I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar), a member of the Appropriations Committee.

Before I yield to our next speaker, I would just thank Mr. Culberson. I just want to thank you, Mr. Culberson, because, of course, we are all totally supportive of this aid package, but I remember that you were the only Member from the…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 426.

I wish we were considering bills under regular order, but I hope that in the weeks ahead we can work together to raise the budget caps and enact bipartisan bills we can all support. I thank Chairman Frelinghuysen, my friend; and Kay…

I am delighted to yield 6 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies.

I think I closed prematurely without thanking you for your leadership. It has been really a pleasure working with you. I do hope that as we move the process forward, we will be able to have a final product that we can all be very proud of…

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green).

I am very pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar).

In closing, I want to reiterate that this bill is a departure from regular order, wastes $1.6 billion on Trump's border wall, uses fraudulent defense numbers, guts critical investments in clean energy, includes poison-pill riders, leaves…

I am pleased to yield 6 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from California (Ms. Roybal-Allard) who is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

I, too, want to thank my very good friends, Chairman Ed Royce, Ranking Member Eliot Engel, my fellow New Yorker, and the strong advocate, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. I want to thank them for advancing this very important resolution. I rise in…

I am pleased to yield 6 minutes to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur).