Dana Rohrabacher: “First, Mr. Chairman, I would like to apologize to some Members to whom earlier I stated that I would probably not be…”

“First, Mr. Chairman, I would like to apologize to some Members to whom earlier I stated that I would probably not be introducing this particular amendment, realizing that after the full discussion that we had on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because of the last amendment, that this body did not need to spend another half-hour debating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I decided not to introduce my amendment on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting but instead decided to offer an amendment dealing with a piece of waste in the budget which I feel that would probably be more worth our time to talk about, rather than having another half an hour debate on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The purpose of this amendment is to endorse the original decision made by the Interior subcommittee to include $4.8 million for the mild gasification plant in Illinois in this rescission package, a decision that was reversed in full committee. The subcommittee had many sound reasons for not wanting this project financed. First, this is a program that the Department of Energy has left out of its budget requests since fiscal year 1993.”