mr. woodall, aye. mr. nugent, aye. mr. websterster, aye. ms. ros-lehtinen, aye ms. slausestsh slaughter, no. mr. mcgovern, no. mr. hastings, no. mr. chairman? aye? >> nine yeas, four nays. >> the item is agreed to. i will be walking this downstairs. i'm going to walk down right now. >> mr. -- >> i assume it will take some period of time >> mr. chairman, could i just have one second. . it has nothing to do with today's activities but all the members should have got a dear colleague letter that we're going to be holding hearings here with regards to the rules of the neck house as we sit down for the 114th congress. so we're going to want input from all -- both sides of the sle, open to the sbifere body. that dear colleague letter should have been sent out and we expect to do something in september. >> thank you very much. we'll see you down stirs. excuse me? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i believe georgia tech is the finest engineering institution in america. >> i didn't hear him. >> we couldn't understand you there. >> i said i believe that georgia tech is the finest e

mr. woodall. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. woodall: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my colleague on the rules committee. my friend from oklahoma for yielding. i'm not sure what it is that is happening here on this floor right now, because the bill that is before us, that everyone is rising to object to, is the bill that allows us to bring up in the same day just as soon as we find a solution that can bring this house together, bring a bill immediately to the floor to solve a crisis. i just want to make that clear. the bill before us today is the only piece of legislation in this town that allows us to move immediately to solve a crisis. i'm not talking about a crisis that is imagined by republicans or imagined by democrats. i have in my hand here a letter from jay johnson. the second of the department of homeland security. mr. speaker, he says this, he says this, in an open letter to families all across the world, he says, so let me be clear, there is no path to deferred action or citizenship, nor one being contemplated by cong