Madam Chair, once again, I am somewhat confused as to the point and direction of this particular amendment. If it is about the military line, this amendment does nothing to it. If it is about protecting the coast of Florida, this amendment does nothing to it. It is about having a better way of doing the system to provide more protection. It moves us back and removes the ability of the department--BSEE, in this situation--to protect and realize that because it takes away their creative alternatives. There are always better ways of doing something. This prohibits us from doing it. This is the wrong amendment on the wrong bill that gives us the wrong direction. Madam Chair, I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Crist). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Barragan The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 printed in part B of House Report 116-200.
Share & report
More from Rob Bishop
Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I actually have left here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. This bill is actually extremely poorly drafted. It assumes basic things. But if, for instance, as we said, the royalties don't show up as we are anticipating, we don't have that $1 billion to buy more…
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry). Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for his friendship and his encouragement. Maybe not encouragement on this specific bill, but I am proud…
Madam Chair, even though this is another wonderful program that already has three different agencies that do the same thing and they have the authority to do it, in the Christmas spirit--maybe the gentleman from Michigan will find the…





