John Garamendi

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: prohibition on transfer…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Crawford

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: None of the funds made available by this Act may be…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3. line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 2, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,010,000)''. Page 8, line 14, after the dollar amount…

Mr. Tonko, you continually come back to the compassion and caregiving that I think each human being has somewhere in them. For us here in Congress, it is to express that in a meaningful way. That meaningful way is to make sure there is…

I thank the gentlewoman from California who has been a leader in this disease and dealing with the problems of it for many, many years. And your work Ms. Waters is paying off. The work that you have done organizing us, Members of Congress…

As the process goes forward, I would like to know, at the critical stages, how is it going.

The question, therefore, is are you considering the life-cycle cost in the equation on the cheapest, best deal?

I would like to know a specific involvement of the Coast Guard in providing the support.

I got to--as a whole series of questions I think we need for the record, and we will make those available to you--the Fast Response Cutter engine problem, we need to have some information on that.

So I want us, in our role--and particularly, I think, Mr. Hunter and I, who play a role on both committees--to look at this in a more total-systems way.

So we are really looking at the next Congress before we are going to be able to really drill down and address this fundamental challenge.

I can't imagine a situation where it is going to come in less than that, unless you are adjusting the requirements to the constrained budget situation.

Therefore, it would seem to me that, for our purposes, we would need to see the unconstrained Mission Need Statement.

Nothing should be more important to this subcommittee than our responsibility to ensure that our Nation's multimission military maritime law enforcement authority has the tools it needs to meet the many challenges it faces.

Well, you couldn't be more accurate, and you certainly did make the point. I was looking at the picture there. You have got the Northeast corridor, the entire Amtrak system underneath that bridge into Union Station, which I think is…

You have to lay down the marker. You laid down the first proposal, and it is really good. I said 4 years. Actually, it is a 6-year bill--$478 billion--and it covers all of the elements. All of the elements are there. If somebody has got a…

It has to be done. We absolutely have to do this with your leadership on the subcommittee in trying to find a path to build the infrastructure and in looking for ways to pay for it. Actually, the administration in the GROW AMERICA Act…

Thank you. Thank you for your leadership on the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, because you are carrying the weight of this particular piece of legislation.

Quite correct, there was an error on my part. This is the question of the MOX facility, $125 million to be applied to other cleanup programs across the Nation. That is it. I spoke on a different issue, and the MOX facility came up earlier.

If the gentleman would yield for 15 seconds, I will explain the error, and then I will be out of the way.

If I can go back and talk about the MOX facility now. I stand corrected. The 125 was the MOX facility amendment.

I am addressing the facilities, the nuclear pit facilities, the plutonium pit facilities. It is $125 million. The MOX was my colleague from Nebraska's amendment. That was his amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 29, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $125,000,000)''. Page 31, line 7, after the dollar amount…