Providing for Consideration of the Senate Amendment to H.R. Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security At the Southern Border Act, 2019
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Mr. WOODALL. Madam Speaker, I think folks are going to have a tough time containing their emotions today. We met in the House Rules Committee at 8 a.m. this morning, and folks already had fuses that were running short.
I agree with my friend from Massachusetts, enough is enough.
We had an amendment offered in the Rules Committee this morning. I don't think most folks in this body know because folks weren't at the Rules Committee this morning. We had an amendment offered in the Rules Committee this morning that said, if the gentleman wants to do this new bill that has been crafted by the Democratic majority, bring that new bill to the floor, but let's at least consider the bipartisan bill that passed the Senate, resoundingly, 84-8 yesterday.
I agree with my friend from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), enough is enough, Madam Speaker. We could send a bill to the White House today to start the money going today.
My friend from Massachusetts said: Let the Republicans talk if they want to. We want to talk about the children.
I am tired of talking about the children. Let's serve the children. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's stop talking about it.
It has been almost 60 days that we have been talking about it, with one tragic picture after another rolling across the national headlines. Let's stop talking about it.
If folks have an alternative view, they can share alternative view as they have, but allow us to vote on what the Senate agreed, 84-8, after roundly rejecting the previously passed House language, was an opportunity to serve the children today.
Madam Speaker, I don't believe the Members of this institution know what happened in the Rules Committee this morning. I don't believe the Members of this institution know we rejected that bipartisan opportunity this morning. With this, under a point of order, we will bring the Members of this institution down here to the House floor where they will hear it themselves.
We have an opportunity to act now, as my friend from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) has offered. The question is: Are we going to take ``yes'' for an answer or are we just going to continue to talk about the children?
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Mr. WOODALL. Will the gentleman yield?
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Mr. WOODALL. Madam Speaker, the gentleman has mischaracterized my statement.
Will the gentleman yield?
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