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Rob Woodall: With this new order that we have here, we are going to have to work through it together, and it is not going to be easy.…

On the recordNovember 4, 2015
With this new order that we have here, we are going to have to work through it together, and it is not going to be easy. For the folks who think it is going to be easy, I would go ahead and turn your voting card in now and let somebody else come up here and do the work. It is not going to be easy. It is going to be hard. {time} 1330 Because what constitutes regular order for us? How do we work together? My friend from Nevada just talked about her amendment that the Rules Committee didn't consider. She is absolutely right. That said, she offered the amendment in committee and withdrew it before we had a chance to vote on it. We had this topic before us in the Transportation Committee and didn't do it there. Folks chose to do it on the House floor and in the Rules Committee instead. Is that the way we want this institution to work? Do we want to ignore the issues at the committees of jurisdiction and bring them to the House floor straightaway, or do we want to work through the committee process? I don't have all the answers, Mr. Speaker. I have one vote in a body of 435. I generally side on the side of openness as opposed to being closed. I generally side on the side of voting instead of not voting. Of all the rules I have had a chance to handle, Mr.…
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Nov 4, 2015

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