On the recordJanuary 24, 2011
I oppose this resolution. I oppose it because I think its provisions with respect to our own economic recovery and the production of jobs is offset tremendously by its passage. But I want to focus my time on the limited question but the very important question of what is in and what is not in security funding, because security funding, as has been pointed out, is exempted from the requirements to go back to fiscal year 2008 functions or less. The chairman of the Rules Committee, when asked at the Rules Committee whether foreign assistance, diplomacy, and development were part of security--was that part of the exemption?--he said no. My definition--me, David Dreier, chairman of the Rules Committee, out of which this resolution comes--is as we have outlined in here: This is discretionary spending--that is non-security spending--other than defense, military construction, VA, and homeland security.
