In the future, representative, you should post amendments in the appropriate thread, and the speaker should have notified us about the modification. Also, as the current Secretary of Internal Affairs, I don't exactly appreciate being shoveled the responsibility of funding this program and "determining the cost" without any idea of what I'm actually supposed to do. It shouldn't be expected for people to support you legislation if you can't fund it and have to pass it off to somebody else to do it, I'm not even sure if that counts as funding according to paygo, and I will certainly have to oppose it if you don't at least make it more clear what I'm supposed to do, and I would encourage my colleagues not to support such laziness in our congress.
The reason that this passes paygo is that this is only authorizing the program. There are lots of federal programs that exist but aren't funded. This bill would create the program with $0 funding and presumably fund it either in the budget or a separate future bill.
