Christopher Shays: “I would just like to thank him for his keen work on the subcommittee that oversees a good part of the issue and to say…”

“I would just like to thank him for his keen work on the subcommittee that oversees a good part of the issue and to say that it would clearly be the intention of this amendment to do that. I certainly will be advocating that the conference committee do it. I know the chairman would and the main sponsor of this whole bill. So I think we all agree it needs to happen, and I thank the gentleman for pointing that out. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson).”