Pete Sessions: “I am pleased to join my colleagues, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), who sits on the Rules Committee…”

“I am pleased to join my colleagues, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), who sits on the Rules Committee, and Mr. Buck, who is handling, I think, his first rule as a member of the Rules Committee today. Mr. Buck is from Windsor, Colorado. He is a second-term Member and is doing an awesome job not only on his homework duties of recognizing how important it is for Members to understand what we are talking about and why we are doing things, but also enunciation of rules that we are talking about that were promulgated by an administration. Mr. Speaker, what we are really here today to talk about is there are some of those rules and regulations where perhaps you didn't go through the process that you should have or where there was really a determination made by the American people that rulemaking goes too far. That is why we are here today. We are here today because there is a group of rules that were promulgated that don't work and that did not really see, in our opinion, the balance of what was going to be in it for the American people. So, in particular, we are here to talk about a Social Security rule that discriminates against individuals with disabilities by denying them their constitutional rights. The gentleman, Mr. McGovern, spoke very clearly about a meeting that we had at the Rules Committee. I think that the witnesses that we had were very specific and that they questioned--including Mr.…”