C. Young

Mr. YOUNG of Florida

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the further consideration of H.R. 2397.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the consideration of H.R. 2397, and that I may include tabular material on the same.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I yield myself 5 minutes. Madam Chairman, the subcommittee has produced this bill after months of bipartisan cooperation, months of hearings, and months of classified briefings. We present a bill today that includes a base funding of $512.5 billion--$3.4 billion below the CBO estimate of the President's request and approximately $28.1 billion above the estimated fiscal year 2013 sequestration level. For Overseas Contingencies Operations, OCO, the bill includes $85.8 billion, which is $1.5 billion below last year's level. We have worked closely with all parties. Mr. Visclosky has been involved in every step of the way on producing this legislation. Our committee staff is unrivaled anywhere in this Congress, and they have done a tremendous job for the subcommittee. These are some highlights of the bill: There is $580 million to fully fund the authorized military pay raise; $536 million to fully fund the anticipated fuel costs; $950 million to fully fund the 2nd Virginia class submarine; $922 million to restore Facility Sustainment, Modernization and Restoration funding; and $692 million for military medical research, including $246 million for cancer research and $125 million for traumatic brain injury research. During the next couple of days we are going to consider 100 amendments. So everybody be prepared: it's going to be a long day and a long night. And Madam Chair, to get us started off on the right track, I'm going to reserve the balance of my time. [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.001 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.002 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.003 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.004 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.005 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.006 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.007 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TH23JY13.008

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, first, I would like to thank Mr. Visclosky for his much more detailed description of this legislation. I would now yield 5 minutes to the chairman of the full Committee on Appropriations, who has strongly committed to making sure that we pass all of our appropriations bills, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers).

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I yield the gentleman an additional 2 minutes.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I am very pleased to yield 4 minutes to an important member of our subcommittee, the very distinguished gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Frelinghuysen).

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman from Indiana yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chair, I am aware of the gentleman from California's deep interest, and I appreciate his proposed solution in finding ways to address this issue. Like my good friend from Indiana, I agree that we should work with our friend Mr. Farr to ensure that the Department of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence leverage the security clearance research at PERSEREC in order to improve the precision and speed of investigations, and that is exactly why we included it in our report.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Turner) for the purpose of engaging in a colloquy.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, the gentleman is correct. The administration's budget request for fiscal year 2014 includes no funds for the production of Abrams tanks, and the committee bill provides none. The Army is only now addressing the funds added for fiscal year '13, and production of the M1A2s will actually continue until December of 2014.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Foreign military sales have helped sustain a warm tank production line. Despite the delays and uncertainties in the FMS process, it is very likely that FMS sales will continue to play an important part in sustaining the tank line.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I appreciate the points raised by my colleague. We will continue to monitor the overall requirement for tanks in both the active Army and the Army National Guard. We intend to relook at the issue of additional Abrams upgrades as we move forward in the appropriations process. We will have the benefit of more complete information on foreign military sales and of the Army's force structure analysis. Protecting the industrial base will remain a critical issue.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop) for the purpose of a colloquy.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I do agree and the gentleman is correct.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I will tell the gentleman that I do agree. I would add that the ending of the Space Shuttle Program has also exacerbated the hardships of the industrial base, and I agree that the Navy's D5 program is now the cornerstone of the Nation's solid rocket motor production. I feel that it is essential that the Navy sustain a steady production rate of 12 rocket motors per year as the minimum level to ensure that replacement motors are available to replace aged-out motors as well as to keep this unique and highly skilled engineering and workforce viable into the future. The industrial base has done a Herculean effort in downsizing and in becoming more efficient in the face of the declining workload as enhanced by the attractive pricing they provided the Navy on a recent motor contract. I will work to ensure that the Navy has sufficient funding to maintain at least the minimum production required to sustain this critical industrial base.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairman, I am happy to yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairwoman, I claim the time.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chairwoman, for the reasons that the gentleman has already outlined, the committee had already added $30 million for the special purpose MAGTF, Crisis Response teams, as well as an additional $35 million for the new Marine Corps Embassy Security program. The gentleman is exactly right that we're not doing enough on this issue, and we are certainly in support of his amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Chair, I claim the time.