House Proceeding on Feb 7th, 2008 :: 1:01:57 to 1:04:43
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Speech By: Rob Bishop

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Rob Bishop: rules committee not to make that in order i think is wrong. i yield back the balancef my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman

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David Dreier: from ohio. ms. sutton: i would inquire of the gentleman from washington if he has any remaining speakers. mr. hastings: i have several speakers that want to remark on this. ms. sutton: i reserve

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Speech By: David Dreier

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David Dreier: the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from ohio reserves the balance of her time. mr. hastings: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished ranking member

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David Dreier: of the rules committee, mr. dreier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and

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David Dreier: extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for yielding. this is a very important piece of legislation. we all know and i was happy to hear my

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David Dreier: friend from ohio talk about the importance of our global competitiveness and we have to have the best educated people as we proceed to make sure we can compete in that global economy. i have to say,

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David Dreier: mr. speaker, that the process around which we are considering this very important legislation is just plain wrong. we had 61 amendments that were submitted to us in the rules committee.

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David Dreier: now, the last time that this was successfully authorized, as mr. hastings has pointed out to our colleagues, was 10 years ago. it was done under a modified open rule. we had four democrats

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David Dreier: sit before us on one of the panels last night and they complimented the rules committee members for the hard work and the very distinguished chair of the committee on rules proceeded to talk about how life

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David Dreier: was tantamount to a living hell when we as republicans were in control versus this great new day that we have. well, mr. speaker, let me tell you just a little bit about this great new day we

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David Dreier: have. there have been more than double, i repeat that, more than double the number of closed rules in the first session of the 110th congress and during this month of january leading up to

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David Dreier: the first of february than we had in the first session and leading up to the first of february in the 109th congress. more than double the number of closed rules. as i said, the last time we

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David Dreier: authorized this bill was in 1998 and it was done under a modified open rule. yes, there was an attempt two congresses ago to do it and when we had a structured rule it failed. why don't those

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David Dreier: colleagues of ours who are in charge learn from the mistake of having not done this under an open amendment process? so we continue to hear, mr. speaker, this is a great new day and all

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David Dreier: these wonderful w changes have taken place. we actually have had democrats and republicans, democrats and republicans, prevented from improving this bill. mr. hastings correctly pointed to the

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David Dreier: fact that the administration has raised a number of concerns. dozens of new programs that are duplicative included in this bill. the president wants to work with us to improve this legislation.

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David Dreier: doing it under the structure that we have today undermines the potential to see that happen. reject this rule and let's come back with at least a modified open rule so we can prepared with

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David Dreier: something that in a bipartisan way we very much want to see happen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio. miss suton: reserve my time. the speaker

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John Kline: pro tempore: the gentlewoman from ohio continues to reserve her time. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: how much time on both sides? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from

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Speech By: John Kline