1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1264604419.92336 2 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:02,000 THAT PARLIAMENT CHOSE A PRIME 3 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:14,000 MINISTER. 4 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:20,000 OF A TRADITION OF DEMOCRACY THERE. 5 00:00:20,001 --> 00:00:21,000 HOST: AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS 6 00:00:21,001 --> 00:00:24,000 MORNING. 7 00:00:24,001 --> 00:00:26,000 GUEST: THANK YOU, IT IS A 8 00:00:26,001 --> 00:00:27,000 PLEASURE TO BE HERE IN MY NEW 9 00:00:27,001 --> 00:00:28,000 CAPACITY AFTER MANY YEARS OF 10 00:00:28,001 --> 00:00:32,000 PUBLIC SERVICE. 11 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:33,000 I'M DELIGHTED TO BE WITH THIS 12 00:00:33,001 --> 00:00:36,000 GREAT UNIVERSITY AND TO BE DEAN 13 00:00:36,001 --> 00:00:37,000 OF THE SCHOOL PUBLIC SERVICE AS 14 00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:40,000 WE DOWN HERE IN TEXAS WORK TO 15 00:00:40,001 --> 00:00:42,000 PREPARE AMERICA'S NEWEST 16 00:00:42,001 --> 00:00:46,000 GREATEST GENERATION FOR SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY. 17 00:00:46,001 --> 00:00:50,000 HOST: COME BACK AGAIN, AMBASSADOR. 18 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:51,000 WE WILL HAVE COVERAGE OF THE 19 00:00:51,001 --> 00:00:52,000 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 20 00:00:52,001 --> 00:00:57,000 BEGINNING AT 8:00 P.M. EASTERN. 21 00:00:57,001 --> 00:00:58,000 WE WILL TAKE A LOOK BACK AT 22 00:00:58,001 --> 00:00:59,000 PAST STATE OF THE UNION 23 00:00:59,001 --> 00:01:05,000 ADDRESSES. 24 00:01:05,001 --> 00:01:06,000 AROUND A 30 5:00 P.M. EASTERN 25 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:08,000 THE STATE OF THE UNION 26 00:01:08,001 --> 00:01:10,000 PROCEDURES WOULD GET UNDER WAY. 27 00:01:10,001 --> 00:01:11,000 THE HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI 28 00:01:11,001 --> 00:01:16,000 WILL CALL THE HOUSE TO ORDER. 29 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:22,000 -- AT AROUND 8:35 P.M. 30 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:24,000 THEN AROUND A FEW MINUTES 31 00:01:24,001 --> 00:01:28,000 BEFORE 9:00 P.M. THE FIRST LADY 32 00:01:28,001 --> 00:01:29,000 AND OTHERS ARE ESCORTED 33 00:01:29,001 --> 00:01:35,000 INTO THE GALLERY. 34 00:01:35,001 --> 00:01:37,000 THE GOP RESPONSE WILL BE WITH 35 00:01:37,001 --> 00:01:38,000 THE NEWLY INAUGURATED BOB 36 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:40,000 MACDONALD. 37 00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:45,000 LEARNING LESSONS FROM LAST 38 00:01:45,001 --> 00:01:49,000 YEAR'S RESPONSE FROM THEN- 39 00:01:49,001 --> 00:01:50,000 GOVERNOR, REPUBLICAN GOV. BOB 40 00:01:50,001 --> 00:01:53,000 REGION WILL -- FROM THE FLOOR OF 41 00:01:53,001 --> 00:01:55,000 THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES 42 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:56,000 RUN BY AN AUDIENCE OF ABOUT 350 43 00:01:56,001 --> 00:01:58,000 THAT INCLUDES SMALL BUSINESS 44 00:01:58,001 --> 00:02:02,000 OWNERS, LEGISLATORS, AND MILITARY MEMBERS. 45 00:02:02,001 --> 00:02:03,000 COVERAGE AS WELL OF GOP RESPONSE. 46 00:02:03,001 --> 00:02:04,000 THANKS FOR WATCHING. . 47 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:27,000 . 48 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:28,000 [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY 49 00:02:28,001 --> 00:02:29,000 THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING 50 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:30,000 INSTITUTE, INC., IN COOPERATION 51 00:02:30,001 --> 00:02:31,000 WITH THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 52 00:02:31,001 --> 00:02:32,000 ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED 53 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:33,000 COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR 54 00:02:33,001 --> 00:02:34,000 COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS 55 00:02:34,001 --> 00:04:23,000 EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE 56 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:24,000 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] 57 00:04:24,001 --> 00:04:25,000 THE SPEAKER: THE HOUSE WILL 58 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:26,000 COME TO ORDER. 59 00:04:26,001 --> 00:04:31,000 THE PRAYER WILL BE OFFERED BY 60 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:36,000 THE GUEST CHAPLAIN, RABBI 61 00:04:36,001 --> 00:04:40,000 GALSTEIN. 62 00:04:40,001 --> 00:04:42,000 THE CHAPLAIN: OUR GOD AND GOD 63 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:45,000 OF ALL OF ALL OF OUR ANCESTORS, 64 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:46,000 WE ASK THAT THE LIGHT OF YOUR 65 00:04:46,001 --> 00:04:48,000 PRESENCE GUIDE THE HEARTS AND 66 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:49,000 LINDS OF THE LEADERS OF THIS 67 00:04:49,001 --> 00:04:51,000 GREAT NATION GATHERED HERE 68 00:04:51,001 --> 00:04:53,000 TODAY. 69 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,000 MAY THE WISDOM OF YOUR 70 00:04:55,001 --> 00:05:04,000 TEACHINGS GUIDE THEM TO ACT FOR 71 00:05:04,001 --> 00:05:06,000 JUSTICE AND TO LIFT UP THE 72 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:08,000 STRANGER, THE ORPHAN AND THE WIDOW. 73 00:05:08,001 --> 00:05:09,000 OPEN THE HEARTS OF OUR LEADERS 74 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:13,000 WITH YOUR COMPASSION. 75 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:14,000 HELP THEM TO LEAD WITH 76 00:05:14,001 --> 00:05:16,000 INTEGRITY ALWAYS REMEMBERING 77 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:19,000 THAT YOUR WISDOM RESIDES IN 78 00:05:19,001 --> 00:05:21,000 EVERY HEART AS THE DEEPEST 79 00:05:21,001 --> 00:05:22,000 TRUTH OF OUR HUMANITY. 80 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:25,000 MAY OUR LEADERS ALWAYS REMEMBER 81 00:05:25,001 --> 00:05:28,000 THAT YOUR GUIDANCE IS NOT IN 82 00:05:28,001 --> 00:05:30,000 THE HEAVENS ALONE NOR FAR 83 00:05:30,001 --> 00:05:33,000 BEYOND THE SEAS BUT WITHIN EACH 84 00:05:33,001 --> 00:05:36,000 OF US, IN OUR MOUTHS AND IN OUR 85 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:37,000 HEARTS TO CARRY IO ACTION IN 86 00:05:37,001 --> 00:05:39,000 THE WORLD. 87 00:05:39,001 --> 00:05:43,000 MAY OUR LEADERS, THEREFORE, 88 00:05:43,001 --> 00:05:46,000 SERVE AS BEACONS OF JUSTICE AND 89 00:05:46,001 --> 00:05:47,000 COMPASSION MAKING THIS COUNTRY 90 00:05:47,001 --> 00:05:51,000 A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS. 91 00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:52,000 AMEN. 92 00:05:52,001 --> 00:05:53,000 THE SPEAKER: THE CHAIR HAS 93 00:05:53,001 --> 00:05:54,000 EXAMINED THE JOURNAL OF THE 94 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:56,000 LAST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS AND 95 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:58,000 ANNOUNCES TO THE CHAMBER HER 96 00:05:58,001 --> 00:05:59,000 APPROVAL THEREOF. 97 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:01,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 1 OF RULE 1 98 00:06:01,001 --> 00:06:02,000 THE JOURNAL STANDS APPROVED. 99 00:06:02,001 --> 00:06:04,000 THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WILL 100 00:06:04,001 --> 00:06:05,000 BE LED BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM 101 00:06:05,001 --> 00:06:08,000 PENNSYLVANIA, MR. SHUSTER. 102 00:06:08,001 --> 00:06:09,000 MR. SHUSTER: THANK YOU. 103 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:12,000 WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN 104 00:06:12,001 --> 00:06:13,000 PLEDGING ALLEGIANCTO OUR 105 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:14,000 NATION? 106 00:06:14,001 --> 00:06:15,000 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FL 107 00:06:15,001 --> 00:06:16,000 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 108 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:18,000 AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER 109 00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:24,000 GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY 110 00:06:24,001 --> 00:06:26,000 AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 111 00:06:26,001 --> 00:06:27,000 THE SPEAKER: WITHOUT OBJECTION, 112 00:06:27,001 --> 00:06:29,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 113 00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:32,000 MR. WAXMAN, IS RECOGNIZED FOR 114 00:06:32,001 --> 00:06:40,000 ONE MINUTE. MR. WAXMAN: MADAM SPEAKER, IT'S 115 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:41,000 MY HONOR TO WELCOME RABBI GIL 116 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:42,000 STEINLAUF AS OUR GUEST CHAPLAIN 117 00:06:42,001 --> 00:06:44,000 TODAY. 118 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:47,000 WHEN I WAS FIRST ELECTED TO 119 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:51,000 CONGRESS, OUR FAMILY MOVED TO 120 00:06:51,001 --> 00:06:52,000 WASHINGTON AND WE JOINED ADAS 121 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:53,000 ISRAEL CONGREGATION IN 122 00:06:53,001 --> 00:06:56,000 WASHINGTON, D.C. 123 00:06:56,001 --> 00:06:58,000 IT IS THE LARGEST CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE IN OUR NATION'S 124 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:00,000 CAPITAL AND ONE OF THE OLDEST. 125 00:07:00,001 --> 00:07:03,000 IT ALSO HAS THE REPUTATION FOR 126 00:07:03,001 --> 00:07:04,000 OUTREACH TO YOUNG FAMILIES IN 127 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:06,000 WASHINGTON, D.C.. 128 00:07:06,001 --> 00:07:07,000 WE HAVE BEEN MEMBERS FOR MORE 129 00:07:07,001 --> 00:07:11,000 THAN 30 YEARS. 130 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:13,000 RABBI STEINLAUF CAVE TO ADAS 131 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:14,000 ISRAEL IN 2008 TO SERVE AS THE 132 00:07:14,001 --> 00:07:18,000 SENIOR RABBI. 133 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:19,000 HE MADE HIS MARK AS A 134 00:07:19,001 --> 00:07:20,000 CHARISMATIC, DYNAMIC SPIRITUAL 135 00:07:20,001 --> 00:07:21,000 LEADER. 136 00:07:21,001 --> 00:07:23,000 IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO GET TO 137 00:07:23,001 --> 00:07:25,000 KNOW HIM AND HIS FAMILY. 138 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:28,000 ORIGINALLY FROM JERICHO, NEW 139 00:07:28,001 --> 00:07:31,000 YORK, RABBI STEINLAUF WAS 140 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:32,000 ORDAINED IN 1998 AT THE JEWISH 141 00:07:32,001 --> 00:07:33,000 THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN NEW 142 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:35,000 YORK. 143 00:07:35,001 --> 00:07:37,000 HE GRADUATED FROM PRINCETON IN 144 00:07:37,001 --> 00:07:39,000 1991 WITH HONORS AND ALSO 145 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:42,000 STUDIED IN JERUSALEM AND THE 146 00:07:42,001 --> 00:07:43,000 UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM NOW KNOWN 147 00:07:43,001 --> 00:07:45,000 AS THE AMERICAN JEWISH 148 00:07:45,001 --> 00:07:47,000 UNIVERSITY WHICH IS LOCATED IN 149 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:51,000 MY DISTRICT IN LOS ANGELES. 150 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:57,000 RABBI STEINLAUF IS JOINED BY 151 00:07:57,001 --> 00:07:58,000 HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN, HIS 152 00:07:58,001 --> 00:08:00,000 PARENTS, SOME OF HIS EXTENDED 153 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:01,000 FAMILY AND A PROUD DELEGATION 154 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:05,000 OF ADAS ISRAEL. 155 00:08:05,001 --> 00:08:07,000 ANK YOU, RABBI 156 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:09,000 YOUR INSPIRATIONAL WORDS. 157 00:08:09,001 --> 00:08:10,000 THE SPEAKER: THE CHAIR WILL 158 00:08:10,001 --> 00:08:12,000 ENTERTAIN UP TO 15 ADDITIONAL 159 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:13,000 ONE MINUTES ON EACH SIDE OF THE 160 00:08:13,001 --> 00:08:14,000 AISLE. 161 00:08:14,001 --> 00:08:16,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 162 00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:17,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA RISE? 163 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:18,000 >> MADAM SPEAKER, TO ADDRESS 164 00:08:18,001 --> 00:08:19,000 THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 165 00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 166 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:25,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 167 00:08:25,001 --> 00:08:28,000 MR. BACA: MADAM SPEAKER, THE 168 00:08:28,001 --> 00:08:29,000 HOUSE PASSED THE WALL STREET 169 00:08:29,001 --> 00:08:32,000 CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT. 170 00:08:32,001 --> 00:08:35,000 IT WILL OVERSEE WALL STREET. 171 00:08:35,001 --> 00:08:37,000 IT WILL HELP ENSURE TAXPAYERS 172 00:08:37,001 --> 00:08:40,000 ARE NEVER AGAIN ON THE HOOK FOR 173 00:08:40,001 --> 00:08:43,000 WALL STREET'S RISKIEST DECISIONS. 174 00:08:43,001 --> 00:08:45,000 IT WILL PROTECT RETIREMENT 175 00:08:45,001 --> 00:08:47,000 SAVINGS, COLLEGE SAVINGS, 176 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:51,000 FINANCIAL FUTURES FROM 177 00:08:51,001 --> 00:08:52,000 UNNECESSARY RISKS BY 178 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:53,000 SPECULATORS. 179 00:08:53,001 --> 00:08:55,000 IT WILL PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM 180 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:57,000 PREDATORY LENDING AND INDUSTRY 181 00:08:57,001 --> 00:08:58,000 GIMMICKS AND INJECT 182 00:08:58,001 --> 00:09:00,000 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY 183 00:09:00,001 --> 00:09:03,000 INTO THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. 184 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:04,000 IT ENDS PREDATORY LENDING 185 00:09:04,001 --> 00:09:05,000 PRACTICE WITH TOUGHER 186 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:07,000 ENFORCEMENT. 187 00:09:07,001 --> 00:09:09,000 WE ASK THE SENATE TO PASS THIS 188 00:09:09,001 --> 00:09:10,000 LEGISLATION IN PROTECTING OUR 189 00:09:10,001 --> 00:09:11,000 CONSUMERS. 190 00:09:11,001 --> 00:09:12,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 191 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 192 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:14,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 193 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:15,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 194 00:09:15,001 --> 00:09:16,000 GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA RISE? 195 00:09:16,001 --> 00:09:17,000 MR. SHUSTER: I ASK PERMISSION 196 00:09:17,001 --> 00:09:18,000 TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 197 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:19,000 THE SP WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 198 00:09:19,001 --> 00:09:20,000 MR. SHUSTER: THANK YOU, MR. 199 00:09:20,001 --> 00:09:21,000 SPEAKER. 200 00:09:21,001 --> 00:09:23,000 ON SATURDAY I ATTENDED A 201 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:25,000 FUNERAL SERVICE OF A 202 00:09:25,001 --> 00:09:27,000 CONSTITUENT, STAFF SERGEANT 203 00:09:27,001 --> 00:09:29,000 MATTHEW INGHAM WHO WAS KILLED 204 00:09:29,001 --> 00:09:32,000 IN ACTION ON JANUARY 11, 2010. 205 00:09:32,001 --> 00:09:33,000 I RISE TODAY TO RECOGNIZE HIS 206 00:09:33,001 --> 00:09:34,000 LI AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY 207 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:37,000 SERVICE AND SACRIFICE FOR OUR 208 00:09:37,001 --> 00:09:40,000 COUNTRY. 209 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:42,000 MATT'S PARENTS OF ALTOONA, 210 00:09:42,001 --> 00:09:43,000 PENNSYLVANIA, AND HIS WIFE, 211 00:09:43,001 --> 00:09:45,000 MOURN THE LOSS OF A REMARKABLE 212 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:47,000 YOUNG MAN AND A GREAT MARINE. 213 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:49,000 THEY ARE IN MY THOUGHTS AND 214 00:09:49,001 --> 00:09:50,000 PRAYERS AND I PASS ON MY 215 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:53,000 SINCERE CONDOLENCES. 216 00:09:53,001 --> 00:09:55,000 SERGEANT INGHAM WAS AWARDED THE 217 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:56,000 BRONZE STAR WITH VALOR FOR THE 218 00:09:56,001 --> 00:09:57,000 HEROIC ACTIONS THAT ULTIMATELY 219 00:09:57,001 --> 00:09:58,000 LED TO HIS DEATH. 220 00:09:58,001 --> 00:10:00,000 HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FORAVING 221 00:10:00,001 --> 00:10:02,000 THE LIVES OF NINE MARINES BY 222 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:04,000 CRAWLING TO A RADIO TO CALL IN 223 00:10:04,001 --> 00:10:05,000 AIR SUPPORT AFTER HIS UNIT WAS 224 00:10:05,001 --> 00:10:07,000 AMBUSHED. 225 00:10:07,001 --> 00:10:09,000 ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY WOUNDED, 226 00:10:09,001 --> 00:10:10,000 THE SERGEANT EXPOSED HIMSELF TO 227 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:12,000 MORE ENEMY FIR AND PUT THE 228 00:10:12,001 --> 00:10:13,000 LIVES OF HIS FELLOW MARINES 229 00:10:13,001 --> 00:10:15,000 ABOVE HIS OWN. 230 00:10:15,001 --> 00:10:17,000 HE WAS A 2002 ALTOONA HIGH 231 00:10:17,001 --> 00:10:19,000 SCHOOL GRADUATE AND ENLISTED IN 232 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:20,000 THE MARINE CORPS IN JULY OF 233 00:10:20,001 --> 00:10:21,000 2002 AND WAS PROMOTED TO STAFF 234 00:10:21,001 --> 00:10:23,000 SERGEANT IN APRIL. 235 00:10:23,001 --> 00:10:24,000 HE SERVED TWO TOURS IN IRAQ AND 236 00:10:24,001 --> 00:10:27,000 WENT TO AFGHANISTAN IN THE FALL 237 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:29,000 AS PART OF A RECONNAISSANCE 238 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:32,000 OUTFIT ASSIGNED TO THE THIRD 239 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:33,000 MARINE DIVISION IN OKINAWA, 240 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:34,000 JAPAN. 241 00:10:34,001 --> 00:10:36,000 THE NINTH DISTRICT OF 242 00:10:36,001 --> 00:10:40,000 PENNSYLVANIA AND OUR NATION 243 00:10:40,001 --> 00:10:43,000 OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE FOR 244 00:10:43,001 --> 00:10:45,000 HIM AND ALL THOSE WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE 245 00:10:45,001 --> 00:10:46,000 PURSUIT OF FREEDOM. 246 00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:47,000 I YIELD BACK MY TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 247 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:48,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 248 00:10:48,001 --> 00:10:49,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 249 00:10:49,001 --> 00:10:50,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY RISE? 250 00:10:50,001 --> 00:10:51,000 MR. SIRES: I ASK PERMISSION TO 251 00:10:51,001 --> 00:10:52,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 252 00:10:52,001 --> 00:10:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 253 00:10:53,001 --> 00:10:54,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 254 00:10:54,001 --> 00:10:55,000 MR. SIRES: MR. SPEAKER, SINCE 255 00:10:55,001 --> 00:10:57,000 THE BEGINNING OF THIS CONGRESS, 256 00:10:57,001 --> 00:10:59,000 THIS HOUSE HAS TAKEN 257 00:10:59,001 --> 00:11:00,000 SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO GROW OUR 258 00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:01,000 ECONOMY AND CREATE JOBS HERE AT 259 00:11:01,001 --> 00:11:04,000 HOME. 260 00:11:04,001 --> 00:11:06,000 ALMOST ONE YEAR AGO WE PASSED 261 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:08,000 THE RECOVERY ACT BY CREATING 262 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:10,000 AND SAVINGS MILLIONS OF JOBS 263 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:11,000 WHILE BEGINNING TO REBUILD OUR 264 00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:13,000 NATION'S SFRASS. 265 00:11:13,001 --> 00:11:14,000 WE PASSED THE JOBS FOR MAIN 266 00:11:14,001 --> 00:11:16,000 STREET ACT TO CREATE AND SAVE 267 00:11:16,001 --> 00:11:17,000 EVEN MORE JOBS AT HOME WITH 268 00:11:17,001 --> 00:11:19,000 TARGETED INVESTMENT FOR 269 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:20,000 HIGHWAYS, TRANSIT, SCHOOL 270 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:22,000 RENOVATIONS, THE HIRING OF 271 00:11:22,001 --> 00:11:23,000 TEACHERS, POLICE AND 272 00:11:23,001 --> 00:11:24,000 FIREFIGHTERS, INCREASE LENDING 273 00:11:24,001 --> 00:11:26,000 TO SMALL BUSINESS, JOB TRAINING 274 00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:27,000 INITIATIVES AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 275 00:11:27,001 --> 00:11:29,000 FURTHERMORE, TO SPUR GROWTH 276 00:11:29,001 --> 00:11:30,000 WITHIN SMALL BUSINESS, WE 277 00:11:30,001 --> 00:11:31,000 PASSED THE SMALL BUSINESS 278 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:33,000 FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT ACT TO 279 00:11:33,001 --> 00:11:35,000 MAKE IT EASIER AND MORE AFFORDABLE FOR SMALL BUSINESS 280 00:11:35,001 --> 00:11:37,000 TO GET LOANS AND ACCESS TO 281 00:11:37,001 --> 00:11:38,000 CAPITAL WHICH IN TURN COULD 282 00:11:38,001 --> 00:11:40,000 SAVE AND CREATE MILLIONS OF 283 00:11:40,001 --> 00:11:41,000 JOBS IN THIS SECTOR ALONE. 284 00:11:41,001 --> 00:11:43,000 MR. SPEAKER, WHILE I AM PROUD 285 00:11:43,001 --> 00:11:45,000 OF THE STEPS THIS CHAMBER HAS 286 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:46,000 TAKEN TO LIFT OUR ECONOMY I 287 00:11:46,001 --> 00:11:47,000 KNOW OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. 288 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:50,000 WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO 289 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:51,000 CREATE JOBS UNT WE REPAIR THE 290 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:53,000 DAMAGE LEFT BY THE ECONOMY 291 00:11:53,001 --> 00:11:55,000 DOWNTURN FROM THE LAST EIGHT YEARS. I YIELD BACK. 292 00:11:55,001 --> 00:11:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 293 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:57,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 294 00:11:57,001 --> 00:11:58,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 295 00:11:58,001 --> 00:11:59,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 296 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:00,000 MR. POE: I ASK PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 297 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:01,000 MINUTE. 298 00:12:01,001 --> 00:12:02,000 MR. FALEOMAVAEGA: WITHOUT 299 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:03,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 300 00:12:03,001 --> 00:12:04,000 MR. POE: -- 301 00:12:04,001 --> 00:12:05,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 302 00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:07,000 MR. POE: THE VIEW OF THE 303 00:12:07,001 --> 00:12:08,000 ECONOMY COULD BE SUMMED UP THIS 304 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:10,000 WAY, IF IT MOVES, TAX IT, IF IT 305 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:12,000 KEEPS MOVING, REGULATE IT AND 306 00:12:12,001 --> 00:12:14,000 IF IT STOPS MOVING SUBSIDIZE IT. 307 00:12:14,001 --> 00:12:15,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE UNEASY 308 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:17,000 ABOUT THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE. 309 00:12:17,001 --> 00:12:19,000 TAXING AND BORROWING AND 310 00:12:19,001 --> 00:12:20,000 SPENDING ARE OUT OF CONTROL. 311 00:12:20,001 --> 00:12:22,000 GOVERNMENT'S THE PROBLEM. 312 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:24,000 THE PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED. 313 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:25,000 WE IN WASHINGTON SHOULD LISTEN 314 00:12:25,001 --> 00:12:27,000 TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA. 315 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:28,000 THEY TALK TO US AT TOWN HALL 316 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:29,000 MEETINGS. THEY GET LOUDER WITH THEIR 317 00:12:29,001 --> 00:12:31,000 MARCHES ON WASHINGTON. 318 00:12:31,001 --> 00:12:33,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAY STOP 319 00:12:33,001 --> 00:12:35,000 THE SPENDING, CUT UP THE CREDIT CARDS. 320 00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:36,000 WE SHOULD LISTEN TO AMERICA. 321 00:12:36,001 --> 00:12:38,000 AMERICA'S A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. 322 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:39,000 THAT MEANS THAT THE PEOPLE 323 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:40,000 TALK, WE LISTEN. 324 00:12:40,001 --> 00:12:42,000 WE IMPLEMENT THEIR IDEAS. 325 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:45,000 THAT'S THE WAY IT WORKS. 326 00:12:45,001 --> 00:12:46,000 LATELY, THE GOVERNMENT 327 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:48,000 DICTATES, THE PEOPLE COMPLY. 328 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:49,000 THAT'S BACKWARDS AND IT'S ARROGANT. 329 00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:50,000 IN AMERICA THE PEOPLE ARE THE 330 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:52,000 SOVEREIGN, NOT THE GOVERNMENT. 331 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:53,000 WE IN CONGRESS SHOULD MAKE THE 332 00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:55,000 GOVERNMENT WORK FOR THE PEOPLE, 333 00:12:55,001 --> 00:12:57,000 WORK WITH THEM, NOT OVER THEM. 334 00:12:57,001 --> 00:12:58,000 STAND BY THEIR SIDE, NOT RIDE 335 00:12:58,001 --> 00:12:59,000 THEIR BACK. 336 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:00,000 THE PEOPLE ARE TALKING AND 337 00:13:00,001 --> 00:13:03,000 THEIR VOICES CANNOT CONTINUE TO 338 00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:05,000 FALL ON A DEAF GOVERNMENT 339 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:08,000 ASLEEP IN DENIAL AND THAT'S 340 00:13:08,001 --> 00:13:09,000 JUST THE WAY IT IS. 341 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:11,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 342 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:12,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK HIS TIME. 343 00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:14,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 344 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:15,000 GENTLEMAN FROM KENTUCKY RISE? 345 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:16,000 MR. YARMUTH: I ASK PERMISSION 346 00:13:16,001 --> 00:13:17,000 TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 347 00:13:17,001 --> 00:13:18,000 MINUTE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 348 00:13:18,001 --> 00:13:19,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 349 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:20,000 MR. YARMUTH: MR. SPEAKER, AMONG 350 00:13:20,001 --> 00:13:21,000 ALL OF THE DISASTROUS 351 00:13:21,001 --> 00:13:22,000 CONSEQUENCES OF LAST WEEK'S 352 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:24,000 SUPREME COURT DECISION ON 353 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:25,000 CAMPAIGN FINANCE, ONE OF THEM 354 00:13:25,001 --> 00:13:27,000 IS A REAL CRUEL IRONY. 355 00:13:27,001 --> 00:13:30,000 THOSE OF US WHO THINK WE NEED 356 00:13:30,001 --> 00:13:32,000 PUBLIC FINANCING OF CAMPAIGNS 357 00:13:32,001 --> 00:13:34,000 MAY NOW WATCH AS TAXPAYER 358 00:13:34,001 --> 00:13:36,000 DOLLARS ACTUALLY ARE USED FOR 359 00:13:36,001 --> 00:13:37,000 FEDERAL CAMPAIGNS. 360 00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:39,000 A.I.G., WHICH THIS CONGRESS AND 361 00:13:39,001 --> 00:13:42,000 THIS -- OUR TAXPAYERS BAILED 362 00:13:42,001 --> 00:13:45,000 OUT TO THE TUNE OF $180 BILLION 363 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:48,000 MAY NOW BE ABLE TO 364 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:49,000 MONEY, YOUR MONEY TO ACTUALLY 365 00:13:49,001 --> 00:13:52,000 INFLUENCE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 366 00:13:52,001 --> 00:13:53,000 NOT ONLY THAT, WE PASSED THE 367 00:13:53,001 --> 00:13:56,000 WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER 368 00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:58,000 PROTECTION ACT TO REGULATE WALL STREET. 369 00:13:58,001 --> 00:14:00,000 FINALLY AFTER THEY BROUGHT US TO THE BRINK OF DISASTER. 370 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:02,000 WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY DOING 371 00:14:02,001 --> 00:14:03,000 THAT, TAXPAYE DOLLARS. 372 00:14:03,001 --> 00:14:04,000 NOW, THOSE DOLLARS, THE 373 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:06,000 COMPANIES AT WERE SAVED BY 374 00:14:06,001 --> 00:14:07,000 THOSE DOLLARS CAN NOW DIRECTLY 375 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:09,000 ADVOCATE FOR THE ELECTION OR 376 00:14:09,001 --> 00:14:10,000 DEFEAT OF CANDIDATES FOR 377 00:14:10,001 --> 00:14:13,000 FEDERAL OFFICE. 378 00:14:13,001 --> 00:14:15,000 THIS IS A DISGRACE AND 379 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:17,000 UNFORTUNATELY I HOPE WE STILL 380 00:14:17,001 --> 00:14:19,000 HAVEN'T ACT SUFFICIENTLY TO PUT 381 00:14:19,001 --> 00:14:20,000 AN END TO THE RISKY WALL STREET 382 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:22,000 BEHAVIOR. 383 00:14:22,001 --> 00:14:23,000 I HOPE WE CAN SIGN T 384 00:14:23,001 --> 00:14:25,000 STREET CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 385 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:26,000 INTO LAW BEFORE THE SUPREME 386 00:14:26,001 --> 00:14:27,000 COURT -- 387 00:14:27,001 --> 00:14:28,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 388 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:29,000 GENTLEMAN'S TI HAS EXPIRED. 389 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:30,000 MR. YARMUTHI YIELD BACK. 390 00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 391 00:14:31,001 --> 00:14:32,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 392 00:14:32,001 --> 00:14:33,000 FROM SOUTH CAROLINA RISE? 393 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:34,000 MR. WILSON: I ASK PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 394 00:14:34,001 --> 00:14:35,000 MINUTE AND TO REVISE AND EXTEND 395 00:14:35,001 --> 00:14:36,000 MY REMARKS. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 396 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:37,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 397 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:38,000 MR. WILSON: MR. SPEAKER, 398 00:14:38,001 --> 00:14:39,000 YESTERDAY, THE NONPARTISAN 399 00:14:39,001 --> 00:14:40,000 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 400 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:41,000 ANNOUNCED THAT THE COST OF THE 401 00:14:41,001 --> 00:14:45,000 PRESIDENT'S SPENDING PLAN HAS 402 00:14:45,001 --> 00:14:47,000 JUMPED ANOTHER $75 BILLION. 403 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:49,000 STEVE DYNAN OF "THE WASHINGTON 404 00:14:49,001 --> 00:14:50,000 TIMES" REPORTED THAT THE 405 00:14:50,001 --> 00:14:52,000 COUNTRY FACES GIANT BUDGET 406 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:53,000 DEFICITS FOR THE FORESEEABLE 407 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:56,000 FUTURE AND HAS THE BIGGEST DEBT 408 00:14:56,001 --> 00:14:57,000 PROBLEM THAT IT HAD SINCE AFTER 409 00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:59,000 WORLD WA II. 410 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:00,000 ON THE HEELS OF THIS REPORT, 411 00:15:00,001 --> 00:15:01,000 THE PRESIDENT WILL DELIVER THE 412 00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:02,000 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AND 413 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,000 WILL PRESENT HIS AGENDA 414 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:04,000 TONIGHT. 415 00:15:04,001 --> 00:15:06,000 I HOPE THE PRESIDENT WILL BE 416 00:15:06,001 --> 00:15:07,000 SUBSTANTIVE ABOUT TACKLING 417 00:15:07,001 --> 00:15:10,000 OUT-OF-CONTROL WASHINGTON 418 00:15:10,001 --> 00:15:12,000 SPENDING, TO PROMOTE BIPARTISAN CORPORATION. 419 00:15:12,001 --> 00:15:15,000 I BELIEVE WE NEED TO FREEZE 420 00:15:15,001 --> 00:15:16,000 SPENDING BASED ON 2008 LEVELS. 421 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:19,000 THE WASHINGTON LIBERAL MAJORITY 422 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:21,000 NEEDS TO EXPLAIN THE 85% 423 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:22,000 SPENDING SPIKE IN JUST TWO YEARS. 424 00:15:22,001 --> 00:15:23,000 AMERICAN FAMILIES, WHO ARE 425 00:15:23,001 --> 00:15:26,000 TRYING TO STAY FINANCIALLY 426 00:15:26,001 --> 00:15:27,000 AFLOAT, DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR 427 00:15:27,001 --> 00:15:29,000 ANY MORE STIMULUS STUMBLES. 428 00:15:29,001 --> 00:15:30,000 WE NEED JOBS, NOT MORE 429 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:31,000 SPENDING. 430 00:15:31,001 --> 00:15:33,000 IN CONCLUSION, GOD BLESS OUR 431 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:34,000 TROOPS AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET 432 00:15:34,001 --> 00:15:37,000 SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE GLOBAL WAR 433 00:15:37,001 --> 00:15:38,000 ON TERRORISM. 434 00:15:38,001 --> 00:15:41,000 CONGRATULATIONS, COACH DARREN 435 00:15:41,001 --> 00:15:43,000 HORN AND THE U.S.C. GAMECOCKS 436 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:56,000 OVER NUMBER ONE RANK KENTUCKY. 437 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:58,000 .7 C16 C13 438 00:15:58,001 --> 00:15:59,000 MR. POLIS: IN THE LAST CONGRESS, 439 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:00,000 THE LAST ADMINISTRATION, 440 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:02,000 PRESIDENT BUSH CAME TO CONGRESS 441 00:16:02,001 --> 00:16:03,000 DURING THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN 442 00:16:03,001 --> 00:16:04,000 ALONG WITH SECRETARY PAULSON AND 443 00:16:04,001 --> 00:16:05,000 ASKED FOR HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS 444 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:07,000 OF DOLLARS. 445 00:16:07,001 --> 00:16:09,000 THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO USE 446 00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:11,000 IT TO BUY BAD DEBT FROM THE BANKS. 447 00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:13,000 DID THEY USE IT FOR THAT? NO. 448 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:15,000 THEY STARTED TO USE IT TO NATIONALIZE AMERICAN COMPANIES. 449 00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:16,000 THEY BOUGHT AUTOMOBILE 450 00:16:16,001 --> 00:16:18,000 COMPANIES. THEY BOUGHT BANKS. 451 00:16:18,001 --> 00:16:20,000 THEY USED THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE 452 00:16:20,001 --> 00:16:22,000 OVER THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION. 453 00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:23,000 AND NOW IT FALLS TO US TO BREAK 454 00:16:23,001 --> 00:16:24,000 THIS SOCIALIST STRANGLEHOLD IN 455 00:16:24,001 --> 00:16:26,000 OUR COUNTRY. 456 00:16:26,001 --> 00:16:27,000 THE WALL STREET REFORM AND 457 00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:28,000 CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT WAS ONE 458 00:16:28,001 --> 00:16:31,000 OF THE FIRST STEPS. 459 00:16:31,001 --> 00:16:32,000 WE BANNED FUTURE TARP FAILOUTS. 460 00:16:32,001 --> 00:16:34,000 WE REQUIRE COMPANIES TO PAY INTO A FUND. 461 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:36,000 NO LONGER WILL COMPANIES BE 462 00:16:36,001 --> 00:16:37,000 BAILED OUT BY TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 463 00:16:37,001 --> 00:16:39,000 I CALL ON THE UNITED STATES 464 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:41,000 SENATE TO PASS THE WALL STREET 465 00:16:41,001 --> 00:16:43,000 REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION 466 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:44,000 ACT AND TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS TO 467 00:16:44,001 --> 00:16:45,000 PRIVATIZE THESE COMPANIES THE 468 00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:46,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNS. 469 00:16:46,001 --> 00:16:47,000 I YIELD BACK. 470 00:16:47,001 --> 00:16:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 471 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:49,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 472 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:50,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 473 00:16:50,001 --> 00:16:51,000 GENTLEMAN FROM FLORIDA RISE? 474 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:52,000 >> PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE 475 00:16:52,001 --> 00:16:53,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 476 00:16:53,001 --> 00:16:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 477 00:16:55,001 --> 00:16:56,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, YESTERDAY I 478 00:16:56,001 --> 00:16:57,000 INTRODUCED THE JOB CREATIONCT 479 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:59,000 OF 2010. 480 00:16:59,001 --> 00:17:01,000 THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IN 481 00:17:01,001 --> 00:17:02,000 AMERICA SHOULD BE JOBS AND 482 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:06,000 HELPING SMALL BUSINESSINGS. 483 00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:07,000 MY FIVE-POINT PLAN WILL BE -- 484 00:17:07,001 --> 00:17:08,000 PROVIDE TAX RELIEF FOR SMALL 485 00:17:08,001 --> 00:17:09,000 BUSINESSES. 486 00:17:09,001 --> 00:17:11,000 INSTEAOF WRITING OFF EQUIPMENT 487 00:17:11,001 --> 00:17:13,000 OVER FIVE YEARS, HAVE THEM WRITE 488 00:17:13,001 --> 00:17:14,000 IT OFF OVER ONE YEAR AND SUNSET 489 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:16,000 IN A YEAR OR TWO. 490 00:17:16,001 --> 00:17:17,000 ELIMINATE CABAL GAINS TAX ON 491 00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:18,000 COMPANIES. 492 00:17:18,001 --> 00:17:19,000 THERE'S PLENTY OF CAPITAL. 493 00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:20,000 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE IN 494 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:21,000 THE ADMINISTRATION. 495 00:17:21,001 --> 00:17:22,000 THEY DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE IN 496 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:25,000 THIS CONGRESS. 497 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:26,000 BUT THERE IS CAPITAL TO INVEST. 498 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:28,000 THE SMALL BUSINESSES NEED THAT 499 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:29,000 CAPITAL TO CREATE JOBS. 500 00:17:29,001 --> 00:17:31,000 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, WE ARE 501 00:17:31,001 --> 00:17:32,000 TAXING THOSE BENEFITS AT 11%. 502 00:17:32,001 --> 00:17:35,000 THAT NEEDS TO STOP. 503 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:37,000 WE NEED TO SUNSET THAT. 504 00:17:37,001 --> 00:17:39,000 TARP FUNDS, $750 BILLION, WE 505 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:41,000 COMMITTED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 506 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:42,000 THAT WOULD BE PAID BACK. 507 00:17:42,001 --> 00:17:44,000 THEY ARE PAYING BACK MUCH OF THE 508 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:46,000 FUNDS, IT NEEDS TO GO TO PAY 509 00:17:46,001 --> 00:17:49,000 DOWN THE $12 TRILLION DEBT. 510 00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:51,000 ALSO, WE NEED TO CURB FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS. 511 00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:52,000 IT'S DRIVING UP HEALTH CARE. 512 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:53,000 IT'S KILLING BUSINESSES. 513 00:17:53,001 --> 00:17:55,000 IT'S KILLING JOBS. 514 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:56,000 I URGE MEMBERS FROM BOTH SIDES 515 00:17:56,001 --> 00:17:57,000 OF THE AISLE TO SUPPORT THIS 516 00:17:57,001 --> 00:17:58,000 BILL. 517 00:17:58,001 --> 00:18:00,000 THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 518 00:18:00,001 --> 00:18:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 519 00:18:01,001 --> 00:18:02,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 520 00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:03,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 521 00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:05,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 522 00:18:05,001 --> 00:18:06,000 >> I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 523 00:18:06,001 --> 00:18:07,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 524 00:18:07,001 --> 00:18:09,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 525 00:18:09,001 --> 00:18:10,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 526 00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:11,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, I RISE WITH MY 527 00:18:11,001 --> 00:18:13,000 GOOD FRIEND, REPRESENTATIVE LA 528 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:15,000 MART SMITH, TO HONOR THE SCOOTER 529 00:18:15,001 --> 00:18:16,000 STAR, A HOMETOWN BUSINESS IN OUR 530 00:18:16,001 --> 00:18:19,000 HOME STATE OF TEXAS. 531 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:20,000 THEY HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY 532 00:18:20,001 --> 00:18:22,000 "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE 533 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:25,000 TOP 100 PLACES TO WORK IN AMERICA. 