Virginia Foxx: “Well, I want to thank both of my colleagues, my classmates, actually--my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Westmoreland) and…”

“Well, I want to thank both of my colleagues, my classmates, actually--my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Westmoreland) and my colleague from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) for their insights and for their sharing of information in this Special Order today. Instead of going home to be in our districts, we stayed in town today to vote on a bill on algae, which we could have voted on yesterday, but our colleagues across the aisle are twisting arms every minute of every day in order to get votes. They understand that the American people don't want this health care bill that they're trying to ram through and pass. They're trying to be responsive to their constituents, but they're being forced, in many cases, to vote for something by their leadership. I want to talk for just a minute about two problems here. We have a problem with the bill, and we also have a problem with the process, or the rule, that is going to be governing this bill. I serve on the Rules Committee. Up until this year, people have always said, Oh, we shouldn't try to talk about process because the public's eyes glaze over. They don't really want to know about that. Yet more and more Americans have awakened and are paying attention to what is going on in Congress, and I find that people are concerned about the process here because they understand the process is sometimes as important as the substance of what we're doing.”