John W. Olver: “I would rather create jobs than detention facilities.”

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…

Reclaiming my time, the language of the amendment, as I have it before me, says none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for high-speed rail in the State of California, or for the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

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

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…