Jim Nussle: “Yes, they are. In fact, we put into the budget an emergency reserve fund for the purpose of funding that war, the same…”

I yield myself 9 minutes. Mr. Speaker, before I begin with the opening, let me just thank our staff. We have to make a lot of decisions around here, and we put together the policy and make the votes, but the staff makes it all come…

not since 1988--more than a decade and a half ago--has the Appropriations Committee passed all its bills out of the House before the Fourth of July. This year the committee stands poised to do so--even though its subcommittees have been…

Export-Import is self-funding and has generated income for the Treasury since 1992.

the measure before us today--the appropriations act for Energy and Water Development--joins the early wave of discretionary spending bills pursuant to the recently adopted budget resolution for fiscal year 2006 (H. Con. Res. 95). As the…