C. W. Bill Young: “I rise to compliment the work of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) and what the subcommittee has done on this bill…”

“I rise to compliment the work of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) and what the subcommittee has done on this bill, which tends to be controversial on occasion. The markup in subcommittee and full committee, led by the gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Wolf) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano) went extremely well, which was a little unusual because the bill does tend to attract some interesting debate on occasion. The gentlemen worked in partnership to bring a good bill. As the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) stated earlier, the 302(b) allocation was a little lean, but all of the 302(b) allocations were a little lean this year. They did a good job and produced a good bill with a lean 302(b) allocation. And I want to take a minute to give a status report. As of today, the Committee on Appropriations has marked up 10 of the 13 bills in subcommittee, 7 of the 13 bills in the full committee. This will be the fifth bill passed through the floor, and the legislative branch will be passed on tomorrow. That means that we are moving very quickly considering we got off to a very late start since we did not get the deeming budget resolution until May 19. The committee has worked very effectively and worked pretty much on a bipartisan basis, and all of the members have been contributors to the work effort. We are moving the bills with pretty good votes on the floor.”