Sam Farr: “Give us back our committee. Give us back our chairman. Mr. Culberson worked, with all of us on both sides of the aisle…”

“Give us back our committee. Give us back our chairman. Mr. Culberson worked, with all of us on both sides of the aisle, for about 6 months to do a veterans appropriations bill. This is not it. This is a disastrous bill, because this cuts $6.2 billion out of the bill that we passed. This doesn't help veterans. This is game-playing. Our Appropriations Committee is supposed to have 12 bills on this floor. We have none. We don't have a simple one just to pass to keep government open. We've never done this before. Never. No preconditions ever in the history like this. We have a good committee. We have a good chairman. Give us back the process. Give us back an ability to keep this government open. Defeat this bill.”