Hal Rogers

Thank you for yielding. The previous speaker doesn't understand the bill. The $2.65 billion in the 2012 portion of the bill is not offset, only the portion for fiscal 2011 is required to be offset. And I would remind the gentleman, as well…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the very hardworking chair of the Interior subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman whose subcommittee held more hearings than any other, I think 22 different…

Let me just reiterate. The $1 billion in the fiscal '11 portion of this bill is two times the amount the President requested. We doubled it. The amount that's in the bill for fiscal 2012, $2.65 billion, is more than the initial request…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. As to the point, Mr. Speaker, of whether or not we offset these emergency bills, over the last 10 years, we have used offsets in over half of the emergency spending bills and supplementals, over half, 15…

I thank the gentleman for yielding again. I'll be very brief. The gentlewoman who just spoke mentioned Katrina and that we should not offset expenses of emergency disaster spending. In fact, in 2006 that's exactly what we did do. We…

The gentleman is the chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee which funds FEMA.

And your bill would have provided $1 billion today for disaster relief, and the other body hasn't acted?

No wonder they're operating on fumes. I'm talking about FEMA. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of Appropriations, the gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Granger).

Does the gentleman realize that back in June, in this body we passed, with bipartisan support, the Homeland Security bill, which contained $1 billion for FEMA, sent it to the Senate, and it's been laying there for the last 3 months? Did…

I yield 2 minutes to a very hardworking member of our committee, the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Bonner).

I yield 2 minutes to a new member of our committee who's doing a great job, from the State of Arkansas, Steve Womack.

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, this is a simple bill. This is a simple continuation of spending until November 18. I would not want it on my record that I voted against helping the postal workers keep their routes…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on adoption of the motion will be followed by a 5-minute vote on the motion to suspend the…

I thank the chairman for yielding the time. I rise today to commend H.R. 2551, the fiscal year 2012 appropriations act for the legislative branch. Mr. Chairman, this is the sixth appropriations bill that we will have passed through the…

You've gone back to the 2006 levels, which is a huge cut in spending. So you've done your share of helping us get the Nation's fiscal house back in order. And I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Dicks, who at the very outset of this year…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank Chairman Frelinghuysen and Mr. Visclosky for the hard, super effort. This has not been an easy bill, to say the least. And you've stayed with it, you have written a good bill, and you have, I…

This is a great bill. It's a model of fiscal restraint. I can attest to the fact that the committee has taken a long, hard look at each and every line in this bill to make sure that we are getting the greatest value from each and every…

I thank Chairman Young for yielding me this time. And thank you and your other partner, this dynamic duo that we have here between Chairman Young and Chairman Dicks. Thank you for your good work. The nearly $649 billion in total funding…

The gentleman may not be aware, but we have long had a practice on the Appropriations Committee of reprogramming funds within an agency's budget. All of the agencies have problems during the year where they need to change moneys from one…

The gentleman is not correct. This provision in the manager's amendment precludes the expenditure of this escrow account for any purpose other than Patent Office. It's in the manager's amendment, and the gentleman will have a chance to…

I welcome my colleague's comments. However, I think the gentleman has a misunderstanding about the content of that provision. The provision in the manager's bill states that no moneys can be diverted from the fee collections. All of the…

I thank the chairman for yielding the time and congratulate him and Mr. Farr on producing, I think, a good bill. The bill answers the call from Americans to reduce government spending while still providing for critical programs that keep…

For those who want to be sure that we send away from our borders illegal aliens who are criminals, they surely would understand that the 287(g) program gives us a hugely better opportunity to do that. We've got a few thousand ICE agents…

I thank the chairman for yielding me this time. I want to, at the outset, congratulate him on a great job on this bill. He and his terrific staff have worked long and hard, along with the subcommittee members, to produce, I think, a star…