Rob Andrews: “If the gentleman would yield, my understanding is it was in the fourth paragraph of the bill.”

Reclaiming my time, the Senate passed a bill to keep the government running at your numbers that you wanted in budget. We are asking, give every Member of this House a fair up-or-down vote on that bill. Will you do that? I yield to the…

Provocation is not the goal of these questions; a sober analysis is.

I think you are doing some of the most meaningful work in this Congress by your diligence here, and I am proud to be associated with it in a very minor way after the work you have done.

I think you are doing some of the most important work in our country and you are all doing it very well.