534 00:18:25,001 --> 00:18:26,000 AS FORTUNE MAGAZINE HAS 535 00:18:26,001 --> 00:18:29,000 RECOGNIZED THIS EXCELLT WORK 536 00:18:29,001 --> 00:18:30,000 ENVIRONMENT FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES, 537 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:32,000 RANKING THE STORE AS THE 30TH 538 00:18:32,001 --> 00:18:34,000 BEST PLACE TO WORK IN 2010. 539 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:36,000 THE SCOOTER STORE WAS FOUNDED IN 540 00:18:36,001 --> 00:18:38,000 TEXAS BY DOUG AND SUSANNA 541 00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:40,000 HARRISON ALMOST 19 YEARS AGO. 542 00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:42,000 TODAY THEY SERVE MORE THAN 543 00:18:42,001 --> 00:18:45,000 460,000 PEOPLE ACROSS 48 STATES INCLUDING PUERTO RICO. 544 00:18:45,001 --> 00:18:47,000 WITH MORE THAN 70 FACILITIES AND 545 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:48,000 APPROXIMATELY 2,000 EMPLOYEES. 546 00:18:48,001 --> 00:18:49,000 MR. SPEAKER, THIS IS NOT THE 547 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:50,000 FIRST TIME THEY HAVE BEEN 548 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:51,000 RECOGNIZED. 549 00:18:51,001 --> 00:18:53,000 THEY WERE RECOGNIZED SIX YEARS AGO. 550 00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:54,000 THEY ARE A COMPANY BUILT ON 551 00:18:54,001 --> 00:18:55,000 TEAMWORK AND GOOD VALUES. 552 00:18:55,001 --> 00:18:57,000 THIS IS WHY, MR. SPEAKER, I'M 553 00:18:57,001 --> 00:18:58,000 HONORED TO HAVE THE TIME TO 554 00:18:58,001 --> 00:19:00,000 RECOGNIZE THE SCOOTER STORE FOR 555 00:19:00,001 --> 00:19:02,000 THEIR RANKING AS THE 30TH BES 556 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:03,000 PLACE TO WORK IN 2010 BY THE 557 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,000 FORTUNE MAGAZINE. 558 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:06,000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 559 00:19:06,001 --> 00:19:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 560 00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:08,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 561 00:19:08,001 --> 00:19:09,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 562 00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:10,000 GENTLELADY FROM FLORIDA RISE? 563 00:19:10,001 --> 00:19:11,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 564 00:19:11,001 --> 00:19:14,000 MS. ROS-LEHTINEN: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 565 00:19:14,001 --> 00:19:16,000 I RISE TODAY TO RECOGNIZE TWO 566 00:19:16,001 --> 00:19:21,000 OUTSTANDING AMERICANS, MY GO 567 00:19:21,001 --> 00:19:22,000 FRIEND, RONALD AND GLENDA 568 00:19:22,001 --> 00:19:23,000 CRONGOLD, CONSTITUENTS OF MY 569 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:25,000 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 570 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:26,000 FOR DECADES THEY HAVE DEDICATED 571 00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:29,000 THEMSELVES TO THE SAFETY AND 572 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:30,000 SECURITY OF OUR DEMOCRATIC 573 00:19:30,001 --> 00:19:32,000 JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL, 574 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:33,000 INCLUDING THROUGH THEIR 575 00:19:33,001 --> 00:19:35,000 LEADERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL 576 00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:37,000 ISRAEL BONDS CAMPAIGN. 577 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:39,000 RON SERVED AS VICE CHAIRMAN AND 578 00:19:39,001 --> 00:19:42,000 CHAIRMAN OF NEW LEADERSHIP. 579 00:19:42,001 --> 00:19:44,000 THEIR WORK ON ISRAEL BONDS HAS 580 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:46,000 CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO ISRAEL'S 581 00:19:46,001 --> 00:19:48,000 THRIVING ECONOMY AND ITS BOOMING 582 00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:50,000 SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL AND 583 00:19:50,001 --> 00:19:52,000 ENTREPRENEURIAL SECTORS. 584 00:19:52,001 --> 00:19:54,000 RON'S EXPERTISE HAS ALSO 585 00:19:54,001 --> 00:19:55,000 BENEFITED OUR HOME STATE OF 586 00:19:55,001 --> 00:19:58,000 FLORIDA. 587 00:19:58,001 --> 00:20:00,000 HE PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE NEGOTIATIONS OF THE TRADE 588 00:20:00,001 --> 00:20:03,000 UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN OUR STATE 589 00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:05,000 OF FLORIDA AND ISRAEL SIGNED BY 590 00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:06,000 THEN SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR 591 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:08,000 FLORIDA, JEB BUSH. 592 00:20:08,001 --> 00:20:09,000 RON AND GLENDA, FOR YOUR 593 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:12,000 DEDICATION, YOU HAVE THE 594 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:14,000 APPRECIATION OF THIS HOUSE AND 595 00:20:14,001 --> 00:20:17,000 COUNTLESS AMERICANS IN ISRAELIS, 596 00:20:17,001 --> 00:20:18,000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. 597 00:20:18,001 --> 00:20:19,000 KEEP IT UP. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 598 00:20:19,001 --> 00:20:20,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 599 00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:21,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 600 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:22,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 601 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:23,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK RISE? 602 00:20:23,001 --> 00:20:24,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 603 00:20:24,001 --> 00:20:26,000 >> THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 604 00:20:26,001 --> 00:20:28,000 I RISE TODAY TO URGE CONGRESS TO 605 00:20:28,001 --> 00:20:30,000 OVERTURN THE SUPREME COURT'S 606 00:20:30,001 --> 00:20:32,000 RULING LAST WEEK THAT ALLOWS 607 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,000 CORPORATIONS TO BUY FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 608 00:20:34,001 --> 00:20:36,000 YESTERDAY I INTRODUCED THE 609 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:37,000 FREEDOM FROM FOREIGN-BASED 610 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:39,000 MANIPULATION IN AMERICAN 611 00:20:39,001 --> 00:20:40,000 ELECTIONS ACT WHICH WILL PREVENT 612 00:20:40,001 --> 00:20:42,000 FOREIGN INFLUENCED COMPANIES 613 00:20:42,001 --> 00:20:44,000 FROM BUYING U.S. ELECTIONS. 614 00:20:44,001 --> 00:20:46,000 SHOULD A CHINESE CORPORATION 615 00:20:46,001 --> 00:20:47,000 DECIDE U.S. COPYRIGHT POLICY OR 616 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:49,000 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW? 617 00:20:49,001 --> 00:20:50,000 SHOULD SAUDI ARABIA HAVE A SAY 618 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:53,000 ON AMERICAN ENERGY POLICY? 619 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:54,000 HOW ABOUT VENEZUELA? 620 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:56,000 SHOULD HUGO CHAVEZ HAVE A VOICE 621 00:20:56,001 --> 00:20:57,000 IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS? 622 00:20:57,001 --> 00:20:58,000 THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE MUST 623 00:20:58,001 --> 00:21:00,000 ASK IF THE SUPREME COURT'S 624 00:21:00,001 --> 00:21:02,000 DECISION IS ALLOWED TO STAND. 625 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:05,000 THE COURT'S DECISION FLIES IN 626 00:21:05,001 --> 00:21:06,000 THE FACE OF A CENTURY OF 627 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:07,000 PRECEDENT, KEEPING CORPORATIONS 628 00:21:07,001 --> 00:21:08,000 OUT OF ELECTIONS. 629 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,000 BY GIVING CORPORATIONS THE SAME 630 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:11,000 RIGHTS AS INDIVIDUALS, THE COURT 631 00:21:11,001 --> 00:21:13,000 IS HANDING CORPORATIONS A BLANK 632 00:21:13,001 --> 00:21:15,000 CHECK TO DECIDE ELECTIONS 633 00:21:15,001 --> 00:21:16,000 INSTEAD OF LETTING THE VOTERS DO IT. 634 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,000 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 635 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,000 IN SAYING NO TO THIS DECISION 636 00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:22,000 AND YES TO DEMOCRACY. 637 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:23,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 638 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:24,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 639 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:25,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 640 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:27,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MINNESOTA RISE? 641 00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:28,000 >> TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 642 00:21:28,001 --> 00:21:29,000 MINUTE. 643 00:21:29,001 --> 00:21:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 644 00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:31,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 645 00:21:31,001 --> 00:21:33,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY TO 646 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:34,000 SAY WELCOME HOME TO A GROUP OF 647 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,000 MINNESOTA HEROES. 648 00:21:37,001 --> 00:21:38,000 THE NATIONAL GUARD'S 34TH 649 00:21:38,001 --> 00:21:39,000 INFANTRY DIVISION KNOWN AS THE 650 00:21:39,001 --> 00:21:41,000 RED BULLS. 651 00:21:41,001 --> 00:21:42,000 MANY OF THE RED BULLS HAVE BEGUN 652 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:43,000 ARRIVING HOME FROM THEIR MOST 653 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:45,000 RECENT TOUR OF DUTY IN IRAQ. 654 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:48,000 THESE BRAVE MINNESOTAANS HAVE 655 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:49,000 PLAYED A VERY CRUCIAL ROLE IN 656 00:21:49,001 --> 00:21:50,000 TRANSITIONING SECURITY, 657 00:21:50,001 --> 00:21:52,000 RESPONSIBILITIES FROM AMERICAN 658 00:21:52,001 --> 00:21:55,000 TROOPS TO THE IRAQI FORCES AS 659 00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:56,000 WELL AS LEADING MORE THAN 1,000 660 00:21:56,001 --> 00:21:57,000 RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TO HELP 661 00:21:57,001 --> 00:22:01,000 THE IRAQI PEOPLE. 662 00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:02,000 THE 1,200 SOLDIERS NOW 663 00:22:02,001 --> 00:22:05,000 RETURNING, THEY COME HOME FROM 664 00:22:05,001 --> 00:22:07,000 MORE THAN 275 COMMUNITIES IN 665 00:22:07,001 --> 00:22:10,000 MINNESOTA AND REPRESENT THE 666 00:22:10,001 --> 00:22:11,000 AMERICAN SPIRIT OF SELFLESSNESS, 667 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:13,000 SACRIFICE, AND SERVICE. 668 00:22:13,001 --> 00:22:14,000 I HAD THE CHANCE TO PERSONALLY 669 00:22:14,001 --> 00:22:16,000 MEET WITH SOME OF THE RED BULLS 670 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,000 WHEN I VISITED IRAQ NOT TOO LONG 671 00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:19,000 AGO AND I WAS HUMBLED TO SEE 672 00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:20,000 THEIR SELFLESS WORK THAT THEY 673 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:21,000 WORK ON AND ACCOMPLISH EVERY 674 00:22:21,001 --> 00:22:23,000 SINGLE DAY. 675 00:22:23,001 --> 00:22:25,000 TODAY I'M THRILLED TO SEE THEM 676 00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:27,000 RETURNING HOME FROM IRAQ SAFELY, 677 00:22:27,001 --> 00:22:29,000 TO THEIR FRIENDS, TO THEIR 678 00:22:29,001 --> 00:22:30,000 FAMILIES, AND TO A STATE THAT'S 679 00:22:30,001 --> 00:22:31,000 ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THEY DO. 680 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:32,000 I YIELD BACK. 681 00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 682 00:22:33,001 --> 00:22:34,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 683 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:35,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 684 00:22:35,001 --> 00:22:37,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK RISE? 685 00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:38,000 >> UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO ADDRESS 686 00:22:38,001 --> 00:22:39,000 THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 687 00:22:39,001 --> 00:22:40,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 688 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 689 00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:44,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 690 00:22:44,001 --> 00:22:45,000 MR. ARCURI: WE HAVE ASKED THE 691 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:46,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE TO DO A LOT OVER 692 00:22:46,001 --> 00:22:47,000 THE PAST YEAR TO WORK TOGETHER 693 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:49,000 TO REBUILD OUR ECONOMY. 694 00:22:49,001 --> 00:22:51,000 TONIGHT WE AWAIT THE PRESIDENT'S 695 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:52,000 WORDS TO SEE HOW THE COUNTRY 696 00:22:52,001 --> 00:22:55,000 WILL MOVE FORWARD TO CONTINUE TO 697 00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:56,000 PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AN MAKE 698 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:57,000 REFORMS NECESSARY TO JUMP-START OUR ECONOMY. 699 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,000 I APPLAUD THE PRESIDENT FOR 700 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:01,000 PUTTING A FREEZE ON ALL 701 00:23:01,001 --> 00:23:03,000 NONSECURITY DISCRETIONARY 702 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:05,000 SPENDING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 703 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:06,000 BECAUSE AS THE AMERICAN FAMILY 704 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:07,000 TIGHTENS THEIR BELT, SO MUST 705 00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:08,000 CONGRESS. 706 00:23:08,001 --> 00:23:10,000 I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE 707 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:11,000 PRESIDENT'S CONTINUE TO CALL FOR 708 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:12,000 INCREASED FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY 709 00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:14,000 IN CONGRESS AND I WILL DO MY 710 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:15,000 PART IN ENSURING THAT WE SPEND 711 00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:16,000 RESPONSIBLY TO PROTECT THE 712 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:20,000 PEOPLE OF MY DISTRICT. 713 00:23:20,001 --> 00:23:22,000 I JOIN SEVERAL OF MY BLOG -- 714 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:24,000 BLUE DOG COLLEAGUES TO CALL FOR 715 00:23:24,001 --> 00:23:25,000 A SPENDING FREEZE EARLIER THIS 716 00:23:25,001 --> 00:23:28,000 MONTH AND LL CONTINUE TO LOOK 717 00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:29,000 FOR WAYS THAT WE CAN HOLD 718 00:23:29,001 --> 00:23:31,000 OURSELF FISCALLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR 719 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:33,000 EVERY DOLLAR SPENT THROUGH 720 00:23:33,001 --> 00:23:34,000 INITIATIVES LIKE PAY-GO AND 721 00:23:34,001 --> 00:23:35,000 OTHER BUDGET CUTS. 722 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:37,000 MY PREDECESSOR IN CONGRESS USED 723 00:23:37,001 --> 00:23:39,000 TO SAY WE HEAR IN CONGRESS CAN'T 724 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:40,000 CREATE JOBS BUT WE CAN CREATE AN 725 00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:42,000 ECONOMIC CLIMATE FOR JOB GROWTH 726 00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:44,000 AND DEVELOPMENT TO BOOST OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. 727 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:45,000 THAT SHOULD BE OR PRIMARY GOAL 728 00:23:45,001 --> 00:23:46,000 IN 2010. 729 00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:47,000 THANK YOU. 730 00:23:47,001 --> 00:23:48,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 731 00:23:48,001 --> 00:23:49,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 732 00:23:49,001 --> 00:23:50,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 733 00:23:50,001 --> 00:23:51,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 734 00:23:51,001 --> 00:23:52,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 735 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:53,000 GENTLEMAN FROM LOUISIANA RISE? 736 00:23:53,001 --> 00:23:54,000 >> ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 737 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:55,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 738 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:56,000 MINUTE. 739 00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 740 00:23:59,001 --> 00:24:01,000 MR. FLEMING: MR. SPEAKER, 741 00:24:01,001 --> 00:24:03,000 ACCORDING TO A POLL RELEASED 742 00:24:03,001 --> 00:24:04,000 THIS WEEK BY CNN, NEARLY THREE 743 00:24:04,001 --> 00:24:07,000 OUT OF FOUR AMERICANS THINK THAT 744 00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:10,000 MUCH OF THE MONEY SPENT IN THE 745 00:24:10,001 --> 00:24:11,000 SO-CALLED STIMULUS PLAN HAS BEEN 746 00:24:11,001 --> 00:24:14,000 WASTED. I AGREE. 747 00:24:14,001 --> 00:24:17,000 SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED THAT A 748 00:24:17,001 --> 00:24:19,000 BILL CHOCK-FULL OF EARMARKS AND 749 00:24:19,001 --> 00:24:20,000 PET PROJECTS DID NOT TO INSPIRE 750 00:24:20,001 --> 00:24:22,000 CONFIDENCE AMONG AMERICANS? 751 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:23,000 AND WITH THE RECORD DROP IN REAL 752 00:24:23,001 --> 00:24:26,000 ESTATE SALES, A LANGUISHING 753 00:24:26,001 --> 00:24:28,000 STOCK MARKET, AND UNEMPLOYMENT 754 00:24:28,001 --> 00:24:31,000 RATE REMAINING ABOVE 10%, SHOULD 755 00:24:31,001 --> 00:24:32,000 WE BLAME THEM? 756 00:24:32,001 --> 00:24:35,000 THE C.B.O. JUST OFFERED AFTER 757 00:24:35,001 --> 00:24:37,000 ONLY ONE YEAR IN TOTAL CONTROL, 758 00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:39,000 DEMOCRATS MORE THAN TRIPLE THE 759 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:42,000 ANNUAL DEFICIT FROM $408 BILLION 760 00:24:42,001 --> 00:24:44,000 TO $1.4 TRILLION. 761 00:24:44,001 --> 00:24:46,000 THESE ARE NOT THE CHANGES 762 00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:48,000 AMERICANS VOTED FOR. 763 00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:50,000 MR. SPEAKER, WHEN IT COMES TO 764 00:24:50,001 --> 00:24:51,000 THE IDEA OF A SPENDING FREEZE, 765 00:24:51,001 --> 00:24:52,000 THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MORE THAN 766 00:24:52,001 --> 00:24:54,000 WINDOW DRESSING. 767 00:24:54,001 --> 00:24:57,000 IT NEEDS TO RETURN TO BALANCED 768 00:24:57,001 --> 00:25:00,000 BDGETS AND A REAL FOCUS OJOB CREATION. 769 00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:01,000 -- -- I YIELD BACK. 770 00:25:01,001 --> 00:25:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 771 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:03,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 772 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:04,000 FROM NEW YORK RISE? 773 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:06,000 >> TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 774 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:07,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 775 00:25:07,001 --> 00:25:10,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 776 00:25:10,001 --> 00:25:12,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 777 00:25:12,001 --> 00:25:13,000 >> THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER, 778 00:25:13,001 --> 00:25:14,000 TONIGHT WHEN OUR PRESIDENT GIVES 779 00:25:14,001 --> 00:25:16,000 THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 780 00:25:16,001 --> 00:25:18,000 I'M GOING TO LISTEN INTENTLY. 781 00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:19,000 I KNOW HEL TALK ABOUT CREATING 782 00:25:19,001 --> 00:25:21,000 JOBS, IMPROVING THE ECONOMY, 783 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:23,000 LOWERING UNEMPLOYMENT, AND ALSO 784 00:25:23,001 --> 00:25:24,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM. 785 00:25:24,001 --> 00:25:25,000 LET'S RALLY BEHIND OUR 786 00:25:25,001 --> 00:25:26,000 PRESIDENT. 787 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:27,000 THE PEOPLE SENT US HERE TO WORK 788 00:25:27,001 --> 00:25:28,000 TOGETHER IN A BIPARTISAN 789 00:25:28,001 --> 00:25:30,000 FASHION. 790 00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:31,000 LET'S NOT LOOK ABOUT WHAT'S BEST 791 00:25:31,001 --> 00:25:32,000 POLITICALLY FOR THIS PARTY OR 792 00:25:32,001 --> 00:25:33,000 THAT PARTY. 793 00:25:33,001 --> 00:25:34,000 LET'S LOOK AT WHAT'S BEST FOR 794 00:25:34,001 --> 00:25:37,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 795 00:25:37,001 --> 00:25:39,000 I ASK MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS, 796 00:25:39,001 --> 00:25:40,000 STOP BEING THE PARTY OF NO, WORK 797 00:25:40,001 --> 00:25:43,000 WITH US ON HEALTH CARE. 798 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:46,000 WE CAN DO IT IF WE ALL PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER. 799 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:48,000 LET ME REMIND MY FRIENDS THAT 800 00:25:48,001 --> 00:25:49,000 THE TARP BAILOUT, THE BAILOUT OF 801 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:50,000 THE BANKS HAPPENED UNDER 802 00:25:50,001 --> 00:25:51,000 PRESIDENT BUSH. 803 00:25:51,001 --> 00:25:53,000 IT WAS PRESIDENT BUSH'S 804 00:25:53,001 --> 00:25:54,000 RECOMMENDATION AND I AND THE DEMOCRATS SUPPORTED IT BECAUSE 805 00:25:54,001 --> 00:25:56,000 IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 806 00:25:56,001 --> 00:25:58,000 LET'S SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT WHEN 807 00:25:58,001 --> 00:26:00,000 HE SAYS THE RIGHT THINGS THAT HE 808 00:26:00,001 --> 00:26:01,000 WILL TONIGHT. 809 00:26:01,001 --> 00:26:04,000 LET'S UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN 810 00:26:04,001 --> 00:26:05,000 ONLY SUCCEED IF WE WORK TOGETHER. 811 00:26:05,001 --> 00:26:06,000 WE WERE REST A MESS BY THE 812 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:07,000 PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. 813 00:26:07,001 --> 00:26:08,000 ONE YEAR TO CLEAN IT UP IS NOT 814 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:10,000 ENOUGH. 815 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:11,000 WE PREVENTED A DEPRESSION. 816 00:26:11,001 --> 00:26:13,000 NOW WE HAVE TO MOVE ON. 817 00:26:13,001 --> 00:26:14,000 I ASK THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 818 00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:16,000 AISLE, PLEASE WORK WITH US. 819 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:17,000 PLEASE WORK WITH US TO HELP THE 820 00:26:17,001 --> 00:26:18,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 821 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:19,000 I YIELD BACK. 822 00:26:19,001 --> 00:26:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 823 00:26:20,001 --> 00:26:21,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 824 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:22,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 825 00:26:22,001 --> 00:26:23,000 GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA RISE? 826 00:26:23,001 --> 00:26:24,000 >> TO REVISE AND EXTEND. 827 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 828 00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:27,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. MR. PITTS: MR. SPEAKER, WE KNOW 829 00:26:27,001 --> 00:26:29,000 THAT THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT AN 830 00:26:29,001 --> 00:26:31,000 ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL IS TO ENSURE 831 00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:33,000 THAT TERRORISTS ARE STOPPED 832 00:26:33,001 --> 00:26:34,000 BEFORE THEY REACH OUR SHORES. 833 00:26:34,001 --> 00:26:36,000 UNFORTUNATELY WE FAILED TO DO SO 834 00:26:36,001 --> 00:26:37,000 ON CHRISTMAS DAY AND AL QAEDA 835 00:26:37,001 --> 00:26:41,000 CAME CLOSE TO A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY. 836 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:42,000 WHILE THE TERRORIST ABDUL WAS 837 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:44,000 KNOWN IN A TERRORIST INTITY 838 00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:47,000 DATABASE, HE WAS NOT PLACED ON A 839 00:26:47,001 --> 00:26:49,000 SEPARATE SCREENING DATABASE AND 840 00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:50,000 HIS U.S. VISA WAS NOT REVOKED. 841 00:26:50,001 --> 00:26:53,000 CLEARLY WE DID NOT CONNECT THE 842 00:26:53,001 --> 00:26:54,000 DOTS TO NOTICE THAT A MAN ON A 843 00:26:54,001 --> 00:26:56,000 U.S. WATCH LIST ALSO HELD A 844 00:26:56,001 --> 00:26:57,000 CURRENT U.S. VISA. 845 00:26:57,001 --> 00:26:59,000 THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME 846 00:26:59,001 --> 00:27:00,000 TERRORISTS HAVE OBTAINED U.S. 847 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:01,000 VISAS. 848 00:27:01,001 --> 00:27:02,000 SEVERAL OF THE 9/11 HIJACKERS 849 00:27:02,001 --> 00:27:04,000 DID SO AS WELL. 850 00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:05,000 WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE VISA 851 00:27:05,001 --> 00:27:07,000 APPLICATION PROCESS. 852 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:08,000 WE NEED TO STREAMLINE THE 853 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:10,000 INTELLIGENCE GATHERING AND SHARING PROCESS. 854 00:27:10,001 --> 00:27:11,000 WE NEED TO END THE VISA LOTTERY. 855 00:27:11,001 --> 00:27:12,000 WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT 856 00:27:12,001 --> 00:27:14,000 TERRORISTS ARE TURNED AROUND 857 00:27:14,001 --> 00:27:16,000 BEFORE THEY GET TO THE AIRPORT, 858 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:17,000 BEFORE THEY EVEN ATTEMPT TO GO 859 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:18,000 THROUGH SECURITY. 860 00:27:18,001 --> 00:27:20,000 WERE IT NOT FOR THE QUICK ACTION 861 00:27:20,001 --> 00:27:22,000 OF PASSENGERS ON THAT FLIGHT, 862 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:23,000 288 INNOCENT LIVES WOULD HAVE 863 00:27:23,001 --> 00:27:24,000 BEEN LOST. 864 00:27:24,001 --> 00:27:26,000 PASSENGERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO 865 00:27:26,001 --> 00:27:29,000 RELY ON LAST-MINUTE HEROICS IN 866 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:30,000 ORDER TO TRAVEL SAFELY. 867 00:27:30,001 --> 00:27:31,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION MUST GET 868 00:27:31,001 --> 00:27:34,000 SERIOUS ABOUT ADDRESSING THIS PROBLEM. 869 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:35,000 I YIELD BACK. 870 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:36,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 871 00:27:36,001 --> 00:27:37,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 872 00:27:37,001 --> 00:27:38,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 873 00:27:38,001 --> 00:27:39,000 GENTLELADY FROM MARYLAND RISE? MS. EDWARDS: TO ADDRESS THE 874 00:27:39,001 --> 00:27:40,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 875 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,000 REVISE AND EXTEND. 876 00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 877 00:27:42,001 --> 00:27:45,000 MS. EDWARDS: MR. SPEAKER, 878 00:27:45,001 --> 00:27:48,000 JUSTICE BRANDEIS GOT IT RIGHT -- DEMOCRATS OR WEALTH CONCENTRATED 879 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:50,000 IN THE HANDS OF A FEW BUT NOT BOTH. 880 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:51,000 THAT'S TRUER TODAY AS THE UNITED 881 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:52,000 STATES SUPREME COURT JUST WIPED 882 00:27:52,001 --> 00:27:54,000 AWAY DECADES OF LEGAL PRECEDENT 883 00:27:54,001 --> 00:27:55,000 ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO SPEND 884 00:27:55,001 --> 00:27:57,000 UNLIMITED MONEY FROM THEIR 885 00:27:57,001 --> 00:27:58,000 TREASURIES ON OUR ELECTIONS. 886 00:27:58,001 --> 00:28:00,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALREADY 887 00:28:00,001 --> 00:28:01,000 BELIEVE THAT CORPORATE SPECIAL 888 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:02,000 INTEREST AND THEIR LOBBYISTS RUN 889 00:28:02,001 --> 00:28:04,000 THE SHOW AROUND HERE. 890 00:28:04,001 --> 00:28:05,000 THE HALLS ARE CRAWLING WITH THEM. 891 00:28:05,001 --> 00:28:08,000 BUT THAT'S NOT ENOUGH. 892 00:28:08,001 --> 00:28:09,000 NOW THE COURT SAYS THE BIG 893 00:28:09,001 --> 00:28:11,000 BANKS, DRUG COMPANIES, INSURANCE 894 00:28:11,001 --> 00:28:12,000 COMPANIES, HEY, ALL BETS ARE 895 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:15,000 OFF, IT'S OPEN SEASON. 896 00:28:15,001 --> 00:28:16,000 OUR ELECTIS ARE FOR SALE. THAT'S RIGHT. 897 00:28:16,001 --> 00:28:17,000 IF THE CONGRESS DOESN'T LIKE 898 00:28:17,001 --> 00:28:19,000 WHAT THIS CONGRESSWOMAN IS 899 00:28:19,001 --> 00:28:22,000 DOING, THEY'LL JUST FORGET THE 900 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:24,000 VOTERS, BUY TV ADS, SEND ROBO 901 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:25,000 CALLS, A LOT OF MAIL AND BEAT 902 00:28:25,001 --> 00:28:26,000 HER IN NOVEMBER. 903 00:28:26,001 --> 00:28:28,000 A LAW WON'T FIX THIS. 904 00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:30,000 WEAVE TO FIX IT IN THE CONSTITUTION. 905 00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:31,000 TODAY I'LL INTRODUCE THE 906 00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:32,000 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SO THAT 907 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:34,000 WE THE PEOPLE CAN TAKE BACK OUR 908 00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:36,000 ELECTIONS AND OUR DEMOCRACY. 909 00:28:36,001 --> 00:28:37,000 THIS IS NOT THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE 910 00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:38,000 INCORPORATED. 911 00:28:38,001 --> 00:28:39,000 WE ARE THE PEOPLE, IT'S OUR HOUSE. 912 00:28:39,001 --> 00:28:40,000 IT'S OUR CONSTITUTION. 913 00:28:40,001 --> 00:28:43,000 AND IT'S OUR ELECTIONS. 914 00:28:43,001 --> 00:28:44,000 WE PLAN TO TAKE IT BACK FROM THE 915 00:28:44,001 --> 00:28:45,000 UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. 916 00:28:45,001 --> 00:28:47,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 917 00:28:47,001 --> 00:28:48,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK HER TIME. 918 00:28:48,001 --> 00:28:49,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 919 00:28:49,001 --> 00:28:51,000 GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA RISE? 920 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:52,000 >> ASK PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE 921 00:28:52,001 --> 00:28:53,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 922 00:28:53,001 --> 00:28:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 923 00:28:58,001 --> 00:29:00,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 924 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:03,000 MR. MURPHY: MR. SPEAKER, SINCE 925 00:29:03,001 --> 00:29:04,000 THE $862 BILLION STIMULUS BILL 926 00:29:04,001 --> 00:29:05,000 WAS SIGNED INTO LAW LAST 927 00:29:05,001 --> 00:29:07,000 FEBRUA, NEARLY THREE MILLION 928 00:29:07,001 --> 00:29:09,000 MORE AMERICANS HAVE LOST JOBS. 929 00:29:09,001 --> 00:29:10,000 THE PROJECTED DEFICIT FOR THIS 930 00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:13,000 YEAR IS $1.3 TRILLION, SECOND 931 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:14,000 ONLY TO LAST YEAR'S $1.2 932 00:29:14,001 --> 00:29:15,000 TRILLION. 933 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:16,000 IT'S TIME TO STOP WASHINGTON'S 934 00:29:16,001 --> 00:29:18,000 WILD SPENDING AND START CREATING 935 00:29:18,001 --> 00:29:19,000 HOMETOWN JOBS, FAMILIES WANT 936 00:29:19,001 --> 00:29:20,000 PAYCHECKS NOT UNEMPLOYMENT 937 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:21,000 CHECKS. 938 00:29:21,001 --> 00:29:22,000 THAT'S WHY WE INTRODUCED THE 939 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:23,000 BIPARTISAN AMERICAN CONSERVATION 940 00:29:23,001 --> 00:29:27,000 AND CLEAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE 941 00:29:27,001 --> 00:29:28,000 ACT, H.R. 2227, WHICH OPENS UP 942 00:29:28,001 --> 00:29:29,000 THE U.S. COAST FOR 943 00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:30,000 ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE OIL 944 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:33,000 AND GAS EXPLORATION. 945 00:29:33,001 --> 00:29:35,000 THIS BILL PRODUCES $1.2 MILLION 946 00:29:35,001 --> 00:29:36,000 NEW GOOD-PAYING JOBS AND $8 947 00:29:36,001 --> 00:29:38,000 TRILLION ECONOMIC BOOST OVER 20 YEARS. 948 00:29:38,001 --> 00:29:39,000 WE WILL CLEAN UP AMERICA'S 949 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:40,000 WATERWAYS. 950 00:29:40,001 --> 00:29:42,000 WE'LL CLEAN OUR AIR BY REPLACING 951 00:29:42,001 --> 00:29:45,000 OLD COAL PLANTS WITH NEW CLEAN 952 00:29:45,001 --> 00:29:46,000 COAL, NUCLEAR, WIND, SOLAR, AND 953 00:29:46,001 --> 00:29:48,000 GEOTHERMAL ENGY GENERATION. 954 00:29:48,001 --> 00:29:49,000 WE WILL CONSERVE ENERGY BY 955 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:50,000 REBUILDING OUR OLD 956 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:53,000 INFRASTRUCTURE IN A SMART GRID. 957 00:29:53,001 --> 00:29:55,000 AMERICANS WILL MODERNIZE 958 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,000 BUILDINGS TO CUT WASTE BY 25%. 959 00:29:57,001 --> 00:30:00,000 WE STOP SPENDING HUNDREDS OF 960 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:03,000 BILLIONS OF DLARS ON OPEC OIL, 961 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,000 WE STOP BORROWING FROM CHINA AND 962 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:08,000 DO THIS WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. 963 00:30:08,001 --> 00:30:09,000 JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING H.R. 2227. 964 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:11,000 I YIELD BACK. 965 00:30:11,001 --> 00:30:12,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 966 00:30:12,001 --> 00:30:13,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 967 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:14,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 968 00:30:14,001 --> 00:30:16,000 GENTLEMAN FROM ALABAMA RISE? 969 00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:17,000 >> TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 970 00:30:17,001 --> 00:30:18,000 MINUTE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 971 00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:20,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 972 00:30:20,001 --> 00:30:22,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, I'M PLEASED THAT 973 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:23,000 THE PRESIDENT ACCORDING TO THE 974 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:24,000 PRESS REPORTS THAT WE ARE 975 00:30:24,001 --> 00:30:26,000 GETTING OVER THE LAST COUPLE 976 00:30:26,001 --> 00:30:28,000 DAYS WILL BE PROPOSING A 977 00:30:28,001 --> 00:30:29,000 THREE-YEAR FREEZE ON NONSECURITY 978 00:30:29,001 --> 00:30:31,000 RELATED DISCRETIONARY SPENDING. 979 00:30:31,001 --> 00:30:33,000 THIS IS A GOOD AND NECESSARY 980 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,000 FIRST STEP TO CONTROL GOVERNMENT 981 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:36,000 SPENDING AND REDUCE BUDGET 982 00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:38,000 DEFICITS. 983 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:40,000 HOWEVER, OUR BALLOONING DEFICITS 984 00:30:40,001 --> 00:30:43,000 MANDATE THAT WE GO EVEN FURTHER. 985 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:45,000 WASTEFUL AND UNNECESSARY 986 00:30:45,001 --> 00:30:47,000 PROGRAMS NEED TO BE I.D.'D. 987 00:30:47,001 --> 00:30:49,000 THEY NEED TO BE REDUCED, THEY 988 00:30:49,001 --> 00:30:52,000 NEED TO BE ELIMINATED AND THEY 989 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:54,000 NEED TO BEELIMINATED IMMEDIATELY. 990 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:55,000 I HAVE AND WILL CONSISTENTLY 991 00:30:55,001 --> 00:30:56,000 OPPOSE LEGISLATION THAT I 992 00:30:56,001 --> 00:30:58,000 BELIEVE UNNECESSARILY INCREASES 993 00:30:58,001 --> 00:30:59,000 FEDERAL SPENDING OR FUNDING 994 00:30:59,001 --> 00:31:02,000 PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT WARRANT 995 00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:05,000 SUPPORT DURING A RECESSION EVEN 996 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:08,000 WHEN THEY ARE ONLY A FEW MILLION DOLLARS. 997 00:31:08,001 --> 00:31:10,000 YOU KNOW, WE MUST HAVE THE 998 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:12,000 MINDSET THAT EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS. 999 00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:13,000 IF WE ARE GOING TO BE SERIOUS 1000 00:31:13,001 --> 00:31:14,000 ABOUT CUTTING GOVERNMENT 1001 00:31:14,001 --> 00:31:16,000 WASTEFUL SPENDING. 1002 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:17,000 I HOPE THE PRESIDENT GOES 1003 00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:18,000 FURTHER IN EXPLAINING SOME OF 1004 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,000 HIS PROPOSALS IN THE STATE OF 1005 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:20,000 THE UNION TONIGHT. 1006 00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:22,000 I WILL BE LISTENING VERY CLOSELY 1007 00:31:22,001 --> 00:31:24,000 WITH MANY OTHERS. 1008 00:31:24,001 --> 00:31:26,000 YESTERDAY THE BLUE DOGS, MY 1009 00:31:26,001 --> 00:31:29,000 COLLEAGUES, RELEASED A SET OF 1010 00:31:29,001 --> 00:31:33,000 PROPOSALS THAT OUTLINE THE STEPS 1011 00:31:33,001 --> 00:31:34,000 WE MUST TAKE FOR MANY BUDGET REDUCTIONS. 1012 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1013 00:31:35,001 --> 00:31:36,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1014 00:31:36,001 --> 00:31:38,000 MR. BRIGHT: I APOLOGIZE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1015 00:31:38,001 --> 00:31:39,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1016 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:41,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1017 00:31:41,001 --> 00:31:43,000 GENTLELADY FROM OHIO RISE? 1018 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:44,000 >> UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 1019 00:31:44,001 --> 00:31:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 1020 00:31:45,001 --> 00:31:46,000 OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1021 00:31:46,001 --> 00:31:48,000 MRS. SCHMIDT: THANK YOU, MR. 1022 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:50,000 SPEAKER, LAST FRIDAY ALMOST A 1023 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:51,000 HALF MILLION FOLKS GATHERED AT 1024 00:31:51,001 --> 00:31:53,000 THE CAPITOL TO HE ARE MIND US 1025 00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:56,000 ONCE AGAIN THAT ALL LIFE IS 1026 00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:57,000 PRECIOUS AND THAT THE UNBORN ARE 1027 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:59,000 GUARANTEED THE RIGHT TO LIFE. 1028 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:01,000 . 1029 00:32:01,001 --> 00:32:04,000 WHILE ABORTION HAS BEEN ALLOWED 1030 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:05,000 IN THIS COUNTRY FOR THE PAST 37 1031 00:32:05,001 --> 00:32:08,000 YEARS, AMERICANS MAKE IT 1032 00:32:08,001 --> 00:32:10,000 CRYSTAL CLEAR THEY DON'T WANT 1033 00:32:10,001 --> 00:32:11,000 EIR TAXPAYER DOLLARS BEING 1034 00:32:11,001 --> 00:32:12,000 USED. 1035 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,000 THE HYDE AMENDMENT STOPPED 1036 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:15,000 FEDERAL FUNDS FROM BEING USED 1037 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:16,000 TO PAY FOR ABORTION. 1038 00:32:16,001 --> 00:32:17,000 THE CURRENT BILL PASSED BY THE 1039 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:19,000 SENATE WILL ERODE THIS. 1040 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:21,000 THIS BILL WILL CHANGE THAT 1041 00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:23,000 LONGSTANDING LAW AND ALLOW FOR 1042 00:32:23,001 --> 00:32:24,000 TAX DOLLARS TO BE USED FOR 1043 00:32:24,001 --> 00:32:25,000 ABORTION. 