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(11,213 posts) Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:48 PM Oct 2013

Louise Slaughter (D-NY) Grills Author of H.R. 368 House Rules Committee Chair, Pete Sessions (R-TX)

Slaughter warns ".. wait 'til the phone calls start in your office..."

Well, here ya go!:

Washington, D.C. Office:
Congressman Pete Sessions
2233 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-4332
Phone: (202) 225-2231
Fax: (202) 225-5878

Dallas, Texas Office:
Congressman Pete Sessions
Park Central VII
12750 Merit Drive, Suite 1434
Dallas, Texas 75251-1229
Phone: (972) 392-0505
Fax: (972) 392-0615

Email:
http://sessions.house.gov/index.cfm/contact-form

When asked about the rule change, Sessions responded, “That’s right, we took that away.”

(... ) Back in Sept. 30, the author of H.R. 368 and House Rules Committee chairman, Congressman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, was questioned by House Rules Committee ranking member, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., about the rule change.

“We want a conference,” Sessions said as part of his explanation of why H.R. 368 was passed to change the rules.

Slaughter criticized Sessions for the rule change: “I think it’s really shortsighted. I think it is an atrocity to the rules of the House and I think you’re putting the whole country through this angst and this aggravation that we did not need to go. This one we could have done without.” (...)