Alan B. Mollohan: “The gentleman seeks to increase by a factor of two the hurricane intensity forecast capability. There is a lot of…”

“The gentleman seeks to increase by a factor of two the hurricane intensity forecast capability. There is a lot of concern with regard to this. We certainly are extremely sympathetic to the purpose of the amendment. We do not like the offset at all. I am wondering if the gentleman would, and I will yield to him for a discussion of this, if the gentleman would like to work with us and secure this funding, do everything we can. I think $2 million we certainly can do as we process this bill forward to conference.”