Henry Waxman: “I could, by unanimous consent, if everyone would agree, to change the amendment to say, on page 9 line 3, after the word…”

“I could, by unanimous consent, if everyone would agree, to change the amendment to say, on page 9 line 3, after the word insert the following, the Department of Veterans Affairs may transfer funds from the general operating expenses of the Department for the purposes of supporting the tobacco litigation. Let me put that forward and see if that resolves the opposition. Because I have not heard people on the other side say they do not want to fund the litigation, although we think that they would pull the plug on the litigation if they have that rider that has come out of the Committee on Appropriations. But if this is a more acceptable route, maybe we could do that, as long as we are funding the litigation. So we would say, in effect, the Department of Veterans Affairs may transfer funds from the general operating expenses of the Department for the purposes of supporting the tobacco litigation.”