Rob Bishop: “You are 1 out of 435. But one of the current senior Democrat chairmen 20 years ago wrote that if I let you write…”

“You are 1 out of 435. But one of the current senior Democrat chairmen 20 years ago wrote that if I let you write substance and you let me write procedure, I will win every time. Actually, he didn't use quite those words, but I don't think the actual verbiage can be used with the rules of our House. But it is the same sentiment that has to be there. Poor procedure has been said creates poor policy. And the ranking member has already said there have been more closed rules, fewer minority Members' rules allowed this year than ever before. I was in the Education Committee when Representative Ehlers made his amendment, accepted by the chairman on a voice vote; and yet, when the bill came out of the Rules Committee, the amendment had magically disappeared, a bill that affected my State in redistricting. Mr. Gohmert from Texas had made an excellent amendment in the Judiciary Committee, but when that bill came out of the Rules Committee, once again that amendment had basically simply disappeared. I realize the Rules Committee is a political type of committee, but it is coming to the point right now when someone says, ``Well, you better go make your case before the Rules Committee,'' you simply abandoned all hope. It is like being on the Titanic and being told that the ship coming to rescue you is the Lusitania.”