Jerry Brown

Since it has met my ironclad test of what constitutes a good amendment, mainly satisfying the Republicans, I am happy to accept it.

I am objecting to the fact that he is purporting to represent that this has been discussed in the committee and that he does nothing that has not been cleared by a democratic process in the committee.

That was not my contention, that the gentleman has not picked the number that we approved for 1996. My contention is the committee never approved it for 1997.

I am very pleased that the chairman has made this clarification, and he has stated that there is nothing in law or in the Budget Act that allows him to proscribe a number like he did.

I have reviewed the gentleman's amendment in great detail, and applying the same high standards as I did to the other gentleman from Ohio on this side of the aisle, I would like to say that as long as your amendment meets the rigorous…

What we are doing in funding this particular program is vital to the further utilization, the development of a market, if you could use that term, for increased communication activities through the schools. Education is considered to be a…

The gentleman has misstated my position. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] knows that I voted for a balanced budget amendment that balances the budget in 7 years and contains all of the discipline necessary to do that. The…

In this amendment, we have a confrontation with the philosophy that is involved in most of these cuts, namely that they are corporate welfare.

Well, Mr. Chairman, the response to that, the rebuttal, is that the Republican President could have vetoed the Democratic Congress on these bills if he wished to, and he chose not to.

Well, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner] has already acknowledged that it was under the Republicans that the budget got out of balance.

The amendment is deliberately silent on this because we think that the caps imposed upon the subcommittee by the chairman have no basis in law and certainly no merit. The budget language was nothing to do with it, so there is no need for…

The proviso that authorization allocations adopted by the conference Committee on the Budget resolution allows for it. Now, we all know there is nothing in the budget resolution that pertains to authorization. It pertains only to…

Of course. I have confidence in the good faith of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] that we would bring along an authorization bill that would deal with these others. In the absence of that, however, this would merely provide to…

I do not agree with the gentleman that the 1995 baseline is the one that will finally be in effect for the Department of Energy. I do not know at this point.