Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 405, 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 purposes…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 2608. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the…

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…

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…

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. 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…

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…

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…

Madam Speaker, 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…

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…