John W. Olver: “I fully agree that it is not under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations to do, but this is passing the…”

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…

Reclaiming my time, at my age, I can't remember what happened several days ago, and that is quite some time ago. But, you know, it will slowly come back. Eventually, it slowly comes back. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…

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…

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.