Katie Porter: “I would say to the gentleman yes; however, the difficulty with that, and we on appropriations want the authorizing…”

“I would say to the gentleman yes; however, the difficulty with that, and we on appropriations want the authorizing committees to take up legislation and authorize these programs. It used to be on this very bill that the chairman would not fund any program that was not authorized. The difficulty was that so many programs became unauthorized and the authorizing committees did not act, and the Senate follows no such rule, they fund programs authorized or not. And then when we go to conference, the House is put in a disadvantaged position because they have done nothing on that particular program.”