Norman D. Dicks

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 just want to make sure that everyone has heard the Statement of Administration Policy that was issued today: ``The administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the…

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.

If the gentleman will yield on that point, if we did that, if we had a clean CR, the President would sign it into law.

The administration has bent over backwards, and the Senate has bent over backwards to try to reach an agreement on this, but the leadership on the Republican side keeps changing the goalposts. First, it was $33 billion. Now it's $40…

Yesterday, we met in the Rules Committee to discuss this potential CR. The point I wanted to make was that I felt--and I wish the gentleman from California were here--that a clean CR would be more appropriate at this time, especially if we…

Okay. Well, we'll check that out. I yield 2 minutes to the Delegate from the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton.

There are some things that I think NOAA thinks would have an effect on their weather forecasting.

When you want to lower the deficit, you put people back to work so that you create jobs and businesses prosper.

I just think when the U.S. Government shows its commitment, it makes it easier to get people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and others to help support.

Almost 1 billion people suffer from chronic hunger every day, and world food prices are at the highest level since the 2008 crisis.