Rob Bishop: “in our discussion of the rule today, we have heard many things. We have heard discussions of budget issues, which will…”

“in our discussion of the rule today, we have heard many things. We have heard discussions of budget issues, which will be addressed when we do the appropriations bill later on. We have heard discussion of rules that were not made into this particular rules order even though we clearly said there will be another rule coming up later to address those other issues, others of those 117 amendments that were made, many of which were made by members of the committee who had full opportunity to debate and discuss, as they have talked about the 79 amendments in the committee, in a committee process that since the pre- War of 1812 days, when Henry Clay established the committee process to make a full and open hearing of these issues in committee before it came to the floor. Nonetheless, there will still be two rules. This rule takes 15 of those amendments, opening up the opportunity for those later on to come. We have also heard rhetoric about a bill that was passed last year. I find it important to remember that even when the Constitution was being debated, the anti-Federalists, who opposed the Constitution, made their case and lost, and then moved on and worked together with the Federalists, who passed the Constitution, to work together for a better country. That is the opportunity we have, to try to emulate that right now. It is time now to work together on this bill, on what this bill does.…”