Charles Taylor: “reclaiming my time, we would accept the gentleman's amendment under that representation. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the…”

Mr. Chairman, today we bring before the House for fiscal year 2004 appropriations a bill for the Department of the Interior and related agencies. This is a good bill that balances many competing needs and stays within the 302(b)…

I, too, am aware of this increasingly difficult situation, not just in the national parks, but along other public lands funded in this bill. They comprise 43 percent of the border, the southern border. We need to work together. I would…

Mr. Chairman, relating to the operation funds, we hope maybe in the conference we will be able to provide more money, after we work with the Senate, for the Interior bill. But we have a letter from the parks director, and this is the…

I yield 1 minute to the appropriations chairman, the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis).