House Proceeding 04-06-06 on Apr 6th, 2006 :: 2:27:59 to 2:30:08
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Speech By: Chet Edwards

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Chet Edwards: gentleman from iowa. mr. nussle: yes. at this time i would yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana and a member of the committee. the chairman: the gentleman from indiana is recognized

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Chris Chocola: for two minutes. mr. chocola: thank you, mr. chairman. and i'd like to thank the chairman for yielding and thank him for his leadership and his service here in congress in bringing this

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Speech By: Chris Chocola

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Chris Chocola: budget to the floor. and, mr. chairman, i rise in support of the budget. and what i'd like to do is point out really i think an historic aspect to this budget,, because i think for the

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Chris Chocola: first time i'm aware of, we're actually budgeting for manages. mr. chairman, most families understand that it's important and prudent to set aside money for a rainy day, even a lot of states

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Chris Chocola: actually budget for emergencies in their annual budgets. congress, however, rarely, if ever, budgets for emergencies despite the fact that we spend taxpayer dollars on emergencies every single

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Chris Chocola: year. i'm afraid that this is just not an oversight. it's actually a provision or a back door means to exceed our resolution every year, because after allocating all of the available resources,

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Chris Chocola: somehow members can find unforeseen emergency needs that require us to break the budget many times without justification. but in this year's resolution we're actually starting to clean up

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Chris Chocola: that process by bringing transparency and accountability to the process. we're setting aside an emergency reserve fund for natural disasters and we're budgeting for money that we know we're going

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Chris Chocola: to spend. any emergency spending that would exceed the reserve would have to be brought back to the budget committee for clearance, and it ensures that the committees work the way they're supposed

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Chris Chocola: to work. the appropriations committee can allocate the resources against competing priorities and the budget committee can set limits on spending and ensure those limits are enforced.

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Chris Chocola: so, mr. chairman, budgeting for manages will help expedite the delivery of funds for those people in need, it will deter breaking the limits of the budget with routine spending, and it provides

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Chris Chocola: a more honest presentation of the federal budget to the american people. so, mr. chairman, i support this budget. i support this provision. and i encourage my colleagues to do the same. i yield

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Chris Chocola: back. the chairman: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from south carolina. mr. spratt: mr. chairman, i yield myself one minute. the chairman: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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Chris Chocola: mr. spratt: mr. chairman, in the area of health care, too, there is a major difference between us. some six or seven years ago, we got together on a bipartisan basis and agreed that every

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John M. Jr.Spratt: year we would try to increase the budget of the n.i.h. such that over five years it would be doubled. we achieved that goal, and now every year, the bush administration is marching us right

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Speech By: John M. Jr.Spratt