Steve Buyer: “I want to express my thanks to Chairman Edwards and to Mr. Crenshaw. Both of you have been very good friends. I respect…”

“I want to express my thanks to Chairman Edwards and to Mr. Crenshaw. Both of you have been very good friends. I respect your leadership, and I appreciate your good faith in working with myself and my staff. Over the years, the 18 years I've been here, the years I've been privileged to work in leadership as chairman and as ranking member, I have respected the interoperability and cooperation between the Appropriations staff and the authorizers. It has worked really, really well. At times they can disagree, but they can professionally work it out. I've been impressed by that, and it has continued. So I want to thank you for that. And this is a prime example. This is one of them whereby I look back to 2008 when we wanted to do these renewable energy projects, and you were challenged at the time because the Speaker didn't want renewable projects in the bill, but you agreed that this was something that we needed to do and tried to figure out how we're going to do it.”