Norman D. Dicks

Which amendment is before the House? The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the Clerk will reread the amendment. The Clerk reread the amendment.

I raise a point of order. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.

I want to join in supporting this amendment and commend the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his hard work on this effort. I hope we can adopt this amendment unanimously. I appreciate the gentleman yielding.

The best and safest thing to do is to defeat the Flake amendment. That's kind of a standard. That's the surest way of protecting the executive order. I yield back the balance of my time.

Reclaiming my time, I would just point out that the Department of Defense thinks the gentleman from Arizona's language is prohibitive, that it doesn't give them any leeway, that they must not do a project labor agreement. May I ask the…

That's not what they think. They think that if your language does what I think you----

It will be very brief. The Office of General Counsel of the Department of Defense says about the gentleman's amendment: If enacted, the attached provision would prohibit the Department from soliciting bids for FY13-funded construction…

They don't have to unionize. They just have to agree to the prevailing wage and other things that are part of the project labor agreement, but they don't have to be unionized.

The distinguished chairman--who does a great job, and we're trying to work together--if we understand this, a non-union shop can be considered for work under a project labor agreement. You don't have to be a union shop. So a non-union…

That was last year. H.R. 1. We remember it. It was 800 amendments, 600 on your side, 200 on our side.

I know the gentleman wouldn't want to mislead the House. This is the second bill. We're going to get to the third bill, but this is number 2.

I rise in strong opposition to the Markey amendment. I know my friend is trying to be humorous, but this is a very serious subject. I was one of the leaders who worked to do the B 2 bomber. That took us between 15 and 20 years. Now, the…