mr. woodall: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: there's been a lot of productivity this week. there's a lot of work that's gone on this week. i see you and see a lot of unshaven faces. i am not talking about joseph but folks that intended to shave and might not have got home last night to get it done. it takes an incredible amount of staff time to do this. what mr. mcgovern and i do up in the rules committee, our staffs have been there past midnight time and time again this week and then back in at dawn. and i wish that more of the american people, mr. speaker, could see the hardworking, dedicated staff, the team that goes into making all of this possible because i think it would make them proud. i think in a season like this it would lift them up and make them feel better who we are as a people and things we could accomplish together. one of those young people, mr. speaker, is nate blake on the rules committee. he is sitting right here behind me. he's

mr. woodall: take me back. if i'm a 16-year-old new yorker, i'm not allowed to drive in new york city but as a 16-year-old oklahoman, i can grab my car and drive right through times square with it. we regularly have reciprocity rules -- mr. nadler: but the states agreed to those. i don't think that's imposed by the federal government. mr. woodall: you think your driver's license is agreed to by the attorney general? mr. nadler: probably not the attorney general but the state legislature in the past. mr. woodall: i have great respect for the second amendment, this gives me great pause my friend from new york cited 17 attorneys general general that opposed this measure. mr. chairman, i'd like to cite 23 state attorneys general, the highest law enforcement officers of the land who support this measure. one of them from the great state of georgia. i have real qualms about the federal government telling states how to conduct their business. particularly when states have been so successful at creating these reciproci

mr. woodall: take me back. if i'm a 16-year-old new yorker, i'm not allowed to drive in new york city but as a 16-year-old oklahoman, i can grab my car and drive right through times square with it. we regularly have resip rossity rules -- mr. nadler: but the states agreed to those. i don't think that's imposed by the federal government. mr. woodall: you think your driver's license is agreed to by the attorney general? mr. nadler: probably not the attorney general but the state legislature in the past. mr. woodall: i have great respect for the second amendment, this gives me great pause my friend from new york cited 17 attorneys general general that opposed this measure. mr. chairman, i'd like to cite 23 state attorneys general, the highest law enforcement officers of the land who support this measure. one of them from the great state of georgia. i have real qualms about the federal government telling states how to conduct their business. particularly when states have been so successful at creating these resip r

mr. woodall: thank you, mr. chairman. i've had the great pleasure of getting to know the gentlelady from new mexico during the time and sorry she will go on to bigger and better things. i think if this institution will work the way we all want t to it requires a degree of enthusiasm, passion mixed with engagement. and i think one of the challenges we have in this institution is sometimes our passion turns one another off instead of engaging one another. madam leader, i make it a point of bringing every young woman that i take down to the floor of the house, if i can find you on the floor i'll bring them by to meet you. you are gracious with your time. in fact, we have a few liberal individuals in our constituency back home, a group of young women and they wanted to meet bernie sanders. they were so disappointed. they hadn't gotten to meet bernie sanders. i found him over in the capital visitor center. you stopped and gave them about five minutes of your time and they haven't stopped talking about nancy pelosi since then.

mr. woodall: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 647 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 108. house resolution 647, resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h.r. 477, to amend the securities exchange act of 1934 to exempt from registration brokers performing services in connection with the transfer of ownership of smaller privately held companies. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules committee print 115-43 shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final passage

mr. woodall: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 657 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. members will clear the aisles, take your conversations from the floor. the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 109, house resolution 657. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h.r. 2396, to amend the gramm-leach-bliley act to update the exception for certain annual notices provided by financial institutions. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on financial services now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as am

