We can't always get exercised about every single line in every single bill. We would never get anything done. We have an amendment process so that, if you get exercised about a particular line in a particular bill, you can bring your…
Rob Woodall
The Public Record
I hope what I am getting ready to say, it turns out to be redundant, that we are going to hear it in the closings of both the gentlewoman from Florida and the gentleman from Texas. We talk about this preexisting conditions' bill today as…
You have heard in the last round of 60- second comments a sense of urgency around healthcare. I share that sense of urgency, as I know everybody on my side of the aisle does. But for the next 1 hour, Mr. Speaker, we are going to be talking…
I would like to respond to my friend from New York, but I just have too many speakers who have come down to the House floor today to speak about this. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), a member of…
I thank my friend from New York for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. And, at the risk of opening this debate like I opened so many others in 2019: Mr. Speaker, we have taken an opportunity to do something very productive and very…
As we have heard so often on the House floor, hopeful wishes are not enough for our constituents. We need to deliver results. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Dunn), who has been working hard in that…
My friend from New York is right: They did make a number of amendments in order, but not enough amendments to solve some underlying problems. One amendment they didn't make in order was an amendment to provide disaster funding to so many…
I took my colleague by surprise here. We just came down from a Rules Committee meeting, and I appreciate her yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, if you didn't have the pleasure of serving with Louise on the Rules Committee, it looks kind of…
I tell my friend, I do not have any speakers remaining at this point, so I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
And I thank my friend from California for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, when I see someone of your stature come to the chair, I think: We must be down here to debate some serious American public policy. We must be down…
I appreciate the gentleman from Rhode Island introducing the bill. And I think that is an important distinction, Mr. Speaker, and that is what you have heard, largely. You heard it in the Rules Committee; you have heard it down here on the…
I thank my friend from Georgia for yielding me the time. It is tough to get up and speak after the Federalist Papers have been referenced because they do go to the core of who we are. So does election integrity. I look around, and I see my…





