1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1260465544.00576 2 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:01,000 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] 3 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 4 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:04,000 THIS VOTE THE YEAS ARE 5 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:06,000 THE NAYS ARE 200. 6 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:07,000 THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED. 7 00:00:07,001 --> 00:00:09,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID UPON THE 8 00:00:09,001 --> 00:00:11,000 TABLE. 9 00:00:11,001 --> 00:00:12,000 THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS IS THE 10 00:00:12,001 --> 00:00:14,000 QUESTION ON SUSPEND THE RULES 11 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:17,000 AND AGREEING TO H.RES. 35 WHICH 12 00:00:17,001 --> 00:00:19,000 THE CLERK WILL REPORT BY TITLE. 13 00:00:19,001 --> 00:00:21,000 THE ERK: RESOLUTION 14 00:00:21,001 --> 00:00:22,000 EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE 15 00:00:22,001 --> 00:00:23,000 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT 16 00:00:23,001 --> 00:00:25,000 CONGRESS SHOULD PROVIDE 17 00:00:25,001 --> 00:00:28,000 INCREASED FEDERAL FUNDING 18 00:00:28,001 --> 00:00:29,000 CONTINUED TYPE 1 DIABETES RESEARCH. 19 00:00:29,001 --> 00:00:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 20 00:00:30,001 --> 00:00:31,000 QUESTION IS, WILL THE HOUSE 21 00:00:31,001 --> 00:00:34,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND AGREE TO 22 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:35,000 THE RESOLUTION. SO MANY AS ARE IN FAVOR SAY 23 00:00:35,001 --> 00:00:39,000 AYE. 24 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:40,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 25 00:00:40,001 --> 00:00:41,000 IN THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR, 26 00:00:41,001 --> 00:00:42,000 2/3 OF THOSE VOTING HAVING 27 00:00:42,001 --> 00:00:45,000 RESPONDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES ARE SUSPENDED, THE 28 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:46,000 RESOLUTION IS AGREED TO, WITHOUT OBJECTION THE MOTION TO 29 00:00:46,001 --> 00:03:11,000 RECONSID 30 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:12,000 TABLE. 31 00:03:12,001 --> 00:03:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 32 00:03:13,001 --> 00:03:17,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 33 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:18,000 FR 34 00:03:18,001 --> 00:03:39,000 WILL MEMBERS PLEASE CLEAR THE 35 00:03:39,001 --> 00:03:40,000 WELL. 36 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:43,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 37 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:45,000 GENT 38 00:03:45,001 --> 00:03:46,000 MR. ARCURI: MR. SPEAKE I SEND 39 00:03:46,001 --> 00:03:47,000 TO THE DESK A PRIVILEGED REPORT 40 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:48,000 FROM THE COMMITTEE ON RULES FOR 41 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:49,000 FILING UNDER THE RULE. 42 00:03:49,001 --> 00:03:50,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE CLERK WILL REPORT THE 43 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:51,000 RESOLUTION. 44 00:03:51,001 --> 00:03:52,000 THE CLERK: REPORT TO ACCOMPANY HOUSE RESOLUTION 964, 45 00:03:52,001 --> 00:03:53,000 RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR 46 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:56,000 FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE 47 00:03:56,001 --> 00:03:59,000 BILL H.R. 4173, 48 00:03:59,001 --> 00:04:00,000 FINANCIAL 49 00:04:00,001 --> 00:04:01,000 PROTECT CONSUMERS AND 50 00:04:01,001 --> 00:04:04,000 INVESTORS, TO ENHANCE FEDERAL 51 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:08,000 UNDERSTANDING OF INSURANCE 52 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:09,000 ISSUES, 53 00:04:09,001 --> 00:04:11,000 OVER-THE-DON'T YOUER DERIVATIVE 54 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:12,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 55 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:30,000 REFERRED TO THE HOUSE CALENDAR 56 00:04:30,001 --> 00:04:31,000 AND ORDERED PRINTED. 57 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:32,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 58 00:04:32,001 --> 00:04:33,000 MASSACHUSETTS, FOR WHAT PURPOSE 59 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:35,000 DOES DO YOU RISE? 60 00:04:35,001 --> 00:04:36,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, PURSUANT TO 61 00:04:36,001 --> 00:04:38,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 961, I CALL UP 62 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:41,000 THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE 63 00:04:41,001 --> 00:04:43,000 BILL H.R. 3288 AND ASK 64 00:04:43,001 --> 00:04:44,000 IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION. 65 00:04:44,001 --> 00:04:45,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF 66 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:46,000 THE BILL. THE CLERK: AN ACT MAKING 67 00:04:46,001 --> 00:04:48,000 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 68 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:50,000 DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING AND URBAN 69 00:04:50,001 --> 00:04:53,000 DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED 70 00:04:53,001 --> 00:05:02,000 AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 71 00:05:02,001 --> 00:05:03,000 FOR OTHER PURPOSES. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 72 00:05:03,001 --> 00:05:05,000 PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 73 00:05:05,001 --> 00:05:06,000 961, THE CONFERENCE REPORT IS 74 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:08,000 CONSIDERED AS READ. THE GENTLEMAN FROM 75 00:05:08,001 --> 00:05:09,000 MASSACHUSETTS, MR. OLVER, AND 76 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:11,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA, MR. 77 00:05:11,001 --> 00:05:12,000 LATHAM, WILL EACH CTROL 30 78 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:13,000 MINUTES. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 79 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:16,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 80 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:17,000 MR. OLVER: MR. SPEAKER, I ASK 81 00:05:17,001 --> 00:05:18,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ALL MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE 82 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:22,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TREVISE AND 83 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:23,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND 84 00:05:23,001 --> 00:05:26,000 INCLUDE TABULAR AND EXTRANEOUS 85 00:05:26,001 --> 00:05:31,000 MATERIAL ON THE CONFERENCE 86 00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:32,000 REPORT TO ACCOMPANY H.R. 3288. 87 00:05:32,001 --> 00:05:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 88 00:05:43,001 --> 00:05:46,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 89 00:05:46,001 --> 00:05:48,000 MR. 90 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:49,000 MYSELF THREE MINUTES. 91 00:05:49,001 --> 00:05:50,000 THE SPEAKER GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 92 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:52,000 THREE MINUTES. 93 00:05:52,001 --> 00:05:54,000 MR. OLVER: IT IS MY PRIVILEGE 94 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:56,000 AND PLEASURE TO PRESENT THE 95 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:59,000 CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT 96 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:00,000 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 TO THE 97 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:01,000 HOUSE. 98 00:06:01,001 --> 00:06:03,000 THIS CONFERENCE REPORT IS THE 99 00:06:03,001 --> 00:06:05,000 PRODUCT OF MANY HOURS OF 100 00:06:05,001 --> 00:06:07,000 HEARINGS AND BRI 101 00:06:07,001 --> 00:06:09,000 SIX SUBCOMMITTEES, ALWAYS WITH 102 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:11,000 BIPARTISAN INPUT, AND EXCELLENT 103 00:06:11,001 --> 00:06:13,000 MEMBER PARTICIPATION. 104 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:16,000 AND CULMINATED BY EXTENSIONIVE 105 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:17,000 NEGOTIATION WITH OUR SENATE 106 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:18,000 COLLEAGUES. 