Norman D. Dicks: “I just want to summarize again: I'm urging a ``no'' vote on this continuing resolution. We have voted twice, many of us…”

“I just want to summarize again: I'm urging a ``no'' vote on this continuing resolution. We have voted twice, many of us on this side, for reasonable continuing resolutions that have gotten us to this point. This one is unreasonable. The President has made it clear that he will veto this bill. I believe what the gentleman from Maryland was attempting to do was the smart and pragmatic thing, and that was to go with a clean CR that would have kept the government open, that would have protected the troops, made sure that they got paid, and would have passed the Senate and been adopted by the President and signed into law. But they have chosen to put in a highly controversial rider on abortion in the District of Columbia which is ideological. This is not something that a serious appropriations committee would do in the middle of a government crisis, and I hope the American people will understand that. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 2\1/4\ minutes.”