other side of the aisle know has not been vetted by committee. There were no hearings, there was no
discourse, it was introduced in fiscal year 2023—that was a year ago. People are sleeping right now and
Christmas is a week from now. We need to ensure we have proper debate over our appropriations bills.
In all seriousness, we could have had a debate about appropriations but House Republicans walked off the
job. They left the chamber on the other side of the Capitol Building and said they threw their hands in the
air and didn’t want to invest in school safety grants which we could have agreed on. They did not want to
invest in additional supports for public safety or public universities or community colleges. Hundreds of
millions of dollars that we could have closed the books on, but House Republicans walked off the job. That
is something we should all be in agreement upon because we could be debating this amendment as we speak.
I ask for a “no” vote, and I urge my colleagues to vote “no.”
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: