I also rise to oppose this bill. As a legislator, the public record that we have about our positions on a bill is our vote. We are voting today on record to give our community colleges $100. I think my community college deserves more than that. I know that it’s a priority of mine, and whether or not it’s a process issue or not, your public statement is that you are giving the universities $100. I don’t think that is responsible. I think it is bad policy, and I believe that voting "no," as was said earlier, might stop government from going on on October 1 is not correct. We have not done our jobs for nine months; that is what might stop government. That’s what might close government that we have not done our job.

So I think it is time to put ourselves on the record. I am going on the record saying that I think our community colleges deserve more money.