might it be a good idea to have more than one conversation? Might it be a good idea to put partisanship aside and actually do those things that I know my friend from Maryland wants to do and I want to do arm in arm with him? We keep missing opportunities in this Congress, Mr. Speaker, opportunities to make this institution stronger, opportunities to make this Nation stronger. We are missing them, and we are creating scars along the way. What could be an operation in building trust has become an operation in building distrust. What could be an operation designed to heal, I suspect, is going to be an operation that brings more needless pain. We have a good bill in the intelligence reauthorization, Mr. Speaker. We have a good series of bills in arms export control. We could be down here talking about those because of the bipartisan work that has gone into it already. Not one conversation has been had between tweets over a weekend and a resolution condemning those on the floor of the House, not one effort made to speak with one voice in the United States House.…”