1044 00:32:25,001 --> 00:32:26,000 MR. SPEAKER, THE AMERICAN 1045 00:32:26,001 --> 00:32:29,000 PEOPLE DO NOT WANT THEIR MONEY 1046 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:31,000 TO BE USED TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS. 1047 00:32:31,001 --> 00:32:32,000 AS WE CONTINUE TO DEBATE THE 1048 00:32:32,001 --> 00:32:33,000 HEALTH CARE BILL, WE MUST HONOR 1049 00:32:33,001 --> 00:32:35,000 THEIR WISH. 1050 00:32:35,001 --> 00:32:36,000 I YIELD BACK. 1051 00:32:36,001 --> 00:32:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1052 00:32:37,001 --> 00:32:38,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK HER TIME. 1053 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:40,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLELADY FROM CALIFORNIA 1054 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:41,000 RISE? 1055 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:42,000 MRS. CAPPS: TO ADDRESS THE 1056 00:32:42,001 --> 00:32:43,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE AND TO 1057 00:32:43,001 --> 00:32:44,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 1058 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1059 00:32:46,001 --> 00:32:48,000 MRS. CAPPS: MR. SPEAKER, ONE 1060 00:32:48,001 --> 00:32:49,000 YEAR AGO OUR ECONOMY WAS ON THE 1061 00:32:49,001 --> 00:32:52,000 BRINK OF COLLAPSE. 1062 00:32:52,001 --> 00:32:53,000 WALL STREET WAS IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL. 1063 00:32:53,001 --> 00:32:55,000 CREDIT MARKETS WERE COMPLETELY 1064 00:32:55,001 --> 00:32:57,000 FROZEN, AND MORE THAN 7,000 1065 00:32:57,001 --> 00:32:59,000 AMERICANS WERE LOSING THEIR 1066 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:02,000 JOBS EVERY MONTH. 1067 00:33:02,001 --> 00:33:03,000 BUT PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE 1068 00:33:03,001 --> 00:33:04,000 DEMOCRATIC-LED HOUSE -- 1069 00:33:04,001 --> 00:33:06,000 CONGRESS RESPONDED QUICKLY AND 1070 00:33:06,001 --> 00:33:08,000 RESPONSIBLY WITH HISTORIC MEASURES. 1071 00:33:08,001 --> 00:33:10,000 THESE MEASURES MAY BE 1072 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:11,000 UNPOPULAR, UNPLEASANT AND 1073 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:13,000 EXPENSIVE BUT THEY HAVE WORKED. 1074 00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:14,000 I HAVE BEEN MEETING RECENTLY 1075 00:33:14,001 --> 00:33:15,000 WITH BUSINESS, LABOR AND 1076 00:33:15,001 --> 00:33:16,000 COMMUNITY LEADERS THROUGHOUT MY 1077 00:33:16,001 --> 00:33:18,000 DISTRICT TO GET A BETTER SENSE 1078 00:33:18,001 --> 00:33:20,000 OF HOW THE RECOVERY IS WORKING 1079 00:33:20,001 --> 00:33:21,000 FOR MAIN STREET. 1080 00:33:21,001 --> 00:33:23,000 MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE MADE IT 1081 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:24,000 CLEAR TO ME THAT WE HAVE MADE 1082 00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:25,000 GREAT PROGRESS. 1083 00:33:25,001 --> 00:33:27,000 FINANCIAL AND HOUSING MARKETS 1084 00:33:27,001 --> 00:33:28,000 HAVE STABILIZED, MONTHLY JOB 1085 00:33:28,001 --> 00:33:30,000 LOSSES HAVE ABATED, AND BANKS 1086 00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:32,000 HAVE BEGUN TO LEND AGAIN. 1087 00:33:32,001 --> 00:33:34,000 HOWEVER, THEY ALSO MADE IT 1088 00:33:34,001 --> 00:33:37,000 CLEAR THAT THEY NEED MORE HELP, 1089 00:33:37,001 --> 00:33:38,000 AND THAT'S WHY THIS 1090 00:33:38,001 --> 00:33:39,000 DEMOCRATIC-LED CONGRESS HAS 1091 00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:40,000 PASSED THE JOBS FOR MAIN STREET 1092 00:33:40,001 --> 00:33:42,000 ACT IN THE HOUSE. 1093 00:33:42,001 --> 00:33:44,000 THIS PLAN BUILDS ECONOMIC 1094 00:33:44,001 --> 00:33:45,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LONG TERM, 1095 00:33:45,001 --> 00:33:47,000 CREATES NEW JOBS THAT ARE 1096 00:33:47,001 --> 00:33:48,000 SUSTAINABLE FOR YEARS AHEAD, 1097 00:33:48,001 --> 00:33:51,000 REBUILDS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, 1098 00:33:51,001 --> 00:33:53,000 CREATES NEW ENERGY SOURCES AND 1099 00:33:53,001 --> 00:33:55,000 DEVELOPS THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES 1100 00:33:55,001 --> 00:33:56,000 AND INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS THAT WE 1101 00:33:56,001 --> 00:33:58,000 IN THE WORLD WANT TO BUY. 1102 00:33:58,001 --> 00:34:00,000 WE ARE COMMITTED TO REBUILDING 1103 00:34:00,001 --> 00:34:01,000 AMERICA'S ECONOMY, PUTTING 1104 00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,000 AMERICANS BACK TO WORK AND 1105 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:06,000 ENSURING OUR NATION'S ECONOMIC FUTURE. 1106 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:07,000 I YIELD BACK. 1107 00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1108 00:34:08,001 --> 00:34:09,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK HER TIME. 1109 00:34:09,001 --> 00:34:10,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1110 00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:11,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN RISE? 1111 00:34:11,001 --> 00:34:12,000 >> TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 1112 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1113 00:34:13,001 --> 00:34:14,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. MR. KAGEN: MR. SPEAKER, TONIGHT 1114 00:34:14,001 --> 00:34:15,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1115 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:17,000 STAT WILL BE ADDRESSING THE 1116 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:19,000 NATION ON WHERE WE ARE AT, HOW 1117 00:34:19,001 --> 00:34:21,000 WE GOT HERE AND WHAT WE MUST DO 1118 00:34:21,001 --> 00:34:22,000 NOW TO DIG OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC 1119 00:34:22,001 --> 00:34:23,000 MESS. 1120 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:25,000 WELL, WHERE ARE WE? 1121 00:34:25,001 --> 00:34:27,000 WE'RE COMING OUT OF THE DEEPEST 1122 00:34:27,001 --> 00:34:30,000 WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN OF OUR TIME. 1123 00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:32,000 AND HOW DID WE GET HERE? 1124 00:34:32,001 --> 00:34:34,000 NEVER FORGET. 1125 00:34:34,001 --> 00:34:36,000 NEVER FORGET THAT IT WAS GEORGE 1126 00:34:36,001 --> 00:34:37,000 BUSH'S REPUBLICAN POLICIES THAT 1127 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:39,000 DROVE US INTO THE DITCH AND 1128 00:34:39,001 --> 00:34:42,000 WITHOUT PAYING A DIME FOR THEM. 1129 00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:44,000 REPUBLICANS GAVE AWAY HUGE TAX 1130 00:34:44,001 --> 00:34:46,000 CUTS TO THE RICH, GOT US INTO 1131 00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:48,000 TWO WARS AT THE SAME TIME, 1132 00:34:48,001 --> 00:34:50,000 CREATED THE BIGGEST TRILLION 1133 00:34:50,001 --> 00:34:52,000 DOLLAR PRESCRIPTION DRUG 1134 00:34:52,001 --> 00:34:54,000 ENTITLEMENT PLAN IN AMERICAN 1135 00:34:54,001 --> 00:34:56,000 HISTORY AND DEREGULATED THE 1136 00:34:56,001 --> 00:34:58,000 BANKS ON WALL STREET. 1137 00:34:58,001 --> 00:35:01,000 AND WORSE YET, THEY BORROWED 1138 00:35:01,001 --> 00:35:02,000 ALL THE MONEY FROM CHINA ASKING 1139 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:03,000 OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN 1140 00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:05,000 TO PAY IT BACK. 1141 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:07,000 THE FACT IS WE'RE CLEANING UP 1142 00:35:07,001 --> 00:35:09,000 AFTER THE BIGGEST ELEPHANT 1143 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:10,000 PARADE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AND 1144 00:35:10,001 --> 00:35:13,000 NEVER FORGET THESE FACTS. 1145 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:16,000 WELL, FOLKS, IN THE MIDDLE 1146 00:35:16,001 --> 00:35:18,000 CLASS, RESCUED -- MIDDLE CLASS 1147 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:19,000 RESCUED WALL STREE AND NOW 1148 00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:21,000 IT'S TIME BACK TO RETURN THE FAVOR. 1149 00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:23,000 WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK AND 1150 00:35:23,001 --> 00:35:25,000 THAT'S WHY WE'RE PROPOSING THE 1151 00:35:25,001 --> 00:35:26,000 TRANSFER FEE ON ALL WALL STREET 1152 00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:27,000 SPECULATORS. I YIELD BACK. 1153 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:28,000 THSPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1154 00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:29,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1155 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:31,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1156 00:35:31,001 --> 00:35:32,000 GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA RISE? 1157 00:35:32,001 --> 00:35:33,000 MR. PENCE: MR. SPEAKER, I'D ASK 1158 00:35:33,001 --> 00:35:34,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO ADDRESS 1159 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:35,000 THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE AND TO 1160 00:35:35,001 --> 00:35:36,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1161 00:35:36,001 --> 00:35:37,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1162 00:35:37,001 --> 00:35:38,000 MR. PENCE: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 1163 00:35:38,001 --> 00:35:39,000 TONIGHT, THE PRESIDENT OF THE 1164 00:35:39,001 --> 00:35:41,000 UNITED STATES WILLURN TO THIS 1165 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:43,000 WELL OF CONGRESS AND DELIVER 1166 00:35:43,001 --> 00:35:44,000 HIS REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE 1167 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:46,000 UNION AND HOUSE REPUBLICANS 1168 00:35:46,001 --> 00:35:47,000 WELCOME THE PRESIDENT BACK TO 1169 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:50,000 THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE. 1170 00:35:50,001 --> 00:35:53,000 NOW, WE'VE HEARD THAT AFTER 1171 00:35:53,001 --> 00:35:54,000 YEAR OF RUNAWAY FEDERAL 1172 00:35:54,001 --> 00:35:55,000 SPENDING, TRILLION DOLLAR 1173 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:57,000 DEFICITS, BORROWING, BAILOUTS 1174 00:35:57,001 --> 00:35:59,000 AND BIG GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN 1175 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:01,000 ENERGY AND HEALTH CARE, AFTER A YEAR WHERE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN 1176 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:03,000 ON A SPENDING BIN G, THE 1177 00:36:03,001 --> 00:36:04,000 PRESIDENT IS GOING -- BINGE, 1178 00:36:04,001 --> 00:36:05,000 THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO TELL 1179 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:07,000 US THAT HE'S GOING TO GET HIS 1180 00:36:07,001 --> 00:36:09,000 PARTY ON THE WAGON HERE IN CONGRESS. 1181 00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:11,000 WELL, WE SAY WE WELCOME THAT. 1182 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:12,000 WE WELCOME A THREE-YEAR 1183 00:36:12,001 --> 00:36:14,000 SPENDING FREEZE. 1184 00:36:14,001 --> 00:36:15,000 FRANKLY, I'VE NEVER MET A 1185 00:36:15,001 --> 00:36:18,000 SPENDING FREEZE I DIDN'T LIKE. 1186 00:36:18,001 --> 00:36:19,000 BUT LET ME SAY THIS EMPHATICALLY. 1187 00:36:19,001 --> 00:36:21,000 HOUSE REPUBLICANS WILL WELCOME 1188 00:36:21,001 --> 00:36:22,000 ANY EFFORT TO RESTORE FISCAL 1189 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:24,000 DISCIPLINE TO WASHINON, D.C., 1190 00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:25,000 AND WORK WITH THIS 1191 00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:26,000 ADMINISTRATION. 1192 00:36:26,001 --> 00:36:27,000 BUT, MR. PRESIDENT, THE 1193 00:36:27,001 --> 00:36:28,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT ACTION. 1194 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:30,000 WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER LOFTY 1195 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:34,000 SPEECH FROM THIS HISTORIC WELL 1196 00:36:34,001 --> 00:36:36,000 FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1197 00:36:36,001 --> 00:36:37,000 MR. PRESIDENT, SET ASIDE YOUR 1198 00:36:37,001 --> 00:36:38,000 BIG GOVERNMENT PLANS TO TAKE 1199 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:40,000 OVER HEALTH CARE, SEND US A 1200 00:36:40,001 --> 00:36:42,000 BUDGET THAT REDUCES SPENDING 1201 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:44,000 AND REDUCES TAXES ON THE 1202 00:36:44,001 --> 00:36:51,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1203 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:52,000 MR. PRESIDENT, DEEDS, NOT WORDS 1204 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:54,000 IS WHAT IS REQUIRED TO PUT OUR 1205 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:56,000 FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER. 1206 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:57,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1207 00:36:57,001 --> 00:36:58,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1208 00:36:58,001 --> 00:37:00,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY RISE? 1209 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:01,000 >> TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 1210 00:37:01,001 --> 00:37:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1211 00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:03,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1212 00:37:03,001 --> 00:37:04,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY TO EXPRESS THE COMPASSIONATE 1213 00:37:04,001 --> 00:37:06,000 CONCERN OF CONGRESS TO THOSE 1214 00:37:06,001 --> 00:37:08,000 AFFECTED BY THE RECENT 1215 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:09,000 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI, INCLUDING 1216 00:37:09,001 --> 00:37:11,000 THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN FAMILIES 1217 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:15,000 OF THOSE MISSING AND INJURED. 1218 00:37:15,001 --> 00:37:18,000 MY THOUGHTS ARE ESPECIALLY WITH 1219 00:37:18,001 --> 00:37:20,000 THE HOPE WELL FAMILY. 1220 00:37:20,001 --> 00:37:22,000 THEIR DAUGHTER, CHRISTINE, A 1221 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:23,000 DAUGHTER OF LINDH UNIVERSITY, 1222 00:37:23,001 --> 00:37:26,000 WAS DOING SERVICE WORK IN HAITI 1223 00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:30,000 WHEN THE QUAKE STRUCK. 1224 00:37:30,001 --> 00:37:34,000 I ASSURED THE FAMILY THAT WE 1225 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:35,000 WOULD NOT REST UNTIL THEIR 1226 00:37:35,001 --> 00:37:39,000 DAUGHTER WILL BE RETURNED. 1227 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:40,000 I PAY TRIBU TO THE SEARCH AND 1228 00:37:40,001 --> 00:37:41,000 RESCUE TEAM WHO HAS BEEN THERE 1229 00:37:41,001 --> 00:37:43,000 FOR TWO WEEKS LOOKING FOR 1230 00:37:43,001 --> 00:37:45,000 CHRISTINE AND OTHER AMERICANS 1231 00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:48,000 IBBEDBELIEVED TO BE AT THE HOTEL. 1232 00:37:48,001 --> 00:37:49,000 ALSO, THANK MUST GO TO THE 1233 00:37:49,001 --> 00:37:51,000 DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND MANY 1234 00:37:51,001 --> 00:37:53,000 OTHER PEOPLE AND THE 82ND 1235 00:37:53,001 --> 00:37:54,000 AIRBORNE, THE D.O.T., H.H.S. 1236 00:37:54,001 --> 00:37:57,000 AND OTHER GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL 1237 00:37:57,001 --> 00:37:58,000 WHO REFLECT AND CARRY OUT THE 1238 00:37:58,001 --> 00:38:01,000 COMPASSIONATE CONCERN OF THE 1239 00:38:01,001 --> 00:38:02,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO AGAIN 1240 00:38:02,001 --> 00:38:03,000 DEMONSTRATE THEIR CORE 1241 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:04,000 GENEROSITY. I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1242 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:05,000 TIME. 1243 00:38:05,001 --> 00:38:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1244 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:09,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1245 00:38:09,001 --> 00:38:11,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1246 00:38:11,001 --> 00:38:23,000 GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO RISE? 1247 00:38:23,001 --> 00:38:25,000 MR. POLIS: -- DB 1248 00:38:25,001 --> 00:38:26,000 MR. PERLMUTTER: TO ADDRESS THE 1249 00:38:26,001 --> 00:38:28,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1250 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:30,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1251 00:38:30,001 --> 00:38:31,000 MR. PERLMUTTER: HERE ARE MY 1252 00:38:31,001 --> 00:38:32,000 FRIENDS ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE 1253 00:38:32,001 --> 00:38:33,000 OF THE AISLE TALKING ABOUT THE 1254 00:38:33,001 --> 00:38:35,000 DEBT, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 1255 00:38:35,001 --> 00:38:37,000 JOBS, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT 1256 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:39,000 FISCAL RESTRAINT WHEN IN FACT 1257 00:38:39,001 --> 00:38:40,000 IT WAS THE REPUBLICAN 1258 00:38:40,001 --> 00:38:43,000 ADMINISTRATION UNDER GEORGE 1259 00:38:43,001 --> 00:38:44,000 BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN 1260 00:38:44,001 --> 00:38:46,000 PROGRAMS UNDER THEIR CONGRESS 1261 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:49,000 THAT DROVE US IN THE DITCH AND 1262 00:38:49,001 --> 00:38:52,000 CREATED THIS MESS THAT WE HAVE. 1263 00:38:52,001 --> 00:38:53,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA INHERITED A 1264 00:38:53,001 --> 00:38:55,000 $1.4 TRILLION DEFICIT, THE 1265 00:38:55,001 --> 00:38:57,000 BIGGEST DEBT EVER IN HISTORY. 1266 00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,000 NOW, THE REPUBLICANS WOULD LIKE 1267 00:38:58,001 --> 00:38:59,000 TO SAY, HEY, DEMOCRATS, WHY 1268 00:38:59,001 --> 00:39:01,000 HAVEN'T YOU GOTTEN RID OF THAT? 1269 00:39:01,001 --> 00:39:02,000 HEY, COUNTRY, WHY DON'T YOU 1270 00:39:02,001 --> 00:39:04,000 TAKE CARE OF THIS? 1271 00:39:04,001 --> 00:39:05,000 WELL, THIS IS A BIG MESS THAT 1272 00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:07,000 WAS CREATED UNDER THEIR WATCH. 1273 00:39:07,001 --> 00:39:09,000 WE HAVE TRIED TO CREATE JOBS. 1274 00:39:09,001 --> 00:39:11,000 WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS 1275 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:13,000 LONG-TERM DEBT, BUT THE 1276 00:39:13,001 --> 00:39:15,000 REPUBLICAN PRESCRIPTION FOR 1277 00:39:15,001 --> 00:39:16,000 AMERICA, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS, 1278 00:39:16,001 --> 00:39:18,000 MASS AMNESIA. 1279 00:39:18,001 --> 00:39:19,000 THEY WANT PEOPLE TO FORGET. 1280 00:39:19,001 --> 00:39:21,000 WELL, WE'RE NOT GOING TO FORGET 1281 00:39:21,001 --> 00:39:22,000 AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THE 1282 00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:25,000 PEOPLE FORGET THAT THE PROGRAMS 1283 00:39:25,001 --> 00:39:26,000 AND THE POLICIESOF THE LAST 1284 00:39:26,001 --> 00:39:27,000 ADMINISTRATION ALMOST TOOK THIS 1285 00:39:27,001 --> 00:39:28,000 COUNTRY IN THE TANK. 1286 00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:30,000 AND THAT'S GOT TO STOP. 1287 00:39:30,001 --> 00:39:31,000 WITH THAT I YIELD BACK. 1288 00:39:31,001 --> 00:39:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1289 00:39:32,001 --> 00:40:24,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1290 00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:25,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1291 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:26,000 MR. POLIS: BY THE DIRECTION OF 1292 00:40:26,001 --> 00:40:31,000 THE COMMITTEE ON RULES, I CALL 1293 00:40:31,001 --> 00:40:32,000 UP HOUSE RESOLUTION 1038. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1294 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:33,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE 1295 00:40:33,001 --> 00:40:34,000 RESOLUTION. 1296 00:40:34,001 --> 00:40:37,000 THE CLERK: HOUSE CALENDAR 1297 00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:40,000 NUMBER 150, HOUSE RESOLUTION 1298 00:40:40,001 --> 00:40:41,000 1038. 1299 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:42,000 RESOLVED, THAT UPON THE 1300 00:40:42,001 --> 00:40:44,000 ADOPTION OF THIS RESOLUTION IT SHALL BE IN ORDER TO CONSIDER 1301 00:40:44,001 --> 00:40:46,000 IN THE HOUSE THE BILL H.R. 1302 00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:47,000 3726, TO ESTABLISH THE CASTLE 1303 00:40:47,001 --> 00:40:49,000 NUGENT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 1304 00:40:49,001 --> 00:40:50,000 AT ST. CROIX, UNITED STATES 1305 00:40:50,001 --> 00:40:51,000 VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER 1306 00:40:51,001 --> 00:40:52,000 PURPOSES. 1307 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:54,000 ALL POINTS OF ORDER AGAINST 1308 00:40:54,001 --> 00:40:56,000 CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL ARE 1309 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:59,000 WAIVED EXCEPT THOSE ARISING UNDER CLAUSE 9 OR 10 OF RULE 1310 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:00,000 21. 1311 00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:01,000 THE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF 1312 00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:03,000 A SUBSTITUTE RECOMMENDED BY THE 1313 00:41:03,001 --> 00:41:04,000 COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES 1314 00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:06,000 NOW PRINTED IN THE BILL SHALL 1315 00:41:06,001 --> 00:41:07,000 BE CONSIDERED AS ADOPTED. 1316 00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:08,000 THE BILL, AS AMENDED, SHALL BE 1317 00:41:08,001 --> 00:41:10,000 CONSIDERED AS READ. 1318 00:41:10,001 --> 00:41:13,000 ALL POINTS OF ORD AGAINST 1319 00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:16,000 PROVISIONS IN THE BILL, AS 1320 00:41:16,001 --> 00:41:17,000 AMENDED, ARE WAIVED. 1321 00:41:17,001 --> 00:41:18,000 THE PREVIOUS ESTION SHALL BE 1322 00:41:18,001 --> 00:41:23,000 CONSIDERED AS ORDERED ON THE BILL, AS AMENDED, TO FINAL 1323 00:41:23,001 --> 00:41:24,000 PASSAGE WITHOUT INTERVENING 1324 00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:25,000 MOTION EXCEPT, ONE, ONE HOUR OF 1325 00:41:25,001 --> 00:41:26,000 DEBATE EQUALLY DIVIDED AND 1326 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:27,000 CONTROLLED BY THE CHR AND 1327 00:41:27,001 --> 00:41:30,000 RANKING MINORITY MEMBER OF THE 1328 00:41:30,001 --> 00:41:31,000 COMMITTEE ON NATURAL 1329 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:37,000 RESOURCES. AND TWO, ONE MOTION TO RECOMMIT 1330 00:41:37,001 --> 00:41:40,000 WITH OR WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS. 1331 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:41,000 SECTION 2, UPON ADOPTION OF 1332 00:41:41,001 --> 00:41:45,000 THIS RESOLUTION IT SHALL BE IN 1333 00:41:45,001 --> 00:41:47,000 ORDER 1334 00:41:47,001 --> 00:41:48,000 TO CONSIDER IN THE HOUSE THE BILL H.R. 4474, TO AUTHORIZE 1335 00:41:48,001 --> 00:41:50,000 THE CONTINUED USE OF CERTAIN 1336 00:41:50,001 --> 00:41:52,000 WATER DIVERSIONS LOCATED ON 1337 00:41:52,001 --> 00:41:54,000 NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND IN 1338 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:55,000 THE FRANK CHURCH-RIVER OF NO 1339 00:41:55,001 --> 00:41:56,000 RETURN WILDERNESS AND THE 1340 00:41:56,001 --> 00:41:59,000 SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS IN 1341 00:41:59,001 --> 00:42:00,000 THE STATE OF IDAHO , AND FOR 1342 00:42:00,001 --> 00:42:01,000 OTHER PURPOSES. 1343 00:42:01,001 --> 00:42:02,000 ALL POINTS OF ORDER AGAINST 1344 00:42:02,001 --> 00:42:05,000 CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL ARE 1345 00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:09,000 WAIVED EXCEPT THOSE ARISING UNDER CLAUSE 9 OR 10 OF RULE 1346 00:42:09,001 --> 00:42:10,000 21. 1347 00:42:10,001 --> 00:42:13,000 THE BILL SHALL BE CONSIDERED AS 1348 00:42:13,001 --> 00:42:14,000 READ. ALL POINTS OF ORDER AGAINST 1349 00:42:14,001 --> 00:42:16,000 PROVISIONS IN THE BILL ARE 1350 00:42:16,001 --> 00:42:17,000 WAIVED. 1351 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:19,000 THE PREVIOUS QUESTION SHALL BE 1352 00:42:19,001 --> 00:42:22,000 CONSIDERED AS ORDERED ON THE 1353 00:42:22,001 --> 00:42:23,000 BILL TO FINAL PASSAGE WITHOUT 1354 00:42:23,001 --> 00:42:24,000 INTERVENING MOTION EXCEPT, ONE, 1355 00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:25,000 ONE HOUR OF DEBATE EQUALLY 1356 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:28,000 DIVIDED AND CONTROLLED BY THE 1357 00:42:28,001 --> 00:42:29,000 CHAIR AND RANKING MINORITY 1358 00:42:29,001 --> 00:42:30,000 MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE ON 1359 00:42:30,001 --> 00:42:31,000 NATURAL RESOURCES. 1360 00:42:31,001 --> 00:42:43,000 AND TWO, ONE MOTION TO 1361 00:42:43,001 --> 00:42:45,000 RECOMMIT. 1362 00:42:45,001 --> 00:42:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1363 00:42:46,001 --> 00:42:48,000 GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO IS 1364 00:42:48,001 --> 00:42:50,000 RECOGNIZED. 1365 00:42:50,001 --> 00:42:55,000 MR. POLIS: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 1366 00:42:55,001 --> 00:42:56,000 THE CUSTOMARY 30 MINUTES TO THE 1367 00:42:56,001 --> 00:42:57,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, MR. 1368 00:42:57,001 --> 00:42:58,000 SESSIONS. 1369 00:42:58,001 --> 00:42:59,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 1370 00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:00,000 ALL MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE 1371 00:43:00,001 --> 00:43:01,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 1372 00:43:01,001 --> 00:43:02,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 1373 00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:03,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 1374 00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:04,000 THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1375 00:43:04,001 --> 00:43:05,000 MR. POLIS: MR. SPEAKER, HOUSE RESOLUTION 1038 IS SANGLE RULE 1376 00:43:05,001 --> 00:43:06,000 THAT PROVIDES FOR SEPARATE 1377 00:43:06,001 --> 00:43:09,000 CONSIDERATION OF TWO MEASURES. 1378 00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:14,000 THE RULE PROVIDES FOR 1379 00:43:14,001 --> 00:43:16,000 CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3726, THE 1380 00:43:16,001 --> 00:43:18,000 CASTLE NUGENT NATIONAL HISTORIC 1381 00:43:18,001 --> 00:43:19,000 SITE ESTABLISHMENT ACT. 1382 00:43:19,001 --> 00:43:22,000 AND THE IDAHO WILDERNESS WATER 1383 00:43:22,001 --> 00:43:23,000 FACILITIES ACT. 1384 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:25,000 EACH RULE HAS ONE HOUR OF 1385 00:43:25,001 --> 00:43:27,000 GENERAL DEBATE AND HAS ONE 1386 00:43:27,001 --> 00:43:29,000 MOTION TO RECOMMIT FOR EACH OF 1387 00:43:29,001 --> 00:43:33,000 THE TWO BILLS. 1388 00:43:33,001 --> 00:43:36,000 MR. SPEAKER, H.R. 3726, THE 1389 00:43:36,001 --> 00:43:37,000 CASTLE NUGENT NATIONAL HISS 1390 00:43:37,001 --> 00:43:38,000 TORE SITE ESTABLISHMENT ACT OF 1391 00:43:38,001 --> 00:43:39,000 2009. 1392 00:43:39,001 --> 00:43:40,000 AND THE IDAHO WILDERNESS WATER 1393 00:43:40,001 --> 00:43:41,000 FACILITIES ACT ARE TWO PIECES 1394 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:43,000 OF LEGISLATION THAT REPRESENTS 1395 00:43:43,001 --> 00:43:45,000 YEARS OF HARD WORK BY THEIR 1396 00:43:45,001 --> 00:43:46,000 SPONSORS AND THE LOCAL 1397 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:48,000 COMMUNITIES THAT ARE AT THE 1398 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:52,000 HEART OF BOTH BILLS. 1399 00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:54,000 H.R. 3726, THE CASTLE NUGENT 1400 00:43:54,001 --> 00:43:56,000 NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE ACT OF 1401 00:43:56,001 --> 00:43:59,000 2009, INTRODUCED BY 1402 00:43:59,001 --> 00:44:01,000 CONGRESSWOMAN DONNA 1403 00:44:01,001 --> 00:44:04,000 CHRISTENSEN, FROM THE EARLY 1404 00:44:04,001 --> 00:44:05,000 TIMES OF YOSETE TO 1405 00:44:05,001 --> 00:44:06,000 YELLOWSTONE TO THE NATIONAL 1406 00:44:06,001 --> 00:44:08,000 MONUMENTS HERE IN WASHINGTON, 1407 00:44:08,001 --> 00:44:09,000 D.C., OUR COUNTRY HAS HAD THE 1408 00:44:09,001 --> 00:44:11,000 FORESIGHT TO PRESERVE THE 1409 00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:12,000 TANGIBLE PLACES WHICH HOUSES 1410 00:44:12,001 --> 00:44:13,000 OUR NATION'S CHARACTER, 1411 00:44:13,001 --> 00:44:16,000 IDENTITY AND HISTORY. 1412 00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:17,000 TODAY, THE CASTLE NUGENT 1413 00:44:17,001 --> 00:44:18,000 NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE ACT OF 1414 00:44:18,001 --> 00:44:20,000 2009 DOES THE SAME FOR THE 1415 00:44:20,001 --> 00:44:22,000 HISTORY AND IDENTITY OF A 1416 00:44:22,001 --> 00:44:24,000 UNIQUE PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY, 1417 00:44:24,001 --> 00:44:26,000 THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. 1418 00:44:26,001 --> 00:44:28,000 THIS AREA OF ST. CROIX HOLDS A 1419 00:44:28,001 --> 00:44:30,000 GREAT NUMBER OF HISTORICAL 1420 00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:31,000 REMNANTS, NOT ONLY FROM THE 1421 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:32,000 COLONIAL AGE WHEN THE WEST 1422 00:44:32,001 --> 00:44:34,000 INDEPENDENTIES PLAYED A 1423 00:44:34,001 --> 00:44:37,000 PROMINENT WORLD IN SHAPING 1424 00:44:37,001 --> 00:44:38,000 WORLD HISTORY, BUT ALSO 1425 00:44:38,001 --> 00:44:40,000 PRE-COLOMBIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL 1426 00:44:40,001 --> 00:44:41,000 SITES, CONTINUING A LONG AND 1427 00:44:41,001 --> 00:44:43,000 PROUD TRADITION OF PRESERVING 1428 00:44:43,001 --> 00:44:47,000 THE REMNANTS AND ARTIFACTS OF 1429 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:49,000 OUR FIRST NATIONS IN THIS 1430 00:44:49,001 --> 00:44:53,000 HEMISPHERE. 1431 00:44:53,001 --> 00:44:55,000 BEGAN BY MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK. 1432 00:44:55,001 --> 00:44:58,000 THE COLONIAL OF ST. CROIX IS 1433 00:44:58,001 --> 00:45:00,000 AMONG THE OLDEST IN THE WEST INDEPENDENTIES. 1434 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:01,000 THIS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 1435 00:45:01,001 --> 00:45:02,000 PRESERVES MUCH MORE THAN HISTORY. 1436 00:45:02,001 --> 00:45:04,000 IT ALSO PRESERVES A GREAT DEAL 1437 00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:06,000 OF NATURAL HABITAT. 1438 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:08,000 THE SITE INCLUDES SENSITIVE SEA 1439 00:45:08,001 --> 00:45:10,000 TURTLE NESTING AREAS AND 1440 00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:13,000 HABITAT, HEALTHY AND 1441 00:45:13,001 --> 00:45:16,000 INCREASINGLY SCARCING CORAL 1442 00:45:16,001 --> 00:45:18,000 REEFS AND A WEALTH OF WILDLIFE AND PLANT 1443 00:45:18,001 --> 00:45:19,000 FOR ANY PROPOSED NATIONAL PARK 1444 00:45:19,001 --> 00:45:21,000 SYSTEM ADDITION, THE FIRST SP 1445 00:45:21,001 --> 00:45:23,000 IS TO HAVE THE PARK SERVICE 1446 00:45:23,001 --> 00:45:24,000 COMPLETE A STUDY OF THE 1447 00:45:24,001 --> 00:45:26,000 PROPOSED ADDITION AND TO ENSURE 1448 00:45:26,001 --> 00:45:28,000 THAT THE PROPOSED ADDITION DOES 1449 00:45:28,001 --> 00:45:29,000 IN FACT DESERVE TO BE INCLUDED 1450 00:45:29,001 --> 00:45:31,000 AMONG THE TREASURES OF OUR 1451 00:45:31,001 --> 00:45:33,000 NATION THAT THE PARK SYSTEM INCLUDES. 1452 00:45:33,001 --> 00:45:34,000 THE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE 1453 00:45:34,001 --> 00:45:36,000 CONCURRED AND FOUND THAT CASTLE 1454 00:45:36,001 --> 00:45:40,000 NUGENT AREA DOES IN FACT 1455 00:45:40,001 --> 00:45:41,000 DESERVE TO BE INCLUDED AS A 1456 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:42,000 PART OF OUR NATION'S NATIONAL 1457 00:45:42,001 --> 00:45:43,000 PARKS. 1458 00:45:43,001 --> 00:45:46,000 THIS RULE PROVIDES FOR 1459 00:45:46,001 --> 00:45:47,000 CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 44, THE 1460 00:45:47,001 --> 00:45:51,000 IDAHO WILDERNESS WATER 1461 00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:55,000 FACILITIES ACT, A BILL THAT HAS 1462 00:45:55,001 --> 00:45:57,000 UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN -- HAD A GREAT 1463 00:45:57,001 --> 00:45:59,000 DEAL OF WORK. 1464 00:45:59,001 --> 00:46:01,000 THE WILDERNESS ACT OF 1964 PROVIDED OUR NATION WITH THE 1465 00:46:01,001 --> 00:46:03,000 TOOL TO PRESERVE ITS LAST 1466 00:46:03,001 --> 00:46:04,000 REMAING WILD PLACES 1467 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:07,000 UNTRAVELED BY MAN. 1468 00:46:07,001 --> 00:46:09,000 LIKE MY HOME STATE OF COLORADO, 1469 00:46:09,001 --> 00:46:11,000 IDAHO'S SWEEPING BEAUTY, RUGGED 1470 00:46:11,001 --> 00:46:12,000 MOUNTAINS, WILDLIFE AND 1471 00:46:12,001 --> 00:46:14,000 WATERWAYS FORM THE FOUNDATION 1472 00:46:14,001 --> 00:46:17,000 OF OUR COUNTRY'S CULTURAL 1473 00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:20,000 IDENTITY AND OUR CIVIC PRIDE. 1474 00:46:20,001 --> 00:46:21,000 THE SELWAY-BITTERROOT 1475 00:46:21,001 --> 00:46:25,000 WILDERNESS AREA WAS CREATED IN 1476 00:46:25,001 --> 00:46:26,000 1964 AS ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S 1477 00:46:26,001 --> 00:46:31,000 FIRST WILDERNESS AREAS AND HAS 1478 00:46:31,001 --> 00:46:34,000 A BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPE. 1479 00:46:34,001 --> 00:46:36,000 THE FRANK CHURCH-RIVER OF NO 1480 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:37,000 RETURN WILDERNESS AREA THAT WAS 1481 00:46:37,001 --> 00:46:38,000 DESIGNATED IN 1980. 1482 00:46:38,001 --> 00:46:42,000 PREDATING THE EXISTENCE OF 1483 00:46:42,001 --> 00:46:44,000 THESE TWO WILDERNESS AREAS, 1484 00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:47,000 PRIVATE LANDOWNERS GOT MONEY TO 1485 00:46:47,001 --> 00:46:50,000 REPAIR THE WER PERMITS. 1486 00:46:50,001 --> 00:46:53,000 MANY OF THESE PERMITS HAVE 1487 00:46:53,001 --> 00:46:56,000 SINCE EXPIRED LEAVING THOSE 1488 00:46:56,001 --> 00:46:57,000 UNABLE TO IMPROVE THEIR WATER 1489 00:46:57,001 --> 00:46:59,000 FACILITIES. 1490 00:46:59,001 --> 00:47:00,000 H.R. 4474 WOULD GIVE THE 1491 00:47:00,001 --> 00:47:04,000 SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THE 1492 00:47:04,001 --> 00:47:06,000 AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SPECIAL USE 1493 00:47:06,001 --> 00:47:08,000 AUTHORIZATION TO OWNERS OF 1494 00:47:08,001 --> 00:47:10,000 THESE WATER STORAGE, TRANSPORT 1495 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:11,000 OR DIVERSION AUTHORITIES TO 1496 00:47:11,001 --> 00:47:14,000 ALLOW CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF 1497 00:47:14,001 --> 00:47:16,000 THEIR WATER FACILITIES, 1498 00:47:16,001 --> 00:47:27,000 ENSURING CONTINUED ACCESS TO WATER. 1499 00:47:27,001 --> 00:47:31,000 . 1500 00:47:31,001 --> 00:47:32,000 THIS BILL PROVIDES MUCH HELP TO 1501 00:47:32,001 --> 00:47:34,000 THESE COMMUPETS AND RESIDENTS. 1502 00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:35,000 I URGE PASSAGE OF THE RULE AND I 1503 00:47:35,001 --> 00:47:36,000 RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 1504 00:47:36,001 --> 00:47:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1505 00:47:37,001 --> 00:47:38,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1506 00:47:38,001 --> 00:47:41,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 1507 00:47:41,001 --> 00:47:43,000 MR. SESSIONS: GOOM, MR. SPEAKER. 1508 00:47:43,001 --> 00:47:44,000 MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD MYSELF SUCH 1509 00:47:44,001 --> 00:47:45,000 TIME AS I MAY CONSUME. 1510 00:47:45,001 --> 00:47:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1511 00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:47,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. MR. SESSION: THANK YOU, SIR. 1512 00:47:47,001 --> 00:47:49,000 MR. SPEAKER, I RISE IN 1513 00:47:49,001 --> 00:47:51,000 OPPOSITION TO THIS CLOSED RULE. 1514 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,000 YET ANOTHER CLOSED RULE BEFORE 1515 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:55,000 THE CONGRESS. 1516 00:47:55,001 --> 00:47:57,000 AND I OBJECT TO THE PROCESS BY 1517 00:47:57,001 --> 00:47:59,000 WHICH THIS BILL WAS BROUGHT TO 1518 00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:01,000 THE FLOOR. 1519 00:48:01,001 --> 00:48:04,000 LAST WEEK BOTH OF THE BILLS WE 1520 00:48:04,001 --> 00:48:06,000 ARE DISCUSSING TODAY UNDER THIS 1521 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:08,000 RULE FAILED TO GET THE 2/3 VOTE 1522 00:48:08,001 --> 00:48:10,000 IN THIS BODY. 1523 00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:12,000 INSTEAD OF WORKING TOGETHER TO 1524 00:48:12,001 --> 00:48:15,000 RESOLVE THE DIFFERENCES WITH THE 1525 00:48:15,001 --> 00:48:16,000 BILLS BETWEEN THE LEADERSHIP, MY 1526 00:48:16,001 --> 00:48:19,000 FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 1527 00:48:19,001 --> 00:48:21,000 AISLE, THE MAJORITY, SIMPLY 1528 00:48:21,001 --> 00:48:24,000 RESCHEDULED THEM TODAY FOR FLOOR 1529 00:48:24,001 --> 00:48:26,000 ACTION TODAY WITH NO REPUBLICAN 1530 00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:28,000 INPUT. 1531 00:48:28,001 --> 00:48:29,000 TODAY, MR. SPEAKER, WE ARE GOING 1532 00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:32,000 TO DEBATE THESE BILLS. 1533 00:48:32,001 --> 00:48:35,000 AND ONCE AGAIN THE DEMOCRAT 1534 00:48:35,001 --> 00:48:37,000 LEADERSHIP'S PRIORITIES IN THIS 1535 00:48:37,001 --> 00:48:41,000 CONGRESS, LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT 1536 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:43,000 THAT, IT'S ABOUT SPENDING MONEY. 1537 00:48:43,001 --> 00:48:46,000 SPENDING MONEY, MR. SPEAKER, IS 1538 00:48:46,001 --> 00:48:49,000 WHAT THIS DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP 1539 00:48:49,001 --> 00:48:51,000 PRIORITY IS ALL ABOUT. 1540 00:48:51,001 --> 00:48:53,000 HOWEVER, TONIGHT OUR BODY WILL 1541 00:48:53,001 --> 00:48:54,000 WELCOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE 1542 00:48:54,001 --> 00:48:55,000 UNITED STATES. 1543 00:48:55,001 --> 00:48:56,000 THE PRESIDENT WILL BE HERE FOR 1544 00:48:56,001 --> 00:48:58,000 THE STATE OF THE UNION. 1545 00:48:58,001 --> 00:49:01,000 WE WILL BE ABLE TO IT HEAR FROM 1546 00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:04,000 THE PRESIDENT ABOUT HIS 1547 00:49:04,001 --> 00:49:06,000 PRIORITIES AND ABOUT, I THINK WE 1548 00:49:06,001 --> 00:49:09,000 WILL HEAR ABOUT HOW HE WANTS US 1549 00:49:09,001 --> 00:49:10,000 TO WORK TOGETHER. 1550 00:49:10,001 --> 00:49:12,000 WORK TOGETHER. 1551 00:49:12,001 --> 00:49:13,000 IDEAS FROM BOTH SIDES. 1552 00:49:13,001 --> 00:49:15,000 HEY, I GET IT. 1553 00:49:15,001 --> 00:49:16,000 REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT IN THE 1554 00:49:16,001 --> 00:49:20,000 MAJORITY. 1555 00:49:20,001 --> 00:49:24,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET THAT. 1556 00:49:24,001 --> 00:49:26,000 WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF DEMOCRAT 1557 00:49:26,001 --> 00:49:27,000 MAJORITIES THAT HAVE BEEN IN 1558 00:49:27,001 --> 00:49:29,000 PLACE FOR THREE YEARS NOW. 1559 00:49:29,001 --> 00:49:30,000 AND I SUSPECT WE'LL HEAR FROM 1560 00:49:30,001 --> 00:49:31,000 THE PRESIDENT ABOUT HOW 1561 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:35,000 IMPORTANT IT IS TO WORK TOGETHER 1562 00:49:35,001 --> 00:49:36,000 USING BIPARTISAN MEASURES TO 1563 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:39,000 RECONCILE OUR DIFFERENCES FOR 1564 00:49:39,001 --> 00:49:41,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO THAT THEY 1565 00:49:41,001 --> 00:49:43,000 CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE IN CONGRESS. 1566 00:49:43,001 --> 00:49:47,000 OUR ABILITY TO WORK TOGETHER ON 1567 00:49:47,001 --> 00:49:48,000 BIG ISSUES AND SMALL ISSUES. 1568 00:49:48,001 --> 00:49:51,000 SET PRIORITIES THAT THE AMERICAN 1569 00:49:51,001 --> 00:49:53,000 PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND. 1570 00:49:53,001 --> 00:49:56,000 YET DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP JUST 1571 00:49:56,001 --> 00:49:57,000 LAST WEEK TOOK DOWN THE IDAHO 1572 00:49:57,001 --> 00:49:58,000 WILDERNESS BILL AND PLACED IT IT 1573 00:49:58,001 --> 00:50:04,000 ON THE CALENDAR FOR TODAY WITH 1574 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:06,000 THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE, YET 1575 00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:08,000 THEY REMOVED MY COLLEAGUE, A 1576 00:50:08,001 --> 00:50:09,000 REPUBLICAN, DR. MIKE SIMPSON, AS 1577 00:50:09,001 --> 00:50:12,000 SPONSOR OF THE BILL AND REPLACED 1578 00:50:12,001 --> 00:50:14,000 HIM WITH A MEMBER OF THE 1579 00:50:14,001 --> 00:50:16,000 PAYBACK TIME, I GUESS, IS ONCE 1580 00:50:16,001 --> 00:50:17,000 AGAIN IN ORDER HERE ON THE FLOOR 1581 00:50:17,001 --> 00:50:18,000 OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1582 00:50:18,001 --> 00:50:19,000 ON THE EXACT SAME DAY THAT WE 1583 00:50:19,001 --> 00:50:21,000 ARE GOING TO WELCOME THE 1584 00:50:21,001 --> 00:50:24,000 PRESIDENT AND WE ARE ALL GOING 1585 00:50:24,001 --> 00:50:26,000 TO PUT THAT BIG SMILEY FACE ON TONIGHT. 1586 00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:28,000 WE ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER. 1587 00:50:28,001 --> 00:50:29,000 BOY, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG 1588 00:50:29,001 --> 00:50:30,000 WITH THE PROBLEMS OF THE 1589 00:50:30,001 --> 00:50:33,000 COUNTRY, BUT WE ARE GOING TO 1590 00:50:33,001 --> 00:50:36,000 WORK TOGETHER AND THEN BE 1591 00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:39,000 ADMONISHED ABOUT TELLING THE 1592 00:50:39,001 --> 00:50:40,000 TRUTH, WHICH IS THE PROBLEM. 