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Committee chair. the committees should retake the lead in drafting all major legislation. [ applause ] if you know the issue, you should write the bill. let's open up the process. let people participate. and they might change their mind. a neglected minority will gum up the works. a respected minority will work in good faith. instead of trying to stop the majority, they might try to become the majority. in other words, we need to return to regular order. [ applause ]

Now, i know this sounds like process. it's actually a matter of principle. we are the body closest to the people. every two years, we face the voters, and sometimes face the music. but we do not echo the people, we represent the people. we are supposed to study up and do the homework that they cannot do. so when we do not follow regular order, when we rush to pass bills that a lot of us don't understand, we are not doing our job. only a fully functioning house can truly represent the people, and if there are ever a time for us to step up, this would be that time. [ applause ] america does not ...

Conservative flank in his own conference that he really made overtures to today, i thought, by saying that he's going to go through the committee process regular order. we'll see. i was struck by the top of his remarks when he implored both parties to pray for each other. he's going to be the third catholic speaker in a row, after pelosi and boehner, and he does have a lot of positive feelings towards him from house democrats because they have always respected the fact that he's been willing to start difficult policy discussions with concrete ideas. whereas many of his colleagues will just sor...