Sam Farr

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 Texas will be postponed. Amendments En Bloc Offered by Mr. Shuster

The gentleman has voted for CRs 19 times since President Obama has been in office, with the whole enchilada, passing them without rancor, without asking the President to negotiate. So there's no reason we can't do that tonight. I yield 2…

For 111 times we've voted for CRs to feed everybody, not just a few. I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from Wisconsin, Gwen Moore. (Ms. MOORE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

We've passed 111 CRs without any of this rancor. There are no excuses. They have all been clean. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Roybal- Allard), a member of the Appropriations Committee.

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…

Thank you for yielding. I'm the ranking member on the Ag Appropriations Committee, and I'm very proud that the USDA was founded by Abraham Lincoln. This bill essentially destroys agriculture in the United States because we grow food to…

Well, I think the chair of your committee, Mr. Hastings, who knows this, that only about 40 percent of the money that comes in for the Land and Water Conservation account, of the revenue that comes from the offshore drilling, only 40…

Well, I'm on the Appropriations Committee, and if this were brought up in the Appropriations Committee, it certainly would be an earmark. And it is a process that should be in the appropriations process and not added to this bill, where…

The Republicans have been very big on deficit reduction and very much against earmarks. And now, with this amendment you're proposing it seems to fly in the face of the policy of your own party that you want to take out of the Treasury $11…

That's onshore, not offshore. We actually have caps with offshore, and we have banned further offshore drilling, both State and Federal waters.

And those are the States that have also instate waters and onshore and offshore drilling?

I will yield to the gentleman for a question. Explain to me what is broken that needs $11 billion more, right now, with the $150 billion that you've already been given, or will be given.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of this amendment. Look, the way the program works now, it's the most expensive food in the world. This keeps the buying of American food, shipping it on American flagships. It…

I couldn't agree more with Dr. Lantos Swett. There are two things, just to reemphasize what she said.

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: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I think we are going to see as California did after living with these furloughs, the voters got upset and just went to the polls and then raised taxes.

To think that sequestration had very little impact because you did not have to lay off or furlough people is a misnomer.

I think if you want to stop the dumping of tomatoes, just have the American tomato growers produce a tasteful tomato.

I think it could be a model for all over the country for water conservation and best management practices.

I do want to thank APHIS. You did a marvelous thing, and I want to compliment you on it.

Well, first of all, I have to say that my constituents complain a lot more about banks than they do about Department of Veterans Affairs.

I think Washington has been ignoring that we have a major--government has been through years and years of furloughs, and we can learn some lessons from them.

We have got to do something differently with the information that you have.

The fast-food industrial complex is winning the war, and you are losing it.

I think this hearing has been, for me, of all the years I have been on the Committee, this has been a very interesting one.