mr. woodall. mr. burgess, no. mr. collins, no. mr. byrne, no. mr. newhouse, no. mr. buck. ms. cheney, no. ms. slaughter, aye. mr. mcgovern, aye. mr. hastings, aye. mr. polis. mr. chairman. mr. chairman, no. mr. sessions: clerk will report. the clerk: three yeas, seven nays. mr. sessions: the amendment is not agreed to. mr. mcgovern: i have an amendment to the rule. i move the committee make in order and give the necessary waivers for the bipartisan amendment to h.r. 38 by representatives moulton and curbelo, number 16, which would ban the manufacture, possession or transfer of any part or combination of parts that is designed and functions to increase the rate of fire from a semi-automatic rifle such as bump stocks and similarly functioning devices of a different name. i would just say to my colleagues, you know, the kicking the can down the road or this meaningless study that is in this bill doesn't suffice. to too many people are dying in this country result of this technology that turns these weapons into weapons of war, that turns them into machine guns, essentially. i've

mr. woodall is not recorded. mr. woodall, no. three yeahs, eight nays. >> the amendment's not agreed to for amendment or discussion. seeing none the now be on the vote from the gentleman from oklahoma. excuse me just a moment, please. i'm sorry. i did not hear it. that is my issue. the gentleman from florida is recognized. >> thank you. >> yes, sir. >> it would be an understatement mr. chairman for me to say that i'm not angry. i've been on this committee along with ms. slaughter and you for protracted period of time. i don't know a day that i have been as disturbed as i am today and i've been angry at other times but i really am beside myself about what we are doing here. all of us know that this measure isn't going to become law and ms. slaughter and mr. mcgovern have made it abundantly clear as have all of the members here that we have a lot of work to do. it's just -- it's surreal to be in a setting like this and at the very same time to have exacting responsibilities. in addition to ourselves, 25 of the members of the house

mr. woodall.i don't think you really believe that we're holding the defense men and women in hostage, any more than i think you are holding our veterans hostage or our people with opioid addiction hostage by not supporting the funding for them on the other side of it. but i do want to tell this story. i think it's important for you all to know this because you keep talking about the shutting down of government many years ago. it wasn't that long time ago. and many of the people who were in the lead on it are in the lead in this congress right now. there was a budget agreement. $1 trillion -- you remember this very well, mr. cole. trillion -- $1.58 billion dollars. $1.58 billion was the agreement. bipartisan agreement. house and senate and white house. president obama. house and senate. $1.58 billion. it wasn't a great number in our view but it was a compromise. we all agreed to it. you recall, mr. cole, as we were going to mark up to that number, the house republicans said not one dollar over $988

mr. woodall: i thank my chairman for yielding. mr. speaker, we have an opportunity to go great things together. and occasionally i come double put my this floor and heart put my heart into -- heart into it on the floor, i put my heart into it for hour and hour, day after day in the rules committee. i put my heart into it on the transportation committee. i put my heart into it on the budget committee. mr. speaker, you know what? sometimes i lose. sometimes i lose. but what makes this process great is we both come down here and do the very best that we can. let's not describe what's going on here for the american people as some sort of proofreading error, some sort of rush job where folks didn't have time to do it right. that does a disservice, not just to the members of congress, but to the staff that work through these issues with us, side by side, day after day, week after week, month after month. and yes in the case of this bill, year after year. we have a choice with how we spend our days. spending our days spending our days doing

mr. woodall and mr. aguilar for their leadership on the house bills and senator cornyn for his work in the senate. i urge my colleagues to support senate 1393. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from district of columbia is recognized. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. norton: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to rise in support of s. 1393, the jobs for our heroes act. this bill is a step in the right direction to help the nation tackle the long-standing commercial driver shortage. a shortage that i must say i have been working on ever since i have been on this committee, and especially since becaming ranking on the subcommittee. . of course at the same time to support veterans in a successful transition to mill -- from military to civilian life. s. 1393 ensures that all qualified medical professionals employed by the department of veterans' affa

mr. woodall? aye, mr. burgess aye. mr. byrne, aye. mr. new house? aye. mr. buck? mr. buck, aye. ms. cheney? aye. mr. mcgovern, no. mr. hastings, no. mr. polis? >> no. >> mr. chairman, aye. >> clerk will report the total, please. >> 8 yays, for ncaas. >> the motion is agreed to according to the gentleman. mr. woodall will be handling this for republicans. >> and i for the democrats. >> and ms. slaughter for democrats. before i ask the question, i'll answer it that we do not anticipate any more meetings this week. the committee is done with its work for the week. thank you very much. >>> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, washington republican congressman dan newhouse on friday's government funding jnand new york democratic congressman eliot engel talks about using the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. and senior editor david hawks on sexual misconduct on capitol hill. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> thursday, fbi director chri

