On the recordSeptember 24, 2003
I rise, regretfully, to say that I have a problem with this legislation. But my issue is not with title I or title II of the conference agreement, the legislative branch appropriations bill. I do not have any problem with that appropriations billing. It is actually a good bipartisan bill and a final conference agreement. In fact, the conference agreement went very quickly, as did the markup on the bill itself, done in a bipartisan manner. My problem is with the third title of the bill which provides additional supplemental funds for wildland fires, NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, and emergency natural disaster assistance. But I agree with the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston) that the legislative branch titles are worthy of bipartisan support. The third title, though, should be sent back to conference.
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