Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 60 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''

I am opposed to the bill in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Peters of California moves to recommit the bill H.R. 933 to the Committee on Appropriations…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of…

Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill. It will not delay or kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will proceed immediately to final passage, as amended. This past November, San Diegans and people…

I hope we will view March 27th, which is the end of the continuing resolution, as an opportunity to pass a budget.

Congress failed San Diego and America last week by not working together to find a sensible alternative to the sequester.

They depend heavily on funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Young people who are deciding where to do their science are looking at Congress.

Finding common ground does not mean we have failed. It does not mean we have abandoned our principles.

We can choose to continue down this path and let the American people down or we can decide to make a change.

We could turn the indiscriminate cuts in the sequester into targeted cuts that are part of a larger and balanced deficit reduction strategy.