On the recordOctober 9, 2013
through the Chair, I want to pose a question about the budget conference committee. I think it is something that has puzzled a lot of people across America. We hear some folks standing and giving speeches saying for 6 months we have been trying to get a conference committee and we have other folks who are standing and saying we will be glad to go to conference as long as there is a deal beforehand on exactly what is done in the conference committee. In that regard, I thought it would be useful to have a little bit of perspective here. My understanding is that anything that comes out of the budget conference committee would have to have agreement of both the team of delegates from the House side and the team of delegates from the Senate side. That is a question I ask of the ranking member of the Budget Committee, to clarify that process? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
