Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the resolution just adopted, 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, and for other…

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Diaz-Balart) a valued member of our committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), the distinguished chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee on Appropriations.

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished chair of the Labor-HHS Subcommittee, the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Rehberg).

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to a very hardworking member of our committee, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole).

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

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

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

Now, you passed a bill back in June that provided $1 billion for FEMA for disaster relief; is that right?

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

Madam Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. The gentleman mentioned in his statement that we had not used offsets to fund disaster relief; I beg to differ. In 2001, emergency supplemental, offset; 2002, emergency supplemental, offset; 2004…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring to the floor the continuing appropriations resolution to keep the Federal Government operating until November 18 of this year. For procedural reasons, this is being done as an amendment to the Senate…