On the recordJune 7, 2018
I thank the gentlewoman from New York for yielding, and I thank her for her leadership on the Appropriations Committee. I also thank my partner on the Legislative Branch Subcommittee on Appropriations, Mr. Yoder, who was chairman of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee on Appropriations until recently. He carried out his responsibilities as chairman in an inclusive and thoughtful manner. Not only did we hold a budget hearing with almost every agency funded under the bill, but we ended our markup with a bipartisan measure that gives most of the agencies in the legislative branch their full budget request. Chairman Frelinghuysen is now wielding the gavel for both the full Appropriations Committee and the Legislative Branch Subcommittee. I am grateful for the courtesy he has shown me as full committee chair, and in his short tenure so far as my subcommittee chair. I know he will continue to work with me as the ranking minority member in the same sort of respectful bipartisan manner as Mr. Yoder did. And, of course, I would like to thank the staff on both sides of the aisle: subcommittee clerk Jenny Panone, Tim Monahan, Adam Berg; and, from my office, Anne Sokolov and Ryan Keating. As Mr. Frelinghuysen noted, the Legislative Branch division of this bill provides $3.81 billion, excluding Senate items.…
