Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chairman, I am prepared to close. Well, simply put, I urge our colleagues on both sides to come together and kill this job-killing regulation and support this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment would prohibit funds from enforcing the Obama administration EPA methane rule. This rule is currently facing litigation uncertainty, and Congress must act to block this job-killing regulation estimated to cost…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

You are right. Thank you. Thank you for that.

I understand that. That is fine.

The backlog is untenable for the Federal worker at this point, and it has to be resolved, but it has to be resolved fairly.

Being lawyerly.

Mr. President, there has been a lot of conversation again, of late, about election security. It seems to be a frequent conversation in the hallways the last couple of days, and it is an ongoing issue that I think some people have lost…

the incrementalism of the past would not be enough.

There are lots of issues with OPM that are historic issues there that absolutely affect our Federal retiring workforce dramatically.

If I could say this, Mr. Chairman, as well, Senator Heitkamp and I are in a hearing on the Office of Personnel Management, coming up very soon.

It was a terrible idea 15 years ago.

We are paying for the building twice.

We should probably own the facility.

That is a clear line for us that we have to be able to know what is our part, what is this Administration's part.

All right. Jeh Johnson spent a lot of time with this Committee going through DHS and the restructuring and the requests.

I hope we can get support. I hope we can get this thing signed into law.