David Thomas: “Mr. Speaker, just in case anybody believes any of those figures that were mentioned by the gentlewoman from California…”

That is boilerplate language that is used. This is something that we do virtually every year because there are always accounting errors, and this allows for the correcting of the accounting errors.

this particular agreement is an important one for a number of reasons. One, the United States and Oman have been friends in a formal way for almost 100 years. The Sultanate of Oman occupies an important geopolitical location in the world…

I think this is a very equitable and timely distribution of these funds. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

The amendment will bring transparency and discipline, but not order, to this budget process. The budget resolution is supposed to provide a blueprint for Government spending and allocate dollars for appropriators to spend in particular…