John W. Olver: “It is probably one of the most important things we do, and I think in all honesty, and Republicans and Democrats alike…”

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…

I think I'm doing the correct thing there. And I'll yield, again, for the continuation of what the gentleman from California is saying.

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…

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…