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.

The Poe amendment states none of the funds made available by this act may be used for a director of a national cemetery who, after the date that is 180 days, whatever date, however he rephrased it. According to the VA, compliance with this…

Just briefly, the President doesn't require that they use a project labor agreement. He just suggests that they might be able to use it. That's pretty neutral. Mr. LaTOURETTE. Reclaiming my time, well, let me say this. You know, I do agree…

Will the gentleman yield just briefly on that point? Mr. LaTOURETTE. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.

Thank you for clarifying that. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the modification. The Clerk read as follows: Modification offered by Mr. Poe of Texas: Insert ``new'' between ``a'' and ``director.'' The Acting CHAIR. Is there…

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…

Let's get back to some facts here. Under the CRS report that was referenced earlier, the National Labor Relations Act, as we know, gives most private sector workers the right to join or form a labor union and to bargain collectively. A…

First of all I would like to commend Chairman Frelinghuysen, whom I've enjoyed working with both here and on the Defense Subcommittee, and Ranking Member Visclosky on their efforts to continue in the tradition of bipartisanship and…

Let me just clear up a couple of things, especially what the gentleman from Texas just had to say. This may be something that will be hard for him to believe, but this is, as I understand it, from the Labor Department. A Davis-Bacon wage…

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.

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…

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