Sean Patrick Maloney: “I really feel that there is not a point of order to this because it really is an incredibly important crisis in our…”

“I really feel that there is not a point of order to this because it really is an incredibly important crisis in our country, and I would like to have the opportunity to compliment the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for her leadership and for bringing this to the floor. The increase for the animal and plant and health inspection service is absolutely critical. With trade has come an influx of many invasive species that if we do not adequately control them can literally destroy forests, as they have in my district in New York with the Asian Longhorn beetle, for which there is no known way to stop it except to chop down the tree and everything else around the vicinity. I feel that this is an incredibly important appropriations she is talking about, and I really support it completely, and that it is important to the health and safety and well-being of Americans and of our vegetable life and our plant life and our other areas that she mentioned. So I am here strongly in support of her amendment and strongly suggest that the rule of order not be put in place because this is so critical, really, to the concerns of this Nation.”