We have a very unique situation in this funding resolution; and I have been here 8 years, and for one of the first times we have a major committee, which is important, and has been created, and now we have to do the funding for it. So this year our ranking member and me and the members of the committee had even a bigger task to set up the funding, the process for that committee for the gentleman from California (Chairman Cox) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner), ranking member, and to make sure that important committee can function and that it really is considered absolutely outside the box.
Bob Ney: “We have a very unique situation in this funding resolution; and I have been here 8 years, and for one of the first times…”
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Discussing the funding resolution for a newly created major committee.
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