1593 00:50:40,001 --> 00:50:42,000 MR. SPEAKER, THE REPUBLICAN 1594 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:43,000 PARTY IS HERE TO DO THE PEOPLE'S 1595 00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:44,000 WORK. 1596 00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:46,000 WE ARE HERE TO WORK TOGETHER. 1597 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:50,000 WE CONTINUE TO HAVE IDEAS THAT 1598 00:50:50,001 --> 00:50:51,000 ARE SHUT OUT IN THE ROOM JUST 1599 00:50:51,001 --> 00:50:53,000 ABOVE THIS FLOOR, JUST ABOVE 1600 00:50:53,001 --> 00:50:55,000 THIS BODY, UP THERE CALLED THE 1601 00:50:55,001 --> 00:50:56,000 RULES COMMITTEE. 1602 00:50:56,001 --> 00:50:58,000 WE HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR YEARS TO 1603 00:50:58,001 --> 00:51:01,000 DO THAT. 1604 00:51:01,001 --> 00:51:02,000 I WONDER IF THE PRESIDENT WOULD 1605 00:51:02,001 --> 00:51:03,000 CONSIDER THAT WORKING TOGETHER 1606 00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:05,000 BY THE WAY WE ARE DOING THIS. 1607 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:07,000 I HOPE HE DOES NOT. 1608 00:51:07,001 --> 00:51:09,000 I HOPE HE ADMONISHES US AND I 1609 00:51:09,001 --> 00:51:13,000 HOPE HE TAKES US TO TASK AND 1610 00:51:13,001 --> 00:51:15,000 SAYS IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT 1611 00:51:15,001 --> 00:51:18,000 FOOLISH POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP 1612 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:23,000 IS WASTING AMERICA'S MONEY AND 1613 00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:24,000 AMERICA'S TIME. 1614 00:51:24,001 --> 00:51:26,000 BECAUSE TIME IS IMPORTANT TO THE IT AMERICAN PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE 1615 00:51:26,001 --> 00:51:28,000 ARE A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 1616 00:51:28,001 --> 00:51:31,000 ARE WITHOUT JOBS. 1617 00:51:31,001 --> 00:51:34,000 THEY ARE WITHOUT JOBS BECAUSE OF 1618 00:51:34,001 --> 00:51:36,000 THE LACK OF BIPARTISANSHIP AND 1619 00:51:36,001 --> 00:51:38,000 WORKING TOGETHER IN THIS BODY 1620 00:51:38,001 --> 00:51:40,000 ALL FOR SPENDING MONEY BECAUSE 1621 00:51:40,001 --> 00:51:42,000 THAT'S WHAT THIS SPEAKER WANTS 1622 00:51:42,001 --> 00:51:45,000 TO DO. 1623 00:51:45,001 --> 00:51:47,000 I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT 1624 00:51:47,001 --> 00:51:48,000 DEMOCRATS TO REIN IN THEIR 1625 00:51:48,001 --> 00:51:49,000 BORROWING AND TAXES AND SPENDING WAYS. 1626 00:51:49,001 --> 00:51:50,000 THAT'S WHAT I THINK. 1627 00:51:50,001 --> 00:51:52,000 I DON'T KNOW. 1628 00:51:52,001 --> 00:51:53,000 MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE 1629 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:55,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1630 00:51:55,001 --> 00:51:57,000 OH, BY THE WAY, I THINK THEY 1631 00:51:57,001 --> 00:52:02,000 HAVE SPOKEN IN NEW JERSEY AND 1632 00:52:02,001 --> 00:52:03,000 VIRGINIA AND AGAIN LAST WEEK IN 1633 00:52:03,001 --> 00:52:04,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 1634 00:52:04,001 --> 00:52:06,000 I THINK THEY WANT CONGRESS TO 1635 00:52:06,001 --> 00:52:08,000 STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY 1636 00:52:08,001 --> 00:52:10,000 WILL DO TO PROVIDE JOBS AND TALK 1637 00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:12,000 ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE 1638 00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:16,000 HAPPENING AND ACTUALLY GET TO 1639 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:18,000 THE WORK OF GETTING IT IT DONE. 1640 00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:19,000 MR. SPEAKER, I HAVE A LOT TO SAY 1641 00:52:19,001 --> 00:52:20,000 TODAY. 1642 00:52:20,001 --> 00:52:21,000 BUT AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO 1643 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:24,000 YIELD FIVE MINUTES TO THE 1644 00:52:24,001 --> 00:52:26,000 DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN FROM 1645 00:52:26,001 --> 00:52:28,000 CALIFORNIA WHO LAST NIGHT VERY 1646 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:30,000 CLEARLY IN THE RULES COMMITTEE 1647 00:52:30,001 --> 00:52:31,000 AS RANKING MEMBER TALKED ABOUT 1648 00:52:31,001 --> 00:52:32,000 WHAT REPUBLICANS' HOPES AND 1649 00:52:32,001 --> 00:52:34,000 DREAMS WERE JUST ON THIS BILL 1650 00:52:34,001 --> 00:52:35,000 AND THE PROCESS. 1651 00:52:35,001 --> 00:52:36,000 I YIELD TO THE GENTLEMAN. 1652 00:52:36,001 --> 00:52:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1653 00:52:37,001 --> 00:52:38,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IS 1654 00:52:38,001 --> 00:52:40,000 RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. MR. DREIER: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1655 00:52:40,001 --> 00:52:41,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 1656 00:52:41,001 --> 00:52:42,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 1657 00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 1658 00:52:43,001 --> 00:52:44,000 OBCTION, SO ORDERED. 1659 00:52:44,001 --> 00:52:46,000 MR. DREIER: I THANK BOTH MY RULES COMMITTEE COLLEAGUES FOR 1660 00:52:46,001 --> 00:52:49,000 BEING HERE AND I WILL SAY THAT 1661 00:52:49,001 --> 00:52:50,000 THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY 1662 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:52,000 IMPORTANT DAY. 1663 00:52:52,001 --> 00:52:53,000 WE ARE ANXIOUSLY LOOKING FORWARD 1664 00:52:53,001 --> 00:52:54,000 TO THE MESSAGE THAT THE 1665 00:52:54,001 --> 00:52:55,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1666 00:52:55,001 --> 00:52:57,000 WILL BE DELIVERING RIGHT BEHIND 1667 00:52:57,001 --> 00:53:01,000 ME HERE AS HE PROVIDES HIS STATE 1668 00:53:01,001 --> 00:53:03,000 OF THE UNION ADDRESS. 1669 00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:07,000 AND THERE IS EARLY INDICATION OF 1670 00:53:07,001 --> 00:53:08,000 WHAT IT IS THAT HE MIGHT SAY. 1671 00:53:08,001 --> 00:53:10,000 ACCORDING TO REPORTS HE'S GOING 1672 00:53:10,001 --> 00:53:11,000 TO TALK ABOUT THE NEED FOR 1673 00:53:11,001 --> 00:53:12,000 FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. 1674 00:53:12,001 --> 00:53:15,000 THE NEED FOR US TO DO EVERYTHING 1675 00:53:15,001 --> 00:53:16,000 WE CAN TO BRING ABOUT A FREEZE 1676 00:53:16,001 --> 00:53:18,000 IN SPENDING. 1677 00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:19,000 AND WE ALL THINK THAT THAT'S A 1678 00:53:19,001 --> 00:53:22,000 GOOD FIRST STEP. 1679 00:53:22,001 --> 00:53:24,000 I WILL SAY THAT IF YOU LOOK AT 1680 00:53:24,001 --> 00:53:25,000 THE TWO OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS 1681 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:27,000 BILLS COUPLED WITH THE STIMULUS 1682 00:53:27,001 --> 00:53:30,000 BILL, THE REPORT THAT WE JUST 1683 00:53:30,001 --> 00:53:33,000 GOT OF ADDITIONAL $75 BILLION ON 1684 00:53:33,001 --> 00:53:34,000 TOP OF THE $787 BILLION FOR THE 1685 00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:37,000 STIMULUS BILL, WE HAVE OVER THE 1686 00:53:37,001 --> 00:53:39,000 LAST TWO YEARS SEEN AN 86% 1687 00:53:39,001 --> 00:53:44,000 INCREASE IN SPENDING. 1688 00:53:44,001 --> 00:53:47,000 AN 86% INCREASE, AND I GUESS 1689 00:53:47,001 --> 00:53:49,000 FREEZING WITH AN 86% INCREASE 1690 00:53:49,001 --> 00:53:50,000 THAT IS PROPOSED IN SPENDING FOR 1691 00:53:50,001 --> 00:53:53,000 THNEXT TWO YEARS IS SOMETHING 1692 00:53:53,001 --> 00:53:54,000 THAT MAY NOT BE ALL THAT PAINFUL 1693 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:57,000 FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO IT 1694 00:53:57,001 --> 00:54:00,000 MAINTAIN A HIGH LEVEL OF FEDERAL SPENDING. 1695 00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:03,000 AS WE LOOK AT THAT AND THEN 1696 00:54:03,001 --> 00:54:06,000 RECOGNIZE THAT THIS MEASURE THAT 1697 00:54:06,001 --> 00:54:10,000 IS BEFORE US THAT ALLOWS FOR UP 1698 00:54:10,001 --> 00:54:11,000 TO 50 MILLION, 50 MILLION, NOT 1699 00:54:11,001 --> 00:54:13,000 BILLION, NOT TRILLION, WHICH WAS 1700 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:15,000 THE TERMS WE USE AROUND HERE, 1701 00:54:15,001 --> 00:54:17,000 BUT $50 MILLION TO BE AUTHORIZED 1702 00:54:17,001 --> 00:54:23,000 FOR THE PURCHASE OF BEACHFRONT 1703 00:54:23,001 --> 00:54:24,000 PROPERTY IN ST. CROIX JUST DON'T 1704 00:54:24,001 --> 00:54:26,000 UNDERSTAND HOW ON THE DAY THAT 1705 00:54:26,001 --> 00:54:27,000 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE 1706 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:30,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1707 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:32,000 STAND HERE TALKING ABOUT A 1708 00:54:32,001 --> 00:54:33,000 SPENDING FREEZE THAT WE COULD 1709 00:54:33,001 --> 00:54:35,000 POSSIBLY CONSIDER TAKING ACTION 1710 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:36,000 SUCH AS THIS. 1711 00:54:36,001 --> 00:54:39,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET IT. 1712 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:42,000 LAST NIGHT I HAD A TELEPHONE 1713 00:54:42,001 --> 00:54:43,000 TOWN HALL MEETING WIT MY 1714 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:44,000 CONSTITUENTS IN SOUTHERN 1715 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:47,000 CALIFORNIA IN THE LOS ANGELES 1716 00:54:47,001 --> 00:54:50,000 AREA, AND THEY HAVE BEEN RAISING 1717 00:54:50,001 --> 00:54:52,000 GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE SIZE 1718 00:54:52,001 --> 00:54:53,000 AND SCOPE AND REACH OF THE 1719 00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:54,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 1720 00:54:54,001 --> 00:54:56,000 THEY HAVE MADE IT IT CLEAR THAT 1721 00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:58,000 THEY WANT US TO WORK NOT JUST TO 1722 00:54:58,001 --> 00:55:00,000 HAVE A FREEZE BUT BRING ABOUT 1723 00:55:00,001 --> 00:55:02,000 MAJOR SPENDING CUTS. 1724 00:55:02,001 --> 00:55:04,000 THE MESSAGE THAT THE AMERICAN 1725 00:55:04,001 --> 00:55:06,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SENDING TO US 1726 00:55:06,001 --> 00:55:08,000 THAT WE GOT AS MY FRIEND FROM 1727 00:55:08,001 --> 00:55:11,000 DALLAS SAID A WEEK AGO 1728 00:55:11,001 --> 00:55:13,000 YESTERDAY, IS THAT GETTING THE 1729 00:55:13,001 --> 00:55:15,000 ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK IS VERY, 1730 00:55:15,001 --> 00:55:17,000 VERY HIGH PRIORITY. 1731 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:19,000 JOB CREATION IS A HIGH PRIORITY. 1732 00:55:19,001 --> 00:55:21,000 AND WE KNOW THAT. 1733 00:55:21,001 --> 00:55:24,000 IN MY STATE OF CALIFORNIA WE 1734 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:26,000 HAVE A NATIONAL 10% UNEMPLOYMENT 1735 00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:27,000 RATE, IN THE AREA THAT I 1736 00:55:27,001 --> 00:55:28,000 REPRESENT, SUBURBAN LOS ANGELES, 1737 00:55:28,001 --> 00:55:31,000 WE HAVE AN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN 1738 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:33,000 SOME AREAS IN EXCESS OF 14%. 1739 00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:34,000 PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES 1740 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:38,000 AND BUSINESSES AND THEY WANT US 1741 00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:40,000 TO FOCUS ON CREATING GOOD, 1742 00:55:40,001 --> 00:55:42,000 LONG-TERM PRIVATE SECTOR NOT 1743 00:55:42,001 --> 00:55:44,000 TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT JOBS, NOT 1744 00:55:44,001 --> 00:55:45,000 JOBS THAT ARE ENGAGED IN 1745 00:55:45,001 --> 00:55:46,000 COLLECTING IN NUMBERS AND 1746 00:55:46,001 --> 00:55:47,000 INFORMATION THROUGH THE CENSUS 1747 00:55:47,001 --> 00:55:50,000 AND THAT SORT OF THING, THOSE 1748 00:55:50,001 --> 00:55:52,000 SORTS OF TEMPORARY JOBS, THEY 1749 00:55:52,001 --> 00:55:53,000 WANT LONG-TERM JOB CREATION. 1750 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:57,000 AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, IN 1751 00:55:57,001 --> 00:55:58,000 FACT THE PRESIDENT HAS AN 1752 00:55:58,001 --> 00:56:01,000 OPPORTUNITY TO DO JUST THAT, MR. SPEAKER. 1753 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:02,000 IF HE WERE TO SEND US THE THREE 1754 00:56:02,001 --> 00:56:04,000 PENDING TRADE AGREEMENTS, I KNOW 1755 00:56:04,001 --> 00:56:05,000 I TALKED TO MY FRIEND FROM 1756 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:06,000 COLORADO ABOUT THE ISSUE OF 1757 00:56:06,001 --> 00:56:09,000 TRADE AND I KNOW HE JOINS ME IN 1758 00:56:09,001 --> 00:56:12,000 BEING A SUPPORTER OF FREE TRADE, 1759 00:56:12,001 --> 00:56:13,000 I HOPE IF THE PRESIDENT WERE TO 1760 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:15,000 SEND THE THREE PENDING TRADE 1761 00:56:15,001 --> 00:56:16,000 AGREEMENTS -- IT PANAMA, 1762 00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:18,000 COLOMBIA, AND SOUTH KOREA HERE 1763 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:20,000 TO THE CONGRESS, I AM CONVINCED 1764 00:56:20,001 --> 00:56:22,000 THAT AT LEAST THE PANAMA AND 1765 00:56:22,001 --> 00:56:24,000 COLOMBIA AGREEMENTS BASED ON 1766 00:56:24,001 --> 00:56:25,000 CONVERSATIONS THAT I HAVE HAD 1767 00:56:25,001 --> 00:56:27,000 WITH MEMBERS ON BOTH SIDES OF 1768 00:56:27,001 --> 00:56:29,000 THE AISLE, WE COULD HAVE A 1769 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:31,000 BIPARTISAN WIN THAT IN PASSING, 1770 00:56:31,001 --> 00:56:32,000 IF WE PASS THREES THREE 1771 00:56:32,001 --> 00:56:34,000 AGREEMENTS WE COULD CREATE MORE 1772 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:35,000 THAN A QUARTER MILLION GOOD 1773 00:56:35,001 --> 00:56:38,000 PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS. WHY? 1774 00:56:38,001 --> 00:56:40,000 IF YOU LOOK ON AVERAGE THE 1775 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:45,000 TARIFF ON MANUFACTURED GOODS AND 1776 00:56:45,001 --> 00:56:46,000 OTHER PRODUCTS GOING INTO THE 40 1777 00:56:46,001 --> 00:56:47,000 MILLION-STRONG, CONSUMER STRONG 1778 00:56:47,001 --> 00:56:49,000 COLOMBIA IS 14%. 1779 00:56:49,001 --> 00:56:52,000 THAT MEANS UNION AND NONUNION 1780 00:56:52,001 --> 00:56:56,000 MEMBERS WHO ARE WORKING FOR 1781 00:56:56,001 --> 00:56:58,000 CATERPILLAR IN PEORIA, ILLINOIS 1782 00:56:58,001 --> 00:56:59,000 MANUFACTURERS WORKING FOR 1783 00:56:59,001 --> 00:57:03,000 WHIRLPOOL IN OHIO WOULD HAVE AN 1784 00:57:03,001 --> 00:57:05,000 OPPORTUNITY TO SELL THEIR 1785 00:57:05,001 --> 00:57:06,000 MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS, THEIR 1786 00:57:06,001 --> 00:57:08,000 TRACTORS, THEIR WASHING MACHINES 1787 00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:09,000 AND REFRIGERATORS, INTO THIS 1788 00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:11,000 MARKET. 1789 00:57:11,001 --> 00:57:13,000 NOW, MR. SPEAKER, WHAT THAT 1790 00:57:13,001 --> 00:57:15,000 WOULD DO IS CREATE, AGAIN, GOOD 1791 00:57:15,001 --> 00:57:18,000 LONG-TERM PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS. 1792 00:57:18,001 --> 00:57:19,000 IF WE WERE TO BE ABLE TO DO THE 1793 00:57:19,001 --> 00:57:21,000 KOREA DEAL, IT WOULD BE THE 1794 00:57:21,001 --> 00:57:22,000 SINGLE LARGEST TRADE REEMENT 1795 00:57:22,001 --> 00:57:26,000 IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. 1796 00:57:26,001 --> 00:57:28,000 KOREA HAS A $1 TRILLION ECONOMY, MR. SPEAKER. 1797 00:57:28,001 --> 00:57:29,000 A $1 TRILLION ECONOMY. 1798 00:57:29,001 --> 00:57:33,000 WE HAVE ABOUT $83 BILLION IN 1799 00:57:33,001 --> 00:57:35,000 TRADE WITH KOREA RIGHT NOW. 1800 00:57:35,001 --> 00:57:36,000 BY AND LARGE KOREAN PRODUCTS, 1801 00:57:36,001 --> 00:57:38,000 AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER THINGS, 1802 00:57:38,001 --> 00:57:39,000 GET TO THE U.S. CONSUMER TARIFF 1803 00:57:39,001 --> 00:57:40,000 FREE. 1804 00:57:40,001 --> 00:57:42,000 VIRTUALLY TARIFF FREE. 1805 00:57:42,001 --> 00:57:44,000 I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING. 1806 00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:45,000 I THINK IMPORTS BENEFIT THE 1807 00:57:45,001 --> 00:57:47,000 CONSUMER. 1808 00:57:47,001 --> 00:57:49,000 WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS WE NEED TO 1809 00:57:49,001 --> 00:57:50,000 PRY OPEN THEIR MARKET, MR. 1810 00:57:50,001 --> 00:57:51,000 SPEAKER -- 1811 00:57:51,001 --> 00:57:52,000 MR. SESSION: I YIELD AN 1812 00:57:52,001 --> 00:57:53,000 ADDITIONAL FIVE MINUTES. 1813 00:57:53,001 --> 00:57:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1814 00:57:54,001 --> 00:57:55,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1815 00:57:55,001 --> 00:57:56,000 ADDITION FIVE MINUTES. MR. DREIER: I WON'T KE THE 1816 00:57:56,001 --> 00:57:57,000 FIVE MINUTES. 1817 00:57:57,001 --> 00:57:58,000 I'M GOING TO WRAP UP HERE 1818 00:57:58,001 --> 00:58:00,000 BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO 1819 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:03,000 DO IS WE NEED TO NOT JUST TALK, 1820 00:58:03,001 --> 00:58:04,000 WE NEED TO ENGAGE IN ACTION. 1821 00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:05,000 MR. SPEAK, I WAS JUST 1822 00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:07,000 MENTIONING KOREA. 1823 00:58:07,001 --> 00:58:09,000 THE FACT IS WE WOULD HAVE THE 1824 00:58:09,001 --> 00:58:12,000 SINGLE LARGEST AGREEMENT THAT 1825 00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:14,000 HAS EVER BEEN PUT TOGETHER. 1826 00:58:14,001 --> 00:58:16,000 THEY ARE OUR SEVENTH LARGEST 1827 00:58:16,001 --> 00:58:17,000 TRADING PARTNER RIGHT NOW IN 1828 00:58:17,001 --> 00:58:19,000 SOUTH KOREA AND IT WOULD MEAN 1829 00:58:19,001 --> 00:58:22,000 THAT WHILE WE HAVE TEIR 1830 00:58:22,001 --> 00:58:24,000 PRODUCTS COMING HERE VIRTUALLY 1831 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:27,000 TARIFF FREE, THERE WOULD BE AN 1832 00:58:27,001 --> 00:58:29,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE 1833 00:58:29,001 --> 00:58:31,000 ACCESS TO THE MILLIONS OF 1834 00:58:31,001 --> 00:58:32,000 CONSUMERS IN SOUTH KOREA WHICH 1835 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:34,000 WE DON'T TODAY. 1836 00:58:34,001 --> 00:58:36,000 I ALSO HAVE TO SAY THAT OUR 1837 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:39,000 INACTION, THE FACT THAT WE HAVE 1838 00:58:39,001 --> 00:58:41,000 HAD THESE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY 1839 00:58:41,001 --> 00:58:42,000 OUR EXECUTIVE BRANCH, THE 1840 00:58:42,001 --> 00:58:45,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF THOSE 1841 00:58:45,001 --> 00:58:46,000 COUNTRIES THAT ARE AWAITING 1842 00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:48,000 PASSAGE HERE IN THE UNITED 1843 00:58:48,001 --> 00:58:52,000 STATES CONGRESS, OUR INACTION 1844 00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:53,000 HAS REALLY JEOPARDIZED OUR POTENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH. 1845 00:58:53,001 --> 00:58:54,000 WHY? 1846 00:58:54,001 --> 00:58:56,000 IF YOU LOOK AT THE FACT THAT 1847 00:58:56,001 --> 00:59:01,000 COLOMBIA HAS ALREADY EMBARKED ON 1848 00:59:01,001 --> 00:59:02,000 A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT A-- WITH 1849 00:59:02,001 --> 00:59:03,000 CANADA. 1850 00:59:03,001 --> 00:59:04,000 SOUTH KOREA IS WORKING WITH THE 1851 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,000 EUROPEAN UNION RIGHT NOW. 1852 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:07,000 THERE ARE OTHER COUNTRIES AND 1853 00:59:07,001 --> 00:59:11,000 BLOCS IN THE WORLD THAT ARE 1854 00:59:11,001 --> 00:59:12,000 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR INACTION 1855 00:59:12,001 --> 00:59:13,000 HERE. 1856 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:16,000 AND REMEMBER AGAIN, MR. SPEAKER, 1857 00:59:16,001 --> 00:59:19,000 OUR ACTION IS GOING, IS GOING TO 1858 00:59:19,001 --> 00:59:21,000 CREATE PROBABLY IN EXCESS OF A 1859 00:59:21,001 --> 00:59:22,000 QUARTER MILLION GOOD PRIVATE 1860 00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:25,000 SECTOR JOBS. 1861 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:26,000 SO AS THE PRESIDENT TALKS THIS 1862 00:59:26,001 --> 00:59:27,000 EVENING ABOUT JOB CREATION AND 1863 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:29,000 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FISCAL 1864 00:59:29,001 --> 00:59:33,000 RESPONSIBILITY, I HOPE THAT HE 1865 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:35,000 WILL FOLLOW HIS WORDS BECAUSE 1866 00:59:35,001 --> 00:59:37,000 HE'S TOLD ME THAT HE BELIEVES IN 1867 00:59:37,001 --> 00:59:39,000 FREE-THROW AND WANTS TO DO THIS 1868 00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:42,000 COLOMBIA KEEL -- BELIEVES IN 1869 00:59:42,001 --> 00:59:43,000 FREE TRADE AND WANTS TO DO THIS 1870 00:59:43,001 --> 00:59:45,000 COLOMBIA DEAL. 1871 00:59:45,001 --> 00:59:47,000 WE LOOK FORWARD TO HIM SENDING 1872 00:59:47,001 --> 00:59:48,000 IT UP SO U.S. WORKERS WILL HAVE 1873 00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:49,000 THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY THE 1874 00:59:49,001 --> 00:59:51,000 SUCCESS WE HAVE SEEP IN THE PAST 1875 00:59:51,001 --> 00:59:52,000 AND I'M CONVINCED WE WILL SEE IN THE FUTURE. 1876 00:59:52,001 --> 00:59:53,000 I THANK MY FRIEND FOR YIELDING 1877 00:59:53,001 --> 00:59:55,000 AND LEADERSHIP. 1878 00:59:55,001 --> 00:59:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1879 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:57,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1880 00:59:57,001 --> 00:59:58,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1881 00:59:58,001 --> 01:00:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO. 1882 01:00:00,001 --> 01:00:01,000 MR. POLIS: I THANK THE SPEAKER. 1883 01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:02,000 I FIND LITTLE OBJECTIONABLE IN 1884 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:03,000 WHAT MY COLLEAGUE FROM 1885 01:00:03,001 --> 01:00:04,000 CALIFORNIA SAID. 1886 01:00:04,001 --> 01:00:06,000 CERTAINLY THERE'S GREAT 1887 01:00:06,001 --> 01:00:08,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR TRADE WITH SOUTH 1888 01:00:08,001 --> 01:00:10,000 KOREA AND PANAMA AND COLOMBIA TO 1889 01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:12,000 CREATE JOBS, BUT NEITHER OF 1890 01:00:12,001 --> 01:00:13,000 THOSE -- NONE OF THOSE 1891 01:00:13,001 --> 01:00:14,000 AGREEMENTS ARE THE TOPIC OF THE 1892 01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:16,000 RULE BEFORE US TODAY. 1893 01:00:16,001 --> 01:00:17,000 AND I WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE 1894 01:00:17,001 --> 01:00:19,000 BACKGROUND ON THIS AND TALK 1895 01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:22,000 ABOUT HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. 1896 01:00:22,001 --> 01:00:23,000 FIRST OF ALL WE COULD HAVE MOVED 1897 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:24,000 FORWARD IN A BIPARTISAN WAY HAD 1898 01:00:24,001 --> 01:00:25,000 THEY PASSED ON SUSPENSION. 1899 01:00:25,001 --> 01:00:28,000 WHAT DOES SUSPENSION MEAN? 1900 01:00:28,001 --> 01:00:29,000 SUSPENSION RARES 2/3 VOTE OF THE 1901 01:00:29,001 --> 01:00:31,000 HOUSE. 1902 01:00:31,001 --> 01:00:32,000 THE BILLS ARE NONAMENDABLE. 1903 01:00:32,001 --> 01:00:34,000 BOTH BILLS PASSED WITH A 1904 01:00:34,001 --> 01:00:39,000 MAJORITY INSTEAD OF 2/3. 1905 01:00:39,001 --> 01:00:41,000 H.R. 3726 PASSED 241-173 AND 1906 01:00:41,001 --> 01:00:46,000 H.R. 3538 WHICH WAS THE VERSION 1907 01:00:46,001 --> 01:00:47,000 IDENTICAL TO 4474 PASSED BY A 1908 01:00:47,001 --> 01:00:48,000 225-191. 1909 01:00:48,001 --> 01:00:50,000 SO SINCE THEY BOTH PASS BY 1910 01:00:50,001 --> 01:00:53,000 MAJORITIES BUT NOT 2/3, THEY 1911 01:00:53,001 --> 01:00:55,000 CAME BEFORE US IN THE RULES COMMITTEE. 1912 01:00:55,001 --> 01:00:57,000 WE WOULD HAVE LOVED IDS. 1913 01:00:57,001 --> 01:00:59,000 MY COLLEAGUE, MR. SESSIONS, 1914 01:00:59,001 --> 01:01:00,000 TALKED ABOUT HOW CAN WE WORK 1915 01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:01,000 BETTER TOGETHER? 1916 01:01:01,001 --> 01:01:03,000 WELL, THERE WEREN'T ANY 1917 01:01:03,001 --> 01:01:04,000 AMENDMENTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED THIS. 1918 01:01:04,001 --> 01:01:06,000 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE TIME WHETHER 1919 01:01:06,001 --> 01:01:08,000 THE IDEAS CAME FROM REPUBLICANS 1920 01:01:08,001 --> 01:01:09,000 OR DEMOCRATS, AND OUR RULES 1921 01:01:09,001 --> 01:01:11,000 COMMITTEE HAS AN EXCELLENT 1922 01:01:11,001 --> 01:01:12,000 RECORD OF ALLOWING AMENDMENTS 1923 01:01:12,001 --> 01:01:13,000 FROM MEMBERS OF THE MINORITY 1924 01:01:13,001 --> 01:01:15,000 PARTY AS WELL AS THE MAJORITY 1925 01:01:15,001 --> 01:01:23,000 PARTY, I KNOW WE TAKE OUR ROLE 1926 01:01:23,001 --> 01:01:24,000 VERY CONSCIOUSLY-CONSCIOUSLY. 1927 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:26,000 BOTH THESE BILLS DEAL WITH 1928 01:01:26,001 --> 01:01:29,000 IMPORTANT LOCAL ISSUES. 1929 01:01:29,001 --> 01:01:31,000 THEY HAVE IMPORTANT -- 1930 01:01:31,001 --> 01:01:33,000 IMPORTANCE FOR THE STAKEHOLDERS. 1931 01:01:33,001 --> 01:01:34,000 I HAVE INTEREST IN THE 1932 01:01:34,001 --> 01:01:35,000 WILDERNESS DESIGNATION ACT. 1933 01:01:35,001 --> 01:01:36,000 WE ARE WORKING IN COLORADO ON 1934 01:01:36,001 --> 01:01:37,000 THAT DESIGNATION. 1935 01:01:37,001 --> 01:01:39,000 IT'S A REAL ISSUE WHEN YOU WERE 1936 01:01:39,001 --> 01:01:42,000 DEALING WITH LEGACY, WATER, HOW 1937 01:01:42,001 --> 01:01:43,000 CAN THEY BE MAINTAINED IF THEY 1938 01:01:43,001 --> 01:01:44,000 ARE WILDERNESS? 1939 01:01:44,001 --> 01:01:47,000 THIS AFFECTS REAL PEOPLE. 1940 01:01:47,001 --> 01:01:49,000 IT TOOK BOTH MR. SIMPSON AND MR. 1941 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:52,000 MINNICK WORKING ACROSS THE AISLE 1942 01:01:52,001 --> 01:01:53,000 IN IDAHO COMING TOGETHER, COMING 1943 01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:54,000 BEFORE CONGRESS SAYING THIS IS 1944 01:01:54,001 --> 01:01:55,000 OUR LOCAL SOLUTION AND ASKING US 1945 01:01:55,001 --> 01:01:57,000 TO APPROVE IT. 1946 01:01:57,001 --> 01:02:00,000 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF WE 1947 01:02:00,001 --> 01:02:01,000 COULD HAVE GOTTEN THAT DONE ON SUSPENSION. 1948 01:02:01,001 --> 01:02:03,000 IF THERE WEREN'T ANY OTHER IDEAS 1949 01:02:03,001 --> 01:02:04,000 TO IMPROVE IT, NOW IT'S A GOOD 1950 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:05,000 CHANCE TO HAVE A BIPARTISAN VOTE 1951 01:02:05,001 --> 01:02:07,000 OF SUPPORT TO PASS THE BILL. 1952 01:02:07,001 --> 01:02:09,000 THE SAME WITH THE OTHER BILL, 1953 01:02:09,001 --> 01:02:10,000 CASTLE NUGENT NATIONAL HISTORIC 1954 01:02:10,001 --> 01:02:11,000 SITE ESTABLISHMENT ACT. 1955 01:02:11,001 --> 01:02:13,000 ONE KEY THING ABOUT THIS BILL IT 1956 01:02:13,001 --> 01:02:14,000 DOESN'T SPEND ANY MONEY, NOT ONE 1957 01:02:14,001 --> 01:02:15,000 DIME. 1958 01:02:15,001 --> 01:02:17,000 YOU HEARD THE FIGURE TOSSED 1959 01:02:17,001 --> 01:02:18,000 AROUND IT MIGHT BE WORTH $40 1960 01:02:18,001 --> 01:02:19,000 MILLION, $25 MILLION. 1961 01:02:19,001 --> 01:02:21,000 THIS IS MERELY AN AUTHORIZATION 1962 01:02:21,001 --> 01:02:22,000 BILL AS MY COLLEAGUES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE ARE 1963 01:02:22,001 --> 01:02:25,000 FULLY AWARE. 1964 01:02:25,001 --> 01:02:27,000 THE BILL SIMPLY DESIGNATES THIS 1965 01:02:27,001 --> 01:02:28,000 AREA AS A NEW UNIT. 1966 01:02:28,001 --> 01:02:29,000 THE BILL CONTAINS NO DIRECT 1967 01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:31,000 SPENDING AND ANY LAND 1968 01:02:31,001 --> 01:02:33,000 ACQUISITION IF IT OCCURS WILL BE 1969 01:02:33,001 --> 01:02:34,000 SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATIONS OR TO 1970 01:02:34,001 --> 01:02:37,000 FUNDRAISING OR DONATIONS. 1971 01:02:37,001 --> 01:02:38,000 ENACTMENT OF THIS LEGISLATION IS 1972 01:02:38,001 --> 01:02:41,000 IMPORTANT PROCESS THAT WE HAVE 1973 01:02:41,001 --> 01:02:42,000 BEEN THROUGH WITH MANY OTHER 1974 01:02:42,001 --> 01:02:44,000 NATIONAL MONUMENTS TO PRESERVE A 1975 01:02:44,001 --> 01:02:45,000 UNIQUE AND STUNNING AREA FOR 1976 01:02:45,001 --> 01:02:48,000 INCLUSION IN OUR NATIONAL PARK 1977 01:02:48,001 --> 01:02:49,000 SERVICE. 1978 01:02:49,001 --> 01:02:52,000 I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 1979 01:02:52,001 --> 01:02:53,000 . 1980 01:02:53,001 --> 01:02:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1981 01:02:54,001 --> 01:02:55,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1982 01:02:55,001 --> 01:02:56,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 1983 01:02:56,001 --> 01:02:57,000 MR. SESSIONS: I APPRECIATE WHAT 1984 01:02:57,001 --> 01:02:59,000 THE GENTLEMAN SAYS. I KNOW HE WAS BUSY. 1985 01:02:59,001 --> 01:03:00,000 I FIND TIMES WHEN I CANNOT 1986 01:03:00,001 --> 01:03:01,000 ATTEND THE RULES COMMITTEE 1987 01:03:01,001 --> 01:03:02,000 MEETING, AND I KNOW THE GENTLEMAN WAS NOT THERE 1988 01:03:02,001 --> 01:03:03,000 YESTERDAY. 1989 01:03:03,001 --> 01:03:05,000 I NEED TO HELP HIM WITH WHAT 1990 01:03:05,001 --> 01:03:08,000 ACTUALLY HAPPENED. AS A MATTER OF FACT, 1991 01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:10,000 REPUBLICANS DID ASK FOR AN OPEN 1992 01:03:10,001 --> 01:03:11,000 RULE, MR. SPEAKER. 1993 01:03:11,001 --> 01:03:12,000 WE WERE NOT WITHOUT IDEAS. 1994 01:03:12,001 --> 01:03:14,000 YOU HAVE TO OPEN THE RULE TO BE 1995 01:03:14,001 --> 01:03:15,000 ABLE TO GET AMENDMENTS IN, AND 1996 01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:17,000 WE WERE DENIED. 1997 01:03:17,001 --> 01:03:19,000 I ALSO WOULD POINT TO, YOU 1998 01:03:19,001 --> 01:03:21,000 KNOW, THE IDEAS THAT WE'RE AL 1999 01:03:21,001 --> 01:03:23,000 SITTING AROUND HERE, OH, GOLLY 2000 01:03:23,001 --> 01:03:25,000 GEE, WE'RE ALL BIPARTISAN WHEN 2001 01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:27,000 IN FACT THE GENTLEMAN VOTED 2002 01:03:27,001 --> 01:03:28,000 AGAINST THE BILL JUST THIS LAST 2003 01:03:28,001 --> 01:03:31,000 WEEK. 2004 01:03:31,001 --> 01:03:36,000 I ASSUME BECAUSE HE DISAGREED 2005 01:03:36,001 --> 01:03:38,000 WITH THE SUBSTANCE OF THE BILL. 2006 01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:39,000 BUT HE WAS JOINED BY LOTS OF 2007 01:03:39,001 --> 01:03:43,000 DEMOCRAT COLLEAGUES THAT 2008 01:03:43,001 --> 01:03:46,000 ACTUALLY TOOK DOWN THE BILL. 2009 01:03:46,001 --> 01:03:47,000 ONCE AGAIN, I ASSUME SUBSTANCE 2010 01:03:47,001 --> 01:03:48,000 NOT BECAUSE IT WAS A 2011 01:03:48,001 --> 01:03:50,000 REPUBLICAN'S NAME ON THERE. 2012 01:03:50,001 --> 01:03:52,000 IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE 2013 01:03:52,001 --> 01:03:54,000 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S A 2014 01:03:54,001 --> 01:03:57,000 DEMOCRAT MEMBER'S NAME ON THERE 2015 01:03:57,001 --> 01:03:59,000 TO FIND OUT IF THE SAME POLICY 2016 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:01,000 DIFFERENCES THAT EXISTED LAST 2017 01:04:01,001 --> 01:04:04,000 WEEK, EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE 2018 01:04:04,001 --> 01:04:05,000 EXACT SAME BILL, WHETHER THOSE 2019 01:04:05,001 --> 01:04:07,000 SAME POLICY PROBLEMS STILL 2020 01:04:07,001 --> 01:04:09,000 EXIST TODAY OR REALLY WHETHER 2021 01:04:09,001 --> 01:04:11,000 IT WAS JUST POLITICS. 2022 01:04:11,001 --> 01:04:12,000 AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW THIS 2023 01:04:12,001 --> 01:04:13,000 AFTERNOON. 2024 01:04:13,001 --> 01:04:15,000 WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW BECAUSE 2025 01:04:15,001 --> 01:04:16,000 THE EXACT SAME BILL, AND THE 2026 01:04:16,001 --> 01:04:17,000 ARGUMENT THE GENTLEMAN'S 2027 01:04:17,001 --> 01:04:20,000 MAKING, OH, WE'RE JUST ALL 2028 01:04:20,001 --> 01:04:21,000 GETTING OUR JOB DONE AROUND 2029 01:04:21,001 --> 01:04:22,000 HERE. 2030 01:04:22,001 --> 01:04:24,000 MR. SPEAKER, WE DISAGREE WITH 2031 01:04:24,001 --> 01:04:27,000 THE BILL, AND WE SPOKE 2032 01:04:27,001 --> 01:04:29,000 YESTERDAY NOT JUST ABOUT DR. 2033 01:04:29,001 --> 01:04:32,000 SIMPSON'S BILL, WE ALSO SPOKE 2034 01:04:32,001 --> 01:04:34,000 ABOUT THE BILL WITH THE $50 2035 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:35,000 MILLION IN ST. CROIX. 2036 01:04:35,001 --> 01:04:38,000 I'M GOING TO OUTLINE PART OF 2037 01:04:38,001 --> 01:04:39,000 THAT HERE, BUT IT'S BASED UPON SUBSTANCE. 2038 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:41,000 AND THE SUBSTANCE THAT WE 2039 01:04:41,001 --> 01:04:42,000 BELIEVE IS IMPORTANT IS 2040 01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:45,000 DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE 2041 01:04:45,001 --> 01:04:47,000 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GIVING US 2042 01:04:47,001 --> 01:04:48,000 THEIR STUDY WHICH THEY SPENT 2043 01:04:48,001 --> 01:04:50,000 $500,000 DOING. 2044 01:04:50,001 --> 01:04:51,000 AND LAST NIGHT UPSTAIRS, WE 2045 01:04:51,001 --> 01:04:53,000 JUST BLEW IT OFF. 2046 01:04:53,001 --> 01:04:54,000 HEY, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT 2047 01:04:54,001 --> 01:04:55,000 RECOMMENDATION. 2048 01:04:55,001 --> 01:04:57,000 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, THEY'RE 2049 01:04:57,001 --> 01:04:58,000 GOING TO SAY IT'S OK. 2050 01:04:58,001 --> 01:05:00,000 I'M SORRY. 2051 01:05:00,001 --> 01:05:01,000 IN TESTIMONY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT 2052 01:05:01,001 --> 01:05:02,000 THE SUBSTANCE WHAT THEY'RE 2053 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:03,000 GOING TO SAY? 2054 01:05:03,001 --> 01:05:06,000 NO, BUT I HAVE A GOOD IDEA. 2055 01:05:06,001 --> 01:05:07,000 I SIT ON THE COMMITTEE. 2056 01:05:07,001 --> 01:05:09,000 I'M A RANKING MEMBER OR I'M THE 2057 01:05:09,001 --> 01:05:10,000 COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN. 2058 01:05:10,001 --> 01:05:11,000 MR. SPEAKER, THAT'S THE WRONG 2059 01:05:11,001 --> 01:05:13,000 WAY TO RUN THIS HOUSE. 2060 01:05:13,001 --> 01:05:15,000 THAT'S THE WRONG WAY TO RUN THE RULES COMMITTEE. 2061 01:05:15,001 --> 01:05:16,000 THAT'S THE WRONG WAY TO DO 2062 01:05:16,001 --> 01:05:17,000 THINGS. 2063 01:05:17,001 --> 01:05:18,000 ASK SOMEBODY TO DO A STUDY, 2064 01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:19,000 SPEND HALF A MILLION DOLLARS 2065 01:05:19,001 --> 01:05:21,000 AND JUST GO AHEAD AND MOVE THE 2066 01:05:21,001 --> 01:05:23,000 LEGISLATION WITHOUT EVEN 2067 01:05:23,001 --> 01:05:25,000 HEARING FROM PEOPLE ABOUT T 2068 01:05:25,001 --> 01:05:28,000 SUBSTANCE OF THE ISSUE. 2069 01:05:28,001 --> 01:05:30,000 FORGET ABOUT IT BEING 2070 01:05:30,001 --> 01:05:35,000 BEACH-FRONT PROPERTY, $50 2071 01:05:35,001 --> 01:05:37,000 MILLION,9 BILLION BACKLOG OF 2072 01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:39,000 TAKING CARE OF NATIONAL PARKS 2073 01:05:39,001 --> 01:05:40,000 IN THIS COUNTRY AND YET IT'S 2074 01:05:40,001 --> 01:05:43,000 GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER $1 2075 01:05:43,001 --> 01:05:46,000 MILLION ANNUALLY TO JUST TAKE 2076 01:05:46,001 --> 01:05:47,000 CARE OF THIS BEACH-FRONT 2077 01:05:47,001 --> 01:05:50,000 PROPERTY THAT THE DEMOCRATIC 2078 01:05:50,001 --> 01:05:51,000 LEADERSHIP WANTS TO PUSH. 2079 01:05:51,001 --> 01:05:52,000 AMERICANS ACROSS THIS NATION 2080 01:05:52,001 --> 01:05:54,000 ARE STRUGGLING, MR. SPEAKER. 2081 01:05:54,001 --> 01:05:56,000 THEY'RE STRUGGLING TO PROVIDE 2082 01:05:56,001 --> 01:05:57,000 FOR THEIR OWN FAMILIES AND 2083 01:05:57,001 --> 01:05:58,000 THEIR LOVED ONES. 2084 01:05:58,001 --> 01:06:00,000 LASTEEK THE DEPARTMENT OF 2085 01:06:00,001 --> 01:06:01,000 LABOR RELEASED DATA SHOWING 2086 01:06:01,001 --> 01:06:04,000 THAT 12 MILLION AMERICANS ARE 2087 01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:06,000 COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND OVER 15 MILLION 2088 01:06:06,001 --> 01:06:08,000 ARE CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED. 2089 01:06:08,001 --> 01:06:10,000 THAT IS DOUBLE -- THAT IS 2090 01:06:10,001 --> 01:06:12,000 DOUBLE IN ONE YEAR. 2091 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:14,000 THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH BLAME THAT 2092 01:06:14,001 --> 01:06:15,000 GOES AROUND. 2093 01:06:15,001 --> 01:06:16,000 AT SOME POINT THE DEMOCRATIC 2094 01:06:16,001 --> 01:06:17,000 LEADERSHIP IS GOING TO HAVE TO 2095 01:06:17,001 --> 01:06:18,000 SAY AFTER THREE YEARS OF 2096 01:06:18,001 --> 01:06:20,000 RUNNING THIS ECONOMY IN THE 2097 01:06:20,001 --> 01:06:22,000 GROUND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 2098 01:06:22,001 --> 01:06:24,000 STAND UP AND BE BIG ABOUT IT. 2099 01:06:24,001 --> 01:06:26,000 IT'S THE POLICIES OF TAXING AND 2100 01:06:26,001 --> 01:06:27,000 SPENDING THAT THE DEMOCRATIC 2101 01:06:27,001 --> 01:06:29,000 LEADERSHIP AND THAT THE 2102 01:06:29,001 --> 01:06:32,000 DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS ARE LETTING 2103 01:06:32,001 --> 01:06:33,000 THEM GET AWAY WITH IN THIS 2104 01:06:33,001 --> 01:06:34,000 BO. 2105 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:36,000 I THINK SOMEBODY'S GOING TO 2106 01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:37,000 HA TO EXPLAIN THE PRIORITIES 2107 01:06:37,001 --> 01:06:39,000 AT SOME POINT. 2108 01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:41,000 WHY THEY'RE PUTTING THESE TWO 2109 01:06:41,001 --> 01:06:42,000 BILLS BACK TO BACK. 2110 01:06:42,001 --> 01:06:44,000 WHY THEY'RE TRYING TO OPPOSE IT 2111 01:06:44,001 --> 01:06:47,000 ONE WEEK IN THE SAME POLICY, 2112 01:06:47,001 --> 01:06:48,000 THE NEXT WEEK PRESUMABLY WILL PASS IT. 2113 01:06:48,001 --> 01:06:51,000 I WILL WATCH WITH GREAT 2114 01:06:51,001 --> 01:06:52,000 INTEREST, MR. SPEAKER, TO SEE 2115 01:06:52,001 --> 01:06:53,000 EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS TODAY ON 2116 01:06:53,001 --> 01:06:54,000 THE VOTE. 2117 01:06:54,001 --> 01:06:56,000 I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 2118 01:06:56,001 --> 01:06:57,000 TIME. 2119 01:06:57,001 --> 01:06:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2120 01:06:58,001 --> 01:06:59,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES HIS TIME. 2121 01:06:59,001 --> 01:07:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO. 2122 01:07:00,001 --> 01:07:03,000 MR. POLIS: YEAH, THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 2123 01:07:03,001 --> 01:07:05,000 YOU KNOW, FIT OF AL I TAKE 2124 01:07:05,001 --> 01:07:08,000 SOME DEGREE OF OFFENSE COMING 2125 01:07:08,001 --> 01:07:10,000 FROM COLORADO IF PEOPLE WERE TO 2126 01:07:10,001 --> 01:07:13,000 CALL OUR WILDERNESS AREA A KIND 2127 01:07:13,001 --> 01:07:14,000 OF DENIGRATED AS MOUNTAIN-FRONT PROPERTY. 2128 01:07:14,001 --> 01:07:22,000 IT HAPPENS TO BE THAT OUR STATE 2129 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:23,000 IS A MOUNTAINOUS STATE. 2130 01:07:23,001 --> 01:07:25,000 THIS PROPERTY IS A BEACH. 2131 01:07:25,001 --> 01:07:27,000 ST. CROIX IS AN ISLAND. 2132 01:07:27,001 --> 01:07:28,000 I'D LIKE TO YIELD THREE MINUTES 2133 01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:30,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO, 2134 01:07:30,001 --> 01:07:31,000 MY COLLEAGUE ON THE RULES 2135 01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:32,000 COMMITTEE, MR. PERLMUTTER. 2136 01:07:32,001 --> 01:07:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2137 01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:34,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 2138 01:07:34,001 --> 01:07:35,000 MR. PERLMUTTER: I THANK MY 2139 01:07:35,001 --> 01:07:36,000 FRIEND, MR. POLIS. 2140 01:07:36,001 --> 01:07:39,000 AND, MR. SPEAKER, I HEARD MY 2141 01:07:39,001 --> 01:07:41,000 FRIEND FROM TEXAS TALK ABOUT 2142 01:07:41,001 --> 01:07:45,000 OUR RULES COMMITTEE MEETING LAST NIGHT. 2143 01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:48,000 AND WHAT HE FORGOT TO MENTION 2144 01:07:48,001 --> 01:07:50,000 TO YOU AND TO THIS BODY WAS 2145 01:07:50,001 --> 01:07:52,000 THAT THIS BILL THAT IS BEFORE 2146 01:07:52,001 --> 01:07:54,000 US CONCERNING THE VIRGIN 2147 01:07:54,001 --> 01:07:56,000 ISLANDS IS AN AUTHORIZATION BILL. 2148 01:07:56,001 --> 01:07:57,000 NOW, TO THE WORLD WHAT DOES 2149 01:07:57,001 --> 01:08:00,000 THAT MEAN? 2150 01:08:00,001 --> 01:08:02,000 IT MEANS IT ONLY GIVES THE 2151 01:08:02,001 --> 01:08:04,000 AUTHORITY FOR THE NATIONAL PARK 2152 01:08:04,001 --> 01:08:07,000 SYSTEM TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY 2153 01:08:07,001 --> 01:08:08,000 WANT TO ACCEPT A DONATION OF 2154 01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:10,000 THE PROPERTY, THEY WANT TO PAY 2155 01:08:10,001 --> 01:08:12,000 FOR THE PROPERTY OR MAKE AN 2156 01:08:12,001 --> 01:08:13,000 EXCHANGE FOR THE PROPERTY. 2157 01:08:13,001 --> 01:08:17,000 THERE IS NO APPROPRIATION. 2158 01:08:17,001 --> 01:08:19,000 THERE IS NO MONEY SPENT. 2159 01:08:19,001 --> 01:08:20,000 AN I APPRECIATE MY FRIEND'S 2160 01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:21,000 COMMENT ABOUT THE NEED FOR THE 2161 01:08:21,001 --> 01:08:23,000 STUDY. 2162 01:08:23,001 --> 01:08:24,000 WELL, THE STUDY WILL BE THERE 2163 01:08:24,001 --> 01:08:27,000 BEFORE ANY MONEY IS SPENT BY 2164 01:08:27,001 --> 01:08:30,000 THE UNITED STATES OF ARICA. 2165 01:08:30,001 --> 01:08:33,000 BUT ACCORDING TO THE TESTIMONY, 2166 01:08:33,001 --> 01:08:34,000 THIS IS PROPERTY THAT HAS 2167 01:08:34,001 --> 01:08:36,000 CULTURAL VALUE AS WELL AS 2168 01:08:36,001 --> 01:08:37,000 SCENIC VALUE, SOMETHING THAT IS 2169 01:08:37,001 --> 01:08:39,000 IMPORTANT TO THE PRESERVATION 2170 01:08:39,001 --> 01:08:41,000 OF THESE ISLANDS AND THAT IS 2171 01:08:41,001 --> 01:08:42,000 IMPORTANT TO THE UNITED STATES 2172 01:08:42,001 --> 01:08:45,000 OF AMERICA. 