Chairman, I wish we were considering bills under
regular order, but I hope that in the weeks ahead we can work together
to raise the budget caps and enact bipartisan bills we can all support. I thank Chairman Frelinghuysen, my friend; and Kay Granger, the
chair; and, of course, Pete Visclosky for your hard work on this bill. However, this is not the regular way to proceed. I urge my colleagues
to vote ``no'' on this bill which would waste $1.6 billion on Trump's
border wall, use fraudulent defense numbers, gut critical investments
in clean energy, include poison pill riders, and leave the remaining
spending bills with no path forward. Mr. Chairman, as I conclude, I thank again all of the Members, all of
my hardworking staff on both sides of the aisle.
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