James T. Callahan: “I compliment the gentlewoman on the amendment and I say that I agree to accept the amendment, and I might remind her…”

“I compliment the gentlewoman on the amendment and I say that I agree to accept the amendment, and I might remind her that during this entire process in our conversations with the President and our conversations with the Department of State, the Secretary of State, that I have repeatedly told them in the beginning they are not asking for a sufficient amount of money to handle the true needs of the refugees that we are going to need for the next several months. The response was, as I understood it, Mr. Chairman, that they felt like this would at least get them through June or July, and maybe they could come back for another supplemental during that period of time. But we are going to be very busy during that period of time with the other appropriations bills, and I think it was not wise for the administration not to accept a sufficient amount of money. So I compliment the gentlewoman from California for bringing the level of funding back up, with her amendment, to the $566 million that the President initially requested, and I would accept the amendment.”