107 00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:19,000 I ESPECIALLY WOULD LIKE TO 108 00:06:19,001 --> 00:06:21,000 RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANT 109 00:06:21,001 --> 00:06:24,000 CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR RANKING 110 00:06:24,001 --> 00:06:25,000 MEMBER, TOM LATHAM OF IOWA, IN 111 00:06:25,001 --> 00:06:26,000 PU 112 00:06:26,001 --> 00:06:29,000 TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING 113 00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:32,000 PORTIONS OF THIS BILL. 114 00:06:32,001 --> 00:06:34,000 WHILE WE MAY NOT ALWAYS AGREE, 115 00:06:34,001 --> 00:06:36,000 I ALWAYS APPRECIATE HIS 116 00:06:36,001 --> 00:06:39,000 PARTNERSHIP AND INPUT HAS MADE 117 00:06:39,001 --> 00:06:41,000 THE BILL BETTER. 118 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:43,000 I AM PARTICULARLY PROUD OF THE 119 00:06:43,001 --> 00:06:44,000 TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING 120 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:46,000 PORTION OF THE REPORT BECAUSE 121 00:06:46,001 --> 00:06:48,000 IT DEMONSTRATES OUR MUTUAL 122 00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:50,000 COMMITMENT TO INVESTING IN OUR 123 00:06:50,001 --> 00:06:52,000 NATION'S HOUSING AND 124 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:56,000 TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, 125 00:06:56,001 --> 00:06:58,000 OUR MUTUAL COMMITMENT 126 00:06:58,001 --> 00:06:59,000 MR. OBEY: MR. SPEAKER, TH 127 00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:00,000 HOUSE IS NOT IN ORDER. 128 00:07:00,001 --> 00:07:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 129 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:05,000 GENTLEMAN WILL SUSPEND. 130 00:07:05,001 --> 00:07:11,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 131 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:13,000 MR. VER: 132 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:15,000 MUTUAL COMMITMENT TO 133 00:07:15,001 --> 00:07:18,000 MAINTAINING CRITICAL SERVICES 134 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:21,000 IN URBAN AND RURAL COMMITTEES 135 00:07:21,001 --> 00:07:23,000 -- COMMUNITIES, OUR MUTUAL 136 00:07:23,001 --> 00:07:25,000 COMMITMENT TO VULNERABLE 137 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:26,000 POPULATIONS SUCH AS ELDERLY AND 138 00:07:26,001 --> 00:07:27,000 DISABLED. 139 00:07:27,001 --> 00:07:29,000 OUR MUTUAL COMMITMENT TO 140 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:31,000 BUILDING SUSTAINABLE 141 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:34,000 COMMUNITIES FO THE NATION'S 142 00:07:34,001 --> 00:07:37,000 FAMILIES, AND OUR 143 00:07:37,001 --> 00:07:39,000 COMMITMENT TO MAINTAINING A 144 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:42,000 SAFE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT 145 00:07:42,001 --> 00:07:45,000 CONTRIBUTES TO AMERICA'S PLACE 146 00:07:45,001 --> 00:07:47,000 I 147 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:48,000 NOTABLY THE CONFERENCE 148 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:51,000 AG 149 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:54,000 IMPROVE AND REPAIR ROUGHLY ONE 150 00:07:54,001 --> 00:07:55,000 MILLION MILES OF 151 00:07:55,001 --> 00:07:57,000 HIGHWAYS, TO SUPPORT AND EXPAND 152 00:07:57,001 --> 00:07:59,000 THE PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT 153 00:07:59,001 --> 00:08:01,000 CARRIED MORE THAN 10 BILLION 154 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:04,000 RIDERS LAST YEAR, TO MEET 155 00:08:04,001 --> 00:08:06,000 DEMAND FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 156 00:08:06,001 --> 00:08:08,000 INNER CITY PASSENGER RAIL 157 00:08:08,001 --> 00:08:11,000 SYSTEM DEMONSTRATED BY AMTRAK'S 158 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:15,000 11% GROWTH IN ANNUAL RIDERSHIP, 159 00:08:15,001 --> 00:08:17,000 AND TO MODERNIZE AN AIR TRAFFIC 160 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:22,000 CONTROL SYSTEM THAT IS OUTDATED 161 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:23,000 AND MANAGES OVER 10.5 MILLION 162 00:08:23,001 --> 00:08:24,000 FLIGHTS ANNUALLY. 163 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:26,000 WITHIN THE HOU 164 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:28,000 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, THE 165 00:08:28,001 --> 00:08:31,000 CONFERENCE AGREEMENT FULLY 166 00:08:31,001 --> 00:08:33,000 FUNDS THE SECTIO 8 RENTAL 167 00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:35,000 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 168 00:08:35,001 --> 00:08:38,000 THEREBY ENSURING AFFORDABLE 169 00:08:38,001 --> 00:08:39,000 HOUSING FOR 3.5 MILLION 170 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:42,000 FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS. 171 00:08:42,001 --> 00:08:45,000 THE AGREEMENT PROVIDES 10,000 172 00:08:45,001 --> 00:08:47,000 NEW VOUCHERS FOR -- TO HOMELESS VETERANS. 173 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:50,000 THE AGREEMENT KEEPS A ROOF OVER 174 00:08:50,001 --> 00:08:52,000 THE HEADS OF 1.2 MILLION 175 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:53,000 HOUSEHOLDS LIVING IN PUBLIC 176 00:08:53,001 --> 00:08:56,000 HOUSING, AND THE AGREEMENT 177 00:08:56,001 --> 00:08:57,000 HELPS COMMUNITIES IMPROV 178 00:08:57,001 --> 00:08:58,000 ECONOMIES AND CREATE JOBS 179 00:08:58,001 --> 00:09:00,000 THROUGH THE COMMUNITY 180 00:09:00,001 --> 00:09:01,000 DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 181 00:09:01,001 --> 00:09:03,000 PROGRAM. 182 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:05,000 IN CONCLUSION, WE WORKED HARD 183 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:07,000 TO BALANCE MANY COMPETING 184 00:09:07,001 --> 00:09:09,000 DEMANDS TO PRODUCE A BILL THAT 185 00:09:09,001 --> 00:09:11,000 REFLECTS THE BIPARTISAN NEEDS 186 00:09:11,001 --> 00:09:13,000 FOR TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING 187 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:15,000 AND STRENGTHEN THE FOUNDATION 188 00:09:15,001 --> 00:09:16,000 UPON WHICH OUR ECONOMIC TURN 189 00:09:16,001 --> 00:09:18,000 AROUND IS BEING BUILT. 190 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:22,000 THIS IS A GOOD PRODUCT AND I 191 00:09:22,001 --> 00:09:23,000 URGE MEMBERS TO I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 192 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:24,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 193 00:09:24,001 --> 00:09:25,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 194 00:09:25,001 --> 00:09:26,000 OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA, FOR 195 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:29,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES DO YOU RISE? 196 00:09:29,001 --> 00:09:30,000 MR. LATHAM: I THANK SPEAKER. 197 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:31,000 TO CLAIM THE TIME. 198 00:09:31,001 --> 00:09:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 199 00:09:33,001 --> 00:09:34,000 MR. LATHAM: I YIELD MYSELF FIVE 200 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:35,000 MINUTES. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 201 00:09:35,001 --> 00:09:36,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 202 00:09:36,001 --> 00:09:39,000 FIVE MINUTES. MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, I 203 00:09:39,001 --> 00:09:42,000 FIRST WANT TO THANK CHAIRMAN 204 00:09:42,001 --> 00:09:46,000 OLVER FOR HIS KIND WORDS AND 205 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:47,000 HIS LEADERSHIP THIS YEAR. 206 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:50,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 207 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:51,000 GENTLEMAN. 208 00:09:51,001 --> 00:09:52,000 AND I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE 209 00:09:52,001 --> 00:09:55,000 WORK THAT HE'S DONE. 210 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:56,000 HE'S VERY ARTFULLY NEGOTIATED 211 00:09:56,001 --> 00:09:57,000 GOOD CONFERENCE REPORT FOR THE 212 00:09:57,001 --> 00:09:59,000 HOUSE. 213 00:09:59,001 --> 00:10:01,000 THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW JOHN 214 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:03,000 OLVER KNOW HE PUTS A GREAT DEAL 215 00:10:03,001 --> 00:10:05,000 OF EFFORT AND THOUGHT INTO THIS 216 00:10:05,001 --> 00:10:07,000 BILL AND TO THE ISSUES AND 217 00:10:07,001 --> 00:10:09,000 TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING WORLDS. 218 00:10:09,001 --> 00:10:11,000 IN FACT, SOMETIMES YOU FEEL 219 00:10:11,001 --> 00:10:14,000 LIKE HE'S GONE A LITTLE BIT TOO 220 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:16,000 FAR INTO THE WEEDS, BUT HIS 221 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:18,000 DEDICATION IS TO BE ADMIRED. 222 00:10:18,001 --> 00:10:22,000 IT IS ALL THE MORE FORTUNATE 223 00:10:22,001 --> 00:10:23,000 ARE HERE TODAY UNDER THESE 224 00:10:23,001 --> 00:10:24,000 CIRCUMSTANCES. 225 00:10:24,001 --> 00:10:25,000 INSTEAD OF PRESENTING A 226 00:10:25,001 --> 00:10:26,000 TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. 227 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:27,000 CONFERENCE REPORT, CHAIRMAN 228 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:28,000 OLVER IS FORCED TO CARRY FIVE 229 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:31,000 OTHER BILLS WITH HIM. 230 00:10:31,001 --> 00:10:32,000 BILLS THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED 231 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:34,000 ON THEIR OWN AS CONFERENCE 232 00:10:34,001 --> 00:10:36,000 REPORTS. 233 00:10:36,001 --> 00:10:38,000 THE TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. BILL 234 00:10:38,001 --> 00:10:40,000 LIKE ALL APPROPRIATIONS BILLS 235 00:10:40,001 --> 00:10:43,000 WAS CONSIDERED UNDER A CLOSED 236 00:10:43,001 --> 00:10:45,000 RULE IN THE NAME OF EXPEDIENCY. 237 00:10:45,001 --> 00:10:46,000 THE TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. BILL 238 00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:47,000 PASSED THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE 239 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:51,000 IN JULY. 240 00:10:51,001 --> 00:10:54,000 THE SENATE EVEN PASSED THE BILL 241 00:10:54,001 --> 00:10:56,000 THAT WAS ON SEPTEMBER 17. 242 00:10:56,001 --> 00:10:57,000 THE SENATE APPARENTLY THE BODY 243 00:10:57,001 --> 00:11:00,000 THAT CAN'T GET THEIR WORK ON 244 00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:02,000 TIME MANAGED TO DO IT 245 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:03,000 TIME UNDER AN OPEN AMENDMENT 246 00:11:03,001 --> 00:11:04,000 PROCESS. 247 00:11:04,001 --> 00:11:06,000 THEY EVEN ACTUALLY GOT TO OFFER 248 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:07,000 AMENDMENTS ON THE BILL WHICH IS 249 00:11:07,001 --> 00:11:10,000 SOMETHING WE DIDN'T GET TO DO 250 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:12,000 HERE IN THE HOUSE. 251 00:11:12,001 --> 00:11:14,000 REALISTICALLY WE COULD HAVE AND 252 00:11:14,001 --> 00:11:15,000 SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 253 00:11:15,001 --> 00:11:16,000 THE TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. 254 00:11:16,001 --> 00:11:19,000 CONFERENCE REPORT TO THE FLOOR 255 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:20,000 BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. 256 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:24,000 INSTEAD, HERE WE ARE TODAY 257 00:11:24,001 --> 00:11:27,000 THREE MONTHS INTO THE FISCAL 258 00:11:27,001 --> 00:11:28,000 SENATE PASSED ITS BILL, AND AN 259 00:11:28,001 --> 00:11:29,000 OMNIBUS TODAY. 260 00:11:29,001 --> 00:11:31,000 THE TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. IS 261 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:36,000 NOT ALONE IN THIS SITTION, 262 00:11:36,001 --> 00:11:37,000 THE MIL-CON VETERANS BILL WAS 263 00:11:37,001 --> 00:11:38,000 CONSIDERED PASSED BY BOTH 264 00:11:38,001 --> 00:11:39,000 BO 265 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:42,000 IT SHOULD BE A STAND-ALONE 266 00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,000 CONFERENCE REPORT. 267 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:46,000 COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE ACTUALLY 268 00:11:46,001 --> 00:11:48,000 HAD A CONFERENCE COMMITTEING 269 00:11:48,001 --> 00:11:51,000 NOTICED UP BUT THAT GOT YANKED. 270 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:52,000 THE C.J.S. SHOULD BE A 271 00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:54,000 STAND-ALONE BILL, INSTEAD THEY 272 00:11:54,001 --> 00:11:55,000 ALSO GOT STUCK IN THIS 273 00:11:55,001 --> 00:11:56,000 THREE OTHER BILLS, THE FOREIGN 274 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:59,000 OPERATIONS BILL, THE FINANCIAL 275 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:02,000 SERVICES BILL, AND EVEN THE 276 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:03,000 LABOR-H.H.S. BILL, MR. OBEY'S 277 00:12:03,001 --> 00:12:04,000 OWN BILL, WEREN'T CONSIDERED IN 278 00:12:04,001 --> 00:12:05,000 THE SENATE AND ARE BURIED IN 279 00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:15,000 THIS PACKAGE. 280 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:16,000 . 281 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:19,000 THE HOUSE VOTED TO ADOPT A 282 00:12:19,001 --> 00:12:21,000 MOTION TO INSTRUCT THAT SAID NO 283 00:12:21,001 --> 00:12:22,000 EXTRANEOUS MATTERS SHOULD BE 284 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:24,000 ADDED TO THE 285 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:25,000 TRANSPORTATION- 286 00:12:25,001 --> 00:12:27,000 CONFERENCE REPORT. 287 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:28,000 AND INSTEAD, AGAINST THE WISHES 288 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:32,000 OF THE HOUSE, WE ADD FIVE BILLS 289 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,000 TO THIS CONFERENCE REPORT. 290 00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:35,000 I REGRET VERY MUCH THAT I AM 291 00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:38,000 UNABLE TO SUPPORT THIS BILL. 292 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:39,000 IT'S MY FIRST YEAR ON THIS 293 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:40,000 BILL, AND I'VE ENJOYED 294 00:12:40,001 --> 00:12:41,000 OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH THE 295 00:12:41,001 --> 00:12:43,000 CHAIRMAN. 296 00:12:43,001 --> 00:12:44,000 THE ISSUES ARE INTERESTING, AND 297 00:12:44,001 --> 00:12:46,000 OUR SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE 298 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:47,000 REALLY ENGAGED AND BRING A 299 00:12:47,001 --> 00:12:49,000 VARIETY OF EXPERIENCES TO THE 300 00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:50,000 TABLE. 301 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:52,000 HOWEVER, THE PRICE TAG ON THIS 302 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:54,000 BILL IS SIMPLY TOO HIGH. 303 00:12:54,001 --> 00:12:59,000 MR. LEWIS OFFERED AN AMENDMENT 304 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:02,000 TO HAVE THE SPENDING LEVELS 305 00:13:02,001 --> 00:13:06,000 PROPOSED BY CONGRESS AT THE 306 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:09,000 2010 LEVEL NONDEFENSE, VETERANS 307 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:11,000 SPENDING AT -- EVERYTHING BUT 308 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:13,000 DEFENSE AND VETERANS AT 2% OVER 309 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,000 LAST YEAR. 310 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:16,000 WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY LAST 311 00:13:16,001 --> 00:13:17,000 YEAR. 312 00:13:17,001 --> 00:13:19,000 SO A 2% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR 313 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:21,000 WOULD REALLY BE QUITE GENEROUS. 314 00:13:21,001 --> 00:13:24,000 HOWEVER, WHEN WE FINISHED THE 315 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:26,000 2010 BILLS, THE DEMOCRATS WILL 316 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:29,000 HAVE INCREASED GOVERNMENT 317 00:13:29,001 --> 00:13:32,000 SPENDING BY 85%. 318 00:13:32,001 --> 00:13:34,000 85% OVER THE LAST TWO 319 00:13:34,001 --> 00:13:40,000 YOU TELL ME ONE AMERICAN FAMILY 320 00:13:40,001 --> 00:13:41,000 THAT HAS 85% MORE IN 2009. 321 00:13:41,001 --> 00:13:44,000 I CAN TELL YOU NONE OF MY 322 00:13:44,001 --> 00:13:46,000 CONSTITUENTS HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 323 00:13:46,001 --> 00:13:48,000 85% TO SPEND THIS YEAR. 324 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:51,000 AND THEY SURE DON'T HAVE THE 325 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:53,000 FUNDS TO PAY FOR THE TAXES, 326 00:13:53,001 --> 00:13:55,000 INCREASES THAT WILL BE NEED 327 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:57,000 TO PAY FOR THIS OR THE DEBT 328 00:13:57,001 --> 00:13:59,000 THAT THE OTHER PARTY IS DUMPING 329 00:13:59,001 --> 00:14:00,000 ON OUR TAXPAYERS. 330 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:03,000 ANOTHER ISSUE I THINK THE 331 00:14:03,001 --> 00:14:04,000 MEMBERS NEED TO BE AWARE OF IN 332 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:07,000 THIS PACKAGE DESPITE OUR 333 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:08,000 EARLIER EFFORTS, THE JUSTICE 334 00:14:08,001 --> 00:14:10,000 DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED AN 335 00:14:10,001 --> 00:14:11,000 OPINION THAT THE GOVERNMENT 336 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:14,000 WILL STILL GIVE FUNDS TO ACORN. 337 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:15,000 LET ME STATE THAT AGAIN. 338 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:16,000 WE WILL STILL BE FUNDING ACORN 339 00:14:16,001 --> 00:14:17,000 UNDER THIS BILL AND THEIR 340 00:14:17,001 --> 00:14:20,000 EXISTING CONTRACTS. 341 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:26,000 FEDERAL FUNDS WILL STILL FLOW. I HAD AN AMENDMENT IN 342 00:14:26,001 --> 00:14:28,000 LANGUAGE TO GET AT THIS ISSUE 343 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:29,000 AS ALL OF US WERE UNDER THE 344 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:31,000 IMPRESSION THAT ACORN WAS CUT 345 00:14:31,001 --> 00:14:32,000 OFF FOR GOOD. 346 00:14:32,001 --> 00:14:34,000 THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD. 347 00:14:34,001 --> 00:14:36,000 HOWEVER, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 348 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:37,000 HAS ANOTHER VIEW IN THE 349 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:39,000 AGENCIES, AT LEAST IN THE 350 00:14:39,001 --> 00:14:41,000 H.U.D. AREA, WILL STILL CUT CHECKS TO ACORN. 351 00:14:41,001 --> 00:14:43,000 AGAIN, I TOLD THE RULES 352 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:45,000 COMMITTEE YESTERDAY THIS IS A 353 00:14:45,001 --> 00:14:47,000 BITTERSWEET TIME. I YIELD MYSELF ANOTHER 30 354 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:48,000 SECONDS. 355 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:50,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 356 00:14:50,001 --> 00:14:51,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 357 00:14:51,001 --> 00:14:52,000 MR. LATHAM: I TOLD THE RULES 358 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:54,000 COMMITTEE YESTERDAY THIS IS A 359 00:14:54,001 --> 00:14:55,000 BITTERSWEET TIME. 360 00:14:55,001 --> 00:14:57,000 THE FED CONFERENCE IS COMPLETED 361 00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:58,000 AND THAT IN ITSELF IS AN 362 00:14:58,001 --> 00:15:00,000 ACCOMPLISHMENT. 363 00:15:00,001 --> 00:15:02,000 THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD POLICY 364 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,000 IN THE TRANSPORTATION-H.U.D. 365 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:05,000 CONFERENCE BILL. 366 00:15:05,001 --> 00:15:06,000 BUT THIS PACKAGE, WITH ALL OF 367 00:15:06,001 --> 00:15:12,000 THSIX BILLS PILED TOGETHER, 368 00:15:12,001 --> 00:15:16,000 IS ABOUT $39 369 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:17,000 THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 370 00:15:17,001 --> 00:15:18,000 AND I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 371 00:15:18,001 --> 00:15:19,000 TIME. 372 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 373 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:23,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. THE GENTLEMAN FROM 374 00:15:23,001 --> 00:15:24,000 MASSACHUSETTS, FOR WHAT PURPOSE 375 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:25,000 DO YOU RISE? 376 00:15:25,001 --> 00:15:27,000 MR. OLVER: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 377 00:15:27,001 --> 00:15:30,000 THREE MINUTES TO THE 378 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:33,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK, NITA 379 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:34,000 LOWEY. 380 00:15:34,001 --> 00:15:36,000 NITA LOWEY IS THE CHAIRWOMAN OF 381 00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:37,000 THE STAT 382 00:15:37,001 --> 00:15:39,000 OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF 383 00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:40,000 APPROPRIATIONS, ONE OF THE 384 00:15:40,001 --> 00:15:42,000 BILLS WHICH IS INCLUDED. 385 00:15:42,001 --> 00:15:43,000 THE 386 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:45,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM NEW YORK IS 387 00:15:45,001 --> 00:15:46,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 388 00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:47,000 MRS. LOWEY: AND I THANK THE 389 00:15:47,001 --> 00:15:48,000 CHAIRMAN FOR YOUR IMPORTANT 390 00:15:48,001 --> 00:15:51,000 WORK ON THIS BILL. 391 00:15:51,001 --> 00:15:53,000 I AM VERY PLEASED TO PRESENT 392 00:15:53,001 --> 00:15:56,000 DIVISION F OF THE F.Y. 2010 393 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:58,000 OMNIBUS WHICH INCLUDES $47.764 394 00:15:58,001 --> 00:16:00,000 BILLION IN APPROPRIATIONS TO 395 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:02,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 396 00:16:02,001 --> 00:16:07,000 FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS. 397 00:16:07,001 --> 00:16:09,000 AT $1.235 BILLION, OR 2% BELOW 398 00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:12,000 FISCAL YEAR 2009 ENACTED 399 00:16:12,001 --> 00:16:14,000 LEVELS, INCLUDING SUPPLEMENTAL 400 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:16,000 APPROPRIATIONS, AND $3.28 401 00:16:16,001 --> 00:16:19,000 BILLION BELOW THE PRESIDENT'S 402 00:16:19,001 --> 00:16:23,000 FISCAL YEAR 2010 REQUEST, THESE 403 00:16:23,001 --> 00:16:24,000 FUNDS SUPPORT THE U.S. 404 00:16:24,001 --> 00:16:26,000 DIPLOMATIC AND DEVELOPMENT 405 00:16:26,001 --> 00:16:27,000 PRIORITIES, A CORNERSTONE OF 406 00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:30,000 U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY. 407 00:16:30,001 --> 00:16:32,000 TO ADDRESS SECURITY IMPAIR 408 00:16:32,001 --> 00:16:34,000 TIFFS, IT INCLUDES $4.5 BILLION 409 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:36,000 TO HELP STABILIZE, STRENGTHEN 410 00:16:36,001 --> 00:16:38,000 AND REBUILD AFGHANISTAN, 411 00:16:38,001 --> 00:16:40,000 PAKISTAN AND IRAQ IN 412 00:16:40,001 --> 00:16:43,000 CONJUNCTION WITH FUNDING IN T 413 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:46,000 2009 SUPPLEMENTAL, FULL FUNDING 414 00:16:46,001 --> 00:16:48,000 FOR OUR COMMITMENTS TO OUR 415 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:51,000 ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN THE 416 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:53,000 MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING A $2.775 417 00:16:53,001 --> 00:16:57,000 BILLION IN.M.F. FOR ISRAEL. 418 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:58,000 $1.3 BILLION FOR EGYPT. 419 00:16:58,001 --> 00:17:03,000 $00 MILLION FOR JORDAN. 420 00:17:03,001 --> 00:17:04,000 A PROVISION TO EXCLUDE THE 421 00:17:04,001 --> 00:17:06,000 EXPORT IMPORT BANK FROM 422 00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:08,000 ENTERING DEALS INTO COMPANIES 423 00:17:08,001 --> 00:17:09,000 THAT CONTRIBUTE TO IRAN'S 424 00:17:09,001 --> 00:17:11,000 REFINE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. 425 00:17:11,001 --> 00:17:13,000 GIVES THE SECRETARY OF STATE 426 00:17:13,001 --> 00:17:14,000 AUTHORITY TO EXEMPT COUNTRIES 427 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:17,000 COOPERATING CLOSELY WITH THE 428 00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:20,000 UNITED STATES TO STOP IRAN FROM 429 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:25,000 ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 430 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,000 $8.37 BILLION FOR 431 00:17:27,001 --> 00:17:28,000 COUNTERNARCOTICS AND OTHER 432 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:29,000 SIMILAR PROGRAMS IN LATIN 433 00:17:29,001 --> 00:17:31,000 AMERICA. 434 00:17:31,001 --> 00:17:33,000 THIS BILL CONTINUES THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITMENT TO 435 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:34,000 INCREASE DLOMATIC AND 436 00:17:34,001 --> 00:17:35,000 DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY WITH 437 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:39,000 RESOURCES TO HIRE, TRAIN, 438 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:41,000 SUPPORT AND PROTECT 700 NEW 439 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:44,000 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PERSONNEL 440 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:46,000 AND 300 NEW U.S.A. PERSONNEL. 441 00:17:46,001 --> 00:17:49,000 THE BILL INCREASES FUNDING FOR 442 00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:51,000 KEY LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT 443 00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:53,000 PRIORITIES, INCLUDING $7.7 444 00:17:53,001 --> 00:17:55,000 BILLION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH 445 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:59,000 ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING $5.7 446 00:17:59,001 --> 00:18:01,000 BILLION FOR GBAL HIV-AIDS, 447 00:18:01,001 --> 00:18:04,000 $1.2 BILLION TO IMPROVE ACCESS 448 00:18:04,001 --> 00:18:07,000 TO QUALITY, BASIC AND HIGHER 449 00:18:07,001 --> 00:18:10,000 EDUCATION, $1.1 BILLION FOR 450 00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:13,000 FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT. 451 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:16,000 OVER $1.25 BILLION IN BILATERAL 452 00:18:16,001 --> 00:18:17,000 AND MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE FOR 453 00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:19,000 CLEAN ENERGY, BIODIVERSITY AND 454 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:22,000 CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVES. 455 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:24,000 AND $315 MILLION TO EXPAND 456 00:18:24,001 --> 00:18:25,000 ACCESS TO SAFE WATER AND 457 00:18:25,001 --> 00:18:29,000 SANITATION. 