mr. woodall: i thank my chairman for yielding. mr. speaker, we have an opportunity to go great things together. and occasionally i come double put my this floor and heart put my heart into -- heart into it on the floor, i put my heart into it for hour and hour, day after day in the rules committee. i put my heart into it on the transportation committee. i put my heart into it on the budget committee. mr. speaker, you know what? sometimes i lose. sometimes i lose. but what makes this process great is we both come down here and do the very best that we can. let's not describe what's going on here for the american people as some sort of proofreading error, some sort of rush job where folks didn't have time to do it right. that does a disservice, not just to the members of congress, but to the staff that work through these issues with us, side by side, day after day, week after week, month after month. and yes in the case of this bill, year after year. we have a choice with how we spend our days. spending our days spending our days doing

mr. woodall, i would say yes, which is why i don't disagree. i don't think anyone on this panel disagrees that we have an immigration reform problem and we have a central american problem that we're going to have to deal with. you can't get refugee or asylum or visa status. we have huge backlogs, we have issues with families who are partially here, partially there. we have governments that even since 2014 have fallen further into hostility and corruption which changes the policies we adop toed from homeland security. and we appropriated funds to deal with stability within the triangle region so we could begin addressing unaccompanied minors and not continue to have one subset of problems or another, right? most of the d.r.e.a.m.ers, that issue, while i won't say it's not that they're looking for safety and refuge in this country, much of it was economically produced by the fact that our country was doing so well and mexico, in one example, was doing so poorly. that has really diminished, particularly in many of the southern border states which

mr. woodall. >> aye. >> mr. collins, mr. byrne? mr. newhouse. >> aye. >> mr. chaney. >> aye. >> ms.slaughter? >> no. >> mr. mcgovern? >> no. >> mr. hastings? >> no. >> mr. pollis? >> no. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> clerk will report the total eight yeahs fourniers. >> the motion is agreed to. the gentleman will be handling this for democrats and mrs. slaughter for the democrats. the committee is done with this work for the week, thank you very much. >>> tomorrow testimony from fbi director christopher wray on oversight issues at his agency. he speaks for the house judiciary committee, we have it live on thursday 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> earlier this week the supreme court heard an oral argument of the was of master piece cake shop. jack phillips owned the cake shop and he refused to make the cake calling his cakes art and saying he doesn't bake cakes if it goes against his religious beliefs. the two say he discriminated against them because they are gay. under colorado's law a vendor can't refuse service based on sexual orientation or gender. you can hear that oral argumen

mr. woodall: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank my chairman for yielding me the time. we're in the rules committee last night, mr. speaker, and we were having the same kind of conversation. we're going through the list one by one by one of all the families and how folks were going to benefit about the children and graduate students, folks facing medical challenges. we went through one by one by one and talked about all the folks who will benefit from this tax cut. it was powerful. but i was reminded, mr. speaker, that when we started this conversation it wasn't even a tax cut conversation. it was an economic growth conversation, mr. speaker. it was an economic growth conversation. where we have ended up is there are going to be tax benefits for every single working family in the country. but where we started was how do we get those wages for working families up? how do we get job creation up? how do we get america growing not at this stagnant rate of the obama years but powerful rates as we saw in the bush years, clinton years, as we saw in the reagan years. that was t

mr. woodall: mr.peaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 647, providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 477, to amend the securities exchange act of 1934 to exempt from registration brokers in connection with a transfer of ownership of smaller privately held company, providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 3971, to amend the truth in lending act, and the real estate settlement procedures act of 1974 to modify the requirements for community financial institutions with respect to certain rules relating to mortgage loans, and for other purposes. and providing for consideration of the joint resolution, house joint resolution 123, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman fr