David Price

I just want to make sure we are clear on how that is unfolding and what kind of timeline you are working with here.

Your request continues to lowball funding in my view for the flood hazard mapping and Risk Analysis Program which if adopted would cut funding for this program by 60 percent in two years when we all know that flooding is the most frequent…

I, too, want to begin this morning by expressing my sympathy, the good wishes of this Subcommittee and the Nation to the Coast Guard and its families for the tragedy suffered last week in Mobile Bay.

Your leadership in this critical government function has brought us full circle.

Your new national preparedness grant proposal has raised many questions as to how it will work.

The work that the Federal Emergency Management Agency does is critical to helping our country prepare for, mitigate against, and recover from disasters.

That seems like a long time. Why will it take this long?

I am proud to stand with the President and working Americans today by supporting this measure, which will add an average of $1,000 to the paychecks of working North Carolinians this year, extend unemployment benefits for Americans who have…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and want to note that today we could be debating a jobs package. We could be debating a comprehensive effort to balance our budget. But instead, we're focusing on a bill to enshrine failed…

Once again, instead of debating a bill that would create jobs and bring this economy back or a comprehensive effort to put our fiscal house in order, we're here on this floor tonight focusing on a so-called budget reform bill. This bill…

It is a scandal that hundreds of programs are unauthorized.

By being able to budget for at least 2 years, you can plan ahead a little better.

I want to give my friend and my colleague Congressman Norman Dicks a lot of credit.

So I urge colleagues to reject the siren song of biennial budgeting, to redouble our efforts to address the underlying causes of our long-term fiscal challenges.

I am not a huge fan of the budget process, and I think in many ways it does not serve us well.

I don't think that we could make it much worse than it is today.

I think we all agree that the system needs to be improved.

I think it has created sound fiscal policy in Ohio, and it has worked for decades.

I see nothing in the biennial budgeting proposal that would really change the way appropriations is working except just to cut the process in half.

In order to get the proper oversight, you have got to have time.

There is nothing in a biennial budget that prevents supplemental or budget correction bills.

The problem was that Chairman Dicks had a good defense bill, but couldn't get it on the floor.

The founders didn't say you had to do it for 2 years, but they did say you can't do it for longer than 2 years.

the annual appropriations process is broken.

I have a deep respect for my good friend Chairman Dreier, whose concern for the well being of our institution is as great and as genuine as any member of this House.