458 00:18:29,001 --> 00:18:30,000 AND $2.57 BILLION FOR REFUGEE 459 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:31,000 AND DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 460 00:18:31,001 --> 00:18:33,000 FINALLY, TO IMPROVE 461 00:18:33,001 --> 00:18:40,000 ACCOUNTABILITY AND OVERSIGHT, 462 00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:41,000 THE BILL PROVIDES $149 MILLION 463 00:18:41,001 --> 00:18:44,000 THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND 464 00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:45,000 U.S. AID AND THE SPECIAL 465 00:18:45,001 --> 00:18:49,000 INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ, 466 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:55,000 AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION. 467 00:18:55,001 --> 00:18:58,000 MADAM -- SIR 468 00:18:58,001 --> 00:18:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 469 00:18:59,001 --> 00:19:02,000 TIME OF THE GENTLELADY HAS 470 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:04,000 EXPIRED. 471 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:06,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD TWO MINUTES. 472 00:19:06,001 --> 00:19:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 473 00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:08,000 GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR 474 00:19:08,001 --> 00:19:10,000 TWO MINUTES. 475 00:19:10,001 --> 00:19:11,000 MRS. LOWEY: I'M ALSO PLEASED 476 00:19:11,001 --> 00:19:12,000 THIS APPROPRIATIONS PACKAGE 477 00:19:12,001 --> 00:19:13,000 INVESTS IN WORTHY INITIATIVES 478 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:17,000 IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT WILL 479 00:19:17,001 --> 00:19:18,000 IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, LAW 480 00:19:18,001 --> 00:19:20,000 ENFORCEMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND 481 00:19:20,001 --> 00:19:23,000 INFRASTRUCTURE IN NEW YORK AND AROUND THE NATION. 482 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:26,000 SO I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO GIVE 483 00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:27,000 THIS BILL OUR BIPARTISAN 484 00:19:27,001 --> 00:19:28,000 SUPPORT. 485 00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:29,000 AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 486 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:30,000 MY TIME. 487 00:19:30,001 --> 00:19:32,000 THANK YOU. 488 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:34,000 T 489 00:19:34,001 --> 00:19:35,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE 490 00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:36,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. 491 00:19:36,001 --> 00:19:37,000 WHO SEEKS RECOGNITION AT THIS 492 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:39,000 TIME? 493 00:19:39,001 --> 00:19:40,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IO 494 00:19:40,001 --> 00:19:41,000 MR. LATHAM: IT'S MY PLEASURE TO 495 00:19:41,001 --> 00:19:43,000 YIELD FIVE MINUTES TO THE 496 00:19:43,001 --> 00:19:44,000 DISTINGUISHED RANKING MEM 497 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:45,000 THE FULL COMMITTEE, MR. LEWIS 498 00:19:45,001 --> 00:19:46,000 FROM CALIFORNIA. 499 00:19:46,001 --> 00:19:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 500 00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:49,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IS 501 00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:50,000 RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. 502 00:19:50,001 --> 00:19:52,000 MR. LEWIS: MR. SPEAKER, I 503 00:19:52,001 --> 00:19:53,000 APPRECIATE VERY MUCH MY 504 00:19:53,001 --> 00:19:54,000 COLLEAGUE YIELDING AS I OPEN 505 00:19:54,001 --> 00:19:56,000 REMARKS, I KNOW I WANT TO JOIN 506 00:19:56,001 --> 00:19:57,000 MY CHAIRMAN TO EXPRESS OUR 507 00:19:57,001 --> 00:19:58,000 APPRECIATION FOR THE FINE WORK 508 00:19:58,001 --> 00:19:59,000 OF OUR STAFF. 509 00:19:59,001 --> 00:20:01,000 THEY WORK LONG HOURS. 510 00:20:01,001 --> 00:20:02,000 SHOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED 511 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:03,000 BY ALL OF US. 512 00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:04,000 AND SO AS WE BREAK FOR THE 513 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:06,000 CHRISTMAS RECESS, I HOPE YOU 514 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:08,000 ALL WILL ENJOY YOURSELF. 515 00:20:08,001 --> 00:20:09,000 YOU ALL DESERVE IT. 516 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:11,000 ONCE AGAIN, INTERESTINGLY 517 00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:12,000 ENOUGH, MR. SPEAKER, WE ARE 518 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:14,000 FINDING OURSELVES APPROACHING 519 00:20:14,001 --> 00:20:15,000 THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH OUR 520 00:20:15,001 --> 00:20:17,000 APPROPRIATIONS WORK LARGELY 521 00:20:17,001 --> 00:20:18,000 UNFINISHED. 522 00:20:18,001 --> 00:20:21,000 HERE WE ARE TWO WEEKS BEFORE 523 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:23,000 CHRISTMAS AND 10 WEEKS AFTER 524 00:20:23,001 --> 00:20:25,000 THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR 525 00:20:25,001 --> 00:20:26,000 DEMONSTRATING TO THE WORLD THAT 526 00:20:26,001 --> 00:20:28,000 CONGRESS REMAINS INCAPABLE OF 527 00:20:28,001 --> 00:20:29,000 GETTING ITS WORK DONE. 528 00:20:29,001 --> 00:20:32,000 IT'S IRONIC THAT SOME OF THE 529 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,000 HOUSE ARE QUICK AUTO TO FIND 530 00:20:34,001 --> 00:20:37,000 FAULT IN THE LACK OF EFFICIENCY 531 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:38,000 OF GOVERNMENTS SUCH AS IRAQ AND 532 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:40,000 AFGHANISTAN. 533 00:20:40,001 --> 00:20:41,000 PERHAPS IF WE DID A BETTER JOB 534 00:20:41,001 --> 00:20:43,000 OF MEETING OUR OWN MILESTONES, 535 00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:45,000 LIKE FINISHING OUR SPDING 536 00:20:45,001 --> 00:20:50,000 BILLS BY OCTOBER 1 EACH YEAR, 537 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:51,000 WE WOULD BE A BETTER POSITION 538 00:20:51,001 --> 00:20:52,000 TO GUESS MILESTONES OF OTHERS. 539 00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:54,000 IT'S LAUGHABLE TO THIS MEMBER 540 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:55,000 THAT SOME IN THE DEMOCRATIC 541 00:20:55,001 --> 00:20:56,000 MAJORITY ARE POINTING FINGERS 542 00:20:56,001 --> 00:20:58,000 AT THE REPUBLICAN MINORITY FOR 543 00:20:58,001 --> 00:21:00,000 THIS FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP. 544 00:21:00,001 --> 00:21:03,000 AFTER ALL, IT'S THE DEMOCRAT 545 00:21:03,001 --> 00:21:06,000 MAJORITY THAT CONTROLS BOTH THE 546 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:08,000 HOUSE AND THE SENATE AND THE 547 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,000 WHITE HOUSE. 548 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:10,000 AS MUCH AS IT MAY PAIN MY 549 00:21:10,001 --> 00:21:12,000 FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 550 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:14,000 THE AISLE, THEY CAN NO LONGER 551 00:21:14,001 --> 00:21:15,000 BLAME GEORGE BUSH OR THE 552 00:21:15,001 --> 00:21:18,000 REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THEIR OWN 553 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:21,000 FAILURE TO LEAD. 554 00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:23,000 STILL LEFT UNFINISHED IS THE 555 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:24,000 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL 556 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:26,000 WHICH MANY BELIEVE WILL BE USED 557 00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:28,000 BY THE MAJORITY LEADERSHIP TO 558 00:21:28,001 --> 00:21:30,000 PASS UNPOPULAR LEGISLATION THAT 559 00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:31,000 H 560 00:21:31,001 --> 00:21:35,000 ITS OWN. 561 00:21:35,001 --> 00:21:36,000 ON THIS POINT LET 562 00:21:36,001 --> 00:21:38,000 CLEAR THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS 563 00:21:38,001 --> 00:21:39,000 WIL NOT SUPPORT PASSAGE OF A 564 00:21:39,001 --> 00:21:42,000 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS MEASURE 565 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:46,000 IF IT IS USED AS A VEHICLE TO 566 00:21:46,001 --> 00:21:47,000 RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT AND IF IT 567 00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:49,000 CONTAINS OTHER CONTROVERSIAL 568 00:21:49,001 --> 00:21:51,000 LEGISLATIVE ITEMS. 