John W. Olver: “the money is assigned to be used either for the payment for the service, the contract for the service itself, or 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…

Woman, I rise in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.

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…

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…