Rob Woodall

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

Before I yield to my freshman colleague from Pennsylvania, to say to my friend from Florida, I don't think you heard the word ``Democrat'' come out of my mouth during my presentation except to talk about those things on which we cooperated…

I'd just like to remind my colleague from Massachusetts how we ended up here; and, again, we ended up in a way I think that we can all be proud of. Take ourselves back to April of this year. Again, this is the 2013 funding bill we're…

I thank the chairman for yielding. I want to say to you, as I said to you in the Rules Committee yesterday, how much I appreciate your leadership on fundamental tax reform. I've been watching this body for 20 years, and I think some of the…

I thank the chairman. And I know that in the Ways and Means Committee you will always have a robust debate. As you know, I'm a big fan of the Fair Tax proposal. I thank my colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle for mentioning it…

I thank the chairman. I appreciated my colleagues' chart down there of that path of two futures. There is no question that our future is in good hands with our chairman on the Ways and Means Committee.

I appreciate you being with us this afternoon and giving me the opportunity to come down here and talk about where we have been this week on Capitol Hill trying to find a pathway forward. Now, as with every decision we make, Mr. Speaker…

I would like to yield to my good friend from Virginia. Remembering the Fallen of the Chinook Helicopter Crash

Standing right here in this Chamber 10 feet behind me this year, the President said this: We have an opportunity at this moment to bring manufacturing back, but we have to seize it. We should start with our Tax Code. Right now, companies…

I thank my colleague from South Carolina for yielding me the time. I don't actually have the words for this debate, so I had to bring something with me, Madam Speaker. What I brought are the very words that President Obama spoke from right…

I thank the chairman for yielding. I am pleased to come to the floor after my colleague from Georgia. He and I share a common border and we share a lot of common ground, but I have to tell you, Mr. Chairman, he could not be more wrong…

I say to my friend that the children we share across our common border, there is not one regulation that this Congress would send to the executive branch that you and I would not come together and pass for the benefit of those children.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate the Speaker for being down here with us, and I appreciate the comments of my friend from Texas. He says, you know, if you want to, you can just go and read the law. Wouldn't that be neat…

I thank my friend from Florida for yielding. It's not often that I find agreement with both of my friends from Florida at the same time. When I listened to my friend from Florida, my Democratic colleague on the Rules Committee, in his…

Reclaiming my time, I absolutely do not believe it should be standard procedure, but it is. It has been the entire time my friend from Florida has been serving here in this House. Again, we've done better. To the credit of my freshmen…

I thank you for the time, and I appreciate you giving me a moment to set up. I have got to tell you, Mr. Speaker, I love coming to the floor after my good friend from Minnesota. I enjoy it every single time it works out in that way because…

The House is fortunate today to have Reverend Dr. Richard Benjamin Haynes as our guest chaplain. He's a life-long servant of the Lord, growing up as the son of a Baptist minister. He now pastors Salem Missionary Baptist Church in my home…

Thank you very much. I thank my friend from Tennessee for yielding. I just have to say, for folks who haven't been following your short 15 months here closely, they don't usually put freshmen on the Ways and Means Committee. They just…

I thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate you staying late on a Friday afternoon so that the gentlelady from the District of Columbia can have her time; and I can have a little time, too. I know folks often think, Mr. Speaker, that votes have…

I appreciate you coming in early to be with us early this morning. This is a big day. This is the reconciliation bill. I serve on both the Rules Committee and the Budget Committee, Mr. Speaker. As you know, we've had some tremendous…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I say to my friend, as the Republican Budget chairman said to him yesterday, I appreciate his passion on this issue. What brings us to the very best decisions that we can make in this body, Mr…

I have a very brief question. My understanding of your substitute is that it raises $3 in taxes for every $1 in spending cuts. Could you tell me which bipartisan commissions have represented that, have also agreed that $3 to $1 is the…

Just a moment. I'd be happy to yield to my friend. When you're borrowing $1.4 trillion a year from your children, when you're mortgaging the future of this country, it's not a choice of either spending cuts or revenue changes; we've got to…

Reclaiming my time from my colleague, and I very much appreciate her passion--if I can get regular order, please, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut will suspend. The gentleman from Georgia has the time.

I thank the Speaker for his help there. I'm sorry that I needed it, but I appreciate him offering it. You know, we passed a budget in this House, a comprehensive budget in this House. And to hear my colleagues talk, you'd think this is the…