On the recordApril 7, 2011
I thank the chairman for yielding and for his great leadership. Madam Speaker, just a reminder as to why we are standing here again debating another CR on this floor is because the Democrat leadership in the last Congress did not fulfill the most basic function that we have in the United States Congress, and that is passing a budget or a single appropriations bill. As a member of this Appropriations Committee, I am pleased that today we have a CR bill that will have another $12 billion worth of cuts and that, as importantly, will fully fund the Department of Defense for the rest of this fiscal year. It was 47 days ago that we passed a bill in this House that would have kept government open, that would have cut $100 billion from the President's 2011 budget and would have fully funded our troops through the end of 2011. Any bill we pass must include full funding for our men and women serving in our military. I represent Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, one of the largest Air Force facilities in the country, and they could be forced to furlough many of the 27,000 military, civilians, and contractors. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
