On the recordDecember 12, 2019
Mr. Speaker, we are encouraged by the progress that we are seeing and involved in on the appropriations bills to properly fund the government. As we have both discussed for some time now, the important job of Congress exercising its power of the purse is critical. The willingness for all sides to work together--House, Senate, Republican, Democrat, along with the White House--to get to a place where we can reach an agreement on how to properly fund our troops not for a month or two at a time but for the entire year, the value that it gives those men and women in uniform, the ability for our generals to acquire the tools that are necessary so that they can train safely and defend our country effectively, it is well served when we reach this agreement. I am encouraged by the progress the gentleman reflected. Hopefully, we can get to that point where, early next week, those bills are agreed upon, finalized, passed with large bipartisan majorities, which I have no doubt we will produce, and then get those signed by the President and move to USMCA, as the gentleman talked about. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman.
