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“Mr. Chair, I appreciate the gentleman from Florida yielding. And really, I think this just goes back to a simple reflection of priorities. We are here tonight, and both sides are coming to the floor. They are offering amendments. They are talking about energy and water. And Chairman Simpson has done a fine job of bringing this to the floor, and I think we have some good stuff going here. But this is about priorities. Why should we be looking at funding priorities for other countries who have their own sufficient taxpayer money, their own sufficient growth? {time} 1815 They may have trouble in growth, but why are we looking at it from a perspective that we should possibly say we are going to use our funds to do this on? This is not something we need to be a part of. It is not saying: just let China and India take care of themselves, we don't have a part. We have plenty of private industry that will go in at a fee and also do this. Why would we be putting government funds possibly towards this. I think this is another area where we deal with sustainable cities. This is a concern of many of my constituents. Some have actually called this looking at how we go across the world an agenda 21 wannabe. This is just simply something we shouldn't be doing. This is just something that we want to limit and simply say: we are going to be a leader, let's let the rest of the world lead, but let's let them pay with their own dollars. I appreciate the gentleman from Florida bringing this.”