I thank the gentleman for his question. He has mentioned this before. I am talking to the committee whose jurisdiction this bill is in to consider what they want to do with it, and I am waiting to hear back from them.
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I understand that, but what you have said is that none of the funds in this bill can be spent for that objective.
There have been over 55 of these amendments. There have been some passed on voice vote. Every one put on the roll has lost, and this one will lose. It is a nonserious amendment and not offered as a serious effort to legislate as so many…
I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York will be postponed.
This is another time when we retreat from oversight. We talk a lot about oversight on the Committee on Appropriations. We talk a lot about oversight in the authorizing committees, that we need to find out what the people are doing, what we…
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