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…

I would advise the gentleman from Massachusetts that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close when he is. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I would inquire if the gentleman has any time to share.

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 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…

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…

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 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…

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 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…