2173 01:08:45,001 --> 01:08:46,000 SO THIS BIL JUST AUTHORIZES 2174 01:08:46,001 --> 01:08:47,000 IT, DOESN'T PAY ANYTHING FOR 2175 01:08:47,001 --> 01:08:49,000 IT. 2176 01:08:49,001 --> 01:08:50,000 NOW, MY FRIEND FROM TEXAS 2177 01:08:50,001 --> 01:08:53,000 TALKED ABOUT JOBS. 2178 01:08:53,001 --> 01:08:57,000 WHAT HE FORGOT TO TELL YOU, 2179 01:08:57,001 --> 01:09:00,000 TELL ALL OF US WAS THAT WHEN 2180 01:09:00,001 --> 01:09:05,000 GEORGE BUSH LEFT OFFICE LAST 2181 01:09:05,001 --> 01:09:06,000 YEAR WE LOST 785,000 JOBS IN 2182 01:09:06,001 --> 01:09:09,000 THAT MONTH. 2183 01:09:09,001 --> 01:09:10,000 LAST MONTH IN DECEMBER WE LOST 2184 01:09:10,001 --> 01:09:11,000 85,000. 2185 01:09:11,001 --> 01:09:12,000 STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH, AND WE 2186 01:09:12,001 --> 01:09:15,000 ALL KNOW THAT. 2187 01:09:15,001 --> 01:09:17,000 STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BUT 2188 01:09:17,001 --> 01:09:18,000 785,000 AT THE END OF THE BUSH 2189 01:09:18,001 --> 01:09:20,000 ADMINISTRATION AND IN ONE YEAR 2190 01:09:20,001 --> 01:09:21,000 WE REDUCED THAT TO 85,000 A 2191 01:09:21,001 --> 01:09:23,000 MONTH. 2192 01:09:23,001 --> 01:09:25,000 NOW, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO 2193 01:09:25,001 --> 01:09:26,000 DO AND WE NEED TO DO IT IN A 2194 01:09:26,001 --> 01:09:27,000 BIPARTISAN WAY. 2195 01:09:27,001 --> 01:09:28,000 MY FRIEND IS RIGHT TT WE NEED 2196 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:31,000 TO WORK TOGETHER. 2197 01:09:31,001 --> 01:09:33,000 AND I INTEND TO WORK WITH HIM 2198 01:09:33,001 --> 01:09:35,000 AND WITH OTHERS TO REVERSE THIS 2199 01:09:35,001 --> 01:09:37,000 SYSTEM AND GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. 2200 01:09:37,001 --> 01:09:39,000 WE GOT TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES. 2201 01:09:39,001 --> 01:09:41,000 WE GOT A BIG JOB AHEAD OF US TO 2202 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:43,000 GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AND TO 2203 01:09:43,001 --> 01:09:44,000 CREATE JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY. 2204 01:09:44,001 --> 01:09:45,000 AND WITHHAT, MR. SPEAKER, I'D 2205 01:09:45,001 --> 01:09:47,000 YIELD BACK. 2206 01:09:47,001 --> 01:09:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2207 01:09:48,001 --> 01:09:49,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2208 01:09:49,001 --> 01:09:50,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. MR. SESSIONS: THANK YOU, MR. 2209 01:09:50,001 --> 01:09:52,000 SPEAKER. 2210 01:09:52,001 --> 01:09:53,000 YOU KNOW, MR. SPEAKER, IT'S ALL 2211 01:09:53,001 --> 01:09:56,000 ABOUT PRIORITIES. 2212 01:09:56,001 --> 01:09:58,000 AND, YOU KNOW, I WELCOME THE 2213 01:09:58,001 --> 01:09:59,000 DEBATE HERE THAT WE'RE HAVING 2214 01:09:59,001 --> 01:10:00,000 TODAY. 2215 01:10:00,001 --> 01:10:01,000 WE ASKED NOT TO DO THIS AT THE 2216 01:10:01,001 --> 01:10:02,000 RULES COMTTEE. 2217 01:10:02,001 --> 01:10:04,000 WE ASKED NOT TO DO THIS BILL. 2218 01:10:04,001 --> 01:10:06,000 ISN'T IT BETTER THAT WE DON'T 2219 01:10:06,001 --> 01:10:07,000 GO SPEND $50 MILLION RIGHT NOW? 2220 01:10:07,001 --> 01:10:10,000 IT IS AN ISLAND. 2221 01:10:10,001 --> 01:10:13,000 BY THE WAY, EVERY PIECE OF LAND 2222 01:10:13,001 --> 01:10:16,000 ON THE ISLAND IS NOT BEACH-FRONT PROPERTY. 2223 01:10:16,001 --> 01:10:18,000 THE BOTTOM LINE IS IS THAT WE 2224 01:10:18,001 --> 01:10:19,000 ARE CHOOSING BECAUSE IT'S A 2225 01:10:19,001 --> 01:10:23,000 PRIORITY TO DO THIS. 2226 01:10:23,001 --> 01:10:24,000 IT'S A PRIORITY, AND THOSE 2227 01:10:24,001 --> 01:10:25,000 PRIORITIES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 2228 01:10:25,001 --> 01:10:27,000 DISAGREES WITH. 2229 01:10:27,001 --> 01:10:30,000 THE SECOND BILL THAT COMES 2230 01:10:30,001 --> 01:10:31,000 UNDER THIS BILL THAT FAILED TO 2231 01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:34,000 GET 2/3 VOTE LAST WEEK IS THE 2232 01:10:34,001 --> 01:10:35,000 ONE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, H.R. 2233 01:10:35,001 --> 01:10:36,000 3726, THE CASTLE NUGENT 2234 01:10:36,001 --> 01:10:38,000 NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 2235 01:10:38,001 --> 01:10:40,000 ESTABLISHMENT ACT. 2236 01:10:40,001 --> 01:10:42,000 AND WHAT THIS BILL REALLY DOES 2237 01:10:42,001 --> 01:10:46,000 IS GO ABOUT, AS WE'VE HEARD 2238 01:10:46,001 --> 01:10:49,000 ABOUT IT, IS THAT IT AUTHORIZES 2239 01:10:49,001 --> 01:10:50,000 BUT NOT PROPETS $50 MILLION -- 2240 01:10:50,001 --> 01:10:51,000 APPROPRIATES $50 MILLION. 2241 01:10:51,001 --> 01:10:53,000 IF THERE'S ANYBODY IN THIS BODY 2242 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:55,000 THAT BELIEVES THAT WE'RE GOING 2243 01:10:55,001 --> 01:10:57,000 TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT DEBATE 2244 01:10:57,001 --> 01:11:02,000 ABOUT THE $50 MILLION WHEN IT 2245 01:11:02,001 --> 01:11:04,000 COMES INTO A HUGE PACKAGE OF 2246 01:11:04,001 --> 01:11:07,000 APPROPRIATIONS THEY ARE WRONG. 2247 01:11:07,001 --> 01:11:10,000 THIS PUTS IT IN LINE TO BE A 2248 01:11:10,001 --> 01:11:11,000 PART OF ANOTHER MSSIVE 2249 01:11:11,001 --> 01:11:18,000 SPENDING BILL. 2250 01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:20,000 MEANWHILE, AS WE GOING BUYING 2251 01:11:20,001 --> 01:11:21,000 FEDERAL LAND ON THE VIRGIN 2252 01:11:21,001 --> 01:11:23,000 ISLANDS, 10% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, 2253 01:11:23,001 --> 01:11:24,000 THAT'S PROBLEMATIC TO ME. 2254 01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:27,000 AMERICANS, LOTS OF THEM, DON'T 2255 01:11:27,001 --> 01:11:29,000 EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TOO 2256 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:30,000 VISIT THIS NEW $50 PURCHASE 2257 01:11:30,001 --> 01:11:31,000 BECAUSE ECONOMIC CLIMATES ARE 2258 01:11:31,001 --> 01:11:33,000 SO BAD. 2259 01:11:33,001 --> 01:11:37,000 YOU KNOW, EVEN IF WE WEREN'T 2260 01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:40,000 RUNNING $1.4 BILLION DEFICIT 2261 01:11:40,001 --> 01:11:42,000 AND RAISING THE DEBT LIMIT BY 2262 01:11:42,001 --> 01:11:44,000 ANOTHER $1.9 TRILLION IN THE 2263 01:11:44,001 --> 01:11:47,000 NEXT FEW WEEKS,HERE'S STILL 2264 01:11:47,001 --> 01:11:48,000 THIS BACKLOG THAT WE COULD 2265 01:11:48,001 --> 01:11:51,000 PRIORITIZE AND PUT THE $50 2266 01:11:51,001 --> 01:11:54,000 MILLION IN TO TAKE CARE OF THE 2267 01:11:54,001 --> 01:11:55,000 $9 BILLION MAINTENANCE BACKLOG 2268 01:11:55,001 --> 01:11:57,000 THAT WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY. 2269 01:11:57,001 --> 01:11:59,000 AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S CULTURAL. 2270 01:11:59,001 --> 01:12:01,000 LOTS OF SITES IN THIS COUNTRY 2271 01:12:01,001 --> 01:12:04,000 ARE CULTURAL THAT ARE NATIONAL PARKS. 2272 01:12:04,001 --> 01:12:05,000 AND THE PRIORITIES SHOULD BE OF 2273 01:12:05,001 --> 01:12:06,000 EXISTING DECISIONS THAT WE HAVE 2274 01:12:06,001 --> 01:12:08,000 MADE. 2275 01:12:08,001 --> 01:12:10,000 LOOK, I JUST THINK IT'S A BAD 2276 01:12:10,001 --> 01:12:12,000 WAY TO GO, BUT I THINK IT 2277 01:12:12,001 --> 01:12:15,000 REPRESENTS EXACTLY THE MINDSET 2278 01:12:15,001 --> 01:12:16,000 OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP, 2279 01:12:16,001 --> 01:12:18,000 ANOTH GOOD WAY TO SPEND 2280 01:12:18,001 --> 01:12:20,000 MONEY, PUT A HAPPY SMILEY FACE 2281 01:12:20,001 --> 01:12:23,000 ON IT AND TALK ABOUT IT'S A 2282 01:12:23,001 --> 01:12:24,000 REALLY GOOD THING FOR 2283 01:12:24,001 --> 01:12:25,000 TAXPAYERS. 2284 01:12:25,001 --> 01:12:28,000 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE 2285 01:12:28,001 --> 01:12:30,000 WHEN THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 2286 01:12:30,001 --> 01:12:32,000 FINALLY RELEASES THEIR STUDY. 2287 01:12:32,001 --> 01:12:33,000 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT 2288 01:12:33,001 --> 01:12:34,000 THEY SAY. 2289 01:12:34,001 --> 01:12:35,000 THE REPUBLICANS UP IN THE ROOM 2290 01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:37,000 AT THE RULES COMMITTEE LAST 2291 01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:38,000 NIGHT SAID LET'S WAIT. 2292 01:12:38,001 --> 01:12:39,000 LET'S NOT SPEND THE MONEY. 2293 01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:40,000 LET'S WAIT TO FIND OUT WHAT WE 2294 01:12:40,001 --> 01:12:41,000 DO. 2295 01:12:41,001 --> 01:12:43,000 AND MOST OF ALL, LET'S MAKE 2296 01:12:43,001 --> 01:12:45,000 THIS AN OPEN RULE SO EVERY 2297 01:12:45,001 --> 01:12:47,000 MEMBER CAN BRING THEIR IDEAS DOWN HERE. 2298 01:12:47,001 --> 01:12:49,000 NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 2299 01:12:49,001 --> 01:12:50,000 PARTY LINE VOTE. 2300 01:12:50,001 --> 01:12:52,000 SO WHAT TODAY'S LEGISLATION 2301 01:12:52,001 --> 01:12:54,000 SHOULD SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 2302 01:12:54,001 --> 01:12:55,000 IS ABOUT THIS CONGRESS' 2303 01:12:55,001 --> 01:12:57,000 PRIORITIES. 2304 01:12:57,001 --> 01:12:59,000 FIRST, THAT THE DEMOCRATS 2305 01:12:59,001 --> 01:13:00,000 REVIEWS, ONCE AGAIN, NOTHING 2306 01:13:00,001 --> 01:13:02,000 NEW, TO WORK WITH REPUBLICANS 2307 01:13:02,001 --> 01:13:05,000 ON -- REFUSE, ONCE AGAIN, 2308 01:13:05,001 --> 01:13:07,000 NOTHING NEW, TO WORK WITH 2309 01:13:07,001 --> 01:13:08,000 REPUBLICANS ON HEALTH CARE. 2310 01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:10,000 SECONDLY, THAT JOBS AND THE 2311 01:13:10,001 --> 01:13:12,000 ECONOMY COME SECOND TO THE $50 2312 01:13:12,001 --> 01:13:16,000 MILLION WORTH OF TAXPAYER FUNDS 2313 01:13:16,001 --> 01:13:19,000 FOR BEACH-FRONT PROPERTY THAT 2314 01:13:19,001 --> 01:13:21,000 MOST AMERICANS WILL NEVER, 2315 01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:23,000 NEVER, EVER SEE. 2316 01:13:23,001 --> 01:13:25,000 MR. SPEAKER, AMERICANS WANT JOBS. 2317 01:13:25,001 --> 01:13:26,000 THEY WANT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY 2318 01:13:26,001 --> 01:13:28,000 BY THIS BODY. 2319 01:13:28,001 --> 01:13:29,000 THEY WANT US TO WORK TOGETHER 2320 01:13:29,001 --> 01:13:32,000 ON THE ISSUES AND THE PROBLEMS 2321 01:13:32,001 --> 01:13:34,000 FACING THIS COUNTRY. 2322 01:13:34,001 --> 01:13:36,000 AND I THINK THEY'RE SEEING ONCE 2323 01:13:36,001 --> 01:13:38,000 AGAIN TODAY AFTER WHAT WAS 2324 01:13:38,001 --> 01:13:39,000 CALLED THE WAKE-UP CALL LAST 2325 01:13:39,001 --> 01:13:42,000 WEEK THAT WE'RE NOT DOING ANY 2326 01:13:42,001 --> 01:13:45,000 OF THOSE. MR. SPEAKER, THE DEMOCRAT 2327 01:13:45,001 --> 01:13:46,000 MAJORITY CONTINUES TO PRESERVE 2328 01:13:46,001 --> 01:13:48,000 INITIATIVES AND POLICIES THAT 2329 01:13:48,001 --> 01:13:51,000 WILL LEAD TO MORE UNEMPLOYMENT, 2330 01:13:51,001 --> 01:13:53,000 MORE DEBT, NOR TAXATION. 2331 01:13:53,001 --> 01:13:54,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION AND 2332 01:13:54,001 --> 01:13:56,000 DEMOCRATIC -- MORE TAXATION. 2333 01:13:56,001 --> 01:13:58,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION AND 2334 01:13:58,001 --> 01:13:59,000 DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS SAID THEY 2335 01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:00,000 WOULD HELP HEALTH CARE, CLEANER 2336 01:14:00,001 --> 01:14:03,000 ENERGY, BETTER EDUCATION. 2337 01:14:03,001 --> 01:14:06,000 THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON. 2338 01:14:06,001 --> 01:14:08,000 AND WHAT WE SEE AFTER THREE 2339 01:14:08,001 --> 01:14:11,000 YEARS NOW ENTERING THE FOURTH 2340 01:14:11,001 --> 01:14:13,000 OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP, 2341 01:14:13,001 --> 01:14:14,000 MAJORITY IN THIS BODY IS THAT 2342 01:14:14,001 --> 01:14:16,000 THEY ARE DRIVING OUR COUNTRY TO 2343 01:14:16,001 --> 01:14:19,000 RECORD DEFICITS, RECORD 2344 01:14:19,001 --> 01:14:22,000 UNEMPLOYMENT, RECORD SPENDING 2345 01:14:22,001 --> 01:14:24,000 AND RECORD INABILITY TO TAKE 2346 01:14:24,001 --> 01:14:28,000 RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THEY 2347 01:14:28,001 --> 01:14:32,000 HAVEONE ON THEIR WATCH BEING 2348 01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:33,000 THE POLICY ARM OF THIS GOVERNMENT. 2349 01:14:33,001 --> 01:14:36,000 THIS RULE DOES NOT REPRESENT 2350 01:14:36,001 --> 01:14:37,000 ANY COMMITMENT TO FISCAL 2351 01:14:37,001 --> 01:14:38,000 SUSTAINABILITY EITHER. 2352 01:14:38,001 --> 01:14:40,000 AND WITH THIS LEGISLATION 2353 01:14:40,001 --> 01:14:41,000 CONGRESS ONLY CONTINUES TO 2354 01:14:41,001 --> 01:14:44,000 INCREASE FEDERAL DEBT, SLOWS 2355 01:14:44,001 --> 01:14:45,000 DOWN OUR ECONOMIC RECOVERY, 2356 01:14:45,001 --> 01:14:47,000 INCREASES THE FEDERAL BURDEN 2357 01:14:47,001 --> 01:14:49,000 AND THE FINANCIAL BURDEN PLACED 2358 01:14:49,001 --> 01:14:51,000 ON OUR CHILDREN AND 2359 01:14:51,001 --> 01:14:52,000 GRANDCHILDREN. 2360 01:14:52,001 --> 01:14:53,000 MR. SPEAKER, THE OBAMA 2361 01:14:53,001 --> 01:14:54,000 ADMINISTRATION PROMISED 2362 01:14:54,001 --> 01:14:55,000 AMERICANS IF CONGRESS PASSED 2363 01:14:55,001 --> 01:14:56,000 THE STIMULUS BILL THAT 2364 01:14:56,001 --> 01:14:59,000 UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD NOT GO 2365 01:14:59,001 --> 01:15:05,000 BEYOND 8%. 2366 01:15:05,001 --> 01:15:07,000 THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO. 2367 01:15:07,001 --> 01:15:09,000 THAT IT WOULD SAVE MILLIONS OF 2368 01:15:09,001 --> 01:15:13,000 JOBS. 2369 01:15:13,001 --> 01:15:14,000 HERE WE ARE A YEAR LATER RECORD 2370 01:15:14,001 --> 01:15:15,000 UNEMPLOYMENT, MORE THAN TWO 2371 01:15:15,001 --> 01:15:17,000 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE LOST 2372 01:15:17,001 --> 01:15:20,000 THEIR JOBS SINCE THE PACKAGE 2373 01:15:20,001 --> 01:15:22,000 THAT IS CALLED THE JOBS BILL, 2374 01:15:22,001 --> 01:15:24,000 $1.4 TRILLION STIMULUS PACKAGE, 2375 01:15:24,001 --> 01:15:26,000 AND TODAY IN THE PAPERS WE READ 2376 01:15:26,001 --> 01:15:28,000 NOT ONLY IS IT NOT RKING IT 2377 01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:29,000 IS DOING WHAT REPUBLICANS SAID 2378 01:15:29,001 --> 01:15:31,000 AT THE TIME IT'S GOING TO ADD 2379 01:15:31,001 --> 01:15:33,000 TO UNEMPLOYMENT AND DEBT THAT 2380 01:15:33,001 --> 01:15:36,000 WILL INCREASE AT AN EXPONENTIAL RATE. 2381 01:15:36,001 --> 01:15:37,000 IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR MY FRIENDS 2382 01:15:37,001 --> 01:15:38,000 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE 2383 01:15:38,001 --> 01:15:40,000 PASSED A CAP AND TRADE BILL 2384 01:15:40,001 --> 01:15:43,000 THAT WOULD ALSO RAISE PRICES ON 2385 01:15:43,001 --> 01:15:44,000 ENERGY, GOODS AND SERVICES FOR 2386 01:15:44,001 --> 01:15:45,000 HARDWORKING AMERICANS ACROSS 2387 01:15:45,001 --> 01:15:48,000 THIS COUNTRY. 2388 01:15:48,001 --> 01:15:49,000 IN MY HOME STATE OF TEXAS, THE 2389 01:15:49,001 --> 01:15:54,000 AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD WOULD EXPECT 2390 01:15:54,001 --> 01:15:57,000 TO PAY MORE THAN $1,100 EXTRA A YEAR. 2391 01:15:57,001 --> 01:15:59,000 NO WONDER, NO WONDER THERE'S AN OUTCRY. 2392 01:15:59,001 --> 01:16:00,000 ONCE AGAIN, PART OF A 2393 01:16:00,001 --> 01:16:06,000 LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE, AN 2394 01:16:06,001 --> 01:16:07,000 INITIATIVE THAT WOULD LOSE 1.38 2395 01:16:07,001 --> 01:16:08,000 MILLION MANUFACTURING JOBS. THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT 2396 01:16:08,001 --> 01:16:09,000 RIGHT NOW. 2397 01:16:09,001 --> 01:16:11,000 SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE TO 2398 01:16:11,001 --> 01:16:12,000 STAND UP AND TAKE 2399 01:16:12,001 --> 01:16:14,000 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THIS BECAUSE 2400 01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:15,000 IT'S HAPPENING ON THE 2401 01:16:15,001 --> 01:16:17,000 LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC 2402 01:16:17,001 --> 01:16:18,000 PARTY'S WATCH. 2403 01:16:18,001 --> 01:16:22,000 AND TODAY DESPITE THESE FACTS 2404 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:24,000 WE'RE SPENDING MORE MONEY AND 2405 01:16:24,001 --> 01:16:25,000 GOG TO PLACE AMERICA IN A 2406 01:16:25,001 --> 01:16:26,000 DEFICIT POSITION AGAIN. 2407 01:16:26,001 --> 01:16:40,000 . 2408 01:16:40,001 --> 01:16:42,000 . 2409 01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:45,000 IT'S TIME THAT THE DEMOCRATIC 2410 01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:46,000 PARTY BEGIN WORKING WITH 2411 01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:51,000 REPUBLICANS IF YOU WANT TO BRING 2412 01:16:51,001 --> 01:16:52,000 JOBS BACK. 2413 01:16:52,001 --> 01:16:53,000 MR. SPEAKER, THE MAJORITY 2414 01:16:53,001 --> 01:16:55,000 PARTY'S OUT OF TOUCH. 2415 01:16:55,001 --> 01:16:57,000 OUT OF TOUCH WITH AMERICANS. 2416 01:16:57,001 --> 01:16:59,000 THEIR PRIORITIES ON BORROWING, 2417 01:16:59,001 --> 01:17:00,000 TAXING, AND SPENDING IS KILLING 2418 01:17:00,001 --> 01:17:02,000 OUR ECONOMY. 2419 01:17:02,001 --> 01:17:03,000 AND RUINING PROGRESS FOR JOB 2420 01:17:03,001 --> 01:17:07,000 GROWTH. 2421 01:17:07,001 --> 01:17:09,000 I KNOW ONCE AGAIN TODAY I, 2422 01:17:09,001 --> 01:17:10,000 REPUBLICANS, ARE THE MINORITY PARTY. 2423 01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:11,000 ALL WE CAN DO IS STAND ON THE 2424 01:17:11,001 --> 01:17:13,000 FLOOR AND TALK. 2425 01:17:13,001 --> 01:17:14,000 BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THE 2426 01:17:14,001 --> 01:17:15,000 PROCESSES UP IN THE RULES 2427 01:17:15,001 --> 01:17:17,000 COMMITTEE ARE IMPORTANT. 2428 01:17:17,001 --> 01:17:19,000 THAT'S WHY WE WERE THERE EVEN 2429 01:17:19,001 --> 01:17:23,000 LAST NIGHT TRYING TO SAY THIS IS 2430 01:17:23,001 --> 01:17:24,000 THE WRONG THING TO DO AND $50 2431 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:27,000 MILLION MORDOES MATTER. 2432 01:17:27,001 --> 01:17:28,000 WE CANNOT REMEDY THE ECONOMIC 2433 01:17:28,001 --> 01:17:29,000 CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE ARE IN BY 2434 01:17:29,001 --> 01:17:31,000 INCREASING SPENDING. 2435 01:17:31,001 --> 01:17:34,000 NOT ON NATIONAL PARKS IN THE 2436 01:17:34,001 --> 01:17:36,000 VIRGIN ISLANDS OR NOT ON A $1.3 2437 01:17:36,001 --> 01:17:38,000 TRILLION HEALTH CARE BILL THAT 2438 01:17:38,001 --> 01:17:39,000 WILL DESTROY 5.5 MILLION JOBS. 2439 01:17:39,001 --> 01:17:41,000 HUGE ENERGY AND HEALTH BILLS ARE 2440 01:17:41,001 --> 01:17:43,000 GOING TO RAISE TAXES AND KILL 2441 01:17:43,001 --> 01:17:45,000 JOBS. 2442 01:17:45,001 --> 01:17:46,000 CERTAINLY EXPENSES FOR STATES 2443 01:17:46,001 --> 01:17:48,000 AND PEOPLE. 2444 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:50,000 OVER THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE HEARD 2445 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:51,000 OUR CONSTITUENTS SAY THEY WANT 2446 01:17:51,001 --> 01:17:53,000 STABILITY. 2447 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:55,000 THEY WANTS TO -- WANT US TO WORK 2448 01:17:55,001 --> 01:17:56,000 TOGETHER AND WANT US TO FOCUS ON 2449 01:17:56,001 --> 01:17:59,000 THE THINGS THAT WOULD BRING 2450 01:17:59,001 --> 01:18:01,000 ABOUT A BETTER TOMORROW. 2451 01:18:01,001 --> 01:18:02,000 I DISAGREE WHAT WE ARE DOING 2452 01:18:02,001 --> 01:18:03,000 AGAIN TODAY. 2453 01:18:03,001 --> 01:18:05,000 AND I RESPECTFULLY WOULD SAY TO 2454 01:18:05,001 --> 01:18:08,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND MY 2455 01:18:08,001 --> 01:18:09,000 COLLEAGUES WE SHOULD DEFEAT THIS 2456 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:10,000 BILL. 2457 01:18:10,001 --> 01:18:12,000 IT'S THE WRONG DIRECTION. 2458 01:18:12,001 --> 01:18:15,000 IT'S A BAD IDEA. 2459 01:18:15,001 --> 01:18:16,000 AND THE TIMING OF THIS IS VERY 2460 01:18:16,001 --> 01:18:17,000 BAD. 2461 01:18:17,001 --> 01:18:18,000 MR. SPEAKER, WE ARE GOING TO 2462 01:18:18,001 --> 01:18:19,000 WELCOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE 2463 01:18:19,001 --> 01:18:20,000 UNITED STATES TONIGHT. 2464 01:18:20,001 --> 01:18:21,000 I HOPE WE LISTEN TO WHAT HE 2465 01:18:21,001 --> 01:18:22,000 SAYS. 2466 01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:23,000 I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 2467 01:18:23,001 --> 01:18:24,000 TIME. 2468 01:18:24,001 --> 01:18:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2469 01:18:25,001 --> 01:18:26,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 2470 01:18:26,001 --> 01:18:27,000 OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO. 2471 01:18:27,001 --> 01:18:28,000 MR. POLIS: THANK YOU, MR. 2472 01:18:28,001 --> 01:18:29,000 SPEAKER. 2473 01:18:29,001 --> 01:18:30,000 ONCE AGAIN I WANT TO REITERATE 2474 01:18:30,001 --> 01:18:32,000 THAT THIS BILL DOES NOT COST $50 2475 01:18:32,001 --> 01:18:35,000 MILLION OR $40 MILLION OR 30D MILLION. 2476 01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:36,000 DOES NOT COST ONE PENNY. 2477 01:18:36,001 --> 01:18:40,000 IT IS SIMPLY AN AUTHORIZATION. 2478 01:18:40,001 --> 01:18:42,000 AS MY COLLEAGUE KNOWS IT'S PART 2479 01:18:42,001 --> 01:18:43,000 OF THE PROCESS. 2480 01:18:43,001 --> 01:18:44,000 IF THERE EVER IS AN 2481 01:18:44,001 --> 01:18:46,000 APPROPRIATION, THERE IS A NUMBER 2482 01:18:46,001 --> 01:18:47,000 OF AVENUES UNDER WHICH THERE 2483 01:18:47,001 --> 01:18:51,000 MIGHT NOT BE AN APPROPATION, 2484 01:18:51,001 --> 01:18:52,000 THERE COULD BE A DONATION OF THE PROPERTY, COULD BE OTHER 2485 01:18:52,001 --> 01:18:53,000 INVOLVEMENT FROM OTHER SOURCES. 2486 01:18:53,001 --> 01:18:56,000 IF THERE IS AN APPROPRIATION, 2487 01:18:56,001 --> 01:18:57,000 THAT'S WHEN THAT WOULD BE DEBATED. 2488 01:18:57,001 --> 01:18:58,000 THAT WOULD BE PART OF A BILL AND 2489 01:18:58,001 --> 01:19:00,000 SOMEBODY COULD OFFER AN 2490 01:19:00,001 --> 01:19:02,000 AMENDMENT THAT WOULD COME BEFORE 2491 01:19:02,001 --> 01:19:03,000 THE RULES COMMITTEE AND I WOULD 2492 01:19:03,001 --> 01:19:04,000 CERTAINLY SUPPORT RULING THAT IN 2493 01:19:04,001 --> 01:19:06,000 ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS 2494 01:19:06,001 --> 01:19:07,000 A TOPIC THIS BODY HAS THE TIME 2495 01:19:07,001 --> 01:19:09,000 TO DISCUSS. 2496 01:19:09,001 --> 01:19:11,000 BUT NOW IS NOT THE DETE WITH 2497 01:19:11,001 --> 01:19:14,000 REGARD TO THE EXPENDITURE OF ANY 2498 01:19:14,001 --> 01:19:16,000 FEDERAL DOLRS WITH REGARD TO 2499 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:17,000 THIS MATTER. 2500 01:19:17,001 --> 01:19:19,000 THE PROCEDURE THAT HAS BEEN 2501 01:19:19,001 --> 01:19:21,000 USED, AGAIN, WHEN BILLS COME UP 2502 01:19:21,001 --> 01:19:23,000 ON SUSPENSION, AS THESE BILLS 2503 01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:24,000 DID, THERE WAS NO OPPORTUNITY 2504 01:19:24,001 --> 01:19:27,000 FOR THE MINORITY PARTY OR THE 2505 01:19:27,001 --> 01:19:28,000 MAJORITY PARTY TO AMEND THE 2506 01:19:28,001 --> 01:19:30,000 BILLS OR OFFER ALTERNATIVES. 2507 01:19:30,001 --> 01:19:33,000 WHEN THE BILL DID NOT GET THE 2508 01:19:33,001 --> 01:19:34,000 QUISITE 2/3 IT CAME BEFORE OUR 2509 01:19:34,001 --> 01:19:36,000 RULES COMMITTEE AND THERE WERE 2510 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:38,000 NO OTHER AMENDMENTS OFFERED BY 2511 01:19:38,001 --> 01:19:39,000 MEMBERS OF THE MINORITY PARTY OR MAJORITY PARTY. 2512 01:19:39,001 --> 01:19:40,000 WE ARE VERY OPEN ALONG WITH MY 2513 01:19:40,001 --> 01:19:42,000 COLLEAGUES FROM THE RULES 2514 01:19:42,001 --> 01:19:44,000 COMMITT, I KNOW THE HOUSE AS A 2515 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:45,000 WHOLE, TO IDEAS FROM BOTH SIDES 2516 01:19:45,001 --> 01:19:46,000 OF THE AISLE REGARDLESS WHERE 2517 01:19:46,001 --> 01:19:48,000 THEY COME FROM. 2518 01:19:48,001 --> 01:19:50,000 IF SOMEBODY HAD IMPROVEMENT OF 2519 01:19:50,001 --> 01:19:53,000 THE WATER RIGHTS IN IDAHO OR 2520 01:19:53,001 --> 01:20:03,000 ADJUSTMENTS TO THE BORDERS OF 2521 01:20:03,001 --> 01:20:05,000 THE PROPOSED CASTLE IN ST. 2522 01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:06,000 CROIX, THE MINORITY PARTY HAS 2523 01:20:06,001 --> 01:20:07,000 UNDER BOTH THIS RULE THE 2524 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:09,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR A MOTION TO 2525 01:20:09,001 --> 01:20:10,000 RECOMMIT WITH OR WITHOUT 2526 01:20:10,001 --> 01:20:12,000 INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO EACH 2527 01:20:12,001 --> 01:20:13,000 OF THE BILLS. 2528 01:20:13,001 --> 01:20:14,000 THERE IS AMPLE OPPORTUNITY AND 2529 01:20:14,001 --> 01:20:15,000 WE ARE HEARING A DEAFENING 2530 01:20:15,001 --> 01:20:18,000 SILCE FROM THE OTHER SIDE WITH 2531 01:20:18,001 --> 01:20:19,000 REGARD TO HOW TO IMPROVE THESE BILLS. 2532 01:20:19,001 --> 01:20:21,000 THE DOOR IS MORE THAN OPEN. 2533 01:20:21,001 --> 01:20:23,000 THE FIRST STEP AGAIN IN FINDING 2534 01:20:23,001 --> 01:20:25,000 THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO REACH 2535 01:20:25,001 --> 01:20:26,000 THE 2/3 AUTHORITY WAS THAT THEY 2536 01:20:26,001 --> 01:20:28,000 WOULD BE OPEN FOR INPUT. 2537 01:20:28,001 --> 01:20:30,000 THERE WERE NO AMENDMENTS. 2538 01:20:30,001 --> 01:20:31,000 NOT ONE THAT WAS PRESENTED TO 2539 01:20:31,001 --> 01:20:32,000 THE RULES COMMITTEE FOR EITHER 2540 01:20:32,001 --> 01:20:34,000 OF THESE BILLS. 2541 01:20:34,001 --> 01:20:36,000 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING 2542 01:20:36,001 --> 01:20:37,000 WHAT THE MOTION TO RECOMMIT MAY 2543 01:20:37,001 --> 01:20:39,000 ENTAIL. 2544 01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:40,000 IF THEY ARE CONSTRUCTIVE AND 2545 01:20:40,001 --> 01:20:42,000 IMPROVE THESE BILLS IN ANY 2546 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:45,000 SUBSTANTIAL WAY, I'M CONFIDENT 2547 01:20:45,001 --> 01:20:47,000 MY COLLEAGUES WILL JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING THEM. 2548 01:20:47,001 --> 01:20:48,000 I WOULD LIKE TO INQUIRE OF THE 2549 01:20:48,001 --> 01:20:51,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS IF HE HAS 2550 01:20:51,001 --> 01:20:53,000 ANY REMAING SPEAKERS? 2551 01:20:53,001 --> 01:20:55,000 MR. SESSION: I APPRECIATE THE GENTLEMAN ASKING. 2552 01:20:55,001 --> 01:20:57,000 I WANT TO ASK HOW MUCH MORE TIME 2553 01:20:57,001 --> 01:20:59,000 WE HAVE IF I COULD, PLEASE, MR. 2554 01:20:59,001 --> 01:21:00,000 SPEAKER. 2555 01:21:00,001 --> 01:21:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2556 01:21:01,001 --> 01:21:03,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS HAS SIX 2557 01:21:03,001 --> 01:21:04,000 MINUTES. 2558 01:21:04,001 --> 01:21:06,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO HAS 17 1/2. 2559 01:21:06,001 --> 01:21:07,000 MR. SESSIONS: THANK YOU, MR. 2560 01:21:07,001 --> 01:21:08,000 SPEAKER. 2561 01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:09,000 I WOULD ANTICIPATE I WILL BE THE 2562 01:21:09,001 --> 01:21:10,000 FINAL SPEAKER FOR US. 2563 01:21:10,001 --> 01:21:12,000 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2564 01:21:12,001 --> 01:21:14,000 MR. POLIS: VERY WELL. 2565 01:21:14,001 --> 01:21:16,000 I'M THE LAST SPEAKER FOR MY SIDE 2566 01:21:16,001 --> 01:21:17,000 SO I'LL RESERVE MY TIME UNTIL 2567 01:21:17,001 --> 01:21:18,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS HAS 2568 01:21:18,001 --> 01:21:19,000 CLOSED FOR HIS SIDE AND YIELDED 2569 01:21:19,001 --> 01:21:20,000 BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2570 01:21:20,001 --> 01:21:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2571 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:22,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 2572 01:21:22,001 --> 01:21:23,000 OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 2573 01:21:23,001 --> 01:21:24,000 MR. SESSIONS: THANK YOU, MR. 2574 01:21:24,001 --> 01:21:25,000 SPEAKER. 2575 01:21:25,001 --> 01:21:28,000 MR. SPEAKER, I DO APPRECIATE THE 2576 01:21:28,001 --> 01:21:30,000 GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO, MR. 2577 01:21:30,001 --> 01:21:33,000 POLIS, FOR REPRESENTING THE 2578 01:21:33,001 --> 01:21:35,000 DEMOCRATIC PARTY TODAY. 2579 01:21:35,001 --> 01:21:39,000 I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT AS 2580 01:21:39,001 --> 01:21:43,000 WE APPROACH TODAY THAT THE HOPES 2581 01:21:43,001 --> 01:21:46,000 AND EXPECTATIONS OF A NATION WHO 2582 01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:48,000 TONIGHT WILL LISTEN TO OUR 2583 01:21:48,001 --> 01:21:49,000 PRESIDENT WILL BE IN OUR HEARTS 2584 01:21:49,001 --> 01:21:53,000 AND MINDS. 2585 01:21:53,001 --> 01:21:56,000 THIS COUNTRY HAS HAD SERIOUS 2586 01:21:56,001 --> 01:21:58,000 DAYS IN OUR PAST AND WE ARE IN 2587 01:21:58,001 --> 01:21:59,000 SERIOUS DAYS TODAY. 2588 01:21:59,001 --> 01:22:01,000 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY 2589 01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:04,000 PROBLEM BIGGER THAN A SOLUTION 2590 01:22:04,001 --> 01:22:07,000 IN THIS COUNTRY. 2591 01:22:07,001 --> 01:22:10,000 I DO BELIEVE, HOWEVER, AND I 2592 01:22:10,001 --> 01:22:13,000 HAVE BELIEVED THIS, THAT WHEN IT 2593 01:22:13,001 --> 01:22:15,000 COMES TO THE ECONOMY AND 2594 01:22:15,001 --> 01:22:18,000 BUILDING JOBS AND WORKING TO 2595 01:22:18,001 --> 01:22:20,000 CREATE A BETTER ENVIRONMENT 2596 01:22:20,001 --> 01:22:24,000 WHERE AMERICA IS COMPETIVE IN 2597 01:22:24,001 --> 01:22:28,000 THE WORLD, THAT IT WILL REQUIRE 2598 01:22:28,001 --> 01:22:32,000 NOT JUST THE BASIC SENSE OF 2599 01:22:32,001 --> 01:22:33,000 UNDERSTANDING MARKETPLACES, BUT 2600 01:22:33,001 --> 01:22:34,000 REALLY, MR. SPEAKER, OF 2601 01:22:34,001 --> 01:22:36,000 DISCIPLINE. 2602 01:22:36,001 --> 01:22:38,000 OF SEEING THE PROBLEM FOR WHAT 2603 01:22:38,001 --> 01:22:42,000 IT IS. 2604 01:22:42,001 --> 01:22:46,000 IT IS A PROBLEM THAT HAS BEEN SELF-INDUCED. 2605 01:22:46,001 --> 01:22:50,000 IT IS SELF-INDUCED BY THIS BODY 2606 01:22:50,001 --> 01:22:51,000 WHO IN THE MIDST OF THE GREATEST 2607 01:22:51,001 --> 01:22:53,000 EXPANSION -- I REMEMBER JUST A 2608 01:22:53,001 --> 01:22:55,000 FEW YEARS AGO WITH MY FRIENDS 2609 01:22:55,001 --> 01:22:56,000 WHO ARE DEMOCRATS, OH, ALL THIS 2610 01:22:56,001 --> 01:22:59,000 MONEY THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS. 2611 01:22:59,001 --> 01:23:02,000 WE ARE NOT SPENDING IT THE RIGHT WAY. 2612 01:23:02,001 --> 01:23:05,000 THE PRIORITIES ARE MIXED. 2613 01:23:05,001 --> 01:23:08,000 WE SHOULD GOPEND MORE MONEY 2614 01:23:08,001 --> 01:23:09,000 AND HELP PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE 2615 01:23:09,001 --> 01:23:11,000 THE ADVANTAGES BECAUSE THIS 2616 01:23:11,001 --> 01:23:12,000 BOOMING ECONOMY HAS NOT GOTTEN 2617 01:23:12,001 --> 01:23:14,000 TO THEM YET. 2618 01:23:14,001 --> 01:23:15,000 MR. SPEAKER, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT. 2619 01:23:15,001 --> 01:23:17,000 I DO UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT. 2620 01:23:17,001 --> 01:23:18,000 I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME 2621 01:23:18,001 --> 01:23:20,000 WORKING WITH DISABLED PEOPLE IN 2622 01:23:20,001 --> 01:23:23,000 THIS COUNTRY. 2623 01:23:23,001 --> 01:23:25,000 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT 2624 01:23:25,001 --> 01:23:30,000 PROCESS WAS WE FLIPPED SO FAR 2625 01:23:30,001 --> 01:23:32,000 OVER TO WHERE WE ARE NOW KILLING 2626 01:23:32,001 --> 01:23:35,000 THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN 2627 01:23:35,001 --> 01:23:36,000 EGG AND THAT IS THE FREE 2628 01:23:36,001 --> 01:23:37,000 ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. 2629 01:23:37,001 --> 01:23:39,000 FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM AS A 2630 01:23:39,001 --> 01:23:41,000 RESULT OF THIS SPEAKER AND THE 2631 01:23:41,001 --> 01:23:45,000 POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 2632 01:23:45,001 --> 01:23:47,000 ARE PUSHING AN AGENDA THAT WOULD 2633 01:23:47,001 --> 01:23:48,000 LOSE THIS COUNTRY 10 MILLION JOBS. 2634 01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:52,000 WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT. 2635 01:23:52,001 --> 01:23:54,000 THE ASSAULT ON EMPLOYERS IS PART 2636 01:23:54,001 --> 01:23:55,000 OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA. 2637 01:23:55,001 --> 01:23:56,000 I GET THAT. 2638 01:23:56,001 --> 01:23:58,000 I THINK THE FREE ENTERPRISE 2639 01:23:58,001 --> 01:24:00,000 SYSTEM GETS THAT. 2640 01:24:00,001 --> 01:24:01,000 BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAV NOW 2641 01:24:01,001 --> 01:24:04,000 CAUGHT ON. 2642 01:24:04,001 --> 01:24:06,000 AND I THINK IT'S TIME IF WE 2643 01:24:06,001 --> 01:24:08,000 REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HAVING 2644 01:24:08,001 --> 01:24:11,000 JOBS, JOBS THAT CAN BE 2645 01:24:11,001 --> 01:24:13,000 COMPETITIVE WITH THE WORLD, JOBS 2646 01:24:13,001 --> 01:24:15,000 THAT ARE NOT NICKEL AND DIME 2647 01:24:15,001 --> 01:24:18,000 JOBS OR HERE TODAY AND GONE 2648 01:24:18,001 --> 01:24:21,000 TOMORROW, THAT IT WILL REQUIRE A 2649 01:24:21,001 --> 01:24:23,000 DISCIPLINE AND A PHILOSOPHY OF 2650 01:24:23,001 --> 01:24:24,000 UNDERSTANDING HOW JOBS ARE 2651 01:24:24,001 --> 01:24:27,000 CREATED AND THE FREE JUSTICE 2652 01:24:27,001 --> 01:24:29,000 DEPARTMENT PRIZE SYSTEM AND THE DECISIONMAKING. 2653 01:24:29,001 --> 01:24:31,000 THE DECISIONMAKING IS THAT THIS 2654 01:24:31,001 --> 01:24:33,000 CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO AT LEAST 2655 01:24:33,001 --> 01:24:35,000 THREE THINGS. 2656 01:24:35,001 --> 01:24:37,000 NUMBER ONE, THEY NEED TO MAKE 2657 01:24:37,001 --> 01:24:38,000 SURE THAT WE CUT CAPITAL GAINS 2658 01:24:38,001 --> 01:24:40,000 TAXES SO THAT PEOPLE WILL INVEST 2659 01:24:40,001 --> 01:24:42,000 IN THIS COUNTRY. 2660 01:24:42,001 --> 01:24:44,000 THEY'LL INVEST IN THIS COUNTRY 2661 01:24:44,001 --> 01:24:45,000 AND THE CREATION OF JOBS WILL 2662 01:24:45,001 --> 01:24:47,000 OCCUR. 2663 01:24:47,001 --> 01:24:51,000 SECONDLY, WE NEED TO MAKE SRE 2664 01:24:51,001 --> 01:24:54,000 THAT WE DO AWAY WITH OR GREATLY 2665 01:24:54,001 --> 01:24:56,000 DIMINISH DEPRECIATION. 2666 01:24:56,001 --> 01:24:59,000 DEPRECIATION IS THAT GOVERNMENT 2667 01:24:59,001 --> 01:25:02,000 COMPETING AGAINST THE FREE 2668 01:25:02,001 --> 01:25:04,000 ENTERPRISE SYSTEM FOR MONEY. 2669 01:25:04,001 --> 01:25:06,000 AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY OR 2670 01:25:06,001 --> 01:25:08,000 LASTLY, THE DEATH TAX. 2671 01:25:08,001 --> 01:25:11,000 THE DEATH TAX BECAUSE LITERALLY 2672 01:25:11,001 --> 01:25:13,000 AFTER THREE GENERATIONS ANYBODY 2673 01:25:13,001 --> 01:25:15,000 THAT OWNS A FAMILY-OWNED 2674 01:25:15,001 --> 01:25:16,000 BUSINESS HAS TO LOSE IT. 2675 01:25:16,001 --> 01:25:19,000 IT'S GONE. 2676 01:25:19,001 --> 01:25:20,000 IT'S GONE FROM TAXATION FROM A 2677 01:25:20,001 --> 01:25:22,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS 2678 01:25:22,001 --> 01:25:24,000 CONTROLLED BY THOSE THAT WANT TO 2679 01:25:24,001 --> 01:25:26,000 TAX AND SPEND AND DIMINISH THAT 2680 01:25:26,001 --> 01:25:27,000 FOR THE SPENDING OF THE 2681 01:25:27,001 --> 01:25:32,000 GOVERNMENT. 2682 01:25:32,001 --> 01:25:33,000 RATHER THAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE JOBS 2683 01:25:33,001 --> 01:25:34,000 . 2684 01:25:34,001 --> 01:25:35,000 I THINK WE OUGHT TO TAKE THE 2685 01:25:35,001 --> 01:25:36,000 RESPONSIBILITY TODAY. 2686 01:25:36,001 --> 01:25:38,000 I THINK JUST LIKE SOMEBODY GOING 2687 01:25:38,001 --> 01:25:39,000 TO A MEETING AND ADMITTING THEY 2688 01:25:39,001 --> 01:25:40,000 MADE A MISTAKE AND THEY WERE 2689 01:25:40,001 --> 01:25:42,000 WRONG AND THEY HAVE A PROBLEM 2690 01:25:42,001 --> 01:25:45,000 BEING HONEST ABOUT THE PROBLEM, 2691 01:25:45,001 --> 01:25:46,000 THE CREATION OF JOBS WON'T COME 2692 01:25:46,001 --> 01:25:48,000 THROUGH SOME TRICKERY. 2693 01:25:48,001 --> 01:25:49,000 IT WILL ONLY COME FROM DOING THE 2694 01:25:49,001 --> 01:25:52,000 THINGS THAT BUSINESS ITSELF WILL 2695 01:25:52,001 --> 01:25:53,000 TELL YOU IT NEEDS. 2696 01:25:53,001 --> 01:25:56,000 REDUCING CAPITAL GAINS ON A 2697 01:25:56,001 --> 01:25:57,000 PERMANENT BASIS. 2698 01:25:57,001 --> 01:25:59,000 REDUCING THE PROBLEM THAT WE 2699 01:25:59,001 --> 01:26:01,000 HAVE WITH DEPRECIATION. 2700 01:26:01,001 --> 01:26:04,000 AND LASTLY THE DEATH TAX. 2701 01:26:04,001 --> 01:26:06,000 WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE IT TO $1 2702 01:26:06,001 --> 01:26:08,000 BILLION OR HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. 2703 01:26:08,001 --> 01:26:10,000 WE COULD MOVE IT PROBABLYLE TO 2704 01:26:10,001 --> 01:26:13,000 $50 MILLION OR $60 MILLION AND 2705 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:14,000 STOP THE BURDEN, THE BLEEDING 2706 01:26:14,001 --> 01:26:16,000 THAT IS HAPPENING WHERE PEOPLE 2707 01:26:16,001 --> 01:26:19,000 ARE LOSING THEIR LAND, THEIR 2708 01:26:19,001 --> 01:26:21,000 PROPERTY, THEIR BUSINESSES. 2709 01:26:21,001 --> 01:26:22,000 BUT IT TAKES SOMEONE WHO 2710 01:26:22,001 --> 01:26:26,000 UNDERSTANDS THAT. 2711 01:26:26,001 --> 01:26:28,000 I SPENT 16 YEARS IN THE FR 2712 01:26:28,001 --> 01:26:29,000 ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. 2713 01:26:29,001 --> 01:26:30,000 16 YEARS WHERE I NEVER MISSED A 2714 01:26:30,001 --> 01:26:32,000 DAY OF WORK. 2715 01:26:32,001 --> 01:26:33,000 I LOVED WHAT I DID, BUT I SAW 2716 01:26:33,001 --> 01:26:35,000 WASHINGTON AS THE PROBLEM. 2717 01:26:35,001 --> 01:26:37,000 THAT'S WHY I CAME TO CONGRESS. 2718 01:26:37,001 --> 01:26:40,000 I STILL SEE GOVERNMENT AS BEING 2719 01:26:40,001 --> 01:26:42,000 THE PROBLEM. 2720 01:26:42,001 --> 01:26:44,000 HERE TODAY WE GIVE A LOT OF LIP 2721 01:26:44,001 --> 01:26:45,000 SERVICE TO JOBS AND PEOE ACT 2722 01:26:45,001 --> 01:26:46,000 LIKE, WELL, I JUST DON'T KNOW 2723 01:26:46,001 --> 01:26:48,000 WHAT TO DO. 2724 01:26:48,001 --> 01:26:51,000 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE 2725 01:26:51,001 --> 01:26:52,000 POLITICAL AGENDA OF LOSING 10 2726 01:26:52,001 --> 01:26:55,000 MILLION AMERICAN JOBS WHICH WE 2727 01:26:55,001 --> 01:26:57,000 ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF -- HEALTH 2728 01:26:57,001 --> 01:26:59,000 CARE, CAP AND TRADE, AND CARD 2729 01:26:59,001 --> 01:27:00,000 CHECK IS STRANGLING THIS 2730 01:27:00,001 --> 01:27:02,000 COUNTRY. 2731 01:27:02,001 --> 01:27:05,000 IF WE WANT TO BE HONEST ABOUT 2732 01:27:05,001 --> 01:27:08,000 THIS, JUST LIKE AN ALCOLIC 2733 01:27:08,001 --> 01:27:10,000 SHOWING UP AT AN A.A. MEETING 2734 01:27:10,001 --> 01:27:12,000 AND ADMITTING THERE IS A 10 OR 2735 01:27:12,001 --> 01:27:13,000 12-STEP PROCESS TO COMING BACK, 2736 01:27:13,001 --> 01:27:16,000 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 2737 01:27:16,001 --> 01:27:17,000 WE ARE TAXING TOO MUCH. 2738 01:27:17,001 --> 01:27:19,000 WE ARE SPENDING TOO MUCH. 2739 01:27:19,001 --> 01:27:23,000 WE ARE BORROWING TOO MUCH. 2740 01:27:23,001 --> 01:27:24,000 AND THE DEBT IS STRANGLING THIS 2741 01:27:24,001 --> 01:27:26,000 COUNTRY. 2742 01:27:26,001 --> 01:27:28,000 MR. SPEAKER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS? 2743 01:27:28,001 --> 01:27:29,000 I YIELD BACK MY TIME. 2744 01:27:29,001 --> 01:27:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2745 01:27:30,001 --> 01:27:31,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2746 01:27:31,001 --> 01:27:32,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2747 01:27:32,001 --> 01:27:33,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO. MR. POLIS: THANK YOU, MR. 2748 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:35,000 SPEAKER. 2749 01:27:35,001 --> 01:27:36,000 THE GENTLEMAN MENTIONED, QUOTE 2750 01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:38,000 HEALTH CARE, CAP AND TRADE, AND 2751 01:27:38,001 --> 01:27:39,000 CARD CHECK ARE STRANGLING THE 2752 01:27:39,001 --> 01:27:40,000 COUNTRY, END QUOTE. 2753 01:27:40,001 --> 01:27:41,000 FORTUNATELY NONE OF THOSE ARE 2754 01:27:41,001 --> 01:27:42,000 INCLUDED IN THIS RULE AND I HOPE 2755 01:27:42,001 --> 01:27:46,000 MY COLLEAGUE WILL JOIN ME IN 2756 01:27:46,001 --> 01:27:48,000 SUPPORT OF THIS RULE. 2757 01:27:48,001 --> 01:27:58,000 WHICH SIMPLY BRINGS TO THE FLOOR 2758 01:27:58,001 --> 01:27:59,000 TWO VERY IMPORTANT BILLS, WATER 2759 01:27:59,001 --> 01:28:02,000 RIGHTS IN THE STATE OF IDAHO AND 2760 01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:04,000 THE CASTLE NUGENT NATIONAL 2761 01:28:04,001 --> 01:28:06,000 HISTORIC SITE. 2762 01:28:06,001 --> 01:28:07,000 COLORADO HAS PLACES PROTECTED 2763 01:28:07,001 --> 01:28:09,000 NOT ONLY IMPORTANT FOREIGN THE 2764 01:28:09,001 --> 01:28:10,000 ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF OUR STATE 2765 01:28:10,001 --> 01:28:11,000 OR BUT IMPORTANT FOR THE VERY 2766 01:28:11,001 --> 01:28:12,000 FOUNDATION OF OUR CIVIC PRIDE 2767 01:28:12,001 --> 01:28:14,000 AND IDENTITY. 2768 01:28:14,001 --> 01:28:17,000 IN MANY CASES THESE PROTECTIONS 2769 01:28:17,001 --> 01:28:18,000 ARE ALSO PART OF THE FUNDAMENTAL 2770 01:28:18,001 --> 01:28:19,000 BASES OF THE ECONOMY IN MANY OF 2771 01:28:19,001 --> 01:28:21,000 OUR TOURIST AREAS. 2772 01:28:21,001 --> 01:28:22,000 WE KNOW THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL 2773 01:28:22,001 --> 01:28:23,000 COMMUNITIES FROM THE NATIONAL 2774 01:28:23,001 --> 01:28:25,000 PARK SERVICE. 2775 01:28:25,001 --> 01:28:26,000 RECREATION AND TOUSM PROVIDE A 2776 01:28:26,001 --> 01:28:27,000 LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC 2777 01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:29,000 BASE. 2778 01:28:29,001 --> 01:28:31,000 GATEWAY COMMUNITIES THRIVE FROM 2779 01:28:31,001 --> 01:28:32,000 RECREATION FACING THEIR 2780 01:28:32,001 --> 01:28:33,000 ADVENTURES AN EXPERIENCES FROM 2781 01:28:33,001 --> 01:28:35,000 THESE NEARBY COMMUNITIES. 