Mark Souder: “I rise with reluctance to oppose this bill. I have not opposed an appropriations bill for many years. I appreciate the…”

“I rise with reluctance to oppose this bill. I have not opposed an appropriations bill for many years. I appreciate the difficulty the subcommittee chairman and the gentleman from Florida have with the Senate, with the budget, and with all of the demands from Members, but I stand with the chairman of the Committee on Resources. I believe the administration committed an egregious process, a mistake, in going around the authorizing committee at the last minute without even telling the authorizing committee, and we cannot do business that way. I have a second problem with the bill, but it would not have caused me to vote against the bill. I believe the provision by the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor) on the National Park Service should have been left in the bill. It is the most successful outsourcing organization in the country, and instead of attacking the most successful and highly-rated government organization in the country, even with the guidelines of the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor) which are very well written, basically guarantee that this money will be wasted.”