Rob Woodall

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman knows what bills we are discussing, the gentleman knows it well. I had constituents in the office today. They brought their young children in. They are in town for the Fourth of July. And the dad said…

I look forward to working with my friend from Colorado to fight terrorism in this country. We have bill after bill after bill after bill that we are working on collaboratively here. We need go no further than the Defense Appropriations…

I will tell my friends, I have only had a voting card in this institution for 5\1/2\ years, but I have learned enough in those 5\1/2\ years to know that we can't consider every issue every day. The gentlewoman from Connecticut just had her…

I want to begin at the end of the Reading Clerk's recitation of the rule. It makes in order that at any time on July 7 or 8 the Speaker can entertain motions to suspend the rules and bring up the FAA bill. In addition to serving on the…

Reclaiming my time from the gentleman, Mr. Speaker, perhaps we are not going to be able to come together on solving civil service issues today. Perhaps we are not. Perhaps we are just going to have to bring this bill to the floor without…

We are going to have an opportunity to vote on this rule here in about 15 minutes. And when we dispose of this rule and then we bring up the underlying bill and then we vote on that underlying bill, we are going to make a difference on the…

This week, the Rules Committee issued two announcements outlining the amendment process for H.R. 5485, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017, and H.R. 4768, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016…

I love watching my friend from Florida speak. The only thing I love more than watching him speak is talking to him one-on-one when the cameras are turned off. It is not as easy as it ought to be in 2016 to come to the floor of the House…

Going back to my friend from Florida's case that we have hardworking men and women here who haven't had a pay raise in 9 years, if we are a part of a body that perpetuates racism and hate, I don't want a single one of us to get a penny. I…

I understand that my friend has great passion on this issue. What I love about this Chamber is that it allows people to come and express their passions. But I serve on the Rules Committee. The Rules Committee has original jurisdiction of…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 771 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 771 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

The buzz you hear around this Chamber, I suspect, is enthusiasm for the underlying bill. This is the legislative branch appropriations bill for FY 2017, and it is the single piece of legislation that enables all of the constituent services…

I would advise my friend from Florida that I do not have any speakers remaining and am prepared to close when he is. I reserve the balance of my time.

Reclaiming my time, I confess that I had no idea the Library of Congress was even in the subject change heading business. It wasn't until I read a press release from somebody talking about this issue that I even knew this issue existed…

Reclaiming my time, I am not suggesting anything of the kind. I am suggesting that the language that folks are describing as offensive says from the Congress to the Library of Congress, use the laws passed by Congress. If we don't like the…

My friend from Florida made reference to regular order earlier and, again, he and I see very much eye-to-eye on that issue. The gentlewoman who just spoke is one of my great friends on the Committee on the Judiciary. I would like to read…

House Resolution 767 provides a structured rule for the consideration of three bills. You heard the reading Clerk read them, but I will read them again: H.R. 4775, Ozone Standards Implementation Act; H. Con. Res. 89, Expressing the Sense…

With that level of agreement, I am prepared to tell my friend I don't have any speakers remaining, and if he is prepared to close, we will get right to the underlying bill and exercise that enthusiasm. I reserve the balance of my time.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 767 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 767 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

I am slow to come to the floor because you can't compete with a Muhammad Ali commemorative Special Order. That is too much passion to follow. I just have little old legislative business on my mind. I am not talking about changing the…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), my good friend, pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded…

If my colleagues don't know, one is used to seeing the gentlewoman from North Carolina leading on the Education and the Workforce Committee. All day today, she has been leading on the Rules Committee--chairing those actions that are going…

When you serve on the Rules Committee, you spend a lot of time dealing in acrimony at least here on the floor. When you serve on the Rules Committee and your job is to get the business of the House accomplished, when we are not on the…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 742 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 742 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I want to begin by yielding to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Zinke), one of the great freshmen here leading our institution. Honoring the Service of Rear Admiral Brian Losey