John W. Olver: “At this point, I really don't know whether your understanding is anywhere close to mine. I think this is an amendment…”

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…

The amendment that the gentleman from Georgia has now offered has to do with the Public Housing Capital Fund. The public housing infrastructure currently has an estimated $26 billion of maintenance backlog. In fact, capital repairs…

I will be very brief. I serve on the Homeland Security Subcommittee for Appropriations, and I don't think that the Homeland Security authorizers have done anything along these lines, and that's where it really ought to be dealt with, I…

This is a peculiar amendment, it seems to me. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior, so there's no enforcement power in the Department of Transportation. Are…