David Price

I thank the gentleman for that clarification. My remarks will await the proper amendment.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I, too, want to reluctantly express my opposition to this amendment. Madam Chair, I take second place to no one in this body as the champion of the TIGER program, as I hope was evident in my support for…

I thank my colleague for offering this amendment. It calls attention to the gross underfunding in this bill, not just of TIGER, but of virtually every HUD and transportation program so that it is very hard, of course, to find offsets…

I have no further speakers, so I yield back the balance of my time.

May I inquire as to how much time both sides have remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from North Carolina has 14 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Florida has 15 minutes remaining.

I claim the time in opposition to this amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I do want to take a little extra time to mention some things connected to this that I think need to come to our colleagues' attention. First of all, this is not an ideal offset that Mr. Nadler has chosen. This is simply an example of the…

I claim the time in opposition with considerable enthusiasm. It is as though what I said 5 minutes ago about the deficiencies of this bill--this whole budget strategy that has left us so unable to address our needs--it is as though the…

I think it is very important that this moment not pass without us expressing appreciation to Mr. Nadler and to Ms. Norton for these amendments they have offered, because they are addressing a critical issue, a critical deficiency in this…

I appreciate the chairman's yielding. I would like to echo his opposition to this amendment. I have just retrieved here a list of New Start projects that, under the present funding levels of the bill, probably aren't going to be able to be…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will be postponed. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows…

I very strongly oppose this amendment which, like the gentleman's previous amendment, would essentially end passenger rail service in this country. It is just that drastic. It is also targeting passenger rail in a way that obscures the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, Mr. Chairman. During the full committee consideration of this legislation, the chairman will recall that we discussed the accompanying report language that, for the first time, would allocate NSF…

I thank the gentleman. This is critically important. I appreciate the chance to work on this, as the legislation moves forward.

I appreciate my colleague from Florida yielding, and I appreciate the work that she and colleagues on both sides of the aisle have done on this bill. I want to commend them for their work. Mr. Chairman, I do want to address an amendment…

We are now in a very different situation. Since the 1990s, we have had trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue.

Are we now in a new norm of 2-year budgets?

I remember first testifying about biennial budgeting something like 15 years ago before the House Rules Committee.

What we have got to do is muster the political will to make difficult and politically costly decisions, including a comprehensive budget plan that addresses the main drivers--the main drivers--of our deficits and debt, namely, tax…

I would argue that the primary generator of economic uncertainty in the last decade in the United States has been the United States Congress.

By not paying attention to the budget, by not paying attention to appropriations, by not paying attention to oversight, we are transferring immense political power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

A democratic Government cannot function when a small faction chooses to hold the American people hostage.

We should all redouble our efforts to address instead the underlying causes of our long-term fiscal challenges.

There are three great battles in Congress. One is the battle between the parties, Democrat on Republican. The other great battle is the battle between the branches, executive versus legislative.

The more certainty the better.