Providing For Consideration Of H.R. 2892, Department Of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010

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Mr. LATTA. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding.

Madam Speaker, last night we brought, in my opinion, a very important amendment before the Rules Committee dealing with what I called the Homeland Security Administration run amok with their bureaucrats. And what this would do is, this amendment would prevent the Homeland Security Administration from being able to utilize the dollars under the bill to say that over 36 million Americans that have a certain type of pocketknife, I don't care if it is from a hunter or a fisherman or a farmer or a person that works in a factory or a police officer or a firefighter, and make these illegal. And it is sad that we have to do it this way, that instead of bringing them here to the floor that we have to go through the Rules Committee. But I think that the amendment that we offered last night, along with my colleague from Idaho (Mr. Minnick), that it is an important thing to save jobs in this country. I think he said in his district alone it would be over some 200 hundred jobs. Nationally you are looking at over 4,000 individuals in a time when we are losing jobs in this country; 4,000 jobs could be affected, and ancillary jobs by over 20,000 jobs. So I really stress that this is an important amendment. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding.

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