On the recordOctober 9, 2004
I rise in support of H.R. 4837, the Fiscal Year 2005 Military Construction Appropriations Act. As is the usual practice, each project appropriated in this bill was authorized by the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act. In order to achieve this level of coordination, the appropriations and authorizations committees spent the past several weeks working hand-in-hand together to reach matching conference agreements on our respective bills. Working with Chairman Knollenberg and Mr. Edwards during this process was a pleasure, and their efforts were essential to our success. I thank the gentlemen from Michigan and Texas--as well as the tremendous staff at the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee--for their extraordinary efforts in producing the conference report before us, and look forward to joining my colleagues in voting ``yes'' on passage of this conference report.
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