C. W. Bill Young: “I certainly agree to work with the gentleman on this matter to have a satisfactory conclusion.”

it is obvious that he has put a lot of time and effort into this amendment. The committee has reviewed the amendment thoroughly, and we will accept the amendment.

last night in this Chamber, as the President of the United States was encouraging Americans to support our troops, my wife was sitting in this gallery right over here, and she was ordered to leave the gallery because she was doing, and…

This is a program that is important to the military. This is a defense-related issue. What this program is, is providing water for our troops in the field where there is no water. We have reverse osmosis. To do that, you have got to have…

I yield myself 2 minutes to pay tribute to a longtime staffer of this defense subcommittee. This is the first time that I have had the opportunity to bring a defense appropriations bill to the floor without having Kevin Roper sitting here…