On the recordJuly 26, 2011
Reclaiming my time, I appreciate what the gentleman is trying to do. As I said, we do have some concerns with the offsets, but I am more than willing once this bill goes to conference in whatever form, depending on the outcome of this amendment, obviously, to work with the gentleman to see what we can do with the geographical programs, not just the Great Lakes programs, but there are both Republicans and Democrats that care about the geographical programs. We've tried to do the best we could there, but there are other geographical programs that the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) is concerned about and that the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran) is also concerned about. We will work with the gentleman in conference in trying to address the concerns expressed by the gentleman.
