Jack Kingston

I move to strike the last word and oppose the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.

I will accept the amendment. I want to say to my friend from Florida, we're going to be looking at all this as the process goes on, and we'll certainly work with you. We, Mr. Farr and I and the committee, do appreciate all the research…

I want to clarify some things on this that are important. Number one, I want to make sure that we all realize that ARS is currently, in this bill, funded at $993 million and that the Foreign Ag Service is at $175 million. And the Foreign…

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes.

I want to say that the concern that I have--again, not having the advantage of being able to research things thoroughly, but we're taking $1 million out of a $3 million account and putting it into a $77 million account, and it just seems…

I was going to ask my friend if he is planning to offer his other amendment. Don't you have another related amendment?

I yield 4 minutes to the distinguished chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers).

We do accept the amendment with reservations. I want to say to my friend from Nebraska, he's been working very hard on this amendment, particularly in the last 5 hours. But we had a debate about this in the full committee. Ms. Kaptur…

Let me say, we'll see what we can do. I'm not fully versed on it. But the gentlewoman knows that the door is always open to my office, and we'll continue to work with you. But I do have to insist on the point of order. The Acting CHAIR…

I insist on my point of order. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for that purpose.

And I wanted to say food safety is something that we all place a very high priority on and we're very concerned about, and we have been watching this situation in Europe daily as we're all concerned, and our prayers are with the people who…

We are not in agreement on that. No, I did not support the Dodd-Frank bill, and I can tell you some of the problems with it. The gentleman sounds like somebody who has studied the CFTC; but as you know, of the many rules which they are…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to point out to my friend from California of a number of the previous speakers who keep speaking about the DeLauro amendment. The DeLauro amendment does not do anything. We accept the DeLauro…

Isn't it true, for the record, that we do support the amendment? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has not stated a parliamentary inquiry.

Parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

With that, I withdraw my objection, and we accept the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Clarke). The amendment was agreed to…

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia has 16 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California has 14 minutes remaining.

The reason is that the amendment may not be considered en bloc under clause 2(f) of rule XXI because the amendment proposes to increase the level of funding and outlays in the bill. And under the House rule, the amendment has to be budget…

I thank the gentleman from Nebraska. I just want to say I find it incredible that I'm hearing people say that the fault of the Wall Street meltdown was because of the CFTC's not doing its job. I cannot believe that the meltdown and the…

It is interesting. I want to read this amendment, because I have heard some comments about this bill isn't serious or whatever. Well, look at this amendment. I don't think you could call it serious. It says on page 2, line 14, ``after the…

I accept the amendment and was wondering if we could go ahead and call the question and move on. The Acting CHAIR. The Committee is proceeding under the 5-minute rule and debate will proceed on the amendment.

I continue to reserve. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia is recognized for 5 minutes. Point of Order

Reclaiming my time, we were talking earlier about some of the overlaps in these Federal food assistance programs. To me, this is a case where this is a program where there is a lot of overlap with food stamps, and we should look at that…

I just wanted to make sure that my friends, the ranking member and former ranking member, know that the contingency fund data that we get did come from the USDA.

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding. I wanted to make a couple of points that I think are very important, Mr. Chairman. Number one, the only budget that has passed is the Ryan budget. The Democrats, for all their crying, have…