Steve Womack: “I am personally directly opposed to, and I think some of my colleagues feel the same way.”

We just have to have some ability to be able to constrain Congress from moving past the moment to some future milestone and give it the force of law today

I thank Mr. Barr for his kind remarks and for his hard work in drafting the TABS Act. We are pleased to include it in this year's Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill. Let me add that I fully agree with your…

I think a lot of us up here would agree that the federal bureaucracy has become bloated, but I think we need to be a little bit more precise in downsizing a department with a mission as critical.

I thank my ranking member for yielding. With all due respect to my colleague, I rise in opposition to the amendment. This bill funded the Office of the Vice President at a 20 percent cut from last year, so we have taken steps to send that…