569 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:53,000 THE RECKLESS RECORD OF SPENDING 570 00:21:53,001 --> 00:21:54,000 BY THE CONGRESS HAS 571 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:57,000 NATIONAL DEBT TO MORE THAN 572 00:21:57,001 --> 00:21:59,000 TRIPLE OVER THE LAST YEAR. 573 00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:02,000 IN THIS $450 BILLION PACKAGE 574 00:22:02,001 --> 00:22:04,000 THAT'S BEFORE US TODAY, 575 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:06,000 SPENDING ON DOMESTIC PROGRAMS 576 00:22:06,001 --> 00:22:09,000 HAS INCREASED BY AN ASTONISHING 577 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:11,000 14% WHILE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 578 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:14,000 AND VETERANS FUNDING, FOR 579 00:22:14,001 --> 00:22:15,000 EXAMPLE, IS HELD TO ONLY 5%. 580 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:17,000 SADLY, THE MISPLACED PRIORITIES 581 00:22:17,001 --> 00:22:19,000 OF THIS CONGRESS HAVE RESULTED 582 00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:22,000 IN TOO MUCH SPENDING, FEWER 583 00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:23,000 JOBS AND BIGGER GOVERNMENT THAT 584 00:22:23,001 --> 00:22:25,000 THE PUBLIC DOESN'T WANT AND 585 00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:26,000 CERTAINLY CANNOT AFFORD. 586 00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:31,000 SOME IN WASHINGTON REFER TO 587 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:33,000 THIS UNRESTRAINED SPENDING IS A CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. 588 00:22:33,001 --> 00:22:36,000 MOST PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY CALL 589 00:22:36,001 --> 00:22:39,000 IT BUSINESS AS USUAL. 590 00:22:39,001 --> 00:22:41,000 THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE 591 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:43,000 ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT HAS 592 00:22:43,001 --> 00:22:45,000 RETURNED TO WASHINGTON. 593 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:48,000 ONE NEED ONLY LOOK AT THE 594 00:22:48,001 --> 00:22:51,000 SO-CALLED RECOVERY ACT, OR 595 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:52,000 DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT, A 596 00:22:52,001 --> 00:22:56,000 JOB-KILLING CAP AND TRADE BILL 597 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:57,000 AND A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF 598 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,000 HEALTH CARE AS EVIDENCE. 599 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:00,000 IT'S NO LONGER THAT THE PUBLIC 600 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:02,000 CONFIDENCE IN THE CONGRESS IS 601 00:23:02,001 --> 00:23:03,000 AT AN ALL-TIME LOW. 602 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:05,000 MR. SPEAKER, I CANNOT AND WILL 603 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:06,000 NOT SUPPORT THIS PACKAGE OF 604 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:08,000 SPENDING BILLS BECAUSE IT 605 00:23:08,001 --> 00:23:10,000 SIMPLY SPENDS TOO MUCH MONEY 606 00:23:10,001 --> 00:23:11,000 AND MAKES A M 607 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:12,000 LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. 608 00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:13,000 MR. SPEAKER, I RESERVE THE 609 00:23:13,001 --> 00:23:15,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 610 00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:18,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 611 00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:20,000 WHO SEEKS RECOGNITION? THE GENTLEMAN FROM 612 00:23:20,001 --> 00:23:23,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 613 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:26,000 MR. OLVER: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 614 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:29,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN, 615 00:23:29,001 --> 00:23:30,000 MR. OBEY, FIVE MINUTES. 616 00:23:30,001 --> 00:23:33,000 MR. OBEY IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 617 00:23:33,001 --> 00:23:35,000 FULL APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 618 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:38,000 BUT ALSO SERVES AS THE CHAIRMAN 619 00:23:38,001 --> 00:23:39,000 OF THE LABOR, HEALTH AND 620 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:41,000 EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE. 621 00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 622 00:23:43,001 --> 00:23:44,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN IS 623 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:46,000 RECOGNED FOR FIVE MINUTES. 624 00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:47,000 MR. OBEY: MR. SPEAKER, I HAVE A 625 00:23:47,001 --> 00:23:48,000 QUESTION. 626 00:23:48,001 --> 00:23:52,000 IS THE GENTLEMAN FROM 627 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:53,000 CALIFORNIA, MR. LEWIS, THE SAME 628 00:23:53,001 --> 00:23:54,000 MR. LEWIS WHO CHAIRED THE 629 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:56,000 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE THE 630 00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:59,000 LAST YEAR THAT THE REPUBLICANS 631 00:23:59,001 --> 00:24:02,000 WERE IN CONTROL? 632 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:08,000 IT'S MY IMPRESSION THAT HE IS. 633 00:24:08,001 --> 00:24:10,000 AS I RECALL IN THAT YEAR, THE 634 00:24:10,001 --> 00:24:13,000 REPUBLICANS PASSED EXACTLY TWO 635 00:24:13,001 --> 00:24:14,000 APPROPRIATION BILLS THROUGH THE 636 00:24:14,001 --> 00:24:16,000 CONGRESS AND HAD THEM SIGNED 637 00:24:16,001 --> 00:24:18,000 INTO LAW. 638 00:24:18,001 --> 00:24:19,000 THE OTHER NINE APPROPRIATION 639 00:24:19,001 --> 00:24:21,000 BILLS WERE NOT PASSED IN 640 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,000 OCTOBER. THEY WERE NOT PASSED IN 641 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:24,000 NOVEMBER. 642 00:24:24,001 --> 00:24:25,000 THEY 643 00:24:25,001 --> 00:24:26,000 DECEMBER. 644 00:24:26,001 --> 00:24:30,000 THEY WERE NEVER PASSED. 645 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:33,000 AND SO THE INCOMING CONGRESS 646 00:24:33,001 --> 00:24:34,000 UNDER OUR CONTROL WAS FORCED TO 647 00:24:34,001 --> 00:24:36,000 PASS THEIR BILLS AT THE 648 00:24:36,001 --> 00:24:39,000 BEGINNING OF THE NEXT SESSION 649 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:41,000 BEFORE WE COULD EVER GET TO OUR 650 00:24:41,001 --> 00:24:45,000 OWN. 651 00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:47,000 AND YET THE GENTLEMAN WITH THAT 652 00:24:47,001 --> 00:24:51,000 RECORD IS NOW COMPLAING 653 00:24:51,001 --> 00:24:53,000 BECAUSE WITH PASSAGE OF THIS 654 00:24:53,001 --> 00:24:56,000 BILL WE WILL ONLY HAVE SENT TO 655 00:24:56,001 --> 00:24:58,000 THE PRESIDENT 11 OF THE 12 656 00:24:58,001 --> 00:24:59,000 APPROPRIATION BILLS NEED FOR 657 00:24:59,001 --> 00:25:02,000 THE YEAR. 658 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:03,000 AND I WOULD POINT OUT THAT BY 659 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:05,000 NEXT WEEK WE INTEND TO SEND THE 660 00:25:05,001 --> 00:25:09,000 LAST BILL TO HIM. 661 00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:11,000 IF THAT HAPPENS, 662 00:25:11,001 --> 00:25:12,000 ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR 663 00:25:12,001 --> 00:25:14,000 FRIENDS ON THAT SIDE OF THE 664 00:25:14,001 --> 00:25:19,000 AISLE AND US IS THAT WE WILL 665 00:25:19,001 --> 00:25:20,000 HAVE GOTTEN OURORK DONE. 666 00:25:20,001 --> 00:25:22,000 DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE HAD TO 667 00:25:22,001 --> 00:25:26,000 DEAL WITH THE GREATEST ECONOMIC 668 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:29,000 COLLAPSE IN 75 YEARS, WE WILL 669 00:25:29,001 --> 00:25:33,000 HAVE FINISHED EVERY 670 00:25:33,001 --> 00:25:35,000 APPROPRIATION BILL. 671 00:25:35,001 --> 00:25:37,000 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE WHO 672 00:25:37,001 --> 00:25:39,000 IN THE LAST YEAR THEY 673 00:25:39,001 --> 00:25:41,000 CONTROLLED THIS PLACE WERE NOT 674 00:25:41,001 --> 00:25:45,000 ABLE TO COMPLETE ACTION ON A 675 00:25:45,001 --> 00:25:46,000 SINGLE DOMESTIC APPROPRIATION 676 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:49,000 BILL. 677 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:50,000 UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, FOR 678 00:25:50,001 --> 00:25:52,000 THE GENTLEMAN ON THAT SIDE OF 679 00:25:52,001 --> 00:25:54,000 THE AISLE TO SQUAWK ABOUT THE 680 00:25:54,001 --> 00:25:56,000 FACT THAT WE ARE A FEW DAYS 681 00:25:56,001 --> 00:25:57,000 LATE IS TRULY A CASE OF THE 682 00:25:57,001 --> 00:26:01,000 KETTLE -- OR THE POT CALLING 683 00:26:01,001 --> 00:26:03,000 THE KETTLE BLACK. 