Rob Woodall

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, it is the Christmas season, so I do want to begin by thanking the gentleman from Georgia and the distinguished…

I would advise the gentleman that it appears I have committed all of my time. {time} 1330 Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 670 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 670 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

Most of what you just heard from the Reading Clerk you could have heard during the previous 4 hours of testimony that we have been taking in the Rules Committee this morning. I understand there was no other game in town going on this…

My friend from Florida is a good accountability partner up on the Rules Committee. I have learned from his intellect, and I have learned from his experience in this Chamber. I value that, and I value his friendship. When he says that more…

I very much appreciate the chairman for yielding me the time. I have the great pleasure serving on the Rules Committee. I also have the great pleasure of serving on the Budget Committee. So I felt it incumbent to come down and talk a…

I thank my chairman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, we have an opportunity to do great things together, and occasionally I come down to this floor and I put my heart into it. I don't just put my heart into it on the floor, I put my…

I thank the chairman for yielding me the time. We were in the Rules Committee last night, Mr. Speaker, and we were having this same kind of conversation. We were going through the list one by one by one of all the families and how folks…

I want to thank my chairman for yielding me the time. I want to thank him for his leadership. The ranking member, I appreciate her leadership as well. She was exactly right. These are two House bills that the Senate combined that we passed…

To say that I agree with my friend. I, too, said to the FCC in 2015: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I thought the first 20-plus years of the internet were marked by innovation and freedom, and I wanted to keep that innovation and freedom…

I have had the opportunity, over the last couple of weeks, to bring a number of bills from the Financial Services Committee to the floor. We talk so much about regular order and having a process where the committees are doing their work…

To say sometimes there is a lot of pressure on the Rules Committee. You come down here and you have got some of the most knowledgeable folks on both sides of the issue, on both sides of the Chamber, and you have got to be prepared to…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 657 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 657 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I would be interested sometime, Mr. Speaker, having a team building expert take a look at some of our proceedings here on the House floor and see if they think that the conversations that happen here bring us closer to working together on…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 647 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 647 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

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…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 635 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 635 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

I just had a chance to visit with my colleague from New York. We were talking about, well, the same thing all Members talk about when they get together: those things they have in common, those things that make their day a little bit…

I would share with the gentlewoman from New York that I have no further speakers remaining, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I tell folks back home that they should watch this time at 10 in the morning, where any Member can come down and talk about anything they want to talk about, because you can learn a lot about one another. There are folks who come to this…

I actually want to associate myself to my friend from Wisconsin's comments. I can't disagree with a word he said right up until it got to the end where he said to vote against the budget. Right up until there, we were on the same page…

Reclaiming my time from my friend, Mr. Speaker, what you hear is absolutely right. I want to make that clear. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion; they are not entitled to their own facts. The words my friend is reading are…

We have heard a lot about the distributional analysis of tax reform, and, as I have suggested, it is hard to do. Folks who make a whole lot of money, like my friend from New Jersey's constituency, they pay a whole lot more in taxes. I hope…

It is budget day. I don't know if you were as excited about that when you got out of bed this morning as I was, but, to be fair, I sit on the Budget Committee. I have the great honor of serving on the Rules Committee, and that is why I…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Judy Chu).