Rob Woodall: “I had not intended to address the House this afternoon, but it has been a painful thing for me to listen to this debate…”

“I had not intended to address the House this afternoon, but it has been a painful thing for me to listen to this debate today. I'm a freshman in this body, and my understanding was when I showed up here that we would work here and that the Senate would work there, and we wouldn't always come up with the same answers, and that we would also get to together and sort it out. To have that process derided today as being a bastardization of politics, instead of what exactly the Founding Fathers want us to do, has me confused. The gentlelady who spoke right before me, and I'm sorry she left the floor right after she derided Republicans for having left the floor, she's now gone, talked about Republicans wanting to see folks on unemployment have those benefits run out. Mr. Speaker, it was before you and I got here, but four times in 2010 under Democrat control, unemployment benefits ran out. Now, you always did the right thing. You always sorted it out. But those kinds of things happen. We're going to conference today. We have 10 days to get this right. We got the Defense authorization bill right in 7 days. And the Senate crafted their so-called compromise in 3 days. Surely, we can do better for the American people; and, Mr. Speaker, that's not a partisan divide. That's America at its best. I welcome my colleagues to join us in that. ____________________”