Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “reclaiming my time, we have complied not only with the spirit but with the letter of the law, the Budget Act. And I have…”

“reclaiming my time, we have complied not only with the spirit but with the letter of the law, the Budget Act. And I have in my possession, and I would be glad to give my distinguished friend a copy, a letter from the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations where the following among other things is stated: This procedure that we are using, that complies not only with the spirit but with the letter of the Budget Act, has been done in previous years when the conference on the budget resolution was late. And further, the chair of the Committee on Appropriations states if the conference agreement on the budget resolution should adjust these numbers that we are using in this appropriations bill that is brought to the floor today, the committee will adjust, the Committee on Appropriations will adjust its allocation and reflect such changes in further suballocations for later bills. But what I wanted to make reference to was in regard to the great imagination showed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle when they talk about the stealth procedures that are being utilized.”