684 00:26:03,001 --> 00:26:05,000 IT IS VERY INTERESTING LOGIC. 685 00:26:05,001 --> 00:26:08,000 WITH RESPECT TO THE SPENDING 686 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:11,000 AMOUNT IN THIS BILL, I WOULD 687 00:26:11,001 --> 00:26:12,000 SIMPLY POINT OUT THAT THE 688 00:26:12,001 --> 00:26:16,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHU 689 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:18,000 DID EARLIER THAT WE ARE IN THE 690 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:21,000 PROCESS OF DEALING WITH 691 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:24,000 OF NEGLECT AND WE ARE IN THE 692 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:27,000 PROCESS OF TRYING TO DEAL WITH 693 00:26:27,001 --> 00:26:28,000 AN ECONOMIC ENERGY AND 694 00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:30,000 CATASTROPHE. 695 00:26:30,001 --> 00:26:31,000 THE GENTLEMAN COMPLAINS THAT 696 00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:32,000 THIS B 697 00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:34,000 YEAR FOR COMPARABLE BILLS. 698 00:26:34,001 --> 00:26:36,000 THE FACT IS, LET'S LOOK AT WHAT 699 00:26:36,001 --> 00:26:39,000 THOSE DIFFERENCES ARE. 700 00:26:39,001 --> 00:26:41,000 . 701 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:42,000 WE ADDED $3 BILLION MORE THAN 702 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:44,000 LAST YEAR SO WE COULD 703 00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:45,000 THE DISABILITY BACKLOG FOR 704 00:26:45,001 --> 00:26:46,000 VETERANS CLAIMS. 705 00:26:46,001 --> 00:26:47,000 ANYBODY ON T 706 00:26:47,001 --> 00:26:49,000 AISLE WANT TO TAKE THAT MONEY 707 00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:52,000 OUT? 708 00:26:52,001 --> 00:26:55,000 WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL $4.2 709 00:26:55,001 --> 00:26:58,000 BILLION FOR THE 710 00:26:58,001 --> 00:27:00,000 WE ARE 711 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:03,000 CONDUCT THAT KREIN SUSS SO WE 712 00:27:03,001 --> 00:27:05,000 CAN RE-- CENSUS SO WE CAN 713 00:27:05,001 --> 00:27:06,000 REDIRECT HUGE AMOUNTS OF 714 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:07,000 FEDERAL MONEY T 715 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:08,000 LOCALITIES IN THIS COUNTRY IN 716 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:09,000 AN ACCURATE FASHION. 717 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:12,000 ANYBODY THINK WE OUGHT TO 718 00:27:12,001 --> 00:27:13,000 FOREGO THATTER FOR THE 719 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:15,000 FORGO TH FOR THE NEXT 10 720 00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:17,000 YEARS? 721 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:20,000 WE HAVE ALSO PUT $14.8 BILLION 722 00:27:20,001 --> 00:27:22,000 ABOVE THE PREVIOUS YEAR IN 723 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:25,000 BILL TO 724 00:27:25,001 --> 00:27:27,000 WE PUT IT IN THE 725 00:27:27,001 --> 00:27:29,000 SO WE WOULD SHOW UP RATHER THAN 726 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:32,000 HIDING IT IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL 727 00:27:32,001 --> 00:27:34,000 AS PREVIOUS CONGRESSES DID. 728 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:35,000 WOULD YOU REALLY RATHER GO BACK 729 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:39,000 TO THE OLD PRACTICE OF HIDING 730 00:27:39,001 --> 00:27:41,000 THAT 731 00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:44,000 INFRASTRUCTURE 732 00:27:44,001 --> 00:27:47,000 HAVE HAD A 38% DECLINE IN 733 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:48,000 CONSTRUCTION 734 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:51,000 THAT WRONG. 735 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:52,000 WE HAVE A 38% UNPLOYMENT RATE 736 00:27:52,001 --> 00:27:56,000 IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN 14 737 00:27:56,001 --> 00:27:58,000 STATES IN THIS COUNTRY. 738 00:27:58,001 --> 00:28:00,000 SO WE ARE TRYING TO RESPOND TO 739 00:28:00,001 --> 00:28:03,000 THAT BY PUTTING AN EXTRA $11 740 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:05,000 BILLION 741 00:28:05,001 --> 00:28:07,000 CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS. 742 00:28:07,001 --> 00:28:09,000 ANYBODY THINK WE OUGHT TO TAKE 743 00:28:09,001 --> 00:28:12,000 THAT MONEY OUT? 744 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:14,000 HEALTH CARE, WE ARE ABOUT TO 745 00:28:14,001 --> 00:28:15,000 PASS THE MOST 746 00:28:15,001 --> 00:28:17,000 CARE REFORM BILL IN THE HISTORY 747 00:28:17,001 --> 00:28:20,000 OF THE COUNTRY. 748 00:28:20,001 --> 00:28:21,000 THAT'S GOING TO PUT 31 MILLION 749 00:28:21,001 --> 00:28:23,000 MORE PEOPLE UNDER OUR HEALTH 750 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:28,000 CARE SYSTEM. 751 00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:29,000 THIS 752 00:28:29,001 --> 00:28:31,000 IN ORDER TO EXPAND THE CAPACITY 753 00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:34,000 OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO 754 00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:36,000 DEAL WITH THOSE PEOPLE. 755 00:28:36,001 --> 00:28:38,000 ANYBODY THINK WE SHOULDN'T 756 00:28:38,001 --> 00:28:41,000 THAT? 757 00:28:41,001 --> 00:28:43,000 GUILTY. 758 00:28:43,001 --> 00:28:46,000 WE HAVE $5.6 BILLION MORE THAN LAST YEAR. 759 00:28:46,001 --> 00:28:49,000 SO THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LOSING 760 00:28:49,001 --> 00:28:51,000 THEIR JOBS AND NEED RETRAING 761 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:52,000 OR NEED SOME -- SOME ADDITIONAL 762 00:28:52,001 --> 00:28:55,000 EDUCATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES 763 00:28:55,001 --> 00:28:57,000 CAN GET IT. 764 00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:58,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD TWO 765 00:28:58,001 --> 00:28:59,000 ADDITIONAL MINUTES. 766 00:28:59,001 --> 00:29:00,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 767 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:01,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN IS 768 00:29:01,001 --> 00:29:05,000 RECOGNIZED FOR TWO ADDITIONAL MINUTES. 769 00:29:05,001 --> 00:29:06,000 SHOULD ABANDON THOSE STUDENTS AND WORKERS? 770 00:29:06,001 --> 00:29:08,000 WE DON'T THINK WE SHOULD. 771 00:29:08,001 --> 00:29:10,000 I WOULD SIMPLY SAY TH COUNTRY 772 00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:12,000 IS STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME THE 773 00:29:12,001 --> 00:29:13,000 LONGEST AND DEEPEST ECONOMIC 774 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,000 DOWNTURN SINCE THE GREAT 775 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:18,000 DEPRESSION. 776 00:29:18,001 --> 00:29:20,000 THIS BILL BEFORE US 777 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:22,000 KEY MEASURE TO HELP ADDRESS THE 778 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:23,000 PROBLEMS AND 779 00:29:23,001 --> 00:29:25,000 MILLIONS OF HARDWORKING 780 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:27,000 AMERICANS CAUGH 781 00:29:27,001 --> 00:29:30,000 STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL. 782 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:34,000 AND FOR THE MAJORITY TO 783 00:29:34,001 --> 00:29:37,000 COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FACT 784 00:29:37,001 --> 00:29:40,000 ARE 90 DAYS, OR 70 DAYS LATE IN 785 00:29:40,001 --> 00:29:43,000 GETTING THE JOB DONE, WHEN THEY 786 00:29:43,001 --> 00:29:45,000 NEVER GOT THE JOB DONE, WHEN 787 00:29:45,001 --> 00:29:49,000 THEY WERE IN CONTROL OF TH 788 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:50,000 PLACE, IS TO ME 789 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:54,000 LAUGHABLE. 790 00:29:54,001 --> 00:29:55,000 WITH THAT I THK THE GENTLE FOR THE TIME AND RESERVE THE 791 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 792 00:29:57,001 --> 00:29:58,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 793 00:29:58,001 --> 00:29:59,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 794 00:29:59,001 --> 00:30:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA. MR. LATHAM: I THANK THE 795 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:02,000 SPEAKER. 796 00:30:02,001 --> 00:30:03,000 I'D LIKE TO YIELD THREE MINUTES 797 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA, 798 00:30:05,001 --> 00:30:06,000 MR. WOLF. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 799 00:30:06,001 --> 00:30:07,000 GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA IS 800 00:30:07,001 --> 00:30:09,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. MR. WOLF: I THANK YOU. 801 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:10,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO REVISE AND EXTEND MY REMARKS. 