Speech #1040034839

Since that committee meeting. we have been working on a substitute amendment to the Commerce. Justice. and State chapter that we can both support. with the ground rules that we must propose a rescission in place of any rescission currently in the bill that is deleted. Our amendment restores all but $10 million of the Immigration Emergency Fund appropriation and most of the appropriation in the Commerce Departments Advanced Technology Program. The House had proposed cutting $70 million from the Justice Fund and $107 million from the Commerce Departments ATP Program. All of the alternative offsets that this amendment proposes are from accounts within our subcommittees jurisdiction. and we have retained the $177 million in deficit reduction proposed in both the House bill and the committee recommended bill.