Sherwood Boehlert: “I think this amendment enhances the bill. It adds to the quality of an already good bill, and we are pleased to accept…”

H.R. 3893 will increase the deficit, harm the environment, undermine the states and give charity to oil companies while doing virtually nothing, virtually nothing to help consumers.

I will complete the balance of my time by just once again emphasizing that all is not over, all is not hunky-dory, as the phrase goes; but there has been significant movement in the right direction, thanks to good intelligence, thanks to…

The only reason we left out Sicily, because the initial was 6 countries in 6 days; but as the gentlewoman will recall, when we added Libya, there were requirements on the pilots in that they could not fly a certain amount of time beyond…

The worst possible scenario is inaction, no one doing anything.