2782 01:28:35,001 --> 01:28:36,000 BOTH THE CASTLE NUGENT NATIONAL 2783 01:28:36,001 --> 01:28:39,000 HISTORIC SITE ACT OF 2009 AND 2784 01:28:39,001 --> 01:28:40,000 THE IDAHO WILDERNESS WATER 2785 01:28:40,001 --> 01:28:41,000 FACILITIES ACT SHARE THE STORY 2786 01:28:41,001 --> 01:28:43,000 THAT LAND PRESERVATION DONE 2787 01:28:43,001 --> 01:28:45,000 RIGHT IS A WINNING LOCAL POLICY 2788 01:28:45,001 --> 01:28:48,000 AND, YES, A JOB CREATOR AND 2789 01:28:48,001 --> 01:28:50,000 WINNING ECONOMIC POLICY. 2790 01:28:50,001 --> 01:28:52,000 THE CASTLE NUGENT AREA THIS BILL 2791 01:28:52,001 --> 01:28:53,000 REPRESENTS THE PRESERVATION OF 2792 01:28:53,001 --> 01:28:55,000 HISTORIC HAD BEEN TALT THAT WILL 2793 01:28:55,001 --> 01:28:57,000 LEAD TO FUTURE TOURISM AND FUTURE SMALL BUSINESSES AND 2794 01:28:57,001 --> 01:28:58,000 LOCAL AND SUSTAINABLE JOBS. 2795 01:28:58,001 --> 01:31:36,000 THE PARK PROPOSAL PRESERVED 2796 01:31:36,001 --> 01:31:38,000 NEARLY ,900 ACRES OF FORMER 2797 01:31:38,001 --> 01:31:40,000 THEREBY ZERO TAXPAYER MONEY BEING SPENT. 2798 01:31:40,001 --> 01:31:41,000 THERE WAS A LEGITIMATE 2799 01:31:41,001 --> 01:31:43,000 DISCUSSION WHEN AND IF THAT TIME 2800 01:31:43,001 --> 01:31:45,000 ARRIVES DO WE WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON THIS. 2801 01:31:45,001 --> 01:31:46,000 THAT IS THE TOTALLY SERATE 2802 01:31:46,001 --> 01:31:47,000 QUESTION. 2803 01:31:47,001 --> 01:31:48,000 I LOOK FORWARD TO DEBATE 2804 01:31:48,001 --> 01:31:49,000 REGARDING THAT MATTER. 2805 01:31:49,001 --> 01:31:50,000 BUT THE AUTHORIZATION IS THE 2806 01:31:50,001 --> 01:31:51,000 FIRST STEP. 2807 01:31:51,001 --> 01:31:54,000 I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN PRESERVE 2808 01:31:54,001 --> 01:31:55,000 THE HISTORIC LEGACY, ATTRACT 2809 01:31:55,001 --> 01:31:57,000 GOOD JOBS TO THE U.S. VIRGIN 2810 01:31:57,001 --> 01:31:58,000 ISLANDS AND I URGE A YES VOTE ON 2811 01:31:58,001 --> 01:31:59,000 THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON THE 2812 01:31:59,001 --> 01:32:00,000 RULE AND I YIELD BACK THE 2813 01:32:00,001 --> 01:32:04,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 2814 01:32:04,001 --> 01:32:05,000 . 2815 01:32:05,001 --> 01:32:06,000 I MOVE THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON 2816 01:32:06,001 --> 01:32:07,000 THE RESOLUTION. 2817 01:32:07,001 --> 01:32:10,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE PREVIOUS 2818 01:32:10,001 --> 01:32:11,000 QUESTION IS ORDERED. 2819 01:32:11,001 --> 01:32:12,000 THE QUESTION IS ON ADOPTION OF 2820 01:32:12,001 --> 01:32:13,000 THE RESOLUTION. 2821 01:32:13,001 --> 01:32:14,000 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 2822 01:32:14,001 --> 01:32:18,000 ALL THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 2823 01:32:18,001 --> 01:32:19,000 THE AYES HAVE IT. THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO. 2824 01:32:19,001 --> 01:32:22,000 MR. POLIS: MR. SPEAKER, I 2825 01:32:22,001 --> 01:32:23,000 DEMAND THE YEAS AND NAYS. 2826 01:32:23,001 --> 01:32:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2827 01:32:24,001 --> 01:32:25,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 2828 01:32:25,001 --> 01:32:27,000 THOSE FAVORING A VOTE BY THE 2829 01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:28,000 YEAS AND NAYS WILL RISE. 2830 01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:31,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING 2831 01:32:31,001 --> 01:32:32,000 ORDERED. 2832 01:32:32,001 --> 01:32:36,000 MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES 2833 01:32:36,001 --> 01:32:37,000 BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE. 2834 01:32:37,001 --> 01:32:40,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20 2835 01:32:40,001 --> 01:32:43,000 , THIS 15-MINUTE VOTE ON THE 2836 01:32:43,001 --> 01:32:46,000 ADOPTION OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 2837 01:32:46,001 --> 01:32:48,000 1038 WILL BE 2838 01:32:48,001 --> 01:32:49,000 FIVE-MINUTE VOTE ON THE 2839 01:32:49,001 --> 01:32:51,000 RESOLUTION -- ON THE MOTION TO 2840 01:32:51,001 --> 01:32:53,000 SUSPEND THE RULES ON HOUSE 2841 01:32:53,001 --> 01:32:56,000 RESOLUTION 1024. 2842 01:32:56,001 --> 01:32:57,000 THIS IS A 15-MINUTE VOTE. 2843 01:32:57,001 --> 01:32:58,000 [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY 2844 01:32:58,001 --> 01:32:59,000 THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING 2845 01:32:59,001 --> 01:33:00,000 INSTITUTE, INC., IN COOPERATION 2846 01:33:00,001 --> 01:33:01,000 WITH THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESEN 2847 01:33:01,001 --> 01:33:02,000 ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED 2848 01:33:02,001 --> 01:33:03,000 COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR 2849 01:33:03,001 --> 01:33:04,000 COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS 2850 01:33:04,001 --> 01:33:48,000 EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE 2851 01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:49,000 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] OF THE 2852 01:33:49,001 --> 01:33:50,000 SPEECH? 2853 01:33:50,001 --> 01:33:55,000 GUEST: THED YOU CAN SEND US AN E-MAIL, 2854 01:33:55,001 --> 01:33:57,000 JOURNAL@C-SPAN.ORG. 2855 01:33:57,001 --> 01:34:00,000 LINDA FELDMAN WROTE THIS STORY 2856 01:34:00,001 --> 01:34:07,000 FROM THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 2857 01:34:07,001 --> 01:34:10,000 "CAN OBAMA GET HIS MOJO BACKED?" 2858 01:34:10,001 --> 01:34:12,000 WHAT WILL BE THE TENOR OF THE SPEECH? 2859 01:34:12,001 --> 01:34:13,000 GUEST: THE PERSON THE PRESENT 2860 01:34:13,001 --> 01:34:16,000 NEEDS TO DO IS TO REASSURE THE 2861 01:34:16,001 --> 01:34:17,000 PEOPLE THAT HE HEARS THEM, GOT 2862 01:34:17,001 --> 01:34:19,000 THE MESSAGE NOT ONLY FROM 2863 01:34:19,001 --> 01:34:20,000 MASSACHUSETTS SENATE ELECTION 2864 01:34:20,001 --> 01:34:22,000 BUT THE OVERALL DECLINE IN HIS 2865 01:34:22,001 --> 01:34:25,000 POPULARITY IN THE LAST YEAR. 2866 01:34:25,001 --> 01:34:26,000 AND THEN HE NEEDS TO PIVOT 2867 01:34:26,001 --> 01:34:29,000 TOWARD WHAT HE DOES PLAN TO DO. 2868 01:34:29,001 --> 01:34:32,000 HE DOES KNOW THE ECONOMY AND 2869 01:34:32,001 --> 01:34:36,000 JOBS ARE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE. 2870 01:34:36,001 --> 01:34:39,000 BUT HE IS PREPARED TO DO WHAT 2871 01:34:39,001 --> 01:34:43,000 EVER IT TAKES TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION WITH JOBS. 2872 01:34:43,001 --> 01:34:44,000 HOST: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 2873 01:34:44,001 --> 01:34:46,000 TONIGHT'S SPEECH WHEN HE 2874 01:34:46,001 --> 01:34:47,000 DELIVERS THIS MESSAGE ON JOBS 2875 01:34:47,001 --> 01:34:49,000 AND THE ECONOMY, WHERE IS AGO 2876 01:34:49,001 --> 01:34:53,000 NEXT AND HOW DOES IT KEEP UP THE MESSAGE? 2877 01:34:53,001 --> 01:34:54,000 GUEST: HE NEEDS TO JUST KEEP 2878 01:34:54,001 --> 01:34:56,000 POUNDING AWAY. 2879 01:34:56,001 --> 01:34:58,000 HE HAS HAD TWO TRIPS ON HIS MAIN 2880 01:34:58,001 --> 01:35:01,000 STREET TOUR, GOING OUT INTO THE COUNTRY. 2881 01:35:01,001 --> 01:35:02,000 WE EXPECT A LOT MORE DOMESTIC 2882 01:35:02,001 --> 01:35:06,000 TRAVEL THIS YEAR. 2883 01:35:06,001 --> 01:35:07,000 TAPPING A BIT IO THE POPULISM 2884 01:35:07,001 --> 01:35:08,000 HE STARTED TO ENGAGE HIM, 2885 01:35:08,001 --> 01:35:11,000 TELLING PEOPLE HE IS GOING TO 2886 01:35:11,001 --> 01:35:12,000 FIGHT FOR THEM, THAT HE IS 2887 01:35:12,001 --> 01:35:14,000 FOCUSED ON THE MIDDLE-CLASS, 2888 01:35:14,001 --> 01:35:15,000 THAT HE IS NOT GIVING UP ON HEALTH CARE. 2889 01:35:15,001 --> 01:35:20,000 I THINK THIS IS KEY. 2890 01:35:20,001 --> 01:35:21,000 CONGRESS MIGHT HAVE OTHER IDEAS 2891 01:35:21,001 --> 01:35:22,000 BUT HE DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE UP 2892 01:35:22,001 --> 01:35:23,000 ON HIS AGENDA. 2893 01:35:23,001 --> 01:35:26,000 HE HAS SAID AS MUCH. 2894 01:35:26,001 --> 01:35:28,000 HE BELIEVES THE PROBLEM IS 2895 01:35:28,001 --> 01:35:31,000 REALLY AND HOW THE POLICIES WERE 2896 01:35:31,001 --> 01:35:32,000 SOLD, AND HE TAKES 2897 01:35:32,001 --> 01:35:37,000 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT. 2898 01:35:37,001 --> 01:35:38,000 HOST: ON HEALTHCARE THERE ARE 2899 01:35:38,001 --> 01:35:40,000 POLLS THAT SHOW AMERICANS DO 2900 01:35:40,001 --> 01:35:42,000 WANT THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS 2901 01:35:42,001 --> 01:35:43,000 TO STOP FOCUSING ON HEALTH CARE 2902 01:35:43,001 --> 01:35:44,000 AND PUT MORE FOCUS ON JOBS AND 2903 01:35:44,001 --> 01:35:50,000 THE ECONOMY. 2904 01:35:50,001 --> 01:35:51,000 HOW WILL THE SQUARE AND THAT -- 2905 01:35:51,001 --> 01:35:56,000 HOW WILL HE SQUARE THAT? 2906 01:35:56,001 --> 01:35:57,000 GUEST: CONGRESS HAS BEEN MEETING 2907 01:35:57,001 --> 01:35:59,000 AND SAID ESSENTIALLY THEY WILL 2908 01:35:59,001 --> 01:36:00,000 SLOW IT WAY DOWN ON HEALTH CARE, 2909 01:36:00,001 --> 01:36:02,000 THEY CANNOT POLITICALLY AFFORD 2910 01:36:02,001 --> 01:36:03,000 TO KEEP PUSHING FULL STEAM 2911 01:36:03,001 --> 01:36:04,000 AHEAD AND TRYING TO PUSH IT OVER 2912 01:36:04,001 --> 01:36:07,000 THE FINISH LINE. 2913 01:36:07,001 --> 01:36:08,000 NOW IS SYNCH EARLIEST THEY WOULD 2914 01:36:08,001 --> 01:36:09,000 GET SOMETHING ABOUT IT IS LATE 2915 01:36:09,001 --> 01:36:11,000 FEBRUARY BUT THE CLOSER TO THE 2916 01:36:11,001 --> 01:36:12,000 ELECTION, THE HARDER IT WILL BE 2917 01:36:12,001 --> 01:36:16,000 TO GET ANYTHING PASSED AT ALL. 2918 01:36:16,001 --> 01:36:18,000 THPRESIDENT HAS HINTED THAT 2919 01:36:18,001 --> 01:36:20,000 PERHAPS HE WILL TRY TO DO A 2920 01:36:20,001 --> 01:36:21,000 SCALED-BACK VERSION, BUT HE KIND 2921 01:36:21,001 --> 01:36:24,000 OF BACKED AWAY AND SAID HE WAS 2922 01:36:24,001 --> 01:36:26,000 NOT GIVING UP ON A COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE. 2923 01:36:26,001 --> 01:36:27,000 BUT I THINK THE HANDWRITING IS 2924 01:36:27,001 --> 01:36:30,000 ON THE WALL. 2925 01:36:30,001 --> 01:36:31,000 HOST: THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF 2926 01:36:31,001 --> 01:36:32,000 THE UNION ADDRESS FOR THE 2927 01:36:32,001 --> 01:36:33,000 PRESIDENT. 2928 01:36:33,001 --> 01:36:36,000 HE ADDRESSED CONGRESS AND JOIN 2929 01:36:36,001 --> 01:36:37,000 SECTIONS -- JOINT SESSION 2930 01:36:37,001 --> 01:36:38,000 SPRINGTIMES. 2931 01:36:38,001 --> 01:36:40,000 IS THIS A BIGGER SPEECH FOR HIM 2932 01:36:40,001 --> 01:36:43,000 TONIGHT, AND HAS HE BEEN PRACTICING? 2933 01:36:43,001 --> 01:36:44,000 WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE 2934 01:36:44,001 --> 01:36:45,000 SPCH WRITING OF THESE COMMENTS 2935 01:36:45,001 --> 01:36:48,000 TONIGHT? 2936 01:36:48,001 --> 01:36:49,000 GUEST: THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST 2937 01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:50,000 IMPORTANT SPEECH. 2938 01:36:50,001 --> 01:36:52,000 HE GAVE A SPEECH IN THE JOINT 2939 01:36:52,001 --> 01:36:55,000 SESSION OF CONGRESS IN FEBRUARY, 2940 01:36:55,001 --> 01:36:57,000 WAS NOT THE STATE OF THE UNION, 2941 01:36:57,001 --> 01:36:58,000 AND THEN THEOINT STAFF -- 2942 01:36:58,001 --> 01:37:00,000 SPEECH ON HEALTH CARE. 2943 01:37:00,001 --> 01:37:02,000 THIS IS A CRITICAL TIME. 2944 01:37:02,001 --> 01:37:04,000 THE ELECTION IN MASSACHUSETTS 2945 01:37:04,001 --> 01:37:06,000 THIS LAST WEEK WAS JUST A REAL 2946 01:37:06,001 --> 01:37:07,000 WAKE-UP CALL FOR THIS 2947 01:37:07,001 --> 01:37:10,000 ADMINISTRATION, THAT THEY WERE 2948 01:37:10,001 --> 01:37:11,000 REALLY OFF COURSE AND THEY 2949 01:37:11,001 --> 01:37:13,000 REALLY HAD TAKEN SO LONG ON HEALTH CARE. 2950 01:37:13,001 --> 01:37:17,000 IT JUST A BIT THEM TERRIBLY. 2951 01:37:17,001 --> 01:37:18,000 THE SPEECH HE HAS BEEN WORKING 2952 01:37:18,001 --> 01:37:19,000 HARD ON, THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING 2953 01:37:19,001 --> 01:37:23,000 ON IT FOR MONTHS. 2954 01:37:23,001 --> 01:37:24,000 YOU HAVE HIS SPEECH WRITING TEAM 2955 01:37:24,001 --> 01:37:29,000 AND HIS TOP AIDES WEIGHING IN. 2956 01:37:29,001 --> 01:37:31,000 THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF IS ACTIVE 2957 01:37:31,001 --> 01:37:33,000 IN WHAT HE WILL SAY. 2958 01:37:33,001 --> 01:37:36,000 ASS USUAL, THE REVISIONS WILL 2959 01:37:36,001 --> 01:37:37,000 BE TAKING PLACE UP UNTIL T 2960 01:37:37,001 --> 01:37:42,000 VERY LAST MINUTE. 2961 01:37:42,001 --> 01:37:44,000 HOST: DID THE WHITE HOUSE GIVEN 2962 01:37:44,001 --> 01:37:45,000 THE INDICATION OF WHO WILL BE 2963 01:37:45,001 --> 01:37:47,000 SITTING WITH THE FIRST LADY? 2964 01:37:47,001 --> 01:37:48,000 GUEST: I SPEESTERDAY WITH 2965 01:37:48,001 --> 01:37:50,000 THE FIRST LADY. 2966 01:37:50,001 --> 01:37:53,000 SHE WAS GIVING A SPEECH TO THE 2967 01:37:53,001 --> 01:37:57,000 WIVES CLUB OF THE JOINT CHIEFS 2968 01:37:57,001 --> 01:37:58,000 OFFICERS OUT OF BOWLING AIRFORCE 2969 01:37:58,001 --> 01:37:59,000 BASE. 2970 01:37:59,001 --> 01:38:01,000 THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF HER BIG 2971 01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:02,000 ISSUES, SUPPORT FOR MILITARY 2972 01:38:02,001 --> 01:38:06,000 FAMILIES. 2973 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:07,000 ONE OF THE POINTS THAT CAME OUT 2974 01:38:07,001 --> 01:38:09,000 AND DISCUSSION WHAT SOME WHITE 2975 01:38:09,001 --> 01:38:11,000 HOUSE AIDES IS THAT SHE WILL 2976 01:38:11,001 --> 01:38:13,000 VE SIX MILITARY SITTING WITH 2977 01:38:13,001 --> 01:38:16,000 HER IN THE FIRST LADY'S BOX 2978 01:38:16,001 --> 01:38:20,000 TONIGHT, INCLUDING THE TWO 2979 01:38:20,001 --> 01:38:21,000 POLICE OFFICERS WHO STOPPED THE 2980 01:38:21,001 --> 01:38:27,000 SHOOTER AT FORT HOOD LAST YEAR. 2981 01:38:27,001 --> 01:38:28,000 HOST: DO WE KNOW FROM THE REST 2982 01:38:28,001 --> 01:38:30,000 OF THE ADMINISTRATION, WHO WILL 2983 01:38:30,001 --> 01:38:34,000 NOT BE THERE THIS EVENING? 2984 01:38:34,001 --> 01:38:35,000 GUEST: I'M AFRAID I DON'T KNOW 2985 01:38:35,001 --> 01:38:40,000 THAT, SORRY. 2986 01:38:40,001 --> 01:38:43,000 MOST OF WHAT ABOUT CONGRESS -- 2987 01:38:43,001 --> 01:38:44,000 HOST: CAN YOU TELL US MORE 2988 01:38:44,001 --> 01:38:45,000 ABOUT THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE 2989 01:38:45,001 --> 01:38:47,000 BEFORE THE SPEECH? 2990 01:38:47,001 --> 01:38:49,000 GUEST: THE PRESIDENT IS REALLY 2991 01:38:49,001 --> 01:38:51,000 AT A VERY ROUGH PATCH IN HIS 2992 01:38:51,001 --> 01:38:52,000 PRESENCE IN BUT THE MEMBERS WILL 2993 01:38:52,001 --> 01:38:56,000 STILL BE LINING FOR THE 2994 01:38:56,001 --> 01:38:57,000 HEARTY HANDSHAKE AND KIND OF I-5 2995 01:38:57,001 --> 01:38:59,000 -- I DO NOT KNOW IF IT IS 2996 01:38:59,001 --> 01:39:02,000 LITERALLY A HIGH FIVES. 2997 01:39:02,001 --> 01:39:03,000 BUT IT IS A BIG TELEVISED 2998 01:39:03,001 --> 01:39:05,000 EVENT, A LOT OF AMERICANS WILL 2999 01:39:05,001 --> 01:39:07,000 BE TUNING IN AND EVERYBODY WANTS 3000 01:39:07,001 --> 01:39:08,000 THAT MOMENT ON TV WITH THE 3001 01:39:08,001 --> 01:39:12,000 PRESIDEN THE UNITED STATES. 3002 01:39:12,001 --> 01:39:13,000 HOST: LINDA FELDMAN IS WHAT THE 3003 01:39:13,001 --> 01:39:16,000 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 3004 01:39:16,001 --> 01:42:43,000 AND TO YOUR PHONE CALLS, WHAT 3005 01:42:43,001 --> 01:42:49,000 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THER.R.R.R.R.R. 3006 01:42:49,001 --> 01:42:52,000 HOST: DENNIS JOHNSON IS HERE TO 3007 01:42:52,001 --> 01:42:54,000 TALK OF UP TONIGHT'S STATE OF 3008 01:42:54,001 --> 01:42:56,000 THE UNION ADDRESS, BUT ALSO 3009 01:42:56,001 --> 01:42:58,000 LOOKING BACK AND OTHER STATE OF 3010 01:42:58,001 --> 01:43:00,000 THE UNION ADDRESSES. 3011 01:43:00,001 --> 01:43:03,000 CAN YOU THINK OF AN APPROPRIATE 3012 01:43:03,001 --> 01:43:04,000 COMPARISON FOR TONIGHT'S STATE 3013 01:43:04,001 --> 01:43:08,000 OF THE UNION? 3014 01:43:08,001 --> 01:43:10,000 AFTER THE PDENT'S FIRST 3015 01:43:10,001 --> 01:43:13,000 YEAR WITH AN ECONOMIC SITUATION 3016 01:43:13,001 --> 01:43:25,000 LIKE HE HAD, HEADLINES THAT 3017 01:43:25,001 --> 01:43:26,000 READ "LUNEASE," CAN YOU 3018 01:43:26,001 --> 01:43:31,000 COME UP WITH A COMPARISON? 3019 01:43:31,001 --> 01:43:32,000 GUEST: IT IS PRETTY TOUGH. 3020 01:43:32,001 --> 01:43:33,000 HE MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK TO BILL 3021 01:43:33,001 --> 01:43:36,000 CLINTON. 3022 01:43:36,001 --> 01:43:37,000 AT THIS TIME, THE COMPANY WAS 3023 01:43:37,001 --> 01:43:43,000 COMING BACK STRONGLY. 3024 01:43:43,001 --> 01:43:45,000 OF COURSE,S BIG PROBLEM -- HIS 3025 01:43:45,001 --> 01:43:51,000 BIG PROBLEM WAS HIS AGENDA. 3026 01:43:51,001 --> 01:43:52,000 HE FAMOUSLY HAD TROUBLES WITH 3027 01:43:52,001 --> 01:43:56,000 THE MONITOR TALKING ABOUT HEALTH CARE. 3028 01:43:56,001 --> 01:44:04,000 BUT YOU ALSHAVE TO GO BACK TO 3029 01:44:04,001 --> 01:44:05,000 RONALD'S -- RONALD REAGAN PAUSED 3030 01:44:05,001 --> 01:44:08,000 FIRST TERM. 3031 01:44:08,001 --> 01:44:09,000 THERE WERE POSITIVE SIGNS THAT 3032 01:44:09,001 --> 01:44:10,000 HE WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING 3033 01:44:10,001 --> 01:44:13,000 BETTER. 3034 01:44:13,001 --> 01:44:14,000 THERE WAS A LOT OF ANTICIPATION 3035 01:44:14,001 --> 01:44:17,000 AT THAT TIME. 3036 01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:18,000 I THINK THOSE WOULD BE GOOD 3037 01:44:18,001 --> 01:44:21,000 PARALLELS FOR BARACK OBAMA. 3038 01:44:21,001 --> 01:44:27,000 HOST: HOW DID THEY USE THOSE 3039 01:44:27,001 --> 01:44:37,000 SPEECHES TO TAKE ON THE YEARS AS PRESIDENT? 3040 01:44:37,001 --> 01:44:39,000 GUEST: WHEN YOU LOOK AT 3041 01:44:39,001 --> 01:44:41,000 ALL THREE OF THEM, THEY ARE 3042 01:44:41,001 --> 01:44:48,000 PROBABLY THE BEST COMMUNICATORS THAT WE HAVE HAD. 3043 01:44:48,001 --> 01:44:49,000 FROM RONALDEAGAN, HE 3044 01:44:49,001 --> 01:44:51,000 ACKNOWLEDGED PEOPLE IN THE 3045 01:44:51,001 --> 01:44:55,000 AUDIENCE, AMERICAN HEROES. 3046 01:44:55,001 --> 01:44:58,000 THAT WAS UNPRECEDENTED. 3047 01:44:58,001 --> 01:45:00,000 IN 1992 WE HAD THIS TERRIBLE 3048 01:45:00,001 --> 01:45:03,000 SNOWSTORM. 3049 01:45:03,001 --> 01:45:08,000 PRESIDENT REAGAN IN AN ALLEGED 3050 01:45:08,001 --> 01:45:10,000 ONE OF THE HEROES -- RECNIZED 3051 01:45:10,001 --> 01:45:13,000 ONE OF THE HEROES DURING HIS SPEECH. 3052 01:45:13,001 --> 01:45:15,000 SINCE THEN EVERY PRESIDENT HAS 3053 01:45:15,001 --> 01:45:18,000 DONE SOMETHING SIMILAR. 3054 01:45:18,001 --> 01:45:20,000 BUT ONLY TO TALK ABOUT THEIR 3055 01:45:20,001 --> 01:45:21,000 POLICY BUT ALSO TO ACKNOWLEDGE 3056 01:45:21,001 --> 01:45:22,000 AVAGE PEOPLE WHO ARE 3057 01:45:22,001 --> 01:45:34,000 CONSIDERED AMERICAN HEROES. 3058 01:45:34,001 --> 01:45:39,000 CAPT.BURGER RECENTLY. 3059 01:45:39,001 --> 01:45:49,000 HOST: LET US GO BACK TO THE CLINTON ADDRESS FROM 1996. 3060 01:45:49,001 --> 01:45:50,000 >> WE MUST ANSWER HERE THREE 3061 01:45:50,001 --> 01:45:53,000 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS. 3062 01:45:53,001 --> 01:45:55,000 FIRST, HOW DO WE MAKE THE 3063 01:45:55,001 --> 01:45:58,000 AMERICAN DREAM OF OPPORTUNITY 3064 01:45:58,001 --> 01:46:00,000 FOR ALL, A REALITY THAT ALL 3065 01:46:00,001 --> 01:46:03,000 AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR? 3066 01:46:03,001 --> 01:46:05,000 SECOND, HOW DO WE PRESERVE OUR 3067 01:46:05,001 --> 01:46:06,000 OLD ENDURING VALUES AS WE MOVE 3068 01:46:06,001 --> 01:46:09,000 INTO THE FUTURE? 3069 01:46:09,001 --> 01:46:12,000 THIRD, HOW DO WE MEET THESE 3070 01:46:12,001 --> 01:46:15,000 CHALLENGES TOGETHER, AS ONE AMERICA? 3071 01:46:15,001 --> 01:46:17,000 WE KNOW BIG GOVERNMENT DOES NOT 3072 01:46:17,001 --> 01:46:20,000 HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, WE KNOW 3073 01:46:20,001 --> 01:46:27,000 THERE IS NOT A PROGRAM FOR EVERY PROBLEM. 3074 01:46:27,001 --> 01:46:30,000 WE HAVE OFFERED TO GIVE THE 3075 01:46:30,001 --> 01:46:31,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE A SLLER, LESS 3076 01:46:31,001 --> 01:46:35,000 BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN 3077 01:46:35,001 --> 01:46:36,000 WASHINGTON, AND WE HAVE TO GIVE 3078 01:46:36,001 --> 01:46:37,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ONE THAT 3079 01:46:37,001 --> 01:46:40,000 LIVES WITHIN ITS MEANS. 3080 01:46:40,001 --> 01:46:57,000 THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS OVER. 3081 01:46:57,001 --> 01:46:58,000 WE CANNOT GO BACK TO THE TIME 3082 01:46:58,001 --> 01:46:59,000 WHEN OUR CITIZENS WERE LEFT TO 3083 01:46:59,001 --> 01:47:02,000 FEND FOR THEMSELVES. 3084 01:47:02,001 --> 01:47:06,000 HOST: YOUR REACTION? 3085 01:47:06,001 --> 01:47:08,000 GUEST: THAT WAS AN INTERESTING SPEECH. 3086 01:47:08,001 --> 01:47:12,000 I THINK REPUBLICANS IN THE 3087 01:47:12,001 --> 01:47:17,000 AUDIENCE WERE PROBABLY SAYING, 3088 01:47:17,001 --> 01:47:18,000 MY GOD, HE IS STEALING POWER 3089 01:47:18,001 --> 01:47:20,000 LINES. 3090 01:47:20,001 --> 01:47:22,000 THAT IS WHAT WE WERE GOING TO SAY. 3091 01:47:22,001 --> 01:47:24,000 IT IS TRUE. 3092 01:47:24,001 --> 01:47:25,000 PRESIDENT CLINTON WAS TAKING THE 3093 01:47:25,001 --> 01:47:36,000 STANDARD POLICY SPEECHES AND 3094 01:47:36,001 --> 01:47:37,000 POLICIESUST BY REPUBLICANS, 3095 01:47:37,001 --> 01:47:43,000 SO I THINK THEY WERE PERPLEXED BY THAT. 3096 01:47:43,001 --> 01:47:48,000 WHAT YOU HAVE THIS SORT OF DAY EXERCISE. 3097 01:47:48,001 --> 01:47:50,000 HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU GET 3098 01:47:50,001 --> 01:47:55,000 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO STAND UP AND APPLAUSE? 3099 01:47:55,001 --> 01:47:57,000 THIS WAS A MIXED REACTION. 3100 01:47:57,001 --> 01:48:00,000 REPUBLICANS WANTED TO APPLAUD 3101 01:48:00,001 --> 01:48:04,000 THINGS THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS IN FACT SAYG. 3102 01:48:04,001 --> 01:48:06,000 HOST: DO YOU THINK PRESIDENT 3103 01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:07,000 OBAMA WILL STEAL SOME LINES FROM 3104 01:48:07,001 --> 01:48:12,000 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TONIGHT? 3105 01:48:12,001 --> 01:48:13,000 GUEST: HE PROBABLY WILL. 3106 01:48:13,001 --> 01:48:16,000 HE WILL TALK ABOUT ECONOMIC 3107 01:48:16,001 --> 01:48:18,000 DISCIPLINE, CERTAINLY ABOUT CUTTING TH BUDGET. 3108 01:48:18,001 --> 01:48:22,000 HE WILL TALK ABOUT GETTING JOBS BACK. 3109 01:48:22,001 --> 01:48:28,000 WHO KNOWS IF HE TALKS ABOUT 3110 01:48:28,001 --> 01:48:29,000 SMALLER GOVERNMENT OR NOT, AND 3111 01:48:29,001 --> 01:48:30,000 WHETHER THAT WILL HAVE A 3112 01:48:30,001 --> 01:48:31,000 RESONANCE WITH THE AMERICAN 3113 01:48:31,001 --> 01:48:36,000 PEOPLE OR NOT. 3114 01:48:36,001 --> 01:48:37,000 HOST: SOME FACTS ABOUT THE STATE 3115 01:48:37,001 --> 01:48:45,000 OF THE UNION. 3116 01:48:45,001 --> 01:48:53,000 WOODROW WILSON FIRST DELIVERED 3117 01:48:53,001 --> 01:48:59,000 THE STATE OF THE UNION IN PERSON IN 1913. 3118 01:48:59,001 --> 01:49:01,000 THE FIRST TELEVISED BROADCAST 3119 01:49:01,001 --> 01:49:02,000 WAS PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN IN 3120 01:49:02,001 --> 01:49:10,000 1947. 3121 01:49:10,001 --> 01:49:17,000 YOU CAN SEE HOW HAVE EVOLVED. 3122 01:49:17,001 --> 01:49:19,000 WHY IS THE STATE OF THE UNION 3123 01:49:19,001 --> 01:49:24,000 IMPORTANT, IT IS THE FIRST ONE FOR A PRESIDENT IMPORTANT? 3124 01:49:24,001 --> 01:49:25,000 GUEST: THE STATE OF THE UNION I 3125 01:49:25,001 --> 01:49:26,000 SOMETHING REQUIRED BY THE 3126 01:49:26,001 --> 01:49:30,000 CONSTITUTION. 3127 01:49:30,001 --> 01:49:33,000 IT SAYS FROM TIME TO TIME. 3128 01:49:33,001 --> 01:49:36,000 IT DOES NOT SAY EXACTLY WHAT HE 3129 01:49:36,001 --> 01:49:39,000 WILL SAY, BUT HE IS TO REPORT. 3130 01:49:39,001 --> 01:49:41,000 OF COURSE, OUR CONVENTION HAS 3131 01:49:41,001 --> 01:49:42,000 BEEN EVERY Y AT THIS TIME OF 3132 01:49:42,001 --> 01:49:45,000 YEAR. 3133 01:49:45,001 --> 01:49:47,000 FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER GIVEN 3134 01:49:47,001 --> 01:49:52,000 ONE, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 3135 01:49:52,001 --> 01:49:54,000 FOR ONE, THINGS ARE NOT GOING SO 3136 01:49:54,001 --> 01:49:57,000 WELL FOR THE DEMOCRATS. 3137 01:49:57,001 --> 01:49:59,000 IT IS TIME TO RALLY THE TROOPS 3138 01:49:59,001 --> 01:50:01,000 AND FUNDAMENTALLY TELL THE 3139 01:50:01,001 --> 01:50:06,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CONGRESS WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. 3140 01:50:06,001 --> 01:50:11,000 HOST: CAN THE PRESIDENT SPEAK TO SHORT OR LONG? 3141 01:50:11,001 --> 01:50:13,000 GUEST: YES, THE PRESIDENT CAN 3142 01:50:13,001 --> 01:50:14,000 SPEAK TOO LONG. 3143 01:50:14,001 --> 01:50:18,000 BILL CLINTON TALKED A LOT. 3144 01:50:18,001 --> 01:50:20,000 TYPICALLY, THESE SPEECHES ARE 3145 01:50:20,001 --> 01:50:23,000 ABOUT ONE HOUR LONG. 3146 01:50:23,001 --> 01:50:25,000 OF COURSE, THEY ARE PUNCTUATED 3147 01:50:25,001 --> 01:50:29,000 WITH APPLAUSE, AND THAT SORT OF 3148 01:50:29,001 --> 01:50:31,000 THING, BUT IF YOU GO PAST ONE 3149 01:50:31,001 --> 01:50:33,000 HOUR, YOU ARE LOSING PEOPLE. 3150 01:50:33,001 --> 01:50:35,000 45 MINUTES IS PROBABLY THE 3151 01:50:35,001 --> 01:50:39,000 MAXIMUM YOU WANT TO HAVE. 3152 01:50:39,001 --> 01:50:41,000 HOST: TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT'S 3153 01:50:41,001 --> 01:50:42,000 SPEECH AND PAST PRESIDENTS 3154 01:50:42,001 --> 01:50:47,000 SPEECHES. NEXT PHONE CALL. 3155 01:50:47,001 --> 01:50:49,000 CALLER: I WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT 3156 01:50:49,001 --> 01:50:55,000 FOR A LOT OF THE PEOPLE CALLING IN. 3157 01:50:55,001 --> 01:50:57,000 I THINK IT IS OBVIOUS WE HAVE AN 3158 01:50:57,001 --> 01:51:00,000 EDUCATIONAL CRISIS, NOT ONLY 3159 01:51:00,001 --> 01:51:05,000 WITH YOUNG KIDS, BUT WITH ADULTS AS WELL. 3160 01:51:05,001 --> 01:51:08,000 A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FORMING 3161 01:51:08,001 --> 01:51:09,000 OPINIONS ON THINGS THEY PROBABLY 3162 01:51:09,001 --> 01:51:15,000 DO NOT UNDERSTAND. 3163 01:51:15,001 --> 01:51:17,000 FOR INSTANCE, YOU HAVE THE 3164 01:51:17,001 --> 01:51:19,000 SENATE AND HOUSE OF 3165 01:51:19,001 --> 01:51:21,000 REPRESENTATIVES, THE PRESIDENT 3166 01:51:21,001 --> 01:51:24,000 -- I AM SORRY, I AM NERVOUS. 3167 01:51:24,001 --> 01:51:26,000 THEY NEED TO BE MORE RESPECTFUL 3168 01:51:26,001 --> 01:51:28,000 TO THE PRESIDENTND THEY NEED 3169 01:51:28,001 --> 01:51:32,000 TO LISTEN TO HOW THINGS WORK, 3170 01:51:32,001 --> 01:51:33,000 AND UNDERSTAND, BEFORE THEY FORM 3171 01:51:33,001 --> 01:51:35,000 AN OPINION. 3172 01:51:35,001 --> 01:51:38,000 I THINK THE PRESIDEAS A LOT 3173 01:51:38,001 --> 01:51:40,000 OF GOOD IDEAS. 3174 01:51:40,001 --> 01:51:44,000 IF PEOPLE IN THE SENATE ARE 3175 01:51:44,001 --> 01:51:45,000 GOING TO TAKE SIDES AND BLOCK 3176 01:51:45,001 --> 01:51:46,000 EVERYTHING, THEN THEY NEED TO 3177 01:51:46,001 --> 01:51:53,000 GO. 3178 01:51:53,001 --> 01:51:55,000 I HAVE TO AN MBA, I AM 3179 01:51:55,001 --> 01:51:58,000 UNEMPLOYED, AND I AM ABOUT TO LOSE MY INSURANCE. 3180 01:51:58,001 --> 01:52:01,000 HOST: THANK YOU. 3181 01:52:01,001 --> 01:52:02,000 WHY IS THE STATE OF THE UNION IN 3182 01:52:02,001 --> 01:52:03,000 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3183 01:52:03,001 --> 01:52:09,000 CHAMBER? 3184 01:52:09,001 --> 01:52:12,000 GUEST: SIMPLY, THERE ARE NOT 3185 01:52:12,001 --> 01:52:13,000 ENOUGH SEATS IN THE SENATE TO 3186 01:52:13,001 --> 01:52:16,000 ACCOMMODATE ALL THE MEMBERS. 3187 01:52:16,001 --> 01:52:21,000 YOU HAVE 100 MEMBERS OF THE 3188 01:52:21,001 --> 01:52:23,000 SENATE, 438 IN THE HOUSE, 3189 01:52:23,001 --> 01:52:26,000 MEMBERS OF THE CABINET, SUPREME 3190 01:52:26,001 --> 01:52:27,000 COURT, MEMBERS OF THE 3191 01:52:27,001 --> 01:52:28,000 AMBASSADORIAL CABINET THAT MAY 3192 01:52:28,001 --> 01:52:31,000 ALSO BE THERE. 3193 01:52:31,001 --> 01:52:33,000 PHYSICALLY, THE ONLY PLACE THAT 3194 01:52:33,001 --> 01:52:34,000 YOU COULD DO IT IS IN THE 3195 01:52:34,001 --> 01:52:35,000 CHAMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF 3196 01:52:35,001 --> 01:52:39,000 REPRESENTATIVES. 3197 01:52:39,001 --> 01:52:41,000 HOST: HILLARY CLINTON WILL NOT 3198 01:52:41,001 --> 01:52:44,000 BE AT THE SPEECH TONIGHT BECAUSE 3199 01:52:44,001 --> 01:52:45,000 SHE WILL BE IN LONDON DOING HER JOB. 3200 01:52:45,001 --> 01:52:49,000 IS THAT UNPRECEDENTED? 3201 01:52:49,001 --> 01:52:53,000 GUEST: NO, NOT AT ALL. 3202 01:52:53,001 --> 01:52:56,000 WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PT 3203 01:52:56,001 --> 01:52:57,000 DECADE IS ONE MEMBER OF THE 3204 01:52:57,001 --> 01:53:00,000 CABINET IS DESIGNATED AS THE 3205 01:53:00,001 --> 01:53:02,000 CATASTROPHE CABINET MEMBER, IF 3206 01:53:02,001 --> 01:53:03,000 SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN, GOD 3207 01:53:03,001 --> 01:53:06,000 FORBID. 3208 01:53:06,001 --> 01:53:08,000 THERE HAS TO BE ONE MEMBER 3209 01:53:08,001 --> 01:53:10,000 PHYSICALLY NOT PRESENT SO THAT 3210 01:53:10,001 --> 01:53:13,000 GOVERNMENT CAN CARRY ON. 3211 01:53:13,001 --> 01:53:14,000 THAT IS THE ROLE SHE IS PLAYING 3212 01:53:14,001 --> 01:53:24,000 NOW. 3213 01:53:24,001 --> 01:53:25,000 HOST: SEATED IN THE CHAMBER WILL 3214 01:53:25,001 --> 01:53:26,000 BE MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF 3215 01:53:26,001 --> 01:53:33,000 THE HOUSE AND SENATE. 3216 01:53:33,001 --> 01:53:34,000 THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME 3217 01:53:34,001 --> 01:53:45,000 COURT WILL ALSO BE THERE. 3218 01:53:45,001 --> 01:53:47,000 GUEST: IT IS A RELATIVELY 3219 01:53:47,001 --> 01:53:51,000 RECENT PRINCIPLE, BUT PROBABLY IMPORTANT. 3220 01:53:51,001 --> 01:53:53,000 HOST: NEXT PHONE CALL. 3221 01:53:53,001 --> 01:53:54,000 BETTY FROM CALIFORNIA. 3222 01:53:54,001 --> 01:54:00,000 DEMOCRAT LINE. 3223 01:54:00,001 --> 01:54:03,000 CALLER: I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW 3224 01:54:03,001 --> 01:54:04,000 THE REPUBLICANS -- IT IS NOT ONE 3225 01:54:04,001 --> 01:54:14,000 THING THAT THE PRESIDENT SAIOR 3226 01:54:14,001 --> 01:54:18,000 DID THATHEY STOOD WITH HIM. 3227 01:54:18,001 --> 01:54:28,000 DEMOCRATS RESPECTED BUSH WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE. 3228 01:54:28,001 --> 01:54:30,000 I THINK OBAMA, HE SAID HE WAS 3229 01:54:30,001 --> 01:54:33,000 BIPARTISAN, BUT I THINK WHAT HE 3230 01:54:33,001 --> 01:54:34,000 WANTED WAS FOR THEM TO GIVE HIM 3231 01:54:34,001 --> 01:54:38,000 IDEAS AND THAT HE WOULD EVALUATE 3232 01:54:38,001 --> 01:54:43,000 THEM, NOT THEM TAKING OVER HIS PROGRAM. 3233 01:54:43,001 --> 01:54:45,000 IF HE DOES NOT DO EXACTLY WHAT 3234 01:54:45,001 --> 01:54:46,000 THEY SAY, AND THEY WOULD THROW 3235 01:54:46,001 --> 01:54:47,000 IT OUT. 3236 01:54:47,001 --> 01:54:50,000 I WONDER WHY THEY DO THAT. 3237 01:54:50,001 --> 01:54:52,000 THEY HAVE NOT BANDED TOGETHER TO 3238 01:54:52,001 --> 01:54:54,000 DO ANYTHING TO HELP THE COUNTRY. 3239 01:54:54,001 --> 01:54:55,000 THAT IS WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED 3240 01:54:55,001 --> 01:54:58,000 IN. 3241 01:54:58,001 --> 01:55:03,000 WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN PARTISAN FIGHTS. 3242 01:55:03,001 --> 01:55:06,000 I WAS WONDERING, WHEN ARE THEY 3243 01:55:06,001 --> 01:55:07,000 GOING TO STOP FIGHTING, FOR THE 3244 01:55:07,001 --> 01:55:12,000 SAKE OF THE PEOPLE? 3245 01:55:12,001 --> 01:55:14,000 HOST: REPUBLICANS WILL BE GIVING 3246 01:55:14,001 --> 01:55:17,000 A RESPONSE TO THE STATE OF THE UNION TONIGHT. 3247 01:55:17,001 --> 01:55:19,000 THAT WILL BE DELIVERED BY BOB 3248 01:55:19,001 --> 01:55:24,000 MACDONALD OF VIRGINIA. 3249 01:55:24,001 --> 01:55:26,000 WILL BE TALKING, PRESUMABLY, 3250 01:55:26,001 --> 01:55:29,000 ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA. 3251 01:55:29,001 --> 01:55:32,000 WHY IS IT THAT THE OPPOSING 3252 01:55:32,001 --> 01:55:33,000 PARTY GIVES A RESPONSE AFTER 3253 01:55:33,001 --> 01:55:37,000 THE PRESIDENT DELIVERS HIS STATE OF THE UNION? 3254 01:55:37,001 --> 01:55:38,000 GUEST: THAT IS A FAIRLY RECENT 3255 01:55:38,001 --> 01:55:43,000 PHENOMENON, TOO. 3256 01:55:43,001 --> 01:55:47,000 THE IDEA IS NOT EQUAL TIME IS NOT FAIR TIME. 3257 01:55:47,001 --> 01:55:53,000 IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE WATCH AND FOR 3258 01:55:53,001 --> 01:55:54,000 ONE HOUR, IT IS BASICALLY THE 3259 01:55:54,001 --> 01:55:57,000 POLITICAL JUNKIES, THE PEOPLE 3260 01:55:57,001 --> 01:55:58,000 WHO WATCH C-SPAN, WHO WILL BE 3261 01:55:58,001 --> 01:55:59,000 WATCHING THE RESPONSE FROM THE 3262 01:55:59,001 --> 01:56:07,000 OPPOSING PARTY. 3263 01:56:07,001 --> 01:56:09,000 HOST: THE MOST RECENT RESPONSE 3264 01:56:09,001 --> 01:56:10,000 COMING FROM AND LOUISIANA 3265 01:56:10,001 --> 01:56:13,000 GOVERNOR. 3266 01:56:13,001 --> 01:56:15,000 HE WAS CRITICIZED HEAVILY FOR 3267 01:56:15,001 --> 01:56:21,000 HIS RESPONSE TO IDENT 3268 01:56:21,001 --> 01:56:22,000 OBAMA, THE WAY HE CAME OUT, THE 3269 01:56:22,001 --> 01:56:24,000 WAY HE WAS SPEAKING. 3270 01:56:24,001 --> 01:56:27,000 TALK ABOUT THAT. 3271 01:56:27,001 --> 01:56:30,000 AS FAR AS MESSAGE, WHAT CAN THE 3272 01:56:30,001 --> 01:56:35,000 OTHER PARTIES DO IN ORDER TO COMPETE? 3273 01:56:35,001 --> 01:56:36,000 GUEST: YOU ARE REFERRING TO 3274 01:56:36,001 --> 01:56:38,000 BOBBY JINDAL. 3275 01:56:38,001 --> 01:56:42,000 A LOT OF REPUBLICANS WOULD SAY 3276 01:56:42,001 --> 01:56:44,000 THAT HE IS OUR NEXT HOPE FOR THE 3277 01:56:44,001 --> 01:56:45,000 ELECTION, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS 3278 01:56:45,001 --> 01:56:47,000 NOT THE WORDS THAT HE SAID. 3279 01:56:47,001 --> 01:56:52,000 IT WAS HIS STAGING. 3280 01:56:52,001 --> 01:56:55,000 HE CAME DOWN THE STAIRWELL. 3281 01:56:55,001 --> 01:56:57,000 THE SITUATION WAS ENTIRELY 3282 01:56:57,001 --> 01:56:58,000 WRONG FOR A RESPONSE TO THE 3283 01:56:58,001 --> 01:57:01,000 PRESIDENT. 3284 01:57:01,001 --> 01:57:03,000 IF YOU ARE SITTING IN A STUDIO, 3285 01:57:03,001 --> 01:57:05,000 THAT IS PROBABLY THE BEST THING 3286 01:57:05,001 --> 01:57:08,000 YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE 3287 01:57:08,001 --> 01:57:09,000 STANDING BEHIND YOU, YOU CAN 3288 01:57:09,001 --> 01:57:10,000 NEVER CONTROL WHAT IS HAPPENING 3289 01:57:10,001 --> 01:57:13,000 BEHIND YOU. 3290 01:57:13,001 --> 01:57:15,000 THE SETTING WAS WRONG, THE WAY 3291 01:57:15,001 --> 01:57:16,000 HE DELIVERED THE SPEECH WAS 3292 01:57:16,001 --> 01:57:20,000 WRONG. 3293 01:57:20,001 --> 01:57:22,000 IT LEFT REPUBLICANS FLATFOOTED 3294 01:57:22,001 --> 01:57:23,000 AND CRITICS WERE SAYING, THAT 3295 01:57:23,001 --> 01:57:27,000 WAS DONE VERY GOOD AT ALL. 3296 01:57:27,001 --> 01:57:28,000 HOST: JIM ON THE REPUBLICAN 3297 01:57:28,001 --> 01:57:32,000 LINE. 3298 01:57:32,001 --> 01:57:33,000 CALLER: THIS GUY IS A 3299 01:57:33,001 --> 01:57:35,000 KNUCKLEHEAD. 3300 01:57:35,001 --> 01:57:36,000 HE IS A PROFESSOR BUT HE IS A 3301 01:57:36,001 --> 01:57:40,000 PIECE OF JUNK. 3302 01:57:40,001 --> 01:57:42,000 HOST: NEXT PHONE CALL. 3303 01:57:42,001 --> 01:57:47,000 MY APOLOGIES FOR THE NAME CALLING. 3304 01:57:47,001 --> 01:57:53,000 CALLER: HELLO? 3305 01:57:53,001 --> 01:57:59,000 GOOD MORNING, GRE. 3306 01:57:59,001 --> 01:58:00,000 NOT HAVE BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY 3307 01:58:00,001 --> 01:58:02,000 FOR 20 YEARS. 3308 01:58:02,001 --> 01:58:07,000 I AM FROM JAMAICA. 3309 01:58:07,001 --> 01:58:10,000 HOST: WE ARE GOING TO PUT YOU ON HOLD. 3310 01:58:10,001 --> 01:58:11,000 AS A REMINDER, YOU HAVE TO TURN 3311 01:58:11,001 --> 01:58:15,000 YOUR TELEVISION DOWN. 3312 01:58:15,001 --> 01:58:16,000 PETER FROM NEW YORK. 3313 01:58:16,001 --> 01:58:22,000 DEMOCRAT LINE. 3314 01:58:22,001 --> 01:58:25,000 CALLER: THANK YOU. 3315 01:58:25,001 --> 01:58:26,000 UNFORTUNATELY, THAT PERSON WHO 3316 01:58:26,001 --> 01:58:29,000 EXPRESSED WHAT HE FEELS ABOUT 3317 01:58:29,001 --> 01:58:31,000 YOU, I DO NOT THINK THAT IS RIGHT. 3318 01:58:31,001 --> 01:58:34,000 BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT THE 3319 01:58:34,001 --> 01:58:35,000 PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE WITH THIS 3320 01:58:35,001 --> 01:58:40,000 CONVERSATION. 3321 01:58:40,001 --> 01:58:42,000 I DID NOT REALLY CARE WHEN THE 3322 01:58:42,001 --> 01:58:43,000 HIGH DEFINITION BROADCASTS OF 3323 01:58:43,001 --> 01:58:46,000 THE STATE OF THE UNION WAS. 3324 01:58:46,001 --> 01:58:53,000 I WANT YOU TO DISCUSS THE STATE OF THE UNION. 3325 01:58:53,001 --> 01:58:58,000 OBAMA IS GOING INTO A CHAMBER 3326 01:58:58,001 --> 01:59:00,000 THAT IS SO SELF-RIDICULING, WHEN 3327 01:59:00,001 --> 01:59:05,000 YOU HAVE CHIEF JUSTICES WHO SAY 3328 01:59:05,001 --> 01:59:07,000 THAT IT IS OK FOR CHINESE OR 3329 01:59:07,001 --> 01:59:10,000 FILIPINOS TO SPEND AS MUCH AS 3330 01:59:10,001 --> 01:59:22,000 THE ONE ON THE ELECTION. 3331 01:59:22,001 --> 01:59:24,000 BARACK OBAMA, WHO WORKED HARD TO 3332 01:59:24,001 --> 01:59:28,000 GET ELECTED, WALKING IN AND 3333 01:59:28,001 --> 01:59:29,000 LKING ABOUT CONTROLLING COSTS 3334 01:59:29,001 --> 01:59:33,000 , WHEN ON THE FIRST DAY HE CAME 3335 01:59:33,001 --> 01:59:37,000 IN HE COHAVE GOTTEN THAT 3336 01:59:37,001 --> 01:59:44,000 MEDICARE BILL REPEALED. 3337 01:59:44,001 --> 01:59:50,000 THE FUNDAMENTAL STATE OF OUR 3338 01:59:50,001 --> 01:59:53,000 UNION NEEDS TO BE FLAWED WHEN NO 3339 01:59:53,001 --> 01:59:56,000 ONE WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR 3340 01:59:56,001 --> 01:59:57,000 THE STATE OF OUR UNION, BUT 3341 01:59:57,001 --> 02:00:01,000 JUST TOLD THE IDEOLOGICAL OR 3342 02:00:01,001 --> 02:00:04,000 BUSINESS TIES AS THE MOTIVATION 3343 02:00:04,001 --> 02:00:05,000 FOR THEIR LIVES, AS OPPOSED TO 3344 02:00:05,001 --> 02:00:10,000 THE FOUNDING FATHERS. 3345 02:00:10,001 --> 02:00:37,000 GUEST: THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT. 3346 02:00:37,001 --> 02:00:38,000 IE EXPRESSING 3347 02:00:38,001 --> 02:00:39,000 SUPPORT FOR DESIGNATION OF 3348 02:00:39,001 --> 02:00:43,000 JANUARY AS POVERTY IN AMERICA 3349 02:00:43,001 --> 02:00:44,000 AWARENESS MONTH. 3350 02:00:44,001 --> 02:00:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3351 02:00:45,001 --> 02:00:46,000 QUESTION IS WILL THE HOUSE 3352 02:00:46,001 --> 02:00:48,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND AGREE TO 3353 02:00:48,001 --> 02:00:49,000 THE RESOLUTION. 3354 02:00:49,001 --> 02:00:50,000 MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES 3355 02:00:50,001 --> 02:00:52,000 BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE. 3356 02:00:52,001 --> 02:00:53,000 THIS IS A FIVE-MINUTE VOTE. 3357 02:00:53,001 --> 02:00:54,000 [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY 3358 02:00:54,001 --> 02:00:55,000 THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING 3359 02:00:55,001 --> 02:00:56,000 INSTITUTE, INC., IN COATION WITH 3360 02:00:56,001 --> 02:00:57,000 REPRESENTATIVES. 3361 02:00:57,001 --> 02:00:58,000 ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE 3362 02:00:58,001 --> 02:00:59,000 PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR 3363 02:00:59,001 --> 02:01:00,000 COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS 3364 02:01:00,001 --> 02:01:41,000 EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE 3365 02:01:41,001 --> 02:01:42,000 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.]HOST: REP CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, WHAT 3366 02:01:42,001 --> 02:01:43,000 DO YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM THE 3367 02:01:43,001 --> 02:01:48,000 PRESIDENT? 3368 02:01:48,001 --> 02:01:50,000 GUEST: AND LITTLE RECAP OF WHERE 3369 02:01:50,001 --> 02:01:51,000 WE HAVE BEEN THE LAST YEAR. 3370 02:01:51,001 --> 02:01:54,000 THE PRESIDENT WILL POINT OUT A 3371 02:01:54,001 --> 02:01:55,000 YEAR AGO THE ECONOMY WAS IN THE 3372 02:01:55,001 --> 02:01:56,000 FREE FALL AND WILL STABILIZE BUT 3373 02:01:56,001 --> 02:01:59,000 NOT YET TURNED THE CORNER. 3374 02:01:59,001 --> 02:02:00,000 ITAS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT 3375 02:02:00,001 --> 02:02:01,000 TO HEAR IS WHAT IS THE PLAN 3376 02:02:01,001 --> 02:02:03,000 GOING FORWARD. 3377 02:02:03,001 --> 02:02:06,000 I THINK THE PRESIDENT WILL TALK 3378 02:02:06,001 --> 02:02:07,000 ABOUT JOBS, ACCELERATING JOBS, 3379 02:02:07,001 --> 02:02:09,000 MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE FISCAL 3380 02:02:09,001 --> 02:02:10,000 DISCIPLINE IN THE OUT YEARS, 3381 02:02:10,001 --> 02:02:12,000 THAT WE HOLD WALL STREET 3382 02:02:12,001 --> 02:02:13,000 ACCOUNTABLE, AND TALK ABOUT SOME 3383 02:02:13,001 --> 02:02:15,000 OF HIS PROPOSALS FOR 3384 02:02:15,001 --> 02:02:17,000 ACCOMPLISHING THOSE OBJECTIVES. 3385 02:02:17,001 --> 02:02:18,000 IN ADDITION TO THE COMPLETION OF 3386 02:02:18,001 --> 02:02:21,000 HEALTH CARE REFORM. 3387 02:02:21,001 --> 02:02:22,000 HOST: ON HEALTH CARE REFORM, 3388 02:02:22,001 --> 02:02:24,000 POLLS ARE SHOWING AMERICANS WANT 3389 02:02:24,001 --> 02:02:27,000 THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS, 3390 02:02:27,001 --> 02:02:28,000 DEMOCRATS, TO STOP FOCUSING ON 3391 02:02:28,001 --> 02:02:29,000 HEALTH CARE AND SWITCHING THEIR 3392 02:02:29,001 --> 02:02:32,000 FOCUS TO JOBS. 3393 02:02:32,001 --> 02:02:34,000 THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS, 3394 02:02:34,001 --> 02:02:36,000 ACCORDING TO PAPERS THIS MORNING 3395 02:02:36,001 --> 02:02:37,000 -- YOU ALL HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON 3396 02:02:37,001 --> 02:02:38,000 HEALTH CARE AND YOU DON'T WANT 3397 02:02:38,001 --> 02:02:40,000 THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE UP ON IT. 3398 02:02:40,001 --> 02:02:41,000 HOW DO YOU SQUARE THE TWO 3399 02:02:41,001 --> 02:02:42,000 THINGS? 