John W. Olver: “I view the Department's 2012 budget request as a reflection of the ambitious vision needed to ensure America's…”

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…

I rise in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.

Person, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes.

Here we have kind of the yang that went with the yin. The gentleman's amendment here a few minutes ago, the last one that he offered, was $3.5 billion, and taking that out of this allocation. {time} 1420 In this case, it's a $6 million…