James T. Callahan: “I am going to miss the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), too; but I do not know that I really am going to miss…”

“I am going to miss the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), too; but I do not know that I really am going to miss her in this capacity. But I do appreciate what she has given to me in the form of friendship, in the form of intelligence, the great contributions she has made. I am sort of like the country singer David Allan Coe. Once he said he had thought he had written the perfect song. The gentlewoman from California says there will be an opportunity for us to praise each other sometime later on in the process, but I, like David Allan Coe, think that I have written the perfect bill. I think there is a good possibility that the Senate may just accept my bill, Mr. Chairman, and there might not be a conference; and, therefore, we will not have these opportunities. But, nevertheless, to our colleagues who are listening, as we go into the rest of this bill, I would encourage my colleagues to look at what we have done, and that is, the fact that we have drafted the best bill that we possibly could draft under the circumstances of the allocations that forced this to this point. I know there are some people who differ from me. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Sanchez) a few minutes ago was talking about a lack of attention to Latin America. Surely she jests because, under my chairmanship, we have quadrupled assistance to Latin America. Just in the last 3 years, we have given them nearly $3 billion.”