John W. Olver: “How does that guarantee that California's gas tax moneys will not be used for high-speed rail?”

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…

The European Union has implemented an emissions trading regimen as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels. They are not succeeding very much. They are putting in a fairly hard effort to do that, but the…

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized.

In any case, I don't object to the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment Offered…