mr. woodall. mr. woodall, no. mr. nugent. mr. nugent, no. mr. webster. mr. webster, no. ms. ross lehtinen. mr. burgess, no. ms. slaughter. >> aye. >> ms. slaughter, aye. mr. mcgovern. >> aye. mr. hastings. mr. hastings, aye. mr. polis. mr. polis, aye. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. four yeas, eight nays. >> further discussion? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment to the rule. i move that the klein miller pension reform amendment be made in order as a standalone amendment with one hour of debate evenly divided between the proponent and opponent. and the reason why i'm making this amendment is because, i mean, this so-called compromise come out of regular order. i'm not quite sure all the details in this particular pension -- so-called pension reform package. i can tell you that i've got some letters in support of it. i got letters from the teamsters and the steelworkers and mr. hastings mentioned a number of other organizations including the aarp that are strongly against it. but, i mean, under this rule, this amendment is going to be self-executed when you pass th

mr. woodall. >> i thank the gentleman.o my friend from colorado, who is one of my four  this committee, every time you site the office of legal counsel for why the president is doing what it is doing, it was that same office of legal counsel that told him unquestionably, undeniably, he could make those recess appointments any old time that he wanted to. as you know from the lawyers that you hire, if you don't have a lawyer who tells you what you want to do you fire that lawyer and get you another one who will tell you that. it's not the president's responsibility to sort out constitutional questions. when it comes to article 1, it's not the supreme court's responsibility to sort that out, though they do it in the failure of us. it's our responsibility, not the majority's responsibility, not the minority's responsibility but our responsibility. it is precisely that kind of cavalier conversation about what happens at the white house that bringso s out the passion that are seeing here tonight. it doesn't look like we're on t

mr. woodall is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. woodall: thank youing -- thank you, mr. speaker, i appreciate you being down here with me tonight. i i -- i've got a heavy heart because i feel like in just the short time you and i have been if this body, we have seen the same story play out more than once. you'd like to think we learn from our mistakes in this body and i don't fault any of my colleagues who make mistakes. i am one of the folks who is guilty of having made a mistake before, i'm not going to put you in the same box. but i have made a mistake before. the question isn't whether you make mistakes but what do you learn from your mistakes. as we go down the road oaf executive action, the conversation the country is having, i feel like we have been down the road before. i want to try to connect the dots for folks tonight. you can't see what i have here, it's something near and dear to your heart, article 2, section 2 of the united states constitution. the president shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happe

mr. woodall's comments as the class of 2010. the marines came to help. in deference. as a rose sits between the -- missi will tell you pocket, we are going to miss you. we are going to miss what you bring in regards to a thoughtful process. yeare two thorns next we do appreciate that. and to the two thorns next to you, we have -- no, no, you know, we go back. and we have a lot of meetings on the side, and we really do appreciate it from the prayer breakfast to the opportunity breakfast and stuff. so i really do appreciate all three of you. thank you very much. >> the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from lewisville, texas. >> i realize that i'm sort of the last man standing here on this panel. these are threee i hold in very high regard.