Chairman. I rise today in opposition to the legislation before us on the House floor which would spend $3.2 billion on various overseas military expeditions and pay for it by cutting both defense and domestic programs. It is the first time in my memory where Congress has cut domestic programslike clean coal technology. worker retraining. and new school constructionto pay for our invasion of Haiti. missions to Bosnia. our withdrawal from Somalia. and Cuban refugee programs. This legislation takes money from potential jobcreating initiatives like clean coal technology and worker retraining and instead funnels into wasteful programs such as paying back our allies for equipment they used to help with our invasion of Haiti. There is no reason why other defense programs. or our foreign aid program. cannot be cut to accommodate this supplemental appropriation.