I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran), former chairman of Interior, now the ranking Democratic member of the Interior and Environment Subcommittee. {time} 1230

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.

I just want to summarize again: I'm urging a ``no'' vote on this continuing resolution. We have voted twice, many of us on this side, for reasonable continuing resolutions that have gotten us to this point. This one is unreasonable. The…

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…

I yield my remaining time to the gentleman from Maryland. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky controls the time.

I yield 1 minute to the distinguished Democratic whip, my good friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer). {time} 1320

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.

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington has 5\3/4\ minutes.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) who can explain why part of this CR is very ideologically driven and extreme.

There is an article today in the Washington Post how House GOP spending cuts would add up to more spending later. This is what we worry about here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.

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