Mark Neumann: “I rise to answer some of the things that have been said from the other side of the aisle here this afternoon. To the…”

“I rise to answer some of the things that have been said from the other side of the aisle here this afternoon. To the gentleman from Indiana, my good friend and one of the brightest and most well-respected Members of the freshman class that came in in 1995, who does not serve on the Committee on Appropriations, I would say that I do serve on the Committee on Appropriations and the mere suggestion that somehow legislating on an appropriations bill is not the appropriate procedure in this body is almost a joking matter, when one looks at how many times it occurs not only at the full House debate level, but at the subcommittee level and at the full committee level. Mr. Chairman, I would invite the gentleman from Indiana to join us in an appropriations meeting some day and see how many times in fact they do legislate on an appropriation bill. The legislation passes, it gets added to the bill, and any sort of an inference that the gentleman from Indiana is inappropriate in acting in this manner is just plain wrong. So, Mr. Chairman, I conclude my remarks to one of the brightest and most well-respected Members of this body by suggesting that legislating on an appropriations bill is a very common practice.”