Jerry Brown: “Mr. Chairman, it is unfortunate that this little tiff should develop. There is a mistake in the bill, and an effort is…”

“Mr. Chairman, it is unfortunate that this little tiff should develop. There is a mistake in the bill, and an effort is being made to correct it. That mistake was pointed out by the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Hall], when the bill was in the subcommittee. It was pointed out when the bill was in markup in the full committee, and an amendment was offered to correct it in the full committee. Mr. Chairman, that amendment to correct the problem in the full committee was resisted by both the chairman of the full committee and the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Weldon] and all of the Republicans together, who at that point did not feel that they had made a mistake. Now they have come to realize that a mistake was made, I think, when they saw that the gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. Jackson-Lee] had filed an amendment which would have corrected the error and might be recognized to present that amendment and the case for adopting her amendment would have been overwhelming.”