Rob Bishop: “I thank Mr. Gosar for yielding me time. I appreciate this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, look, I was listening to a lecture…”

“I thank Mr. Gosar for yielding me time. I appreciate this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, look, I was listening to a lecture the other day about the old Romans, the Roman Empire. The Romans' success in creating their empire was that they were incredibly creative and adaptive. They saw situations that needed to be changed, something new, and they did it. They had perfected the phalanx approach. They learned from the Greeks how to fight. Yet when they came against the Samnites who were living in the hills, that phalanx approach was totally useless. So what the Romans did is created a way around that, another source, to have a very flexible, highly mobile type of attack force, which they called the Legions. They simply became adaptive to the new situation. This is where I wish the other side of this body would try to become less dogmatic and more adaptive, to try to find solutions. Instead of bringing another resolution to the floor that has no chance of passing in the Senate and would be vetoed by the President, we should spend our time trying to come up with creative solutions that would be a win-win-win situation. We can do it. We need to. It would be nice if the other side of the aisle could also understand what Article I actually means.…”