Chaka Fattah

I concur with your point of view, and I hope that the amendment is withdrawn. But I think that the maker of the proponent amendment is correct that we need to move in this direction. We not only want to make sure that the backlog is ended…

Judge, I will just say this then, reclaiming my time, that everybody, even those who are not involved in law enforcement, understands the challenge of having a firearm in which the sound is suppressed. We just had an incident in one of our…

Right. Now, in this instance, in 2006, our information is that there were 4,600 of these applications, and then that grew to 40,000 in 2012 and then 72,000 in 2013 and 90,000 in 2014. Are those numbers relatively accurate, as best as you…

This is the amendment relative to trust and gun trust and whether there needs to be a background check or not?

I know the chairman is quite aware of how these words, ``donation,'' ``mandatory,'' ``settlement,'' so forth and so on, might be applied and abused in various ways. Again, obviously, if this is something the majority wants to do, they will…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania for 5 minutes.

Let me remind the House that we had another Texan--he was the President of the United States--and it was under his administration that the questions that were put together in the community survey were developed under that administration…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

I want to thank the gentlewoman for her steadfastness and her focus on this matter and pledge to her that I am going to work with the chairman as we go forward to see that we get this incorporated in the final product of our bill.

I would like to thank the ranking member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce for raising this important issue. I assure him that it is my intention that we will be working between here and the final bill to improve upon this…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

I wanted to say that I concur completely with the chairman, and I am opposed to the amendment.

I think with the understanding that the chairman has laid out, your accepting this amendment would move us forward, and I agree. I think we have a clear understanding that you are accepting it, but we will work together to make sure it…

I just wanted to indicate that on behalf of the minority, we support your amendment and are prepared to agree to it.

We had a big celebration at the Ben Franklin Institute in Philadelphia for electric cars, and there was such a variety of vehicles. Alternative fuels are important. I think that the gentleman's amendment is one that we have accepted in…

I am very supportive of the Commercial Crew Program, and I think that there is a shortfall in that particular program. I think that is what the gentleman is referring to in his hope that we can address that shortfall so that we don't have…

This is an appropriations bill. I just want everybody to know it is $2 million per inmate at Guantanamo. It is a premium facility, $2 million per inmate. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman from New York has expired. {time} 2100

I visited at the ATF headquarters. In looking at their work particularly focused on explosives--and their new site in Alabama--looking at some of the work that they are doing around the country, it is so vitally important that I think at…

We are in agreement again, maybe coming to it from different angles, but the important thing is we are at a ``yes'' on this amendment. The way we all get to these points may be different. I yield back the balance of my time.

I support the effort here to increase funding for a very important program that is addressing a major problem in our country. I divorce myself from the offset, not in terms of the actual offset, but in any criticism of the ATF. I think…

I claim the time in opposition, but I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I thank the chairman and I thank the gentleman from Texas for offering this amendment. I also support it. We have already put some dollars available for this purpose, but adding another additional $10 million gets us closer to the goal…

We made some significant progress, but more needs to be done. I want to thank the gentleman for his amendment. The committee has made this a very high priority. I thank the chairman for his leadership in this regard. We are all in…

I agree with the spirit. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy).

If the proposal would have been to put this money in the veterans courts or drug courts or youth mentoring, I probably wouldn't be standing; but the idea of putting it into savings when we know that the allocation is already shy of what we…