Norman D. Dicks

Will the gentlelady yield? Ms. DeLAURO. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.

I want to thank the chairman. I look forward to FY12 and getting on to our appropriation bills and our commitment to the House that we're going to have open rules, we're going to have subcommittee markups, full committee markups, and give…

I just want to commend the chairman for the way the two staffs have worked together, and the leadership of Bill Inglee and David Pomerantz and all the staff members. They have really done a phenomenal job under very difficult…

Absolutely. And we will work hard to cooperate in order to do that. We will try to keep a reasonable number of amendments on our side. I hope you can do that on your side. I yield back the remainder of my time and ask for a vote.

So this would look a lot like the Dicks amendment that was offered in the Rules Committee for a clean CR?

Reserving the right to object, this only affects this bill tonight; isn't this correct?

Reclaiming my time. I reclaim my time. This is an important day. And what we are saying on our side is we want to enact a clean continuing resolution at some point today so we can take care of our troops and so we can move forward with the…

Well, I think the relevance is: Why are we here working on this piece of legislation at this time when we are on the verge of a crisis of shutting down the government?

It strikes me, and I have one major question, and that is: Why are we considering H.J. Res. 37 when we are on the verge of shutting down the House of Representatives? I hope and I think a deal is very close at hand, but Republicans are…

I believe that the Democratic whip may want to propound a question to the chairman, so I am not going to yield back my time until he has an opportunity to do that.

I will yield myself 4\3/4\ minutes. (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I would invite the gentleman to go ahead with a couple of more speakers at this juncture.