Robert Walker: “I think that is useful. But, you know, really what we are doing with this resolution if it would pass would be to ask as…”

The gentleman makes an important point. It is my understanding, for instance, that the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the Committee on Rules specifically asking that the germaneness waiver not be granted…

I know of a number of our colleagues who have literally hung around for days waiting for their amendments to come up. It seems to me that by placing a limitation on five amendments, we could reach a time where a couple of those amendments…

The problem is, there is some concern about the process here, because there was an attempt to assure that the minority, I think, was included, but when my objections arose on my behalf, and I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr…

So the gentleman is telling me that the newspaper story here is wrong, that the Speaker was not saying when he said, ``a concession, that he was not making, a concession that hearings are going to take place.'' He is saying that that is a…