David Obey: “this motion will, as I said, provide increases to the following accounts: For veterans medical care it will provide a…”

“this motion will, as I said, provide increases to the following accounts: For veterans medical care it will provide a $2.4 billion increase; for the National Institutes of Health for bioterrorism and general research it will increase funding by $2.8 billion; for FEMA for State and local first responders it will increase funding by $2.6 billion; for the Securities and Exchange Commission for corporate oversight it will increase funding by $300 million to finally put some teeth back in that agency; and it ensures that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sufficient funding to provide effective oversight of the SEC and corporate accounting standards. There are other items that I would like to have in the recommit motion, Mr. Speaker, but because of the parliamentary situation, for instance, we are precluded from including items that would include an extension of the unemployment compensation program to long-term unemployed workers. We are precluded from adding funding that was just raised by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Lampson) on the Medicare givebacks for providers, and we have not been able to include funding at this point for additional support for education. That does not mean those items should not also be addressed. They should.”