Nick Rahall

We need a partnership, a co-partnership here, if you will, with GSA and OMB to work through this issue.

Appropriations shall not be made available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros.

I will miss working with you and all of my esteem colleagues from both sides of the aisle, but I know that with your leadership, and your bipartisanship, and your transparent manner of operating this committee, this Nation's future is in…

I would urge my colleagues to ensure that labor remains engaged in the conversation, and that aviation programs receive robust, stable funding and to keep air traffic control in the realm of good Government, where it belongs.

Your commitment to bipartisanship has proven that together we can do great things.

This committee is where the future of this country is at, in my opinion.

I am happy to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Enyart), who is on the Agriculture Committee and an original sponsor of the legislation. He has been of tremendous help in moving this forward.

At this time, I am happy to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran), who is leaving this august body, but certainly, we will continue to rely upon his wisdom and friendship, wisdom that is except on this particular bill…

At this time, it is my pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), a very powerful lady on the Committee on Appropriations, the ranking member on Energy and Water Development.

I am very happy at this time to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), a strong supporter, the cosponsor of this legislation, original cosponsor of it, and the ranking member of the Committee on Agriculture.

I am very honored at this time to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop), the distinguished ranking member of our Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on our Transportation Committee, although we are not in…

It is my honor to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), a former member of our powerful House Transportation Committee, who decided to go to the esteemed Ways and Means Committee.

I am honored to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the distinguished ranking member on our Highways and Transit Subcommittee.

At this time, I am honored to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price), a distinguished member of the Military Construction-VA Appropriations Committee.

I am honored to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Kirkpatrick), a true leader on veterans issues and a member of the VA conference committee.

I am very happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished minority whip and a strong supporter of our infrastructure in this country.

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Hahn), a very valued member of our Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson).

But in these downturns in the past, we have always felt the Government is trying to help us get out of these downturns in the coal industry. That is not the feeling now.

I am proud to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi), a real champion of Buy American provisions in everything we do in this Congress.

I am happy to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop), our distinguished ranking member. Again, I thank him for his tremendous vision and superb knowledge which has brought this conference report to the floor today.

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Duncan). Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

These paid internships I think are a very important part of making sure that the people that we get in the Federal Government are not just people who can afford to not work.

The one empty seat we will have at that witness table... belongs to the one entity at the epicenter of all of this, the one who totally blew it and then gave the bad information.