Rob Bishop: “I want to thank you for appearing before this committee to present your agencies' budget requests.”

Yesterday, I called Lisa Pittman, who is the counsel for our committee, to make sure we had somebody covering us for floor time. She chastised me then, saying that under my condition, I need to ask about calling a doctor first, not calling…

There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak on the bills. It is kind of a waste of time.

The NOAA Corps is a very small, underutilized but uniformed service group. It prevents questions with this type of group, with their history that they have, first of all: Why should they exist in the first place? But more significantly…

Is there any time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 15 minutes remaining.