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Permission To File Supplemental Reports On H.R. 2641, Energy And Water Development And Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008; H.R. 2643...

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Date: June 14, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources


PERMISSION TO FILE SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS ON H.R. 2641, ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008; H.R. 2643, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008; AND PROVIDING FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2638, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008 -- (House of Representatives - June 14, 2007)

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Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, reserving the right to object, I have a very simple question.

I think I am a very logical person. I don't understand why we are going to be voting on the water bill and then coming back and voting on the earmarks attached to another bill. That does not seem logical to me.

Mr. OBEY. No. If the gentlewoman would yield, it is not going to be attached to another bill. The bill is already out of committee. It needs to proceed. It takes a great deal of time. There are a lot of things in that bill besides earmarks, thank God. We are trying to move the business ahead as fast as we can.

What this agreement states is that we will finish all of the nonproject-oriented issues in that bill. We will complete consideration of the bill except we will then rise, and when the report is finished that will be attached to the energy and water bill, it will be reported to the full House. When it is reported to the full House, we will then have before the House for consideration the projects that are included in that report and that will be during consideration of the energy and water bill itself. So it will not be a separate bill, it is the energy and water bill.

We are just allowing the projects to catch up to the bill. And then before the bill goes to the Senate, you will have a full opportunity to deal with the report and the energy and water bill simultaneously.

Ms. FOXX. Thank you.

Madam Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of objection.

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