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35–720 2007

MARKUP OF H. RES. 202: COMMITTEE FUNDING 

RESOLUTION 

MEETING 

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON 

HOUSE ADMINISTRATION 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS 

FIRST SESSION 

MEETING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 1, 2007 

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COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION 

JUANITA MILLENDER-MCDONALD, California, Chairwoman 

ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania 

ZOE LOFGREN, California 

MICHAEL E. CAPUANO, Massachusetts 

CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas 

SUSAN DAVIS, California 

VERNON J. EHLERS, Michigan, 

Ranking Minority Member 

DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California 

KEVIN MCCARTHY, California 

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MARKUP OF H. RES. 202: COMMITTEE 

FUNDING RESOLUTION 

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2007 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION, 

Washington, DC. 

The committee met, pursuant to call, at 4:05 p.m., in room 1310, 

Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Juanita Millender-McDonald (chairwoman of the committee) presiding. 

Present: Representatives Millender-McDonald, Capuano, Gonzalez, Davis, Ehlers, Lofgren and McCarthy. 

Staff Present: Charles Howell, Chief Counsel; Matt Pinkus, Professional Staff/Parliamentarian; and Kristin McCowan, Chief Legislative Clerk. 

The CHAIRWOMAN. The committee will now come to order. Good 

afternoon. I do recognize a quorum is present. With that, I wanted 

to just say that the chairpersons whom I spoke with today, while 

they were a little, well not disgruntled, but they were a little disappointed with the very slight increase, they accepted it very well. 

They were very gracious, and so we are very pleased that all committee budgets are now in. 

With that, I call up House Resolution 202, the primary expense 

resolution for House Committees for the 110th Congress. It is 

available in the Members’ packets if they choose to review that. 

Without objection, the Resolution will be considered as read and 

open to amendment at any time. 

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The CHAIRWOMAN. The Chair will now offer the Chair’s mark, an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute, which is in the Members’ 

packet. 

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The CHAIRWOMAN. Are there any objections to dispensing with 

the reading of the amendment? Hearing none, the Chair now recognizes herself for 5 minutes to speak on the amendment. 

I am going to forgo that. I think, as I said earlier, the Chairs 

were very cordial and were amenable to the slight increase that we 

are giving them. All budgets are in, and all of the Chairs have now 

consented to their budgets. So we are able to move forward. 

I would like to thank the Members of this Committee who were 

so diligent in staying for all those long hours yesterday. I think it 

was the Ranking Member who said he had no idea we would finish 

in one day, but indeed, we did, and it was quite a leap. Nevertheless, here we are now to mark this up, and send this to the Floor 

in the form of a resolution. This is an omnibus package. 

Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the 

amendment in the nature of a substitute. The question is on the 

amendment. All those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. 

The ayes have it, and the amendment is agreed to. 

Now I would like to recognize Mr. Gonzalez to offer a motion. 

Mr. GONZALEZ. Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I 

would move that the Committee report House Resolution 202 favorably to the House with an amendment. 

The CHAIRWOMAN. Thank you. The question is on the motion to 

report favorably. Before I take the ayes and nays, I will defer to 

the Ranking Member for his comments. 

Mr. EHLERS. Thank you, Madam Chair. 

First of all, congratulations on putting this together, and congratulations also on our joint effort to resolve the difficulties yesterday. I am pleased that issue was resolved. I do have to say, and 

this is certainly no reflection on you, that I am not particularly 

happy with the budget. I am not happy with the entire budget 

process this year. I suspect that is true of everyone in this committee, majority or minority party. This is simply not a good way 

to do business, and I think, given that, the entire situation we have 

had to endure this year, I think that this committee and especially 

you, Madam Chair, have done the best job that we could do, given 

the difficulties. So I would certainly vote for this, but I hope in the 

future that the entire budget process will be more rational so that 

we, in fact, can do a better job in this committee of allocating resources to the committees. The committees are the backbone of the 

Congress, and most people don’t realize that. If they don’t have the 

funds to operate, basically the people of this nation have lost their 

voice in properly operating the government. We essentially defer to 

the administration to run it the way they want because we don’t 

have the funds to keep track of it and allocate properly and do the 

oversight that is necessary in each and every one of our committees. So, as I say, this is not a great way to do it, but we did the 

best we could under the circumstances; I think next year will certainly be better. Maybe the only bright spot of this is that, with all 

these budgeting problems, the Members of Congress didn’t get a 

pay increase, so that provides extra money for the rest of the government, including the committees. That probably is not a very 

popular thing to say in front of my colleagues, but nevertheless, we 

did save the government some money on that. With that, I would 

yield back, and I thank the Chair for her work on this. 

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The CHAIRWOMAN. Thank you so much, Mr. Ranking Member. 

You are right. None of us are pleased with the budget and the very 

small amount we gave the Chairpersons. But then those are the 

things we have to live with when things aren’t going the way that 

we wanted them to go. But we do have fiscal year 2008, and perhaps something will come from that. 

Now there is a motion on the floor to report this out favorably. 

All those in favor say aye. Those opposed say no. 

The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to. Without objection, a 

motion to reconsider is laid on the table. 

Mr. Ehlers, you might want to take this opportunity to file your 

minority views. 

Mr. EHLERS. I certainly would be pleased with that. 

Madam Chair, I just wanted to rise, pursuant to clause 2(l) of 

rule XI, I announce that I am requesting the two additional calendar days provided by that rule during which members may file 

additional views. 

The CHAIRWOMAN. The Chair notes that the gentleman has exercised his right to seek time to file views. Without objection, staff 

may be authorized to make any technical or conforming changes to 

the resolution prior to filing. That does it for us. If there is nothing 

else— 

Mr. CAPUANO. Motion to adjourn. 

The CHAIRWOMAN. This committee is adjourned. 

[Whereupon, at 4:12 p.m., the committee was adjourned.] 

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