Mr. Speaker, could I ask the remaining time? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Grimm). The gentleman from Kentucky has 11 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the managers on the part of the House have until midnight tonight, November 14, to file the conference report to accompany H.R. 2112. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of…

By the way, in closing, we're going to conference with the Senate on these three bills this afternoon--as a matter of fact, at 5 o'clock. That's the first time that there has been a House-Senate appropriations conference in years. So…

We were sidelined a good part of this year from our regular business with H.R. 1. We inherited a House that had not passed an appropriations bill for fiscal '11, so we spent the first 5 months or so of the year trying to pass a bill to…

Exactly. Nevertheless, it held us up for 5 months and kept us from doing our chores for fiscal '12. Then came along the debt ceiling increase debate, which took weeks and sucked all of the air out of everything else, so we were prevented…

That would take some doing. Nevertheless, I agree with you. I'm tickled to death to see the Senate is finally acting. They only passed one bill, up until 2 days ago, of the 12. We've passed six through the House, and have sent them over…

Mr. Speaker, I have no other speakers other than myself at this point; so I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 2112) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending…

I thank the gentleman for those words. He is exactly right. He and I started out this year both new to our jobs on the committee; but determined, we agreed with each other and committed to each other that we would work together to try to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The motion to instruct conferees on the fiscal year 2012 bill will encourage the conferees to consider and support several funding items as they negotiate the final agreement on this…

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the unanimous consent agreement of yesterday, I call up the bill (H.R. 2608) to provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring to the floor the continuing appropriations resolutions to keep the Federal Government operating until November 18, 2011, and to continue support for disaster…