How much time do both sides have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 6 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Georgia has 12 minutes remaining.

How much time does each side have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 4 minutes, and the gentleman from Georgia has 6 minutes.

Frankly, I think that statement is a flat Earth statement because it doesn't even look before you leap. It just says, Let's whack because there's redundancy. There is redundancy in our own body. We've got two eyes, two ears, two arms, and…

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 No. 8 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

I am offering this amendment to move funding from the Agriculture Building and Facilities and Rental Payments account and investing that money in the Organic Data Initiative. Organic agriculture is a very important and growing sector of…

I oppose this amendment. This is a big cut out of a very important program, just indicated by Congressman Clarke from Michigan. For all the reasons he was trying to increase the program, this amendment goes just the opposite way. It knocks…

I rise because I want to respond to my chair, who I respect deeply, but I think there is sort of a misstatement of fact here. The only budget that has ever been balanced in the last 20 years has been the budget that the Democrats did. We…

The concern here is that this amendment double dips from the same account. Maybe we can work something out here. Mr. Broun took money out of this account. I took money out of this account.

Thank you, Mr. McGovern, for yielding and I rise with concerns with this rule. The rule in one part is good because it's an open rule, allows unlimited amendments, but the rule on the second part, which protects the work of the committee…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Chair, we've heard a lot today. We've heard a lot about spending, because that's what this bill is. It is an appropriations bill. But the talk about spending is wrong because it's not putting…

I yield myself as much time as I may consume. I rise today as the ranking member on the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee to draw concern to this bill. I know that we're in tough budget times, but even in tough budget times, people…

How much time do we have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 22\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Georgia has 19 minutes remaining.