Rob Woodall

I thank my friend from New York for joining me on the floor today. Mr. Speaker, in closing, it is sad for the House that we have come to define a CR as any sort of success whatsoever. Every Member of this body knows that, when we talk…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds, and I yield to the gentleman from Virginia.

Reclaiming my time, I say to my friend that the clean CR that he is advocating so passionately for cuts the exact same $6 billion that he said is a problem. I agree with him that that's a problem. I hope we won't do that. I hope the Senate…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds to say that it encourages me that what I hear from my friend is that he doesn't like our proposal because he thinks it's a policy of divisiveness, and he would like to move toward those things that…

I take no pleasure in coming down to the House floor to talk about the government shutting down today. I represent the metro Atlanta suburbs, Mr. Speaker; and we got a lot of CDC employees in my district. I know everybody has got important…

I thank my chairman for yielding me the time. I thank him for his leadership in the Rules Committee. Mr. Speaker, we've been here night after night after night, I say to my chairman, trying to keep the government open. And to my colleagues…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for yielding me the time and thank you for your leadership on the Rules Committee because when I signed up for Rules Committee, I knew I was going to get a lesson in rhetoric up there. I look at some of my…

I serve on the Budget Committee. Yesterday, we had a hearing with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. That's the nonpartisan group that does the scoring and that talks about what the impact of the decisions we make here will…

I would say if we reframe that debate instead of asking what is good for immigrants, asking what is good for America, we may end up with the same conclusion either way.

the question should always be what is good for America, and the answer has always been that a robust immigration policy is good for America.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, lines 11 through 17, amend subparagraph (D) to read as follows: (D)(i) an estimate of the total…

How much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia has 1\1/4\ minutes remaining.

To talk about an amendment that recognizes that knowledge is power. So often today, we've talked about what we can do to make the government more accountable to the people. One of those things is entailed in the underlying bill that says…

I withdraw my demand. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida may resume. The gentlewoman has 42 seconds remaining.

I ask that the gentlewoman's words be taken down. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend. The gentlewoman will be seated. The Clerk will report the words.

I also want to thank the gentleman from California and the gentleman from Colorado for their enthusiasm about this important project. The amendment that my colleague from California is bringing forward is modest in scope. I'll say to my…

It's my great pleasure this morning to introduce my colleagues to Dr. Tom Elliott. Not only is he our guest chaplain today and the senior pastor at Cannon United Methodist Church in Snellville, in my district, he was also my youth minister…

I'm aware of the Appropriations Committee 302(b) allocations. And what I'm aware of, Mr. Speaker, is that we have to have those allocations to begin the process. The gentleman is talking about where we are going to finish the process on…

I thank my friend and colleague from Florida for yielding me the time. I hadn't anticipated coming down here today, Mr. Speaker. I came down to listen, but I hadn't anticipated coming down to speak. And I will say to my friend from…

I thank my friend for yielding. I want to quote what one of my Democratic colleagues quoted last night in the Rules Committee, and that's Federalist Paper No. 58, written by James Madison for the Independent Journal back on February 20…

As my friend from Maryland knows, we keep tax revenues the same and the Senate increases taxes by almost $1 trillion.

Let me get this off my chest, and I'd be happy to yield to my friend. I would be happy to yield when I'm done, because I have a copy of the rule here. And the gentleman was in the Rules Committee last night, and the gentleman knows this is…

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman knows that Chairman Ryan has no control over the inside workings of the United States Senate, and Chairman Ryan did not block what was going on in the United States Senate. The United States Senators were…

I would yield to ask the gentleman does he disagree with the commitment made by the chairman? And I yield to the gentleman.

As my friend knows from his time having to negotiate on the joint select, what we'll call the supercommittee, my friends at The Washington Post go on to say: In short, this document-- Talking about the budget passed by the Senate. --gives…