Jasper Packard: “Absolutely, the gentlewoman is certainly right. I have no intentions in this bill or in any other way for the government…”

I understand the idea of an interbasin transfer has been discussed in Northwest Georgia, and I assure the gentleman from Georgia the subcommittee understands the serious nature of any interbasin transfer of this magnitude and would be very…

Reclaiming my time, the $2 billion figure has been thrown around several times today. It is an inaccurate figure. We have increased the funding for this bill to the tune of $1.6 billion, not $2 billion. But the fact is we have readdressed…

The Ryan amendment would take $74 million from the National Ignition Facility and terminate the project; that is premature. We are aware that the project has not run smoothly, and that it has had its problems both management and fiscally…

Should the committee receive a revised 302(b) allocation which increases our funding level, then our effort will be to consider increasing funding for the ARC to at least the fiscal year 2000 funding level.