Joseph Knollenberg: “I rise to support, obviously, the continuing resolution, and I want to commend Chairman Young for all the hard work that…”

“I rise to support, obviously, the continuing resolution, and I want to commend Chairman Young for all the hard work that he has put into this year's appropriations process. I think he has one of the most difficult jobs of anybody here in the House, but he continues to do an outstanding job. I salute him. This continuing resolution is an essential bill, and I strongly urge my colleagues to support it. The appropriations process is not an easy one. I do not think it ever has been. All we can do is take the situation we have and do the best we can. The Committee on Appropriations has produced a series of excellent bills that are ready for the floor and that we will bring to the floor when the leadership of this House determines that it is time. We have done our job and they are doing theirs. I, myself, chair the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia, and we had a bill pass committee this last week. Working closely with the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fattah), I believe we have produced a bill that is bipartisan and one that this House can support. I know it will move through the legislative process in due course. I am not going to engage in any blame game today, and I do not think it benefits anybody in this House for any of us to do so. We all want to pass the appropriations bills.”