3400 02:02:42,001 --> 02:02:44,000 GUEST: WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON 3401 02:02:44,001 --> 02:02:46,000 JOBS SENT DAY ONE. 3402 02:02:46,001 --> 02:02:48,000 ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN WAS ABOUT 3403 02:02:48,001 --> 02:02:49,000 MAKING THE INVESTMENTS IN THE 3404 02:02:49,001 --> 02:02:51,000 ECONOMY NECESSARY TO STABILIZE 3405 02:02:51,001 --> 02:02:52,000 AND GET US OUT OF FREE FALL, AND 3406 02:02:52,001 --> 02:02:54,000 THAT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. 3407 02:02:54,001 --> 02:02:56,000 WE ARE OUT A FREE FALL. 3408 02:02:56,001 --> 02:02:58,000 NOW WE NEED TO TURN THE CORNER 3409 02:02:58,001 --> 02:03:00,000 WHICH IS WHY THE HOUSE PASSED IN 3410 02:03:00,001 --> 02:03:01,000 DECEMBER A JOBS BILL AND THE 3411 02:03:01,001 --> 02:03:02,000 PRESIDENT I THINK WILL TALK 3412 02:03:02,001 --> 02:03:04,000 ABOUT IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF 3413 02:03:04,001 --> 02:03:05,000 THAT INVESTMENT IN 3414 02:03:05,001 --> 02:03:07,000 INFRASTRUCTURE, HE WILL TALK 3415 02:03:07,001 --> 02:03:10,000 ABOUT MIDDLE-CLASS TAX RELIEF 3416 02:03:10,001 --> 02:03:14,000 AND TAX CREDITS, JOB CREATION. 3417 02:03:14,001 --> 02:03:15,000 IT IN HEALTH CARE COSTS UNDER 3418 02:03:15,001 --> 02:03:18,000 CONTROL IS AN IMPORTANT PART, 3419 02:03:18,001 --> 02:03:19,000 MAKING SURE WE HAVE A STRONG 3420 02:03:19,001 --> 02:03:22,000 ECONOMIC FOUNDATION. 3421 02:03:22,001 --> 02:03:24,000 INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, 3422 02:03:24,001 --> 02:03:26,000 BUSINESSES, PREMIUMS ARE GOING 3423 02:03:26,001 --> 02:03:28,000 THROUGH THE ROOF AND THE FEDERAL 3424 02:03:28,001 --> 02:03:30,000 DEFICIT WILL BE BAD IN THE 3425 02:03:30,001 --> 02:03:31,000 FUTURE IF WE DON'T GET HEALTH 3426 02:03:31,001 --> 02:03:35,000 CARE COSTS UNDER CONTROL. 3427 02:03:35,001 --> 02:03:38,000 THIS BILL, AS CBO HAS FOUND, 3428 02:03:38,001 --> 02:03:39,000 WILL REDUCE THE DEFICIT AND OVER 3429 02:03:39,001 --> 02:03:40,000 A PERIOD OF TIME. 3430 02:03:40,001 --> 02:03:42,000 IF WE ARE INTERESTED IN FISCAL 3431 02:03:42,001 --> 02:03:44,000 STABILITY IN THE OUT YEARS WE 3432 02:03:44,001 --> 02:03:45,000 NEED TO GET THE SKYROCKETING 3433 02:03:45,001 --> 02:03:51,000 HEALTH-CARE COSTS UNDER CONTROL. 3434 02:03:51,001 --> 02:03:55,000 HOST: IF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC 3435 02:03:55,001 --> 02:03:56,000 DOES NOT BELIEVE - IS THERE A 3436 02:03:56,001 --> 02:03:59,000 MESSAGE PROBLEM? 3437 02:03:59,001 --> 02:04:03,000 HOST: OF THE DEBATE ON HEALTH 3438 02:04:03,001 --> 02:04:08,000 CARE HAS CLEARLY DOMINATED. 3439 02:04:08,001 --> 02:04:09,000 IT IS A COMPLICATED ISSUE. 3440 02:04:09,001 --> 02:04:11,000 IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET IT RIGHT. 3441 02:04:11,001 --> 02:04:12,000 BUT THE FACT WE HAVE BEEN MOVING 3442 02:04:12,001 --> 02:04:13,000 FORWARD ON JOBS INITIATIVES 3443 02:04:13,001 --> 02:04:17,000 DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME I 3444 02:04:17,001 --> 02:04:18,000 THINK HAS BEEN PARTLY LOST BY 3445 02:04:18,001 --> 02:04:20,000 THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEALTH 3446 02:04:20,001 --> 02:04:22,000 CARE, THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF THAT DEBATE. 3447 02:04:22,001 --> 02:04:23,000 I THINK IT WILL BE VERY 3448 02:04:23,001 --> 02:04:28,000 IMPORTANT GOING FORWARD. 3449 02:04:28,001 --> 02:04:29,000 AS WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON JOBS 3450 02:04:29,001 --> 02:04:32,000 AND PASS ADDITIONAL JOBS 3451 02:04:32,001 --> 02:04:33,000 MEASURES, LET PEOPLE KNOW WE ARE 3452 02:04:33,001 --> 02:04:34,000 FOCUS LIKE A LASER BEAM ON THESE 3453 02:04:34,001 --> 02:04:36,000 ISSUES. 3454 02:04:36,001 --> 02:04:37,000 AGAIN, THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY 3455 02:04:37,001 --> 02:04:38,000 BILL HAS SUCCEEDED IN GETTING US 3456 02:04:38,001 --> 02:04:41,000 OUT OF A FREE-FALL. 3457 02:04:41,001 --> 02:04:44,000 THE ECONOMY WAS DECLINING AT A 3458 02:04:44,001 --> 02:04:45,000 RATE OF 6.5% THIS TIME LAST 3459 02:04:45,001 --> 02:04:46,000 YEAR. 3460 02:04:46,001 --> 02:04:47,000 NOW THE ECONOMY IS SHOWING 3461 02:04:47,001 --> 02:04:49,000 POSITIVE GROWTH. 3462 02:04:49,001 --> 02:04:50,000 IT JOBS WERE JUST GOING THROUGH 3463 02:04:50,001 --> 02:04:52,000 THE FLOOR. 3464 02:04:52,001 --> 02:04:53,000 NOW, WHAT WE HAVE NOT ONLY 3465 02:04:53,001 --> 02:04:55,000 RECOVERED AND HAVE NOT GOTTEN 3466 02:04:55,001 --> 02:04:57,000 POSITIVE JOBS GROWTH, AT LEAST 3467 02:04:57,001 --> 02:04:58,000 WE ARE NOT LOSING 700 AND DID IT 3468 02:04:58,001 --> 02:05:01,000 THOUSAND JOBS A MONTH LIKE THIS 3469 02:05:01,001 --> 02:05:02,000 TIME LAST YEAR. 3470 02:05:02,001 --> 02:05:03,000 AND THE STOCK MARKET HAS 3471 02:05:03,001 --> 02:05:04,000 OBOUSLY RECOVERED COMPARED TO 3472 02:05:04,001 --> 02:05:07,000 WHAT IT WAS. 3473 02:05:07,001 --> 02:05:10,000 THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN MAGICALLY 3474 02:05:10,001 --> 02:05:11,000 APPEARED IT IS THE RESULT OF 3475 02:05:11,001 --> 02:05:13,000 ACTIONS THAT WERE TAKEN. 3476 02:05:13,001 --> 02:05:16,000 WERE THEY SUFFICIENT? 3477 02:05:16,001 --> 02:05:17,000 NO, THAT IS WHY WE WILL CONTINUE 3478 02:05:17,001 --> 02:05:20,000 TO TAKE STEPS. 3479 02:05:20,001 --> 02:05:32,000 ALL NUMBERS -- 3480 02:05:32,001 --> 02:05:33,000 HERE IS THE HEADLINE IN "THE 3481 02:05:33,001 --> 02:05:37,000 FINANCIAL TIMES" THIS MORNING. 3482 02:05:37,001 --> 02:05:38,000 "LIBERAL UNEASE AT OBAMA." 3483 02:05:38,001 --> 02:05:42,000 FRONTPAGE. 3484 02:05:42,001 --> 02:05:43,000 HERE IS SOMETHING IN THE STORY 3485 02:05:43,001 --> 02:05:48,000 THIS MORNING AND "THE WASHINGTON 3486 02:05:48,001 --> 02:05:51,000 POST," SOME QUOTES FROM THE 3487 02:05:51,001 --> 02:05:55,000 LIBERAL BLOGS. 3488 02:05:55,001 --> 02:05:56,000 IT IS OFFICIAL, OBAMA IS AN 3489 02:05:56,001 --> 02:05:58,000 IDIOT. 3490 02:05:58,001 --> 02:06:00,000 BROCK HERBERT HOOVER OBAMA. 3491 02:06:00,001 --> 02:06:04,000 AND OBAMA LIQUIDATES HIMSELF. 3492 02:06:04,001 --> 02:06:05,000 OBAMA'S SELF-INFLICTED LOBOTOMY 3493 02:06:05,001 --> 02:06:09,000 IT PROCEEDS APACE. 3494 02:06:09,001 --> 02:06:10,000 IT IS THE PRESIDENT RISKING 3495 02:06:10,001 --> 02:06:11,000 ALIENATING THE LIBERAL BASE 3496 02:06:11,001 --> 02:06:14,000 BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS? 3497 02:06:14,001 --> 02:06:16,000 ANY CONCERNS, THE BASE YOU NEED 3498 02:06:16,001 --> 02:06:20,000 TO TURN OUT ON ELECTION DAY? 3499 02:06:20,001 --> 02:06:22,000 GUEST:: THE BASE, I THINK, WANTS 3500 02:06:22,001 --> 02:06:24,000 TO SEE THE ECONOMY RECOVER AS 3501 02:06:24,001 --> 02:06:25,000 FAST AS ANYBODY AND THAT IS WHY 3502 02:06:25,001 --> 02:06:27,000 THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN FOCUSED 3503 02:06:27,001 --> 02:06:28,000 ON JOB CREATION AND HAS MADE A 3504 02:06:28,001 --> 02:06:29,000 POINT AND SAYING THE MOST THE 3505 02:06:29,001 --> 02:06:32,000 POOR THING WE NEED TO DO TO 3506 02:06:32,001 --> 02:06:33,000 IMPROVE THE DEFICIT SITUATION IS 3507 02:06:33,001 --> 02:06:34,000 TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. 3508 02:06:34,001 --> 02:06:36,000 WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO 3509 02:06:36,001 --> 02:06:38,000 WORK SO THAT THEY CAN PAY THE 3510 02:06:38,001 --> 02:06:39,000 BILLS AND MEET THE RENT 3511 02:06:39,001 --> 02:06:42,000 PAYMENTS, BUT ALSO IF PEOPLE ARE 3512 02:06:42,001 --> 02:06:43,000 NOT BACK TO WORK, OBVIOUSLY THE DEFICIT WILL CONTINUE TO GET 3513 02:06:43,001 --> 02:06:46,000 WORSE. 3514 02:06:46,001 --> 02:06:47,000 SO, THAT HAS TO BE JOB NUMBER 3515 02:06:47,001 --> 02:06:48,000 ONE. 3516 02:06:48,001 --> 02:06:50,000 BUT WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS SAYING 3517 02:06:50,001 --> 02:06:53,000 HERE IS WE ALSO NEED TO GET OUR 3518 02:06:53,001 --> 02:06:54,000 LONG-TERM FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER, 3519 02:06:54,001 --> 02:06:55,000 AND WE HAVE TAKEN A NUMBER OF 3520 02:06:55,001 --> 02:06:56,000 STEPS. 3521 02:06:56,001 --> 02:06:58,000 AND THE USE WE ARE WORKING 3522 02:06:58,001 --> 02:06:59,000 VERY HARD TO PASS WHAT WE CALL 3523 02:06:59,001 --> 02:07:03,000 PAY AS YOU GO. 3524 02:07:03,001 --> 02:07:04,000 IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND, 3525 02:07:04,001 --> 02:07:05,000 TO LAUNCH A NEW PROGRAM WILL 3526 02:07:05,001 --> 02:07:07,000 HAVE TO FIND REDUCTIONS 3527 02:07:07,001 --> 02:07:09,000 ELSEWHERE OR SOME WAY TO PAY 3528 02:07:09,001 --> 02:07:11,000 FOR, LIKE A FAMILY HAS TO PAY FOR THINGS. 3529 02:07:11,001 --> 02:07:12,000 THE PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY 3530 02:07:12,001 --> 02:07:13,000 ANNOUNCE THE CREATION OF A 3531 02:07:13,001 --> 02:07:15,000 COMMISSION TO DEVELOP 3532 02:07:15,001 --> 02:07:16,000 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEFICIT 3533 02:07:16,001 --> 02:07:21,000 REDUCTION. 3534 02:07:21,001 --> 02:07:23,000 I BELIEVE THIS IDEA OF A FREEZE 3535 02:07:23,001 --> 02:07:24,000 IN THE BUDGET GROWTH IS A GOOD 3536 02:07:24,001 --> 02:07:25,000 ONE. 3537 02:07:25,001 --> 02:07:27,000 THE PRESIDENT HAS POINTED OUT 3538 02:07:27,001 --> 02:07:28,000 THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU FREEZE 3539 02:07:28,001 --> 02:07:30,000 EVERY INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM. 3540 02:07:30,001 --> 02:07:31,000 HE WILL INCREASE EDUCATION. 3541 02:07:31,001 --> 02:07:35,000 BUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO INCREASE 3542 02:07:35,001 --> 02:07:37,000 ONE COMPONENT, YOU HAVE TO FIND 3543 02:07:37,001 --> 02:07:39,000 AND OFFSET THE ONE FORWARD. 3544 02:07:39,001 --> 02:07:40,000 HOST: JONES' BILL, SOUTH 3545 02:07:40,001 --> 02:07:41,000 CAROLINA. 3546 02:07:41,001 --> 02:07:48,000 WALTER ON THE LINE FOR DEMOCRATS 3547 02:07:48,001 --> 02:07:49,000 -- JONESVILLE CALLER: I KEEP 3548 02:07:49,001 --> 02:07:50,000 HEARING THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO 3549 02:07:50,001 --> 02:07:51,000 STOP FOCUSING ON HEALTH CARE BUT 3550 02:07:51,001 --> 02:07:53,000 FOCUS ON BS. 3551 02:07:53,001 --> 02:07:54,000 WE LOST OUR JOBS TO COUNTRIES 3552 02:07:54,001 --> 02:07:56,000 THAT HAVE HEALTH CARE AND WE 3553 02:07:56,001 --> 02:07:58,000 WILL NOT GET OUR JOBS BACK UNTIL 3554 02:07:58,001 --> 02:07:59,000 WE FIX HEALTH CARE. 3555 02:07:59,001 --> 02:08:01,000 HEALTH CARE COMES FIRST, THEN THE BS. 3556 02:08:01,001 --> 02:08:06,000 I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT. 3557 02:08:06,001 --> 02:08:07,000 IT GUEST: YOU MAKE A VERY 3558 02:08:07,001 --> 02:08:08,000 2/3 AVING RESPONDED IN THE 3559 02:08:08,001 --> 02:08:09,000 AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES ARE 3560 02:08:09,001 --> 02:08:10,000 SUSPENDED, THE RESOLUTION IS AGREED TO AND WITHOUT OBJECTION 3561 02:08:10,001 --> 02:08:14,000 THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS 3562 02:08:14,001 --> 02:08:16,000 LAID ON THE TABLE. 3563 02:08:16,001 --> 02:08:17,000 THE CHAIR WOULD ASK MEMBERS TO 3564 02:08:17,001 --> 02:08:20,000 PLEASE CLEAR THE WELL AND CLEAR 3565 02:08:20,001 --> 02:08:28,000 THE AISLES SO WE CAN BEGIN WITH 3566 02:08:28,001 --> 02:09:03,000 SUSPEND BILLS. 3567 02:09:03,001 --> 02:09:04,000 -- SUSPENSION BILLS. 3568 02:09:04,001 --> 02:09:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE CHAIR REQUESTS THAT MEMBERS 3569 02:09:06,001 --> 02:10:24,000 PLEASE TAKE THEIR CONVERSATION 3570 02:10:24,001 --> 02:10:25,000 OFF THE FLOOR. 3571 02:10:25,001 --> 02:10:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 3572 02:10:26,001 --> 02:10:27,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20, THE CHAIR WILL POSTPONE 3573 02:10:27,001 --> 02:10:29,000 FURTHER PROCEEDINGS TODAY ON 3574 02:10:29,001 --> 02:10:33,000 THE MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES 3575 02:10:33,001 --> 02:10:35,000 ON WHICH A RECORDED VOTE ON THE 3576 02:10:35,001 --> 02:10:39,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE ORDERED OR ON 3577 02:10:39,001 --> 02:10:41,000 WHICH THE VOTE INCURS OBJECTION 3578 02:10:41,001 --> 02:10:43,000 OF CLAUSE 6 OF RULE 20. 3579 02:10:43,001 --> 02:10:53,000 RECORDED VOTES ON POSTPONED 3580 02:10:53,001 --> 02:10:55,000 QUESTIS WILL BE TAKEN LATER. 3581 02:10:55,001 --> 02:10:57,000 THE CHAIR WOULD ASK T MEMBERS 3582 02:10:57,001 --> 02:10:58,000 TO THE RIGHT OF THE CHAIR TO 3583 02:10:58,001 --> 02:11:23,000 PLEASE TAKE THEIR CONVERSATION 3584 02:11:23,001 --> 02:11:24,000 OFF THE FLOOR. 3585 02:11:24,001 --> 02:11:26,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 3586 02:11:26,001 --> 02:11:27,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK RISE? 3587 02:11:27,001 --> 02:11:28,000 MS.ELAZQUEZ: MADAM SPEAKER, I 3588 02:11:28,001 --> 02:11:33,000 NOW MOVE THAT THE HOUSE SUSPEND 3589 02:11:33,001 --> 02:11:34,000 THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 4508. 3590 02:11:34,001 --> 02:11:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3591 02:11:35,001 --> 02:11:39,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF THE BILL. 3592 02:11:39,001 --> 02:11:40,000 THE CLERK: H.R. 4508, A BILL TO 3593 02:11:40,001 --> 02:11:41,000 PROVIDE FOR AN ADDITIONAL 3594 02:11:41,001 --> 02:11:42,000 TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT 3595 02:11:42,001 --> 02:11:45,000 AND THE SMALL BUSINESS 3596 02:11:45,001 --> 02:11:48,000 INVESTMENT ACT OF 1958. 3597 02:11:48,001 --> 02:11:49,000 D FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 3598 02:11:49,001 --> 02:11:50,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 3599 02:11:50,001 --> 02:11:52,000 PURSUANT TO THE RULE, THE 3600 02:11:52,001 --> 02:11:53,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK, MS. 3601 02:11:53,001 --> 02:11:55,000 VELAZQUEZ, AND THE GENTLEMAN 3602 02:11:55,001 --> 02:11:59,000 FROM MISSOURI, MR. GRAVES, WILL 3603 02:11:59,001 --> 02:12:00,000 EACH CONTROL 20 MINUTES. 3604 02:12:00,001 --> 02:12:01,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 3605 02:12:01,001 --> 02:12:03,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. 3606 02:12:03,001 --> 02:12:04,000 IF SHE'D SUSPEND FOR A MINUTE, 3607 02:12:04,001 --> 02:12:06,000 THE CHAIR RESPECTIVELY REQUESTS 3608 02:12:06,001 --> 02:12:07,000 THAT MEMBERS TO THE RIGHT OF 3609 02:12:07,001 --> 02:12:08,000 THE CHAIR PLEASE TAKE THEIR 3610 02:12:08,001 --> 02:12:09,000 CONVERSATIONS OFF THE FLOOR SO 3611 02:12:09,001 --> 02:12:12,000 THAT WE CAN PROCEED WITH 3612 02:12:12,001 --> 02:12:14,000 BUSINESS. 3613 02:12:14,001 --> 02:12:15,000 THANK YOU. 3614 02:12:15,001 --> 02:12:16,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. 3615 02:12:16,001 --> 02:12:17,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: THANK YOU, MADAM 3616 02:12:17,001 --> 02:12:19,000 SPEAKER. 3617 02:12:19,001 --> 02:12:20,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 3618 02:12:20,001 --> 02:12:23,000 ALL MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 3619 02:12:23,001 --> 02:12:25,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND 3620 02:12:25,001 --> 02:12:27,000 INCLUDE EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL ON 3621 02:12:27,001 --> 02:12:29,000 THE BI UNDER CONSIDERATION. 3622 02:12:29,001 --> 02:12:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 3623 02:12:30,001 --> 02:12:32,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 3624 02:12:32,001 --> 02:12:33,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 3625 02:12:33,001 --> 02:12:35,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. 3626 02:12:35,001 --> 02:12:36,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: MADAM SPEAKER, I 3627 02:12:36,001 --> 02:12:37,000 YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY 3628 02:12:37,001 --> 02:12:39,000 CONSUME. 3629 02:12:39,001 --> 02:12:40,000 AS WE WORKED TO FOSTER JOB 3630 02:12:40,001 --> 02:12:42,000 GROWTH, SMALL BUSINESSES WILL 3631 02:12:42,001 --> 02:12:44,000 BE CENTRAL TO THE CREATION. 3632 02:12:44,001 --> 02:12:47,000 TIME AND AGAIN WHEN AMERICANS 3633 02:12:47,001 --> 02:12:49,000 FACE ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY THEY 3634 02:12:49,001 --> 02:12:50,000 RESPOND WITH INNOVATIVE IDEAS 3635 02:12:50,001 --> 02:12:51,000 AND NEW VENTURES. 3636 02:12:51,001 --> 02:12:54,000 WHILE LARGER COMPANIES ARE 3637 02:12:54,001 --> 02:12:56,000 SLOWER TO REVERSE THE TREND AND 3638 02:12:56,001 --> 02:12:58,000 START HIRING AGAIN, SMALL FIRMS 3639 02:12:58,001 --> 02:13:01,000 ARE OFTEN MORE IN LIMBO AND CAN 3640 02:13:01,001 --> 02:13:02,000 LEAD US OUT OF DOWNTURN MORE QUICKLY. 3641 02:13:02,001 --> 02:13:04,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE HOUSE IS NOT 3642 02:13:04,001 --> 02:13:05,000 IN ORDER. 3643 02:13:05,001 --> 02:13:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3644 02:13:06,001 --> 02:13:07,000 GENTLEWOMAN IS CORRECT. 3645 02:13:07,001 --> 02:13:09,000 THE HOUSE IS NOT IN ORDER. 3646 02:13:09,001 --> 02:13:11,000 THE CHAIR HAS ASKED SEVEL 3647 02:13:11,001 --> 02:13:12,000 TIMES THAT THE HOUSE COME TO 3648 02:13:12,001 --> 02:13:15,000 ORDER. 3649 02:13:15,001 --> 02:13:16,000 WILL MEMBERS PLEASE TAKE THEIR 3650 02:13:16,001 --> 02:13:18,000 CONVERSATIONS, MEMBERS AND 3651 02:13:18,001 --> 02:13:19,000 STAFF ON BOTH SIDES OF THE 3652 02:13:19,001 --> 02:13:21,000 AISLE, TAKE YOUR CONVERSATIONS 3653 02:13:21,001 --> 02:13:22,000 OFF THE FLOOR SO THAT THE 3654 02:13:22,001 --> 02:13:26,000 GENTLEWOMAN AND THE GENTLEMAN 3655 02:13:26,001 --> 02:13:28,000 CAN BE HEARD ON THIS BILL. 3656 02:13:28,001 --> 02:13:29,000 THE GENTLEWOMAN WILL PROCEED. 3657 02:13:29,001 --> 02:13:31,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: THANK YOU. 3658 02:13:31,001 --> 02:13:33,000 FOR MANY DISLOCATED WORKERS, 3659 02:13:33,001 --> 02:13:34,000 STARTING A NEW BUSINESS CAN 3660 02:13:34,001 --> 02:13:36,000 HELP PAY THE BILLS AND EVEN 3661 02:13:36,001 --> 02:13:37,000 LAUNCH A NEW CAREER. 3662 02:13:37,001 --> 02:13:39,000 HOWEVER, FOR ENTREPRENEURS TO 3663 02:13:39,001 --> 02:13:41,000 FULFILL THEIR TRADITIONAL ROLE 3664 02:13:41,001 --> 02:13:42,000 AS JOB CREATORS, THEY NEED THE 3665 02:13:42,001 --> 02:13:45,000 RIGHT TOOLS. 3666 02:13:45,001 --> 02:13:47,000 THE LEGISLATION BEFORE US TODAY 3667 02:13:47,001 --> 02:13:49,000 WILL EXTEND PROGRAMS AT THE 3668 02:13:49,001 --> 02:13:52,000 S.B.A. THAT HELP NEW BUSINESSES 3669 02:13:52,001 --> 02:13:53,000 FORM AND EXISTING FIRMS GROW. 3670 02:13:53,001 --> 02:13:56,000 THIS BILL EXTENDS SOME OF THE 3671 02:13:56,001 --> 02:13:58,000 AGENCY'S MOST VALUABLE EFFORTS, 3672 02:13:58,001 --> 02:14:00,000 RE-AUTHORIZING CERTAIN CAPITAL 3673 02:14:00,001 --> 02:14:02,000 ACCESS PROGRAMS WILL HELP SMALL 3674 02:14:02,001 --> 02:14:03,000 BUSINESSES SURVIVE THE CREDIT 3675 02:14:03,001 --> 02:14:04,000 CRUNCH. 3676 02:14:04,001 --> 02:14:06,000 EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE HOUSE 3677 02:14:06,001 --> 02:14:09,000 PASSED LEGISLATION TO 3678 02:14:09,001 --> 02:14:11,000 STRENGTHEN THOSE INITIATIVES. 3679 02:14:11,001 --> 02:14:12,000 WE HAVE ALSO APPROVED BILLS 3680 02:14:12,001 --> 02:14:14,000 RE-AUTHORIZING THE SMALL 3681 02:14:14,001 --> 02:14:17,000 BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH 3682 02:14:17,001 --> 02:14:18,000 INITIATIVE. 3683 02:14:18,001 --> 02:14:20,000 HOWEVER, BEFORE THESE MEASURES 3684 02:14:20,001 --> 02:14:21,000 ARE UPDATED, THEY WILL HAVE TO 3685 02:14:21,001 --> 02:14:25,000 BE EXTENDED. 3686 02:14:25,001 --> 02:14:26,000 H.R. 4508 ENSURES THESE 3687 02:14:26,001 --> 02:14:28,000 PROGRAMS CONTINUE OPERATING AS 3688 02:14:28,001 --> 02:14:30,000 WE KEEP WORKING WITH THE SENATE 3689 02:14:30,001 --> 02:14:33,000 TO FULLY UPDATE THEM. 3690 02:14:33,001 --> 02:14:34,000 THIS BILL IS NOT A 3691 02:14:34,001 --> 02:14:36,000 COMPREHENSIVE RE-AUTHORIZATION, 3692 02:14:36,001 --> 02:14:39,000 BUT IT DOES REPRESENT ANOTHER 3693 02:14:39,001 --> 02:14:40,000 STEP TOWARD A MORE PRUDENT 3694 02:14:40,001 --> 02:14:41,000 SOLUTION. 3695 02:14:41,001 --> 02:14:43,000 GIVEN THE VITAL ROLE THAT SMALL 3696 02:14:43,001 --> 02:14:45,000 BUSINESSES PLAY IN OUR ECONOMY, 3697 02:14:45,001 --> 02:14:47,000 WE CANNOT AFFORD ANY OF THE 3698 02:14:47,001 --> 02:14:49,000 S.B.A. SERVICES TO LAPSE. 3699 02:14:49,001 --> 02:14:50,000 I THEREFORE URGE MY COLLEAGUES 3700 02:14:50,001 --> 02:14:53,000 TO VOTE YES AND RESERVE THE 3701 02:14:53,001 --> 02:14:54,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3702 02:14:54,001 --> 02:14:56,000 GENTLEWOMAN RESERVES THE 3703 02:14:56,001 --> 02:14:57,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. 3704 02:14:57,001 --> 02:15:07,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSOURI. 3705 02:15:07,001 --> 02:15:08,000 . 3706 02:15:08,001 --> 02:15:10,000 >> I RISE TO SUPPORT THE RULE. 3707 02:15:10,001 --> 02:15:11,000 THE BILL IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD 3708 02:15:11,001 --> 02:15:12,000 AND CLEAN EXTENSION THAT 3709 02:15:12,001 --> 02:15:14,000 PROLONGS THE AUTHORIZATION OF 3710 02:15:14,001 --> 02:15:15,000 ALL PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED BY THE 3711 02:15:15,001 --> 02:15:16,000 SMALL BUSINESS ACT. 3712 02:15:16,001 --> 02:15:17,000 SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT ACT, 3713 02:15:17,001 --> 02:15:20,000 AND ANY PROGRAM OPERATED BY THE 3714 02:15:20,001 --> 02:15:21,000 SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3715 02:15:21,001 --> 02:15:22,000 WHICH CONGRESS HAS ALREADY 3716 02:15:22,001 --> 02:15:24,000 APPROPRIATED THE FUNDS. 3717 02:15:24,001 --> 02:15:26,000 THIS EXTENSION WILL LAST UNTIL 3718 02:15:26,001 --> 02:15:28,000 APRIL 30, 2010. 3719 02:15:28,001 --> 02:15:29,000 THIS LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL 3720 02:15:29,001 --> 02:15:31,000 BECAUSE AUTHORIZATION FOR 3721 02:15:31,001 --> 02:15:33,000 VARIOUS PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE 3722 02:15:33,001 --> 02:15:34,000 S.B.A. EXPIRES ON JANUARY 31 OF 3723 02:15:34,001 --> 02:15:36,000 THIS YEAR. 3724 02:15:36,001 --> 02:15:38,000 OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS OUR 3725 02:15:38,001 --> 02:15:39,000 COMMITTEE HAS WORKED IN A 3726 02:15:39,001 --> 02:15:42,000 BIPARTISAN FASHION REPORTED OUT 3727 02:15:42,001 --> 02:15:45,000 A NUMBER OF BILLS TO 3728 02:15:45,001 --> 02:15:49,000 RE-AUTHORIZE AND EXTEND PROGRAMS 3729 02:15:49,001 --> 02:15:50,000 AT THE S.B.A., THE EXTENSION 3730 02:15:50,001 --> 02:15:51,000 PASSED LATE LAST YEAR WILL 3731 02:15:51,001 --> 02:15:54,000 EXPIRE BEFORE THE LEMMING 3732 02:15:54,001 --> 02:15:56,000 PROCESS CAN RUN ITS COURSE. 3733 02:15:56,001 --> 02:15:59,000 WITHOUT ENACTMENT OF THIS 3734 02:15:59,001 --> 02:16:00,000 EXTENSION, A VITAL NUMBER OF 3735 02:16:00,001 --> 02:16:01,000 PROGRAMS THAT THE S.B.A. 3736 02:16:01,001 --> 02:16:03,000 OPERATES WOULD CEASE TO FINANCIAL. 3737 02:16:03,001 --> 02:16:07,000 GIVEN THE CONTINUED IMPORTANCE 3738 02:16:07,001 --> 02:16:09,000 OF THE SMALL BUSINESS -- 3739 02:16:09,001 --> 02:16:10,000 BUSINESSES PLAY IN THE 3740 02:16:10,001 --> 02:16:11,000 REVITALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN 3741 02:16:11,001 --> 02:16:12,000 ECONOMY, WE SIMPLY CANNOT ALLOW 3742 02:16:12,001 --> 02:16:13,000 THE S.B.A. AUTHORIZATIONS TO RUN 3743 02:16:13,001 --> 02:16:15,000 OUT. 3744 02:16:15,001 --> 02:16:16,000 THE WORK NEEDED TO HELP 3745 02:16:16,001 --> 02:16:17,000 AMERICA'S ENTREPRENEURS 3746 02:16:17,001 --> 02:16:18,000 REVITALIZE THE ECONOMY SIMPLY 3747 02:16:18,001 --> 02:16:19,000 CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT 3748 02:16:19,001 --> 02:16:21,000 THE TIME FRAME -- WITHIN THE 3749 02:16:21,001 --> 02:16:25,000 TIME FRAME OUTLINED IN THE 3750 02:16:25,001 --> 02:16:27,000 CURRENT LEGISLATION. 3751 02:16:27,001 --> 02:16:28,000 WE NOT ONLY NEED TO RE-AUTHORIZE 3752 02:16:28,001 --> 02:16:30,000 THESE CRITICAL PROGRAMS, BUT 3753 02:16:30,001 --> 02:16:31,000 ALSO UPDATE THEM TO RESPOND TO 3754 02:16:31,001 --> 02:16:33,000 NEW ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. 3755 02:16:33,001 --> 02:16:35,000 THE EXTRA TIME CONTAINED IN THIS 3756 02:16:35,001 --> 02:16:37,000 LEGISLATION ALLOWS US TO FULLY 3757 02:16:37,001 --> 02:16:40,000 EXPLORE AND IMPLEMENT THE IDEAS 3758 02:16:40,001 --> 02:16:41,000 THAT WILL GIVE OUR NATION THE 3759 02:16:41,001 --> 02:16:42,000 ENTREPRENEURS THE TOOLS THEY 3760 02:16:42,001 --> 02:16:43,000 NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. 3761 02:16:43,001 --> 02:16:44,000 PASSAGE OF THIS LEGISLATION WILL 3762 02:16:44,001 --> 02:16:47,000 ENABLE THE HOUSE AND SENATE TO 3763 02:16:47,001 --> 02:16:48,000 CONTINUE TO WORK IN A MANNER TO 3764 02:16:48,001 --> 02:16:50,000 ADDRESS NECESSARY CHANGES TO S.B.A. PROGRAMS. 3765 02:16:50,001 --> 02:16:52,000 I URGE ALL MY COLLEAGUES TO 3766 02:16:52,001 --> 02:16:53,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 3767 02:16:53,001 --> 02:16:54,000 4508. 3768 02:16:54,001 --> 02:16:55,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I RESERVE THE 3769 02:16:55,001 --> 02:16:57,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 3770 02:16:57,001 --> 02:16:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO MPORE: THE 3771 02:16:58,001 --> 02:16:59,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 3772 02:16:59,001 --> 02:17:00,000 OF HIS TIME. 3773 02:17:00,001 --> 02:17:01,000 THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. 3774 02:17:01,001 --> 02:17:02,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: MADAM SPEAKER, I 3775 02:17:02,001 --> 02:17:05,000 YIELD AS MUCH TI AS HE MAY 3776 02:17:05,001 --> 02:17:06,000 CONSUME, MR. DAVID WU FROM OREGON. 3777 02:17:06,001 --> 02:17:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3778 02:17:07,001 --> 02:17:08,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OREGON IS 3779 02:17:08,001 --> 02:17:09,000 RECOGNIZED. 3780 02:17:09,001 --> 02:17:10,000 MR. WU: THANK YOU, MADAM 3781 02:17:10,001 --> 02:17:12,000 SPEAKER. 3782 02:17:12,001 --> 02:17:16,000 I RISE IN SOMEWHAT RELUCTANT 3783 02:17:16,001 --> 02:17:18,000 SUPPO OF THIS LEGISLATION. 3784 02:17:18,001 --> 02:17:19,000 WHICH TEMPORARILY, AMONG OTHER 3785 02:17:19,001 --> 02:17:20,000 THINGS, EXTENDS THE SMALL 3786 02:17:20,001 --> 02:17:22,000 BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND 3787 02:17:22,001 --> 02:17:23,000 SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY 3788 02:17:23,001 --> 02:17:26,000 TRANSFER PROGRAMS. 3789 02:17:26,001 --> 02:17:27,000 THE TRUTH IS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE 3790 02:17:27,001 --> 02:17:28,000 RE-AUTHORIZED THESE PROGRAMS 3791 02:17:28,001 --> 02:17:30,000 LONG AGO. 3792 02:17:30,001 --> 02:17:32,000 AND WE SHOULD NOT BE DRAGGING 3793 02:17:32,001 --> 02:17:34,000 THIS PROCESS OUT, BUT THAT IS 3794 02:17:34,001 --> 02:17:35,000 NOT A PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IN 3795 02:17:35,001 --> 02:17:39,000 THIS CHAMBER. 3796 02:17:39,001 --> 02:17:41,000 IT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT 3797 02:17:41,001 --> 02:17:42,000 BECAUSE THESE INNOVATION 3798 02:17:42,001 --> 02:17:44,000 PROGRAMS INVEST IN SMALL 3799 02:17:44,001 --> 02:17:46,000 BUSINESSES, THE ONES BEST 3800 02:17:46,001 --> 02:17:49,000 POSITIONED TO DRIVE ECONOMIC 3801 02:17:49,001 --> 02:17:51,000 GROWTH AND TO CREATE NEW JOBS. 3802 02:17:51,001 --> 02:17:53,000 INNOVATION IS THE KEY TO 3803 02:17:53,001 --> 02:17:55,000 RESUSCITATING OUR ALIEN ECONOMY 3804 02:17:55,001 --> 02:17:57,000 AND TO CREATING GOOD FAMILY-WAGE 3805 02:17:57,001 --> 02:17:58,000 JOBS FOR THE AMERICAN MIDDLE 3806 02:17:58,001 --> 02:18:02,000 CLASS. 3807 02:18:02,001 --> 02:18:04,000 BY INVESTING IN INNOVATION, SBIR 3808 02:18:04,001 --> 02:18:06,000 AND SPTR CREATE MORE THAN 3809 02:18:06,001 --> 02:18:08,000 GOOD-PAYING JOBS, THEY ENCOURAGE 3810 02:18:08,001 --> 02:18:09,000 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GROWTH 3811 02:18:09,001 --> 02:18:11,000 INDUSTRIES. 3812 02:18:11,001 --> 02:18:16,000 AND THAT, MADAM SPEAKER, IS WHAT 3813 02:18:16,001 --> 02:18:18,000 OUR NATION NEEDS MOST. 3814 02:18:18,001 --> 02:18:21,000 APPLE, MICROSOFT, RESEARCH IN 3815 02:18:21,001 --> 02:18:23,000 MOTION L STARTED OUT AS 3816 02:18:23,001 --> 02:18:25,000 CUTTING-EDGE SMALL BUSINESSES. 3817 02:18:25,001 --> 02:18:27,000 THESE CREATIVE HIGH-TECH 3818 02:18:27,001 --> 02:18:31,000 COMPANIES SPURRED NEW 3819 02:18:31,001 --> 02:18:32,000 INDUSTRIES, NEW JOBS, NEW 3820 02:18:32,001 --> 02:18:33,000 TECHNOLOGIES THAT NOW EMPLOY 3821 02:18:33,001 --> 02:18:34,000 HUNDRS OF THOUSANDS OF 3822 02:18:34,001 --> 02:18:39,000 AMERICANS. 3823 02:18:39,001 --> 02:18:42,000 BY FACILITATING CREATIVE 3824 02:18:42,001 --> 02:18:45,000 RENEWAL, SBIP AND SPTR ARE NO 3825 02:18:45,001 --> 02:18:47,000 ONLY HELPING GUIDE OUR ECONOMY 3826 02:18:47,001 --> 02:18:48,000 OUT OF RECESSION, THEY ARE 3827 02:18:48,001 --> 02:18:52,000 BUILDING OUR NATION'S CAPACITY 3828 02:18:52,001 --> 02:18:54,000 TO THRIVE IN A VERY COMPETITIVE 3829 02:18:54,001 --> 02:18:57,000 GLOBAL ECONOMY. 3830 02:18:57,001 --> 02:18:59,000 SBIR AND SPTR HAVE A PROVEN 3831 02:18:59,001 --> 02:19:00,000 TRACK RECORD OF OVER 25 YEARS 3832 02:19:00,001 --> 02:19:03,000 SUCCESS IN CREATING GOOD-PAYING 3833 02:19:03,001 --> 02:19:04,000 JOBS IN HIGH-GROWTH INDUSTRIES 3834 02:19:04,001 --> 02:19:06,000 AND WE MUST CONTINUE OUR 3835 02:19:06,001 --> 02:19:08,000 COMMITMENT TO THESE PROGRAMS AND 3836 02:19:08,001 --> 02:19:11,000 RE-AUTHORIZE THEM IMMEDIATELY. 3837 02:19:11,001 --> 02:19:14,000 BUT WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO FUEL 3838 02:19:14,001 --> 02:19:15,000 THE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY WITH 3839 02:19:15,001 --> 02:19:19,000 20TH CENTURY PROGRAMS. 3840 02:19:19,001 --> 02:19:21,000 WE MUST MODERNIZE SBIR AND SPTR 3841 02:19:21,001 --> 02:19:22,000 SO THEY CAN MEET THEIR POTENTIAL 3842 02:19:22,001 --> 02:19:24,000 AS INNOVATION KATJA LISTS. 3843 02:19:24,001 --> 02:19:27,000 SOME OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE 3844 02:19:27,001 --> 02:19:29,000 SIMPLE LIKE MAKING AWARDS MORE 3845 02:19:29,001 --> 02:19:31,000 REFLECTIVE OF TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY 3846 02:19:31,001 --> 02:19:33,000 DEVELOPMENT COSTS. 3847 02:19:33,001 --> 02:19:35,000 OTHERS LIKE ENSURING THAT OUR 3848 02:19:35,001 --> 02:19:36,000 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES ARE 3849 02:19:36,001 --> 02:19:38,000 ELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC INVESTMENTS 3850 02:19:38,001 --> 02:19:40,000 REGARDLESS OF THEIR CAPITAL 3851 02:19:40,001 --> 02:19:41,000 STRUCTURE REQUIRE A MORE NUANCED 3852 02:19:41,001 --> 02:19:43,000 APPROACH. 3853 02:19:43,001 --> 02:19:45,000 THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3854 02:19:45,001 --> 02:19:48,000 COMMITTEE AND THE SMALL BUSINESS 3855 02:19:48,001 --> 02:19:49,000 COMMITTEE LED BY MY COLLEAGUE 3856 02:19:49,001 --> 02:19:50,000 CHAIRWOMAN VELAZQUEZ HAVE BEEN 3857 02:19:50,001 --> 02:19:51,000 WORKING HARD WITH OUR SENATE 3858 02:19:51,001 --> 02:19:54,000 COLLEAGUES TO STRIKE THE RIGHT 3859 02:19:54,001 --> 02:19:56,000 BALANCE FOR THESE IMPROVEMENTS. 3860 02:19:56,001 --> 02:19:58,000 WE ARE NOT THERE YET, BUT I AM 3861 02:19:58,001 --> 02:20:00,000 CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL GET THERE. 3862 02:20:00,001 --> 02:20:04,000 IN THE MEANTIME, WE MUST PASS 3863 02:20:04,001 --> 02:20:05,000 TODAY'S TEMPORARY EXTENSION. 3864 02:20:05,001 --> 02:20:07,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I URGE SUPPORT OF 3865 02:20:07,001 --> 02:20:08,000 THIS BILL AND ITS SWIFT PASSAGE. 3866 02:20:08,001 --> 02:20:10,000 THANK YOU. 3867 02:20:10,001 --> 02:20:12,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 3868 02:20:12,001 --> 02:20:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3869 02:20:13,001 --> 02:20:14,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 3870 02:20:14,001 --> 02:20:15,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSOURI. 3871 02:20:15,001 --> 02:20:16,000 MR. GRAVES: THANK YOU, MADAM 3872 02:20:16,001 --> 02:20:17,000 SPEAKER. 3873 02:20:17,001 --> 02:20:18,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THE WORDS 3874 02:20:18,001 --> 02:20:19,000 OF THE GENTLEMAN FROM OREGON. 3875 02:20:19,001 --> 02:20:21,000 IT'S NOT THIS CHAMBER'S FAULT WE 3876 02:20:21,001 --> 02:20:23,000 HAVE TO PASS AN EXTENSION 3877 02:20:23,001 --> 02:20:26,000 RE-AUTHORIZATION SHOULD BE FUNNISHED BY NOW. 3878 02:20:26,001 --> 02:20:28,000 BUT I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR 3879 02:20:28,001 --> 02:20:29,000 WOMAN FOR ALL HER WORK AND THE 3880 02:20:29,001 --> 02:20:31,000 COMMITTEE AND THE WORK THAT WE 3881 02:20:31,001 --> 02:20:33,000 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH SO 3882 02:20:33,001 --> 02:20:34,000 FAR OUT OF COMMITTEE 3883 02:20:34,001 --> 02:20:36,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 3884 02:20:36,001 --> 02:20:37,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3885 02:20:37,001 --> 02:20:38,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 3886 02:20:38,001 --> 02:20:39,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK. 3887 02:20:39,001 --> 02:20:42,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: MADAM SPEAKER, I 3888 02:20:42,001 --> 02:20:43,000 YIELD BACK. 3889 02:20:43,001 --> 02:20:44,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3890 02:20:44,001 --> 02:20:47,000 QUESTION WILL BE THE HOUSE 3891 02:20:47,001 --> 02:20:48,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 3892 02:20:48,001 --> 02:20:49,000 4508, SO MANY AS ARE IN FAVOR 3893 02:20:49,001 --> 02:20:51,000 SAY AYE. 3894 02:20:51,001 --> 02:20:53,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 3895 02:20:53,001 --> 02:20:54,000 IN THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR, 2/3 3896 02:20:54,001 --> 02:20:55,000 OF THOSE VOTING HAVING RESPONDED 3897 02:20:55,001 --> 02:20:56,000 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES 3898 02:20:56,001 --> 02:20:57,000 ARE SUSPENDED, THE BILL IS 3899 02:20:57,001 --> 02:20:58,000 PASSED, AND WITHOUT OBJECTION 3900 02:20:58,001 --> 02:21:00,000 THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID 3901 02:21:00,001 --> 02:21:01,000 UPON THE TABLE. 3902 02:21:01,001 --> 02:21:03,000 MS. VELAZQUEZ: I ASK FOR A 3903 02:21:03,001 --> 02:21:06,000 RECORDED VOTE. 3904 02:21:06,001 --> 02:21:07,000 I ASK FOR THE YEAS AND NAYS. 3905 02:21:07,001 --> 02:21:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3906 02:21:08,001 --> 02:21:09,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 3907 02:21:09,001 --> 02:21:10,000 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TAKING 3908 02:21:10,001 --> 02:21:11,000 THIS VOTE BY THE YEAS AND NAYS 3909 02:21:11,001 --> 02:21:15,000 WILL RISE AND REMAIN STANDING 3910 02:21:15,001 --> 02:21:16,000 UNTIL COUNTED. 3911 02:21:16,001 --> 02:21:17,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING 3912 02:21:17,001 --> 02:21:18,000 ARISEN, THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE 3913 02:21:18,001 --> 02:21:19,000 ORDERED. 3914 02:21:19,001 --> 02:21:21,000 PURSUANT TO CLAU 8 OF RULE 20, 3915 02:21:21,001 --> 02:21:22,000 THE CHAIR'S PRIOR ANNOUNCEMENT, 3916 02:21:22,001 --> 02:21:52,000 FURTHER PROCEEDINGS ON THIS 3917 02:21:52,001 --> 02:21:53,000 MOTION WILL BE POSTPONED. 3918 02:21:53,001 --> 02:21:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 3919 02:21:54,001 --> 02:21:55,000 WHAT PURPOSE DS THE 3920 02:21:55,001 --> 02:21:56,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 3921 02:21:56,001 --> 02:21:57,000 ISLANDS RISE? 3922 02:21:57,001 --> 02:21:58,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: MADAM SPEAKER, 3923 02:21:58,001 --> 02:22:01,000 I MOVE TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND 3924 02:22:01,001 --> 02:22:02,000 PASS HOUSE RESOLUTION 10. 3925 02:22:02,001 --> 02:22:03,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3926 02:22:03,001 --> 02:22:04,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF THE RESOLUTION. 3927 02:22:04,001 --> 02:22:06,000 THE CLERK: HOUSE RESOLUTION 3928 02:22:06,001 --> 02:22:09,000 1020, RESOLUTION HONORING THE 3929 02:22:09,001 --> 02:22:10,000 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING 3930 02:22:10,001 --> 02:22:12,000 OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL 3931 02:22:12,001 --> 02:22:13,000 PARK ACT. 3932 02:22:13,001 --> 02:22:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 3933 02:22:14,001 --> 02:22:15,000 PURSUANT TO THE RULE, THE 3934 02:22:15,001 --> 02:22:17,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 3935 02:22:17,001 --> 02:22:18,000 ISLANDS, MRS. CHRISTENSEN, AND 3936 02:22:18,001 --> 02:22:19,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON, 3937 02:22:19,001 --> 02:22:20,000 MR. HASTINGS, WILL EACH CONTROL 3938 02:22:20,001 --> 02:22:22,000 20 MINUTES. 3939 02:22:22,001 --> 02:22:23,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 3940 02:22:23,001 --> 02:22:24,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 3941 02:22:24,001 --> 02:22:25,000 ISLANDS. 3942 02:22:25,001 --> 02:22:26,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, 3943 02:22:26,001 --> 02:22:27,000 MADAM SPEAKER. 3944 02:22:27,001 --> 02:22:28,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ALL 3945 02:22:28,001 --> 02:22:29,000 MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE 3946 02:22:29,001 --> 02:22:32,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 3947 02:22:32,001 --> 02:22:33,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND INCLUDE 3948 02:22:33,001 --> 02:22:35,000 EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL ON THE 3949 02:22:35,001 --> 02:22:37,000 RESOLUTION UNDER CONSIDERATION. 3950 02:22:37,001 --> 02:22:41,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 3951 02:22:41,001 --> 02:22:42,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU. 3952 02:22:42,001 --> 02:22:43,000 I YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I 3953 02:22:43,001 --> 02:22:44,000 MAY CONSUME. 3954 02:22:44,001 --> 02:22:45,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THIS RESOLUTION 3955 02:22:45,001 --> 02:22:46,000 TO HONOR THE 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF 3956 02:22:46,001 --> 02:22:47,000 THE 3957 02:22:47,001 --> 02:22:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:ING OF 3958 02:22:48,001 --> 02:22:49,000 THE ACT THAT CREATED ROCKY 3959 02:22:49,001 --> 02:22:51,000 MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK WAS 3960 02:22:51,001 --> 02:22:52,000 INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE 3961 02:22:52,001 --> 02:22:55,000 BETSY MARKEY AND THE ENTIRE 3962 02:22:55,001 --> 02:22:56,000 COLORADO DELEGATION. 3963 02:22:56,001 --> 02:22:59,000 PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON SIGNED 3964 02:22:59,001 --> 02:23:01,000 THE ACT ON JANUARY 26, 1915 3965 02:23:01,001 --> 02:23:03,000 CREATING A PARK THAT PRESERVES A 3966 02:23:03,001 --> 02:23:05,000 REMARKABLE BEAUTY OF SOME OF THE 3967 02:23:05,001 --> 02:23:06,000 HIGHEST PEAKS IN THE CONTINENTAL 3968 02:23:06,001 --> 02:23:08,000 UNITED STATES. 3969 02:23:08,001 --> 02:23:09,000 SOME THREE MILLION PEOPLE VISIT 3970 02:23:09,001 --> 02:23:11,000 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK 3971 02:23:11,001 --> 02:23:13,000 EACH YEAR, MAKING IT ONE OF THE 3972 02:23:13,001 --> 02:23:15,000 TOP 10 MOST VISITED PARKS, 3973 02:23:15,001 --> 02:23:17,000 NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UNITED STATES. 3974 02:23:17,001 --> 02:23:19,000 AND IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR, 3975 02:23:19,001 --> 02:23:20,000 CONGRESS PASSED AND PRESIDENT 3976 02:23:20,001 --> 02:23:22,000 OBAMA SIGNED LEGISLATION 3977 02:23:22,001 --> 02:23:24,000 DESIGNATING MUCH OF THE PARK'S 3978 02:23:24,001 --> 02:23:25,000 MAJESTIC TERRAIN AS WILDERNESS. 3979 02:23:25,001 --> 02:23:28,000 MARKING THE CULMINATION OF 3980 02:23:28,001 --> 02:23:29,000 DECADES OF WORK BY MANY 3981 02:23:29,001 --> 02:23:30,000 COMMITTED PARK SUPPORTERS. 3982 02:23:30,001 --> 02:23:32,000 THEREFORE, MADAM SPEAKER, IT'S 3983 02:23:32,001 --> 02:23:34,000 APPROPRIATE TO MARK THIS 3984 02:23:34,001 --> 02:23:37,000 IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY FROM ROCKY 3985 02:23:37,001 --> 02:23:38,000 MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK AND I 3986 02:23:38,001 --> 02:23:39,000 COMMEND REPRESENTATIVE MARKEY 3987 02:23:39,001 --> 02:23:40,000 FOR INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION. 3988 02:23:40,001 --> 02:23:43,000 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT 3989 02:23:43,001 --> 02:23:44,000 THE PASSAGE OF THIS MEASURE AND 3990 02:23:44,001 --> 02:23:45,000 I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 3991 02:23:45,001 --> 02:23:48,000 TIME. 3992 02:23:48,001 --> 02:23:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 3993 02:23:49,001 --> 02:23:50,000 GENTLELADY RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HER TIME. 3994 02:23:50,001 --> 02:23:51,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS 3995 02:23:51,001 --> 02:23:53,000 RECOGNIZED. 3996 02:23:53,001 --> 02:23:55,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER -- 3997 02:23:55,001 --> 02:23:57,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I YIELD MYSELF 15 SECONDS. 3998 02:23:57,001 --> 02:23:59,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 1020 HAS BEEN ADEQUATELY EXPLAINED BY THE 3999 02:23:59,001 --> 02:24:03,000 MAJORITY AND WE HAVE NO 4000 02:24:03,001 --> 02:24:04,000 OBJECTION TO THIS RESOLUTION. 4001 02:24:04,001 --> 02:24:05,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4002 02:24:05,001 --> 02:24:09,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 4003 02:24:09,001 --> 02:24:11,000 ISLANDS IS RECOGNIZED. 4004 02:24:11,001 --> 02:24:15,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: MADAM SPEAKER, 4005 02:24:15,001 --> 02:24:17,000 THIS BILL AS WE SAID IS -- THIS 4006 02:24:17,001 --> 02:24:18,000 RESOLUTION IS AN IMPORTANT 4007 02:24:18,001 --> 02:24:20,000 RESOLUTION MARKING THE 4008 02:24:20,001 --> 02:24:22,000 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROCKY 4009 02:24:22,001 --> 02:24:24,000 MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4010 02:24:24,001 --> 02:24:28,000 I HAD HOPED I WOULD HAVE ANOTHER 4011 02:24:28,001 --> 02:24:30,000 SPEAKER. 4012 02:24:30,001 --> 02:24:33,000 AT THIS TIME, MADAM SPEAKER, NOT 4013 02:24:33,001 --> 02:24:34,000 SEEING ANY OTHER SPEAKERS ON MY 4014 02:24:34,001 --> 02:24:37,000 SIDE, I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE 4015 02:24:37,001 --> 02:24:38,000 OF MY TIME. 4016 02:24:38,001 --> 02:24:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4017 02:24:39,001 --> 02:24:40,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS RECOGNIZED. 4018 02:24:40,001 --> 02:24:42,000 MR. HASTINGS: I YIELD BACK MY 4019 02:24:42,001 --> 02:24:43,000 TIME ALSO, MADAM SPEAKER. 4020 02:24:43,001 --> 02:24:44,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4021 02:24:44,001 --> 02:24:48,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 4022 02:24:48,001 --> 02:24:49,000 ISLANDS. 4023 02:24:49,001 --> 02:24:52,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: I YIELDED 4024 02:24:52,001 --> 02:24:54,000 BACK. 4025 02:24:54,001 --> 02:24:55,000 MR. HASTINGS: MADAM SPEAKER. 4026 02:24:55,001 --> 02:24:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4027 02:24:56,001 --> 02:24:57,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON ASK 4028 02:24:57,001 --> 02:24:58,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO RECLAIM HIS TIME. 4029 02:24:58,001 --> 02:25:00,000 MR. HASTINGS: I ASK UNANIMOUS 4030 02:25:00,001 --> 02:25:02,000 CONSENT TO RECLAIM MY TIME AND UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE 4031 02:25:02,001 --> 02:25:05,000 GENTLELADY FROM THE VIRGIN 4032 02:25:05,001 --> 02:25:06,000 ISLANDS HAS HER TIME ALSO. 4033 02:25:06,001 --> 02:25:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ANY OBJECTION? 4034 02:25:08,001 --> 02:25:09,000 SEEING NONE. 4035 02:25:09,001 --> 02:25:10,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: I HAVE NO 4036 02:25:10,001 --> 02:25:11,000 OBJECTION. 4037 02:25:11,001 --> 02:25:12,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4038 02:25:12,001 --> 02:25:13,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS RECOGNIZED. 4039 02:25:13,001 --> 02:25:15,000 MR. HASTINGS: I'M PLEASED TO 4040 02:25:15,001 --> 02:25:16,000 YIELD TWO MINUTES TO THE 4041 02:25:16,001 --> 02:25:18,000 GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA. 4042 02:25:18,001 --> 02:25:19,000 SUCH TIME HE MAY CONSUME. 4043 02:25:19,001 --> 02:25:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4044 02:25:20,001 --> 02:25:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA IS 4045 02:25:21,001 --> 02:25:22,000 YIELDED AS MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 4046 02:25:22,001 --> 02:25:23,000 MR. KINGSTON: I THANK THE 4047 02:25:23,001 --> 02:25:25,000 SPEAKER AND THE GENTLEMAN FROM 4048 02:25:25,001 --> 02:25:27,000 WASHINGTON AND THE GENTLEWOMAN 4049 02:25:27,001 --> 02:25:29,000 FROM THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. 4050 02:25:29,001 --> 02:25:30,000 I HAD A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS 4051 02:25:30,001 --> 02:25:33,000 BILL BECAUSE I HAVE SPENT SO 4052 02:25:33,001 --> 02:25:34,000 MANY WONDERFUL HOURS AT THE 4053 02:25:34,001 --> 02:25:35,000 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4054 02:25:35,001 --> 02:25:39,000 MY FAMILY HAS BEEN GOING THERE 4055 02:25:39,001 --> 02:25:41,000 OFF AND ON FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS, 4056 02:25:41,001 --> 02:25:43,000 ABOUT ONCE A YEAR. 4057 02:25:43,001 --> 02:25:44,000 I CAN TELL YOU THERE IS NOT A 4058 02:25:44,001 --> 02:25:46,000 GREATER PLAYGROUND IN THE UNITED 4059 02:25:46,001 --> 02:25:49,000 STATES OF AMERICA IF YOU LIKE 4060 02:25:49,001 --> 02:25:51,000 THE OUTDOORS, IF YOU LIKE ELK, 4061 02:25:51,001 --> 02:25:52,000 IF YOU LIKE MULE DEER, IF YOU 4062 02:25:52,001 --> 02:25:53,000 LIKE FAMILY. 4063 02:25:53,001 --> 02:25:55,000 IF YOU LIKE TO GET OUT AND 4064 02:25:55,001 --> 02:25:59,000 EXERCISE AND DO THE FRESH AIR. 4065 02:25:59,001 --> 02:26:01,000 I HAVE HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF 4066 02:26:01,001 --> 02:26:05,000 HIKING UP LONG PEAK THREE TIMES 4067 02:26:05,001 --> 02:26:07,000 AND THOSE OF YOU OUT WEST ARE 4068 02:26:07,001 --> 02:26:10,000 VERY FAMILIAR. 4069 02:26:10,001 --> 02:26:13,000 FOR SOMEBODY WHO COMES FROM ZERO 4070 02:26:13,001 --> 02:26:15,000 SEA LEVEL IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 4071 02:26:15,001 --> 02:26:18,000 TO GO 14,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE UP 4072 02:26:18,001 --> 02:26:20,000 IN THE TUN BRA, TUNDRA STARTS AT 4073 02:26:20,001 --> 02:26:21,000 11,000, IT IS SUCH A GREAT 4074 02:26:21,001 --> 02:26:23,000 THRILL TO GO THROUGH THE KEY 4075 02:26:23,001 --> 02:26:25,000 HOLE, TO GO THROUGH THE NARROWS, 4076 02:26:25,001 --> 02:26:28,000 TO GO THROUGH THE BOULDER FIELD 4077 02:26:28,001 --> 02:26:30,000 TO GET ON THE SUMMIT OF LONG 4078 02:26:30,001 --> 02:26:32,000 PEEK AND -- PEAK AND LOOK OUT 4079 02:26:32,001 --> 02:26:35,000 FOR MILES AND MILES. 4080 02:26:35,001 --> 02:26:41,000 I ALSO CLIMBED FLAT TOP 4081 02:26:41,001 --> 02:26:42,000 MOUNTAIN, OTIS, EPISLON MOUNTAIN 4082 02:26:42,001 --> 02:26:44,000 AND OTHERS. SO MANY TIMES DOING THAT I HAVE 4083 02:26:44,001 --> 02:26:46,000 DONE IT WITH MY FAMILY, MY 4084 02:26:46,001 --> 02:26:49,000 COUSINS, MY SMALL CHILDREN, NOW MY GROWN CHILDREN. 4085 02:26:49,001 --> 02:26:50,000 I HAD A COUPLE OF THEM UP ON 4086 02:26:50,001 --> 02:26:52,000 LONG WITH ME. 4087 02:26:52,001 --> 02:26:54,000 MY MOTHER WHO IS NOW IN HER 80'S 4088 02:26:54,001 --> 02:26:57,000 WAS THE ONE WHO FIRST GOT 4089 02:26:57,001 --> 02:26:58,000 ADDICTED TO ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4090 02:26:58,001 --> 02:27:00,000 WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY MANY 4091 02:27:00,001 --> 02:27:01,000 YEARS AGO TO GO TO CABIN LAKE 4092 02:27:01,001 --> 02:27:02,000 TOGETHER. 4093 02:27:02,001 --> 02:27:05,000 I REMEMBER MY MOTHER WAS 4094 02:27:05,001 --> 02:27:06,000 PROBABLY IN HER 70'S AT THE 4095 02:27:06,001 --> 02:27:07,000 TIME. 4096 02:27:07,001 --> 02:27:09,000 BUT THAT IS A GREAT HIKE. 4097 02:27:09,001 --> 02:27:12,000 THEY ACTUALLY RATE HIKES IN 4098 02:27:12,001 --> 02:27:13,000 TERMS OF A, B, AND C. 4099 02:27:13,001 --> 02:27:16,000 A, THE MOST DIFFICULT. 4100 02:27:16,001 --> 02:27:18,000 C BEING MODERATELY TOUGH HIKE. 4101 02:27:18,001 --> 02:27:20,000 AND CABIN LAKE IS ONE OF THOSE. 4102 02:27:20,001 --> 02:27:22,000 MY MOTHER HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE 4103 02:27:22,001 --> 02:27:25,000 ROCKIES AS HAS MY SISTER, JEAN. 4104 02:27:25,001 --> 02:27:27,000 BOTH IN SNOWSHOES, BOTH IN 4105 02:27:27,001 --> 02:27:29,000 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS AND TENNIS 4106 02:27:29,001 --> 02:27:31,000 SHOES AND HIKING BOOTS. 4107 02:27:31,001 --> 02:27:35,000 I HAVE GONE TROUT FISHING THERE 4108 02:27:35,001 --> 02:27:36,000 MANY TIMES WITH MY CHILDHOOD 4109 02:27:36,001 --> 02:27:40,000 FRIEND. 4110 02:27:40,001 --> 02:27:42,000 AND IT KIND OF DISCOURAGEDING 4111 02:27:42,001 --> 02:27:44,000 FOR ME TO RELEASE TROUT BUT I 4112 02:27:44,001 --> 02:27:45,000 UNDERSTAND THE BIG PICTURE. 4113 02:27:45,001 --> 02:27:48,000 IT HAS BEEN FUN. 4114 02:27:48,001 --> 02:27:51,000 I PHOTOGRAPHED ELK AND THE DEER 4115 02:27:51,001 --> 02:27:53,000 AND LOOK FOR MARMUTS ON THE PEAK 4116 02:27:53,001 --> 02:27:54,000 AND I CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH 4117 02:27:54,001 --> 02:27:57,000 WHAT A GREAT VISION THAT MILLS 4118 02:27:57,001 --> 02:27:58,000 HAD, WHO IS THE FATHER OF THE 4119 02:27:58,001 --> 02:28:01,000 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, 4120 02:28:01,001 --> 02:28:02,000 WHEN HE PROMOTED THIS TO BECOME 4121 02:28:02,001 --> 02:28:05,000 A NATIONAL PARK. 4122 02:28:05,001 --> 02:28:08,000 IT WAS HIS VISION, TISS BROTHER 4123 02:28:08,001 --> 02:28:09,000 JOE MILLS ALSO WAS -- HIS 4124 02:28:09,001 --> 02:28:11,000 BROTHER JOE MILLS WAS ALSO A 4125 02:28:11,001 --> 02:28:12,000 VERY PASSIONATE LOVER OF ROCKY 4126 02:28:12,001 --> 02:28:15,000 MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4127 02:28:15,001 --> 02:28:17,000 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET 4128 02:28:17,001 --> 02:28:21,000 ENIS MILLS' DAUGHTER. 4129 02:28:21,001 --> 02:28:22,000 I AM SORRY TO RANT AND RAEF ON A 4130 02:28:22,001 --> 02:28:24,000 PERSONAL BAY -- RAVE ON A 4131 02:28:24,001 --> 02:28:25,000 PERSONAL BASIS ABOUT SOMETHING, 4132 02:28:25,001 --> 02:28:26,000 BUT I WANT TO RECOMMEND TO 4133 02:28:26,001 --> 02:28:28,000 ANYBODY IN CONGRESS AND ANYBODY 4134 02:28:28,001 --> 02:28:29,000 OUT THERE WHO IS LISTENING WHO 4135 02:28:29,001 --> 02:28:31,000 DOESN'T LIVE IN COLORADO, WHO 4136 02:28:31,001 --> 02:28:32,000 HASN'T BEEN THERE, IT IS A 4137 02:28:32,001 --> 02:28:34,000 WONDERFUL PLACE REGARDLESS OF 4138 02:28:34,001 --> 02:28:35,000 YOUR AGE, REGARDLIES OF YOUR 4139 02:28:35,001 --> 02:28:36,000 INTEREST. 4140 02:28:36,001 --> 02:28:38,000 THERE'S SOMETHING THERE FOR YOU. 4141 02:28:38,001 --> 02:28:40,000 AND, MADAM SPEAKER, IF YOU GUYS 4142 02:28:40,001 --> 02:28:41,000 ARE INTERESTED, AND I CAN TELL 4143 02:28:41,001 --> 02:28:45,000 YOU ARE, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 4144 02:28:45,001 --> 02:28:46,000 YOU TO LET ME COME SHOW YOU MY SLIDES. 4145 02:28:46,001 --> 02:28:48,000 I WILL BE WILLING TO DO THAT. 4146 02:28:48,001 --> 02:28:50,000 WE CAN COME -- YOU-ALL CAN COME 4147 02:28:50,001 --> 02:28:52,000 TO MY OFFICE AND I'LL SHOW YOU 4148 02:28:52,001 --> 02:28:54,000 MY MANY PICTURE ALBUMS BECAUSE 4149 02:28:54,001 --> 02:28:57,000 IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GREAT. 4150 02:28:57,001 --> 02:28:58,000 I'M GLAD WE ARE DOING THIS. 4151 02:28:58,001 --> 02:28:59,000 THERE'S SOME THINGS I THINK 4152 02:28:59,001 --> 02:29:00,000 CONGRESS DOES WELL. 4153 02:29:00,001 --> 02:29:02,000 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 4154 02:29:02,001 --> 02:29:03,000 CERTAINLY IS ONE OF THOSE GREAT 4155 02:29:03,001 --> 02:29:06,000 THINGS THAT CONGRESS HAS DONE ON 4156 02:29:06,001 --> 02:29:07,000 A BIPARTISAN BASIS AND HAVE A 4157 02:29:07,001 --> 02:29:10,000 LOT OF SUPPORT FOR. 4158 02:29:10,001 --> 02:29:12,000 I YIELD BACK AND THANK THE 4159 02:29:12,001 --> 02:29:13,000 GENTLEMAN FOR LETTING ME GO DOWN 4160 02:29:13,001 --> 02:29:15,000 THIS PERSONAL TRAIL TODAY. 4161 02:29:15,001 --> 02:29:16,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMRE: THE 4162 02:29:16,001 --> 02:29:17,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 4163 02:29:17,001 --> 02:29:18,000 THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 4164 02:29:18,001 --> 02:29:19,000 ISLANDS. 4165 02:29:19,001 --> 02:29:20,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 4166 02:29:20,001 --> 02:29:22,000 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK UNANIMOU 4167 02:29:22,001 --> 02:29:23,000 CONSENT TO RECLAIM MY TIME. 4168 02:29:23,001 --> 02:29:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 4169 02:29:24,001 --> 02:29:25,000 OBJECTION. 4170 02:29:25,001 --> 02:29:26,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: AT THIS TIME I 4171 02:29:26,001 --> 02:29:27,000 WOULD LIKE TO YIELD TO 4172 02:29:27,001 --> 02:29:30,000 CONGRESSWOMAN MARKEY SUCH TIME 4173 02:29:30,001 --> 02:29:31,000 AS SHE MIGHT CONSUME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4174 02:29:31,001 --> 02:29:32,000 GENTLEWOMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 4175 02:29:32,001 --> 02:29:34,000 MS. MARKEY: I RISE TODAY TO URGE 4176 02:29:34,001 --> 02:29:36,000 MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE FOR HOUSE 4177 02:29:36,001 --> 02:29:38,000 RESOLUTION 1020 TO HONOR THE 4178 02:29:38,001 --> 02:29:41,000 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRESIDENT 4179 02:29:41,001 --> 02:29:42,000 WOODROW WILSON SIGNING THE ROCKY 4180 02:29:42,001 --> 02:29:44,000 MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4181 02:29:44,001 --> 02:29:45,000 I THANK MY COLLEAGUE FOR HIS 4182 02:29:45,001 --> 02:29:47,000 OFFER FOR SLIDES. 4183 02:29:47,001 --> 02:29:48,000 I WOULD ALSO -- I REPRESENT THIS 4184 02:29:48,001 --> 02:29:50,000 BEAUTIFUL DISTRICT AND I ALSO 4185 02:29:50,001 --> 02:29:52,000 WELCOME ANYONE TO COME AND VISIT 4186 02:29:52,001 --> 02:29:55,000 COLORADO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF 4187 02:29:55,001 --> 02:29:57,000 THIS CROWN JEWEL OF THE WEST. 4188 02:29:57,001 --> 02:30:00,000 THIS LEGISLATION SETASIDE 4189 02:30:00,001 --> 02:30:02,000 ROUGHLY 360 SQUARE MILES OF THE 4190 02:30:02,001 --> 02:30:03,000 SOUTHERN ROCKIES TO ESTABLISH 4191 02:30:03,001 --> 02:30:05,000 ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. 4192 02:30:05,001 --> 02:30:07,000 WHEN THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 4193 02:30:07,001 --> 02:30:10,000 WAS ESTABLISHED, THE FOLLOWING 4194 02:30:10,001 --> 02:30:11,000 YEAR IN 1916, THE PARK WAS ONE 4195 02:30:11,001 --> 02:30:13,000 OF THE ORIGINAL 12 PARKS 4196 02:30:13,001 --> 02:30:14,000 TRANSFERRED TO THE AGENCY'S 4197 02:30:14,001 --> 02:30:16,000 CONTROL. 4198 02:30:16,001 --> 02:30:17,000 TODAY THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN 4199 02:30:17,001 --> 02:30:19,000 NATIONAL PARK REMAINS ONE OF 4200 02:30:19,001 --> 02:30:20,000 COLORADO'S MOST TREASURED 4201 02:30:20,001 --> 02:30:23,000 DESTINATIONS AND IS CONSISTENTLY 4202 02:30:23,001 --> 02:30:24,000 ONE OF THE TOP 10 VISITED 4203 02:30:24,001 --> 02:30:30,000 NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UNITED STATES. 4204 02:30:30,001 --> 02:30:33,000 . 4205 02:30:33,001 --> 02:30:35,000 IT EMBODIES THIS PRESERVATION 4206 02:30:35,001 --> 02:30:36,000 MOVEMENT AT THE TIME OF THE 4207 02:30:36,001 --> 02:30:38,000 CENTURY. 4208 02:30:38,001 --> 02:30:42,000 IT GES TO THE ALPINE TUNDRA 4209 02:30:42,001 --> 02:30:43,000 AND INCLUDES A DIVERSE TERRAIN 4210 02:30:43,001 --> 02:30:45,000 OF FLORA AND FAUNA. 4211 02:30:45,001 --> 02:30:48,000 IT REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST 4212 02:30:48,001 --> 02:30:49,000 EXAMPLE OF THE ALPINE COUNTRY 4213 02:30:49,001 --> 02:30:51,000 ECOSYSTEM IN THE NATIONAL PARK 4214 02:30:51,001 --> 02:30:52,000 SYSTEM IN THE LOWER 48 STATES 4215 02:30:52,001 --> 02:30:54,000 AND OFFERS INVALUABLE 4216 02:30:54,001 --> 02:30:55,000 OPPORTUNITIES FOR VISITORS TO 4217 02:30:55,001 --> 02:30:57,000 LEARN AND ENJOY THE GREAT 4218 02:30:57,001 --> 02:31:01,000 OUTDOORS. 4219 02:31:01,001 --> 02:31:02,000 ON MARCH 30, 2009, 408 SQUARE 4220 02:31:02,001 --> 02:31:05,000 MILES OF THE PARK WAS 4221 02:31:05,001 --> 02:31:06,000 DESIGNATED AS A WILDERNESS AREA 4222 02:31:06,001 --> 02:31:08,000 THEREBY CONFERRING THE HIGHEST 4223 02:31:08,001 --> 02:31:10,000 LEVEL OF CONSERVATION 4224 02:31:10,001 --> 02:31:12,000 PROTECTION FOR FEDERAL LANDS. 4225 02:31:12,001 --> 02:31:14,000 PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT 4226 02:31:14,001 --> 02:31:16,000 ONCE SAID, OF AL THE QUESTIONS 4227 02:31:16,001 --> 02:31:18,000 THAT CAN COME BEFORE THIS 4228 02:31:18,001 --> 02:31:21,000 NATION SHORT OF THE ACTUAL 4229 02:31:21,001 --> 02:31:23,000 PRESERVATION OF THIS EXISTED IN 4230 02:31:23,001 --> 02:31:25,000 A GREAT WAR THERE IS NONE WHICH 4231 02:31:25,001 --> 02:31:27,000 COMPARES IN IMPORTANCE WITH THE 4232 02:31:27,001 --> 02:31:28,000 GREAT CENTRAL TASK OF LEAVING 4233 02:31:28,001 --> 02:31:31,000 THIS LAND EVEN A BETTER LAND 4234 02:31:31,001 --> 02:31:33,000 FOR OUR DESCENDENTS THAT IT WAS 4235 02:31:33,001 --> 02:31:36,000 FOR US. 4236 02:31:36,001 --> 02:31:38,000 THIS WEEK WE CELEBRATE THE 4237 02:31:38,001 --> 02:31:40,000 FORESIGHT OF SO MANY 4238 02:31:40,001 --> 02:31:42,000 CALIFORNIANS TO PRESERVE THIS 4239 02:31:42,001 --> 02:31:43,000 MA JETIC LANDSCAPE FOR FUTURE 4240 02:31:43,001 --> 02:31:44,000 GENERATIONS TO COME. 4241 02:31:44,001 --> 02:31:47,000 I URGE ALL MEMBERS TO SUPPORT 4242 02:31:47,001 --> 02:31:48,000 THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. 4243 02:31:48,001 --> 02:31:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4244 02:31:49,001 --> 02:31:50,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS 4245 02:31:50,001 --> 02:31:52,000 RECOGNIZED. 4246 02:31:52,001 --> 02:31:53,000 MR. HASTINGS: MADAM SPEAKER, I 4247 02:31:53,001 --> 02:31:55,000 REQUIRE IF THE GENTLELADY FROM 4248 02:31:55,001 --> 02:31:56,000 THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAS ANY MORE SPEAKERS? 4249 02:31:56,001 --> 02:31:58,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: I HAVE NO 4250 02:31:58,001 --> 02:31:59,000 MORE SPEAKERS. 4251 02:31:59,001 --> 02:32:00,000 MR. HASTINGS: I YIELD BACK THE 4252 02:32:00,001 --> 02:32:01,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 4253 02:32:01,001 --> 02:32:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4254 02:32:02,001 --> 02:32:03,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 4255 02:32:03,001 --> 02:32:04,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 4256 02:32:04,001 --> 02:32:05,000 ISLANDS IS RECOGNIZED. 4257 02:32:05,001 --> 02:32:06,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: I YIELD BACK 4258 02:32:06,001 --> 02:32:07,000 THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ALL 4259 02:32:07,001 --> 02:32:08,000 TIMETIME BEING YIELDED BACK, 4260 02:32:08,001 --> 02:32:09,000 THE QUESTION IS WILL THE HOUSE 4261 02:32:09,001 --> 02:32:11,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS 4262 02:32:11,001 --> 02:32:12,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 1020. 4263 02:32:12,001 --> 02:32:13,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 4264 02:32:13,001 --> 02:32:14,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 4265 02:32:14,001 --> 02:32:15,000 IN THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR 2/3 4266 02:32:15,001 --> 02:32:16,000 HAVING RESPONDED IN THE 4267 02:32:16,001 --> 02:32:18,000 AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES ARE 4268 02:32:18,001 --> 02:32:19,000 SUSPENDED, THE RESOLUTION IS -- 4269 02:32:19,001 --> 02:32:20,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: MADAM SPEAKER. 4270 02:32:20,001 --> 02:32:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: AGREED 4271 02:32:22,001 --> 02:32:23,000 TO AND WITHOUT OBJECTION THE 4272 02:32:23,001 --> 02:32:24,000 MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID ON 4273 02:32:24,001 --> 02:32:25,000 THE TABLE. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 4274 02:32:25,001 --> 02:32:26,000 GENTLEWOMAN OM THE VIRGIN 4275 02:32:26,001 --> 02:32:27,000 ISLANDS RISE? MRS. CHRISTENSEN: MADAM 4276 02:32:27,001 --> 02:32:28,000 SPEAKER, TO REQUEST THE YEAS AND NAYS. 4277 02:32:28,001 --> 02:32:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4278 02:32:31,001 --> 02:32:32,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 4279 02:32:32,001 --> 02:32:33,000 A ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF 4280 02:32:33,001 --> 02:32:34,000 TAKING THIS VOTE BY THE YEAS 4281 02:32:34,001 --> 02:32:38,000 AND NAYS WILL RISE AND REMAIN 4282 02:32:38,001 --> 02:32:39,000 STANDING UNTIL COUNTED. 4283 02:32:39,001 --> 02:32:43,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING ARISEN, THYEAS AND NAYS ARE 4284 02:32:43,001 --> 02:32:44,000 ORDERED. 4285 02:32:44,001 --> 02:32:45,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20 AND E CHAIR'S PRIOR 4286 02:32:45,001 --> 02:32:46,000 ANNOUNCEMENT, FURTHER 4287 02:32:46,001 --> 02:33:05,000 PROCEEDINGS ON THIS MOTION WILL 4288 02:33:05,001 --> 02:33:06,000 BE POSTPONED. 4289 02:33:06,001 --> 02:33:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 4290 02:33:07,001 --> 02:33:08,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 4291 02:33:08,001 --> 02:33:09,000 FROM WEST VIRGINIA RISE? 4292 02:33:09,001 --> 02:33:10,000 MR. RAHALL: MADAM SPEAKER, 4293 02:33:10,001 --> 02:33:12,000 PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 4294 02:33:12,001 --> 02:33:14,000 1038, I CALL UP THE BILL H.R. 4295 02:33:14,001 --> 02:33:18,000 4474 AND ASK FOR ITS IMMEDIATE 4296 02:33:18,001 --> 02:33:19,000 CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4297 02:33:19,001 --> 02:33:20,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF 4298 02:33:20,001 --> 02:33:23,000 THE BILL. 4299 02:33:23,001 --> 02:33:24,000 THELERK: H.R. 4474, TO 4300 02:33:24,001 --> 02:33:25,000 AUTHORIZE THE CONTINUED USE OF 4301 02:33:25,001 --> 02:33:26,000 CERTAIN WATER DIVERSIONS 4302 02:33:26,001 --> 02:33:27,000 LOCATED ON NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND IN THE FRANK 4303 02:33:27,001 --> 02:33:28,000 CHURCH-RIVER OF NO RETURN 4304 02:33:28,001 --> 02:33:29,000 WILDERNESS AND THE SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS IN 4305 02:33:29,001 --> 02:33:34,000 THE STATE OF IDAHO, AND FOR 4306 02:33:34,001 --> 02:33:35,000 OTHER PURPOSES. 4307 02:33:35,001 --> 02:33:36,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 4308 02:33:36,001 --> 02:33:39,000 PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 4309 02:33:39,001 --> 02:33:40,000 1038, THE BILL IS CONSIDERED AS 4310 02:33:40,001 --> 02:33:41,000 READ. 4311 02:33:41,001 --> 02:33:43,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WAVE, MR. 4312 02:33:43,001 --> 02:33:44,000 RAHALL, AND -- FROM WEST VIRGINIA, MR. RAHALL, AND THE 4313 02:33:44,001 --> 02:33:46,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON, MR. 4314 02:33:46,001 --> 02:33:47,000 HASTINGS, WILL EACH CONTROL 30 4315 02:33:47,001 --> 02:33:48,000 MINUTES. 4316 02:33:48,001 --> 02:33:49,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 4317 02:33:49,001 --> 02:33:50,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WEST VIRGINIA. 4318 02:33:50,001 --> 02:33:51,000 MR. RAHALL: MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ALL 4319 02:33:51,001 --> 02:33:52,000 MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE 4320 02:33:52,001 --> 02:33:55,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 4321 02:33:55,001 --> 02:33:57,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND INSERT 4322 02:33:57,001 --> 02:33:58,000 EXTRANEOUS MATEAL ON H.R. 4323 02:33:58,001 --> 02:34:00,000 4474. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 4324 02:34:00,001 --> 02:34:01,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. 4325 02:34:01,001 --> 02:34:04,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEMAN FROM WEST VIRGINIA. 4326 02:34:04,001 --> 02:34:06,000 MR. RAHALL: AND I YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY CONSUME. 4327 02:34:06,001 --> 02:34:08,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I RISE IN STRONG 4328 02:34:08,001 --> 02:34:11,000 SUPPORT OF H.R. 4474 INTRODUCED 4329 02:34:11,001 --> 02:34:12,000 BY OUR COLLEAGUES, MR. WALT 4330 02:34:12,001 --> 02:34:14,000 MINNICK AND MIKE SIMPSON OF IDAHO. 4331 02:34:14,001 --> 02:34:15,000 THIS BILL WOULD AUTHORIZE THE 4332 02:34:15,001 --> 02:34:16,000 CONTINUED USE OF CERTAIN WATER 4333 02:34:16,001 --> 02:34:19,000 DIVERSIONS LOCATED IN 4334 02:34:19,001 --> 02:34:22,000 WILDERNESS AREAS ON NATIONAL 4335 02:34:22,001 --> 02:34:26,000 FOREST SYSTEM LND IN THE FRANK 4336 02:34:26,001 --> 02:34:29,000 CHURCH-RIVER OF NO RETURN 4337 02:34:29,001 --> 02:34:30,000 WILDERNESS AND THE 4338 02:34:30,001 --> 02:34:33,000 SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS IN 4339 02:34:33,001 --> 02:34:34,000 THE STATE OF IDAHO. 4340 02:34:34,001 --> 02:34:35,000 THE WATER IS USED FOR A 4341 02:34:35,001 --> 02:34:37,000 COMBINATION OF PURPOSES 4342 02:34:37,001 --> 02:34:38,000 INCLUDING DRINKING WATER FOR 4343 02:34:38,001 --> 02:34:41,000 PRIVATE CABINS AND RANCHES. 4344 02:34:41,001 --> 02:34:46,000 MANY OF THE PERMITS HAVE SINCE 4345 02:34:46,001 --> 02:34:47,000 EXPIRED LEAVING THOSE WITHOUT 4346 02:34:47,001 --> 02:34:49,000 TO ME CANCALLY MAINTAIN THE 4347 02:34:49,001 --> 02:34:50,000 SYSTEMS -- MECHANICALLY 4348 02:34:50,001 --> 02:34:51,000 MAINTAIN THE SYSTEMS. 4349 02:34:51,001 --> 02:34:52,000 UNDER THE TERM OF THIS 4350 02:34:52,001 --> 02:34:54,000 LEGISLATION, THE SECRETARY OF 4351 02:34:54,001 --> 02:34:55,000 AGRICULTURE CAN ONLY ISSUE NEW 4352 02:34:55,001 --> 02:34:57,000 PERMITS IF THE OWNER 4353 02:34:57,001 --> 02:34:58,000 DEMONSTRATES THAT THE FACILITY 4354 02:34:58,001 --> 02:35:00,000 EXISTED PRIOR TO THE 4355 02:35:00,001 --> 02:35:02,000 DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS. 4356 02:35:02,001 --> 02:35:03,000 THE FACILITY HAD BEEN USED TO 4357 02:35:03,001 --> 02:35:04,000 DELIVER WATER TO THE OWNER OF 4358 02:35:04,001 --> 02:35:05,000 THE LAND. 4359 02:35:05,001 --> 02:35:06,000 SINCE THE DESIGNATION THE OWNER 4360 02:35:06,001 --> 02:35:08,000 HAD A VALID WATER RIGHT. 4361 02:35:08,001 --> 02:35:09,000 AND IT WOULD NOT BE PRACTICAL 4362 02:35:09,001 --> 02:35:12,000 TO MOVE THE FACILITY OUT OF THE 4363 02:35:12,001 --> 02:35:13,000 WILDERNESS AREA. 4364 02:35:13,001 --> 02:35:15,000 THIS IS LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO 4365 02:35:15,001 --> 02:35:16,000 PUT IN PLACE A REASONABLE 4366 02:35:16,001 --> 02:35:18,000 SOLUTION TO A CONFLICT. 4367 02:35:18,001 --> 02:35:19,000 MR. MINNICK AND MR. SIMPSON 4368 02:35:19,001 --> 02:35:21,000 OUGHT TO BE COMMENDED FOR 4369 02:35:21,001 --> 02:35:22,000 WORKING COOPERATIVELY AND IN A 4370 02:35:22,001 --> 02:35:24,000 BIPARTISAN FASHION TO CRAFT 4371 02:35:24,001 --> 02:35:26,000 THIS LEGISLATION. 4372 02:35:26,001 --> 02:35:27,000 I RESERVE THE BALAE OF MY TIME. 4373 02:35:27,001 --> 02:35:28,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4374 02:35:28,001 --> 02:35:29,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS RECOGNIZED. 4375 02:35:29,001 --> 02:35:30,000 MR. HASTINGS: MADAM SPEAKER, I 4376 02:35:30,001 --> 02:35:31,000 YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY CONSUME. 4377 02:35:31,001 --> 02:35:33,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 4378 02:35:33,001 --> 02:35:34,000 REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 4379 02:35:34,001 --> 02:35:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 4380 02:35:35,001 --> 02:35:36,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON. 4381 02:35:36,001 --> 02:35:37,000 MR. HASTINGS: THANK YOU, MADAM 4382 02:35:37,001 --> 02:35:38,000 SPEAKER. 4383 02:35:38,001 --> 02:35:40,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I WILL FIRST 4384 02:35:40,001 --> 02:35:41,000 SPEAK TO THE MERITS OF THIS 4385 02:35:41,001 --> 02:35:42,000 LEGISLATION BEFORE FOCUSING ON 4386 02:35:42,001 --> 02:35:44,000 THE PARTISAN REASONS WHY THE 4387 02:35:44,001 --> 02:35:46,000 HOUSE IS HAVING TO DEBATE THIS 4388 02:35:46,001 --> 02:35:48,000 BI AND THIS LEGISLATION FOR A 4389 02:35:48,001 --> 02:35:50,000 SECOND WEEK IN A ROW. 4390 02:35:50,001 --> 02:35:51,000 THIS BILL WAS ORIGINALLY 4391 02:35:51,001 --> 02:35:53,000 INTRODUCED BY MR. SIMPSON OF 4392 02:35:53,001 --> 02:35:56,000 IDAHO TO REQUIRE THE FOREST 4393 02:35:56,001 --> 02:35:58,000 SERVICE TO ISSUE SPECIAL USE 4394 02:35:58,001 --> 02:36:00,000 MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS TOWNERS 4395 02:36:00,001 --> 02:36:02,000 OF A SMALL NUMBER OF WATER 4396 02:36:02,001 --> 02:36:03,000 SYSTEMS IN TWO IDAHO WILDERNESS 4397 02:36:03,001 --> 02:36:04,000 AREAS. 4398 02:36:04,001 --> 02:36:05,000 ALTHOUGH THESE WATER DIVERSIONS 4399 02:36:05,001 --> 02:36:07,000 CONTINUE TO OPERATE, THEIR 4400 02:36:07,001 --> 02:36:10,000 OWNERS CURRENTLY LACK THE 4401 02:36:10,001 --> 02:36:12,000 AUTHORITY TO MAINTAIN AND 4402 02:36:12,001 --> 02:36:13,000 REPAIR THESE FACILITIES. 4403 02:36:13,001 --> 02:36:15,000 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THESE 4404 02:36:15,001 --> 02:36:16,000 FACILITIES CAN HARM NOT ONLY TO 4405 02:36:16,001 --> 02:36:18,000 THOSE THAT DEPEND ON ACCESS TO 4406 02:36:18,001 --> 02:36:20,000 THE WAR THAT THESE STRUCTURES 4407 02:36:20,001 --> 02:36:22,000 PROVIDE BUT ALSO DAMAGE THE 4408 02:36:22,001 --> 02:36:23,000 ENVIRONMENT AND WATERSHED OF 4409 02:36:23,001 --> 02:36:27,000 THE FOREST SERVICE LAND. 4410 02:36:27,001 --> 02:36:29,000 H.R. 4474 WILL ALLOW THE OWNERS 4411 02:36:29,001 --> 02:36:31,000 OF THE EXISTING WATER SYSTEMS 4412 02:36:31,001 --> 02:36:32,000 TO DO THE NECESSARY 4413 02:36:32,001 --> 02:36:34,000 MAINTENANCE. 4414 02:36:34,001 --> 02:36:35,000 THE LEGISLATION IS NARROWLY 4415 02:36:35,001 --> 02:36:37,000 TAILORED TO APPLY TO A SMALL 4416 02:36:37,001 --> 02:36:39,000 NUMBER OF SITES THAT MEET 4417 02:36:39,001 --> 02:36:42,000 SPECIFIC CRITERIA. 4418 02:36:42,001 --> 02:36:43,000 QUALIFY, THE WATER DIVERSION 4419 02:36:43,001 --> 02:36:44,000 FACILITY MUST HAVE BEEN IN 4420 02:36:44,001 --> 02:36:47,000 EXISTENCE ON THE DATE THAT THE 4421 02:36:47,001 --> 02:36:49,000 AREA WAS DESIGNATED AS PART OF 4422 02:36:49,001 --> 02:36:50,000 THE NATIONAL WILDERNESS 4423 02:36:50,001 --> 02:36:51,000 PRESERVATION SYSTEM. 4424 02:36:51,001 --> 02:36:53,000 IT MUST HAVE BEEN IN 4425 02:36:53,001 --> 02:36:55,000 SUBSTANTIAL CONTINUOUS USE 4426 02:36:55,001 --> 02:36:56,000 SINCE THE DATE OF THAT 4427 02:36:56,001 --> 02:37:00,000 DESIGNATION AND THE ORDER OF 4428 02:37:00,001 --> 02:37:02,000 THE FACILITIES MUST HOLD A 4429 02:37:02,001 --> 02:37:05,000 VALID WATER RIGHT. 4430 02:37:05,001 --> 02:37:08,000 ADDITIONALLY, SITES CAN ONLY BE 4431 02:37:08,001 --> 02:37:10,000 COVERED BY THE BILL IF IT 4432 02:37:10,001 --> 02:37:14,000 CANNOT BE PRACTICAL OR FEASIBLE 4433 02:37:14,001 --> 02:37:15,000 TO PUT IT TO ANOER AREA AND 4434 02:37:15,001 --> 02:37:17,000 CONTINUE THE BENEFICIAL USE OF 4435 02:37:17,001 --> 02:37:18,000 WATER RECOGNIZED UNDER STATE 4436 02:37:18,001 --> 02:37:19,000 LAW. 4437 02:37:19,001 --> 02:37:21,000 THIS IS THE BILL AND POLICY 4438 02:37:21,001 --> 02:37:22,000 THAT I BELIEVE MERITS STRONG 4439 02:37:22,001 --> 02:37:25,000 SUPPORT IN THIS HOUSE. 4440 02:37:25,001 --> 02:37:26,000 CONGRESS NEEDS TO HAVE A 4441 02:37:26,001 --> 02:37:27,000 REASONABLE AND COMMONSENSE 4442 02:37:27,001 --> 02:37:29,000 APPROACH TO MANAGING OUR 4443 02:37:29,001 --> 02:37:31,000 FEDERAL LANDS. 4444 02:37:31,001 --> 02:37:33,000 WILDERNESS DESIGNATIONS 4445 02:37:33,001 --> 02:37:34,000 PRECLUDE SUCH COMMONSENSE 4446 02:37:34,001 --> 02:37:35,000 MANAGEMENT. 4447 02:37:35,001 --> 02:37:38,000 THE RESTRICTIONS ON ACTIVITY 4448 02:37:38,001 --> 02:37:40,000 ARE SO SEVERE AND INFLEXIBLE 4449 02:37:40,001 --> 02:37:42,000 THE DESIGNATION IS OFTEN 4450 02:37:42,001 --> 02:37:44,000 APPLIED TO UNSUITABLE LANDS, 4451 02:37:44,001 --> 02:37:48,000 THE PROBLEMS AND THE CONFLICTS 4452 02:37:48,001 --> 02:37:49,000 THAT ARISE OUT OF THAT DESIGNATION. 4453 02:37:49,001 --> 02:37:51,000 AND SO HERE WE ARE TODAY, 4454 02:37:51,001 --> 02:37:54,000 CONGRESS MUST GO BACK ONCE 4455 02:37:54,001 --> 02:37:56,000 AGAIN AND FIX THE PROBLEM 4456 02:37:56,001 --> 02:37:59,000 CREATED BY PREVIOUS WILDERNESS DESIGNATION LAW. 4457 02:37:59,001 --> 02:38:04,000 CONGRESS NEEDS TO EXECUTE FAR 4458 02:38:04,001 --> 02:38:06,000 MORE CAUTION AND CARE AND 4459 02:38:06,001 --> 02:38:08,000 FORETHOUGHT BEFORE DESIGNATING 4460 02:38:08,001 --> 02:38:10,000 WILDERNESS AREAS BEFORE YOU 4461 02:38:10,001 --> 02:38:11,000 LOCK UP THESE AREAS FOR HUMAN ACTIVITY. 4462 02:38:11,001 --> 02:38:13,000 WE OUGHT TO BE WISE ENOUGH TO 4463 02:38:13,001 --> 02:38:15,000 DEVISE SOUND CONSERVATION 4464 02:38:15,001 --> 02:38:17,000 PRACTICES ON OUR LAND WITHOUT 4465 02:38:17,001 --> 02:38:18,000 CREATING THE THREAT TO 4466 02:38:18,001 --> 02:38:20,000 NEIGHBORING FAMILIES AT POORLY 4467 02:38:20,001 --> 02:38:21,000 THOUGHT OUT WILDERNESS 4468 02:38:21,001 --> 02:38:24,000 DESIGNATION CAN BRING. 4469 02:38:24,001 --> 02:38:27,000 THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE CANNOT 4470 02:38:27,001 --> 02:38:32,000 BOTH BE GOOD STEWARDS AND GOOD NEIGHBORS. 4471 02:38:32,001 --> 02:38:34,000 SO, MADAM SPEAKER, AS I SAID 4472 02:38:34,001 --> 02:38:35,000 THAT THIS IS A MATTER OF GOOD 4473 02:38:35,001 --> 02:38:36,000 PUBLIC POLICY AND I SUPPORT THE 4474 02:38:36,001 --> 02:38:38,000 CHANGES THAT THIS LEGISLATION 4475 02:38:38,001 --> 02:38:41,000 WILL MAKE IN THE LAW. 4476 02:38:41,001 --> 02:38:42,000 HOWEVER, AS A MATTER OF HOW THE 4477 02:38:42,001 --> 02:38:43,000 DEMOCRAT LOORDS LEADERS WHO 4478 02:38:43,001 --> 02:38:45,000 CONTROL THIS HOUSE ARE CHOOSING 4479 02:38:45,001 --> 02:38:48,000 TO OPERATE THIS HOUSE, I OBJECT 4480 02:38:48,001 --> 02:38:51,000 TO THE EXTREME PARTISAN 4481 02:38:51,001 --> 02:38:54,000 MANEUVERING SURROUNDING THIS BILL. 4482 02:38:54,001 --> 02:38:57,000 LAST WEEK THE HOUSE VOTED ON 4483 02:38:57,001 --> 02:38:58,000 THIS EXACT SAME BILL, BUT THERE 4484 02:38:58,001 --> 02:39:01,000 ARE ONLY TWO DIFFERENCES 4485 02:39:01,001 --> 02:39:02,000 BETWEEN THAT BILL AND THIS 4486 02:39:02,001 --> 02:39:04,000 BILL. 4487 02:39:04,001 --> 02:39:05,000 FIRST, THIS IS A NEW BILL WITH 4488 02:39:05,001 --> 02:39:08,000 A NEW NUMBER. 4489 02:39:08,001 --> 02:39:11,000 AND SECOND, THE LEAD SPONSOR IS 4490 02:39:11,001 --> 02:39:12,000 NOW A DEMOCRAT INSTEAD OF A 4491 02:39:12,001 --> 02:39:14,000 REPUBLICAN. 4492 02:39:14,001 --> 02:39:16,000 LAST WEEK THIS BILL WAS H.R. 4493 02:39:16,001 --> 02:39:18,000 3538 SPONSORED BY REPUBLICAN 4494 02:39:18,001 --> 02:39:20,000 MIKE SIMPSON OF IDAHO. 4495 02:39:20,001 --> 02:39:24,000 TODAY, THE BILL IS NUMBERED 4496 02:39:24,001 --> 02:39:26,000 H.R. 4474 AND THE LEAD SPONSOR 4497 02:39:26,001 --> 02:39:27,000 IS DEMOCRAT WALT MINNICK OF 4498 02:39:27,001 --> 02:39:30,000 IDAHO. 4499 02:39:30,001 --> 02:39:31,000 SO LET ME REPEAT, THE BILL IS 4500 02:39:31,001 --> 02:39:34,000 WORD FOR WORD THE SAME THAT THE 4501 02:39:34,001 --> 02:39:36,000 HOUSE VOTED ON LAST WEEK EXCEPT 4502 02:39:36,001 --> 02:39:38,000 THE SPONSORSHIP HAS BEEN 4503 02:39:38,001 --> 02:39:40,000 SWITCHED SO THAT A DEMOCRAT IS 4504 02:39:40,001 --> 02:39:42,000 NOW THE PRIME SPONSOR. 4505 02:39:42,001 --> 02:39:43,000 NOW, I HAVE TO SAY, MADAM 4506 02:39:43,001 --> 02:39:47,000 SPEAKER, THIS IS TRULY A 4507 02:39:47,001 --> 02:39:49,000 REMARKABLE DISPLAY OF PARTISANSHIP. 4508 02:39:49,001 --> 02:39:50,000 FIRST, DEMOCRAT LEADERS 4509 02:39:50,001 --> 02:39:52,000 DIRECTED THEIR MEMBERS TO VOTE 4510 02:39:52,001 --> 02:39:55,000 AGAINST THIS LEGISLATION LAST 4511 02:39:55,001 --> 02:39:57,000 WEEK BECAUSE A TOTALLY SEPARATE 4512 02:39:57,001 --> 02:39:59,000 PIECE OF LEGISLATION FAILED TO 4513 02:39:59,001 --> 02:40:00,000 PASS ON THE SUSPENSION 4514 02:40:00,001 --> 02:40:01,000 CALENDAR. 4515 02:40:01,001 --> 02:40:06,000 AND NOW THESE DEMOCRAT LEADERS 4516 02:40:06,001 --> 02:40:07,000 ARE PLAYING A PARTISAN 4517 02:40:07,001 --> 02:40:09,000 SWITCH-A-ROO IN SPONSORSHIP OF 4518 02:40:09,001 --> 02:40:11,000 THIS BILL SO THAT A DEMOCRAT 4519 02:40:11,001 --> 02:40:12,000 WILL GET CREDIT FOR THIS BILL'S 4520 02:40:12,001 --> 02:40:14,000 PASSING. 4521 02:40:14,001 --> 02:40:15,000 I ASSUME THIS BILL WILL PASS. 4522 02:40:15,001 --> 02:40:17,000 I MIGHT ADD, BY THE WAY, THAT 4523 02:40:17,001 --> 02:40:20,000 THE AREA THAT WE'RE TALKING 4524 02:40:20,001 --> 02:40:21,000 ABOUT IS IN MR. SIMPSON'S 4525 02:40:21,001 --> 02:40:23,000 DISTRICT. 4526 02:40:23,001 --> 02:40:24,000 SO, MADAM SPEAKER, WITH 4527 02:40:24,001 --> 02:40:26,000 UNEMPLOYMENT IN DOUBLE DIGITS, 4528 02:40:26,001 --> 02:40:29,000 MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITHOUT 4529 02:40:29,001 --> 02:40:31,000 JOBS AND WITH RECORD DEFICITS 4530 02:40:31,001 --> 02:40:32,000 SET LAST YEAR BY A DEMOCRAT 4531 02:40:32,001 --> 02:40:34,000 PRESIDENT IN THIS CONGRESS, ONE 4532 02:40:34,001 --> 02:40:35,000 WOULD THINK THAT THIS HOUSE 4533 02:40:35,001 --> 02:40:38,000 WOULD HAVE MORE IMPORTANT 4534 02:40:38,001 --> 02:40:41,000 THINGS TO DO THAN TO ENGAGE IN 4535 02:40:41,001 --> 02:40:43,000 SUCH OVERT AND OBVIOUS PARTISAN TACTICS. 4536 02:40:43,001 --> 02:40:45,000 SO WITH THAT, MADAM SPEAKER, I 4537 02:40:45,001 --> 02:40:46,000 SUPPORT THE BILL AND I RESERVE 4538 02:40:46,001 --> 02:40:47,000 MY TIME. 4539 02:40:47,001 --> 02:40:50,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 4540 02:40:50,001 --> 02:40:51,000 OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM WEST 4541 02:40:51,001 --> 02:40:52,000 VIRGINIA IS RECOGNED. 4542 02:40:52,001 --> 02:40:54,000 MR. RAHALL: MADAM SPEAKER, I 4543 02:40:54,001 --> 02:40:56,000 YIELD MYSELF 30 SECONDS. 4544 02:40:56,001 --> 02:40:57,000 I DO APPRECIATE THE MANNER IN 4545 02:40:57,001 --> 02:40:58,000 WHICH THE GENTLEMAN FROM 4546 02:40:58,001 --> 02:41:00,000 WASHINGTON, THE RANKING MEMBER, 4547 02:41:00,001 --> 02:41:02,000 HAS STRESS THE BIPARTISANSHIP 4548 02:41:02,001 --> 02:41:04,000 NATURE OF THIS LEGISLATION. 4549 02:41:04,001 --> 02:41:05,000 AS HE KNOWS IN OUR COMMITTEE ON 4550 02:41:05,001 --> 02:41:08,000 NATURAL RESOURCES, IT'S ALWAYS 4551 02:41:08,001 --> 02:41:09,000 OUR EFFORT TO IMPROVE A PRODUCT 4552 02:41:09,001 --> 02:41:10,000 A SECOND TIME WE CONSIDER IT. 4553 02:41:10,001 --> 02:41:12,000 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING 4554 02:41:12,001 --> 02:41:13,000 HERE TODAY WITH THIS 4555 02:41:13,001 --> 02:41:14,000 LEGISLATION. 4556 02:41:14,001 --> 02:41:16,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I YIELD SUCH 4557 02:41:16,001 --> 02:41:17,000 TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME TO THE 4558 02:41:17,001 --> 02:41:19,000 GENTLEMAN FROM IDAHO, MR. 4559 02:41:19,001 --> 02:41:20,000 MINNK, WHO HAS BEEN SO 4560 02:41:20,001 --> 02:41:22,000 INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING THIS 4561 02:41:22,001 --> 02:41:24,000 LEGISLATION FORWARD AND WORKED 4562 02:41:24,001 --> 02:41:27,000 SO HARD IN CRAFTING IT. 4563 02:41:27,001 --> 02:41:28,000 AS MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4564 02:41:28,001 --> 02:41:29,000 GENTLEMAN FROM IDAHO IS 4565 02:41:29,001 --> 02:41:31,000 RECOGNIZED. 4566 02:41:31,001 --> 02:41:32,000 MR. MINNICK: I THANK THE 4567 02:41:32,001 --> 02:41:34,000 CHAIRMAN AND I'D LIKE TO 4568 02:41:34,001 --> 02:41:39,000 INDICATE THAT THE PARTISANSHIP 4569 02:41:39,001 --> 02:41:40,000 WHICH LEADS TO THIS PARTICULAR 4570 02:41:40,001 --> 02:41:42,000 PROCEDURAL PROCESS FOR BRINGING 4571 02:41:42,001 --> 02:41:43,000 THIS BILL BACK TO THE FLOOR HAD 4572 02:41:43,001 --> 02:41:45,000 NOTHING -- HAS NOTHING TO DO 4573 02:41:45,001 --> 02:41:47,000 WITH THE MERITS OF THE 4574 02:41:47,001 --> 02:41:49,000 LEGISLATION. 4575 02:41:49,001 --> 02:41:54,000 CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON HAS DONE A 4576 02:41:54,001 --> 02:41:56,000 GREAT DEAL OF WORK ON THESE 4577 02:41:56,001 --> 02:41:58,000 REMOTE WATER SYSTEMS THAT WERE 4578 02:41:58,001 --> 02:41:59,000 IGNORED WHEN TWO WILDERNESS 4579 02:41:59,001 --> 02:42:04,000 BILLS WERE PROTECTED AND EXIST 4580 02:42:04,001 --> 02:42:07,000 IN BOTH OF OUR DISTRICTS 4581 02:42:07,001 --> 02:42:08,000 CAREFULLY CRAFTING, AS THE 4582 02:42:08,001 --> 02:42:11,000 RANKING MINORITY ON THE 4583 02:42:11,001 --> 02:42:13,000 COMMITTEE HAS STATED, THE 4584 02:42:13,001 --> 02:42:15,000 CONGRESSMAN FROM WASHINGTON, 4585 02:42:15,001 --> 02:42:16,000 CAREFULLY CRAFTED A VERY NARROW 4586 02:42:16,001 --> 02:42:20,000 BILL WHICH CREATES SOME 4587 02:42:20,001 --> 02:42:22,000 EXCEPTIONS WHICH ALLOWS 22 4588 02:42:22,001 --> 02:42:23,000 LANDOWNERS WHO HAVE SINCE 4589 02:42:23,001 --> 02:42:25,000 BEFORE WILDERNESS -- THESE 4590 02:42:25,001 --> 02:42:28,000 AREAS WERE CREATED AS 4591 02:42:28,001 --> 02:42:30,000 WILDERNESS OPERATED VERY SIMPLE 4592 02:42:30,001 --> 02:42:35,000 GRAVITY FED WATER SYSTEMS WHOSE 4593 02:42:35,001 --> 02:42:40,000 POINTS INTAKE ARE NOW IN 4594 02:42:40,001 --> 02:42:42,000 WILDERNESS BECAUSE THEIR SMALL 4595 02:42:42,001 --> 02:42:43,000 UPSTREAMS OF CREEK IN MANY 4596 02:42:43,001 --> 02:42:44,000 INSTANCES AND WHO NEEDS TO 4597 02:42:44,001 --> 02:42:47,000 MAINTAIN THESE SYSTEMS FROM 4598 02:42:47,001 --> 02:42:48,000 TIME TO TIME OCCASIONALLY USING 4599 02:42:48,001 --> 02:42:50,000 MECHANICAL MEANS. 4600 02:42:50,001 --> 02:42:56,000 CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON LOOKED AND 4601 02:42:56,001 --> 02:43:00,000 CATALOGGED THESE 22 INHOLDINGS, 4602 02:43:00,001 --> 02:43:02,000 GRAPHED VERY CAREFULLY TO 4603 02:43:02,001 --> 02:43:05,000 CORRECT THE OVERSIGHT. 4604 02:43:05,001 --> 02:43:06,000 THE OVERSIGHT WAS NOT THE 4605 02:43:06,001 --> 02:43:08,000 WILDERNESS. 4606 02:43:08,001 --> 02:43:09,000 IT WAS THE CONTINUOUS USE OF 4607 02:43:09,001 --> 02:43:10,000 THESE PRIVATE INHOLDINGS. 4608 02:43:10,001 --> 02:43:12,000 LEGISLATION THAT WOULD ALLOW 4609 02:43:12,001 --> 02:43:14,000 THEM TO CONTINUE OPERATING AS 4610 02:43:14,001 --> 02:43:16,000 THEY ARE IN PERPETUITY. 4611 02:43:16,001 --> 02:43:19,000 THIS IS GOOD LEGISLATION, IT'S 4612 02:43:19,001 --> 02:43:21,000 GOOD FOR IDAHO, IT'S GOOD FOR WILDERNESS. 4613 02:43:21,001 --> 02:43:24,000 I WANT TO CONGRATULATE MY 4614 02:43:24,001 --> 02:43:26,000 COLLEAGUE ON HIS DILIGENCE AND 4615 02:43:26,001 --> 02:43:28,000 TO URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO 4616 02:43:28,001 --> 02:43:30,000 SUPPORT THIS REMEDIAL LEGISLATION. 4617 02:43:30,001 --> 02:43:31,000 I YIELD BACK. 4618 02:43:31,001 --> 02:43:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4619 02:43:32,001 --> 02:43:33,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS 4620 02:43:33,001 --> 02:43:35,000 RECOGNIZED. MR. HASTINGS: THANK YOU, MADAM 4621 02:43:35,001 --> 02:43:36,000 SPEAR. 4622 02:43:36,001 --> 02:43:37,000 I YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I 4623 02:43:37,001 --> 02:43:38,000 MAY CONSUME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 4624 02:43:38,001 --> 02:43:39,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON. 4625 02:43:39,001 --> 02:43:39,000 MR. HASTINGS: MADAM SPEAKER, I