Tom Price: “I rise to oppose this rule for two specific reasons. One is because it is not an open rule. It is not an open rule. It…”

“I rise to oppose this rule for two specific reasons. One is because it is not an open rule. It is not an open rule. It is a violation of the assurances that we have been provided by the majority party. It is not an open rule. Having a little bit of an open rule is like being a little bit pregnant. It ain't possible. This is not an open rule. And I stand here with an amendment that was turned down by the Rules Committee. I stand here also opposing this because this rule takes fiscal sanity and it moves it into a room somewhere, a very dark room, and then locks the door and it throws away the key. I have in my hand, Madam Speaker, the report from the Rules Committee on what we are considering today. And it has the amendment that I had offered, commonly known as PAYGO, and it has the recorded vote. This is in the Rules Committee yesterday. And my amendment would have been very simple. It said: 'Would require any new spending authorized by this legislation to have a specific offset.' Simple. And what happened on the vote? They voted against even considering, even considering financial responsibility.”