House Proceeding 09-25-09 on Sep 25th, 2009 :: 0:30:00 to 0:31:30
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David R. Obey: so i will have legislative appropriations is ok. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama reserves the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from wisconsin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recnized. mr. obey: madam speaker, i would simply note in light of the

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Speech By: David R. Obey

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David R. Obey: gentleman from connecticut comments there are at least seven outstanding issues on homeland security that have yet to be resolved to my knowledge. one is the border fence, another is the national bioand agriculture defense facility. there is an argument about where that's supposed to go. we have the gtmo issue. we have immigration issues.

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David R. Obey: and we have fema. if the gentleman wants to resolve those by agreeing with our position on each of them, i would be happy to see them go to conference right now. but the fact is no one is suggesting -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. ms. wasserman schultz: yield two additional minutes. mr. obey: no one has suggested they delay the homeland security bill in any manner whatsoever.

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David R. Obey: we are noting there are significant substantive differences and under the rules of the body we can't bring conference bills back to this house until we have reached agreement on all of those differences. so i think it's preposterous to suggest this bill is being delayed in any way. the only thing that is delaying

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David R. Obey: it is honest agreement. and until last night the disagreement that we had with the senate, which precluded us from bringing up virtually any