Tom Feeney: “I thank the courageous gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling) for the great job he is doing trying to contain Federal…”

“I thank the courageous gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling) for the great job he is doing trying to contain Federal spending, and I really do want to thank our appropriations chairman. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) is a great hero, not just in Florida but nationally. He has set priorities straight. He has done an incredible job. I want to say that I do speak in favor of this amendment, though, on offsets. We know that we are going to have emergencies on a regular annual basis. We do not know where they are going to be. We do not know what they are going to be. That is why they are emergencies. This is one of the reasons we need a huge supplemental fund, a rainy day fund in the Federal budget, just like a family budget or a business budget needs one, and that is something that conservatives in this House have advocated for. I support the funding for FEMA. They ran out of money before the first hurricane in Florida. We had four.”