Kevin Brady: “This rules change does not mean that the public will have any less access to what happens in the Rules Committee, Madam…”

“This rules change does not mean that the public will have any less access to what happens in the Rules Committee, Madam Speaker. We plan to include record votes in the Rules Committee reports and, even better, we intend to post committee votes on the Rules Committee Web site as soon as they have them, so that the American people will know what is going on. Even better than that, we plan to have more meetings during the daylight hours so that the public and the press know what we are doing in the Rules Committee. Well, let me say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, if you feel that the votes taken in the Rules Committee are not being made public fast enough, or are clear enough, you have my word that we will work to fix it, and we will work with you. You have my word on that. More importantly, Madam Speaker, after our business here in the House concludes today, we will have made historic progress. We will have ended the culture of corruption that has plagued this House for the past dozen years. We will have paved the way to accomplishing what the American people voted for, to give minimum wage workers a raise.”