C. W. Bill Young: “I want to compliment and congratulate him and the gentleman from Wisconsin for doing a really good job in allocating the…”

“I want to compliment and congratulate him and the gentleman from Wisconsin for doing a really good job in allocating the money that was available. As Chairman Regula has said, there is an increase in the 302(b) allocation for this bill over last year. The gentleman from Wisconsin and the gentleman from Ohio have worked extremely hard to try to balance the funding so that we meet the responsibilities in this bill. I support the bill. I think it is a good bill. I know that there are a lot of things that Members would like to do and there are a lot of other items that they would like to see funded. But there is a limitation on the amount of money. As everyone knows, we have a budget resolution that did not make our job easy, but it is still the budget resolution, like it or not. I know that there are many Members who would like to add additional money, because for the 13 appropriation bills, I have received requests from Members that totaled more than $50 billion to add over and above the allocated amount that was provided in the budget resolution. However, we cannot do all of the requests, and we have to do the best we can with what we have. I think the committee has done a really outstanding job.”