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SPEAKER: Ten minutes.
GALLEGO: Mr. Speaker, is there not a provision in the rules that relates to 20
minutes?
SPEAKER: If you'll look at Rule 5, Section 28, it says that during the last 10
calendar days of regular session, and the last five days of a special session, all
speeches shall be limited to 10 minutes.
GALLEGO: What was that about 10 minutes, Mr. Speaker?
SPEAKER: What?
GALLEGO: I'm sorry-
SPEAKER: It says it shall not be extended, but if you want to extend that, Mr.
Gallego, you can move to suspend it, and we can take a vote.
GALLEGO: I wasn't sure, Mr. Speaker, there was a sentence in there about
Sundays. Except Sundays, I heard. I didn't hear what you read, is my-
SPEAKER: It says, "Sundays excepted."
GALLEGO: Right, so that rule doesn't apply, the 10 minutes doesn't apply on
Sunday.
SPEAKER: You're correct, and I'm wrong.
GALLEGO: And so
SPEAKER: Chair recognizes Mr. Chisum.
GALLEGO: So on Sundays, the time is double, is it not?
SPEAKER: You're correct, Mr. Gallego, you're correct.
GALLEGO: Mr. Chisum, I have some questions with respect to three issues that
will touch on several of the articles, but first let me start off with Parks and
Wildlife. Are you the person who did the Parks and Wildlife part of the budget, or
would I be better off talking, well, let me start off with some general policy
arguments. In the past, what was done, it's very easy to get carried away with a
lot of what even in D.C. has been referred to as pork, when "bridges to nowhere,"
and those kinds of special items, for individual members, and so, in particular,
with money that's allocated to grant programs, the idea was always to have as
much of that as possible in a grant program, and allowing that to go, essentially,
in the competitive grant process.
CHISUM: Yes, sir.
GALLEGO: And I noticed that this year, as an example, in Parks and Wildlife on
Section 30, which would be Article VI, page 38, it requires the agency-first, let
me back up. If we're going with competitive grant programs, I noticed, for
example, that there are a lot of special
SPEAKER: Mr. Gallego, can I correct myself real quick?
GALLEGO: Yes, sir.Sunday, May 27, 2007
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