I just appreciate the support for this amendment. It is an important amendment that will give us information we can then use to support our small businesses as they're doing business abroad, and I urge its adoption. I yield back the…

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado, Cory Gardner, the sponsor of this legislation; and the gentleman from Kentucky, Ed Whitfield, the chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, for moving this legislation along. Madam Chair…

I thank the gentleman. I say to the gentleman, Mr. Nugent, the Congressional Budget Office sent us and you a letter saying it would increase direct spending by a total of $1.1 billion. That is not even a small increase. And, by the way…

I thank the distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee and the chair of Oversight and Government Reform. The Congressional Budget Office sent the letter, Mr. Issa, about the manager's amendment, which had nothing to do with the bill…

The reason that both these bills were combined is that they're trying to mask all the defects in the patent bill, and that's why they put this great new jobs, supposedly, creating bill together.

I thank you, my friend. We are not criticizing the Rules Committee. The CutGo violation, which you have not even seen the CBO letter that described the $1.1 billion----

Yes. The letter to the distinguished chair of the Rules Committee came from the Congressional Budget Office, and I would be pleased to quote it to you. The $1.1 billion is an accumulation of several other costs that they reported.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just wanted my dear friend--and I recognize he has only been here 5 months--to realize that this is not a technical CutGo violation. This is a $1.1 billion violation. That's real money that we're going…

This would spend $1.1 billion. That's not technical, my friend. It would spend $1.1 billion.

I thank Jared Polis, who is a brilliant former member of the Judiciary Committee, and we miss him very much. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason these two bills are put together is very easy to fathom, that is that we have started off by, for…

This is a good amendment. At a time when 30 people have been grossly sickened and died in Germany and 3,000 have been sickened, we are cutting Food and Drug's enforcement budget. The legislation would cut the food safety budget of FDA by…

I thank my good friend for yielding to me. I want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the Appropriations Committee and their extraordinary staffs for their courtesy to me as we have gone on through this legislation and through the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan will be postponed. {time} 2210 Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Chaffetz

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: Sec. __. The amounts otherwise provided…

I have an amendment at the desk. This legislation before us would cut the food safety budget of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by $87 million below FY 2011 and $205 million below the president's FY 2012 budget request. At a…

Thank you very much, sir. We're good friends. What you're telling me, I presume, is that you approve a $650 million cut from the Women, Infant, and Children's fund. Is that correct?

I would like to follow on to our great whip's very moving statement and ask our good friend Roscoe Bartlett, a distinguished Member from Maryland, whether or not he would pass a bill that would cut funding in the amount of $650 million for…

On rollcall No. 413, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Amash The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan…