Mark Souder: “this amendment is in order because it does not move the money but addresses the same point. If I can explain the…”

“this amendment is in order because it does not move the money but addresses the same point. If I can explain the technical part of this amendment again so people understand exactly what we are doing here. In the operation and maintenance account it says, Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund of $5,219,100,000 is available to be expended. In that, according to the CRS breakout, and I would say evidence illustrates this later in the bill, there is nothing in this bill that says we are giving the President his $3.3 billion to forward fund this war. But, in fact, if we break out the $5.219, we will find that we are forward funding the military operations, we are funding the refugee operations, we are funding the Southwest Asia. On page 5 of the bill, where it says $1,311,800,000, that is the House appropriations figure on readiness and munitions contingency reserve in munitions. Now, in an effort to keep the $3.3 billion from bracket creep, they have included in that, as a 'provided further' on page 5 of the bill, that puts two restrictions on the $1.3 billion. It specifies items which meet a critical readiness or sustainability need, to include replacement of expended munitions to maintain adequate inventories for future operations; and, two, includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. That is very commendable. My amendment is very simple.…”