John W. Olver: “I am in strong opposition to the Kasich/ Shays/Condit amendment, which threatens unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces…”

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…

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 will be brief. I wish the gentleman from Minnesota great luck in solving this one. I am so happy for the people on that side of the aisle who must be just ecstatic--ecstatic--that they have a President who will take all of these things…

I will be very brief. I merely want to concur in the position of the chairman of the subcommittee, and I urge a ``no'' vote on the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered…