John Yarmuth: “I welcome the gentleman from California to both Congress and the Budget Committee and I look forward to working with…”

“I welcome the gentleman from California to both Congress and the Budget Committee and I look forward to working with him. I will advise him that in just a few weeks he will have the opportunity, as a member of the Budget Committee, to go through a markup, offer amendments to the plans that will be proposed in another budget resolution that will actually come to the floor. So I look forward to that discussion and hope that will satisfy the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), the chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I know Mr. Obernolte is a new member of the committee; he might even be brand new to the House. But he said he couldn't find a single thing in this package that related to COVID? Oh, well there is $110 billion for vaccines, for testing, which has been pathetic under the Trump administration with no help. Oh, and personal protective equipment, but I guess those things don't have anything to do with COVID and the pandemic. Now, let's get real here. The first gentleman spoke and said, We want to help schools, and this bill doesn't help schools. Well, actually, yesterday they tried to cut our funding for schools. We are putting in $170 billion to reopen the schools.…”