I appreciate the chairman being flexible here in terms of yielding. I think he made a very important point at the beginning that needs to be repeated. That is, we already had a vote on this amendment. There is an authorizing committee that is alive and going forward, but it does not interfere with the appropriations process. This bill needs to move forward quickly. We do not need to be threatened with a veto. It is unnecessary at this time.
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But in the meantime, we are talking about regular order, trying to change the appropriations process so it makes sense, not destroy our committee. I would suggest we are on a pathway to destroy this committee.
Mr. Speaker, it is kind of hard to believe that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away and that David Obey provides me with material for my own presentation one more time. While most Americans are Christmas shopping and decorating their…
Mr. Speaker, one of the delights of this process, preparing for this bill, has been to go back through the process of the past and look at some of the protestations and expressions of concern by my colleague, now the chairman of the full…
I very much appreciate your taking the time to make those expressions. They've done a fabulous job on this bill, and it's an illustration of what can happen when we work so well together.
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