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This is a peculiar amendment, it seems to me. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior, so there's no enforcement power in the Department of Transportation. Are…
I will be very brief. I serve on the Homeland Security Subcommittee for Appropriations, and I don't think that the Homeland Security authorizers have done anything along these lines, and that's where it really ought to be dealt with, I…
Reclaiming my time, we have no idea whether the Supreme Court will take this case. In the meantime, until such time it is taken and they do it, and we can't assume that, then the actions of HUD are proper in reaching a disparate impact…
I will be brief. I wish the gentleman from Minnesota great luck in solving this one. I am so happy for the people on that side of the aisle who must be just ecstatic--ecstatic--that they have a President who will take all of these things…
I will be very brief. I merely want to concur in the position of the chairman of the subcommittee, and I urge a ``no'' vote on the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered…
I would like to continue this conversation for another moment or two, and that will save me time rather than having to figure out how to get my own time, Mr. Chairman. Somewhere along the way, it will come back to me. But in the midst of…
Reclaiming my time, at my age, I can't remember what happened several days ago, and that is quite some time ago. But, you know, it will slowly come back. Eventually, it slowly comes back. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…
Excuse me. Thank you very much. Please forgive me. You don't even look alike. I think I was mistaking you for a different member of the California delegation. I thank the gentleman from Iowa for correcting me. In any case, I rise in…
The issue here seems to be--and I don't know this very well. The issue seems to be that there have been cases where discrimination has occurred, and it has been adjudicated as having occurred when there was no intent to do so in the first…
I'm not sure I have anything much to add to what my chairman has said, other than to just point out, if you look back at the number of dollars that were assigned for the fiscal year '11 bill, that was over $4.6 billion. So in 2012, the…
I oppose this amendment strongly, but not because I like a VMT, particularly, and not that I do not understand that in rural areas this can be very burdensome. However, we have to have additional revenue. The reason our infrastructure is…
In this instance, it is again a case of freezing a salaries and expenses account at the previous year's level. But this one has an interesting sidelight in that, in the legislation that we have before us, we have adopted a Presidential…
The gentleman from Georgia just wants to freeze everything. But our personnel, in an agency like this, they are subject to the civil service laws, to the personnel laws under OPM, and they are assigned in grades and then steps. They add…
I rise in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.
I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized.
The amendment that the gentleman from Georgia has now offered has to do with the Public Housing Capital Fund. The public housing infrastructure currently has an estimated $26 billion of maintenance backlog. In fact, capital repairs…
This amendment again, as the gentleman has said, is an amendment that would freeze at the level of the 2012 funding here for salaries and expenses of the Office of Community Planning and Development. Now, this office, it turns out…
And this was an executive order promulgated by President Clinton or by President Bush?
This is one of those cases in which we've gone back and forth here today with the gentleman from California. This must be the eighth or ninth of these, and it's hard to find ways of being very creative or original about what you're saying…
Again, I understand my very limited position here on this one, but I do rise in opposition to the amendment. I am a strong supporter of the Sustainable Communities Program, and I am disappointed that there is no funding in this bill for…
Very briefly, I would just like to congratulate the gentleman from Ohio for being watchful of this sort of thing. This is the sort of thing that, it seems to me, ought to be really very logical. And I have supported it in the past, as he…
How does that guarantee that California's gas tax moneys will not be used for high-speed rail?
The amendment that has been offered removes a 3 percent increase in the administrative account for the Office of Public and Indian Housing. I rise to oppose the amendment. In this instance, the cuts in the Office of Public and Indian…
Well, I don't know how this amendment is going to solve the problem that you have exactly, but the chairman has agreed to adopt it. So I will state an objection because I really don't understand how this is going to solve your problem, but…
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