Tom Latham: “I want to associate myself with what my good friend and ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr. Pastor, just said. We've…”

“I want to associate myself with what my good friend and ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr. Pastor, just said. We've got to find a solution, come to an agreement. This is a horrible way to run a government, with sequester. When you take a meat-ax approach to departments, there's no common sense. And that's why we need to get back to regular order around here and actually do appropriations bills. We would avoid these types of potentially catastrophic situations that we find ourselves in. Mr. Speaker, I would just ask everyone to understand that the Senate sent this over last night. It is now an H.R. bill, our bill. The Senate will approve it as soon as we pass it in the House here. It is very important that we do this for the American people, the traveling public, for safety of the system, to make sure that our commerce continues. So I would ask everyone to support this bill. And let's fix the big problem, and that's come to a budget agreement. I yield back the balance of my time.”