802 00:30:10,001 --> 00:30:11,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 803 00:30:11,001 --> 00:30:12,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 804 00:30:12,001 --> 00:30:16,000 MR. WOLF: I WANT TO THANK MR. 805 00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:17,000 MOLLOHAN 806 00:30:17,001 --> 00:30:18,000 FOR THEIR EFFORTS. 807 00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:19,000 I WOULD NOT BE SUPPORTING THEIR 808 00:30:19,001 --> 00:30:20,000 BILL FOR THE REASONS THAT ARE 809 00:30:20,001 --> 00:30:23,000 IN HERE. 810 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:24,000 I WANT TO RAISE A 811 00:30:24,001 --> 00:30:25,000 THAT SOMEBODY OU 812 00:30:25,001 --> 00:30:27,000 IN THIS CONGRESS. 813 00:30:27,001 --> 00:30:30,000 THIS BILL WILL ALLOW THEM TO 814 00:30:30,001 --> 00:30:33,000 SEND PEOPLE, CLUEING SIKH 815 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,000 MUHAMMAD, FROM GUANTANAMO BAY 816 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:35,000 TO NEW YORK CITY. 817 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,000 I BELIEVE PERSONALLY WILL 818 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:38,000 ENDANGER THE CITIZENS OF NEW 819 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:39,000 YORK CITY. 820 00:30:39,001 --> 00:30:41,000 THEY ARE NOW GOING TO COME IN 821 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:43,000 AN 822 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:45,000 OR $100 MILLION TO DO THAT. 823 00:30:45,001 --> 00:30:50,000 THAT'S MONEY YOU COULD PUT IN 824 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:51,000 THINGS IN EDUCATION. 825 00:30:51,001 --> 00:30:53,000 SECONDLY, THIS BILL WE HAVE 826 00:30:53,001 --> 00:30:54,000 ASKED IT TO BE NONCLASSIFIED SO 827 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:56,000 PEOPLE CAN KNOW WHERE THESE 828 00:30:56,001 --> 00:31:00,000 PEOPLE FROM GUANTANAMBAY ARE GOING. 829 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:02,000 26 830 00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:04,000 AND CAN'T TO TALK MORE BEING 831 00:31:04,001 --> 00:31:07,000 SENT TO YEMEN. YEMEN. 832 00:31:07,001 --> 00:31:11,000 THAT'S 833 00:31:11,001 --> 00:31:15,000 THE IMPACT 834 00:31:15,001 --> 00:31:16,000 KILLED 13 PEOPLE AT FORT HOOD, 835 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:17,000 THAT'S WHERE HE OPERATES. 836 00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:21,000 YOU'RE GOING TO SEND PEOPLE 837 00:31:21,001 --> 00:31:22,000 FROM GUANTANAMO BAY WHO SERVE 838 00:31:22,001 --> 00:31:25,000 WITH CLAHEEK SHAKE MUHAMMAD, 839 00:31:25,001 --> 00:31:27,000 WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF 840 00:31:27,001 --> 00:31:29,000 KILLED -- KHALID SHAKE 841 00:31:29,001 --> 00:31:31,000 MUHAMMAD, WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF 842 00:31:31,001 --> 00:31:32,000 THE 9/11, WHO KILLED 3,000 843 00:31:32,001 --> 00:31:34,000 PEOPLE. 844 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:36,000 HE BEHEADED DANIEL PEARL. 845 00:31:36,001 --> 00:31:38,000 THINK OF 846 00:31:38,001 --> 00:31:39,000 THEY ARE GOING TO SEND THEM TO 847 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:44,000 YEMEN AND THEN THEY ARE GOING 848 00:31:44,001 --> 00:31:46,000 TO SEND TWO OTHERS 849 00:31:46,001 --> 00:31:48,000 THAT NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE THAT 850 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:50,000 THEY ARE REALLY GOING TO SEND TH. 851 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:52,000 THIS BILL BY NOT ADOPTING THE 852 00:31:52,001 --> 00:31:53,000 AMENDMENTS THAT WE OFFERED, ONE 853 00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:55,000 I BELIEVE WILL ENDANGER PEOPLE 854 00:31:55,001 --> 00:31:57,000 IN NEW YORK CITY, TWO, WOULD 855 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:59,000 PUT PRESSURE ON NEW YORK CITY. 856 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:00,000 YOU WILL SEE STORIES IN THE 857 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:02,000 PAPER AS YOU VOTE FOR THIS 858 00:32:02,001 --> 00:32:04,000 BILL, YOU WILL SEE STORIES IN 859 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:07,000 THE PAPER OF SNIPERS ON THE 860 00:32:07,001 --> 00:32:09,000 ROOFTOPS, TANKS, KHALID SHAKE 861 00:32:09,001 --> 00:32:11,000 MUHAMMAD WILL BE IN NEW YORK 862 00:32:11,001 --> 00:32:12,000 CITY FOR -- KHALID SIKH 863 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:13,000 MUHAMMAD WILL BE IN NEW YORK 864 00:32:13,001 --> 00:32:15,000 CITY FOR FOUR YEARS. 865 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:17,000 FOUR YEARS OR MORE. 866 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:20,000 MOUSSAOUI WAS IN NORTHERN 867 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:22,000 VIRGINIA FOR OVER FOUR YEARS. 868 00:32:22,001 --> 00:32:23,000 HE WILL BE -- HE WILL SAY 869 00:32:23,001 --> 00:32:24,000 THINGS AND DO THINGS THAT WILL 870 00:32:24,001 --> 00:32:26,000 BE UNCONSIDERABLEABLE. 871 00:32:26,001 --> 00:32:27,000 AS YOU VOTE FOR THIS BILL, YOU 872 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:29,000 ARE IN ESSENCE ALLOWING THAT TO 873 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:35,000 TAKE PLACE. IT'S CRAZY. 874 00:32:35,001 --> 00:32:38,000 IT'S ABSOLUTELY CRAZY TO THINK 875 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:40,000 YOU CAN TRY KHALID SIKH 876 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:41,000 MUHAMMAD. 877 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:43,000 THEN THEY ARE GOING TO BRING 878 00:32:43,001 --> 00:32:47,000 OTHERS IN. 879 00:32:47,001 --> 00:32:50,000 SO MUHAMMAD GETS CIVILIAN TRIAL 880 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:52,000 WHEN A YOUNG 19-YEAR-OLD PERSON 881 00:32:52,001 --> 00:32:53,000 IN THE ARMY, MAN OR WOMAN, WHO 882 00:32:53,001 --> 00:32:54,000 DOES SOMETHING WRONG, HAS TO GO 883 00:32:54,001 --> 00:32:56,000 THROUGH A MILITARY 884 00:32:56,001 --> 00:32:58,000 COUR 885 00:32:58,001 --> 00:32:59,000 FOR THAT REASON THE BILL SPENDS 886 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:03,000 TOO MUCH, BUT FOR THOSE 887 00:33:03,001 --> 00:33:04,000 REASONS, AND I BELIEVE THAT BY 888 00:33:04,001 --> 00:33:05,000 BRINGING KHALID SHAKE MUHAMMAD 889 00:33:05,001 --> 00:33:07,000 AND THE OTHERS HERE, WE MAY 890 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:10,000 VERY WELL ENDANGER PEOPLE AND 891 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:11,000 BRING ABOUT ANOTHER ATTACK. 892 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:13,000 SECONDLY, TO SPEND ALL THAT 893 00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:14,000 MONEY TO PROTECT KHALID SIKH 894 00:33:14,001 --> 00:33:16,000 MUHAMMAD WHEN HE COULD HAVE 895 00:33:16,001 --> 00:33:18,000 BEEN TRIED DOWN AT GUANTANAMO 896 00:33:18,001 --> 00:33:19,000 BAY JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY 897 00:33:19,001 --> 00:33:21,000 SENSE. 898 00:33:21,001 --> 00:33:22,000 NO ONE BELIEVES THAT THAT MAKES 899 00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:23,000 SENSE. 900 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:25,000 LASTLY, TO SEND PEOPLE TO YEMEN 901 00:33:25,001 --> 00:33:26,000 AND THIS OTHER PLACE. 902 00:33:26,001 --> 00:33:27,000 I THINK WILL ENDANGER THE 903 00:33:27,001 --> 00:33:28,000 COUNTRY. 904 00:33:28,001 --> 00:33:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 905 00:33:31,001 --> 00:33:33,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. THE GENTLEMAN FROM 906 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:36,000 MASS 907 00:33:36,001 --> 00:33:37,000 MR. OLVER: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 908 00:33:37,001 --> 00:33:42,000 AT THIS TIME THREE MINUTES TO 909 00:33:42,001 --> 00:33:45,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, MR. EDWARDS. 910 00:33:45,001 --> 00:33:48,000 MR. EDWARDS IS THE 911 00:33:48,001 --> 00:33:49,000 THE-- 912 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:51,000 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE 913 00:33:51,001 --> 00:33:52,000 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. 914 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 915 00:33:53,001 --> 00:33:54,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS IS 916 00:33:54,001 --> 00:33:56,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 917 00:33:56,001 --> 00:33:57,000 MR. EDWARDS: THIS BILL SUPPORTS 918 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:59,000 AMERICA'S VETERANS, OUR TROOPS, 919 00:33:59,001 --> 00:34:00,000 AND THEIR FAMILIES IN A 920 00:34:00,001 --> 00:34:02,000 MEANINGFUL WAY BY IMPROVING 921 00:34:02,001 --> 00:34:03,000 THEIR HEALTH CARE, THEIR 922 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:05,000 BENEFITS, AND QUALITY OF LIFE. 923 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,000 THOSE WHO DEFEND OUR NATION 924 00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:08,000 HAVE EARNED AND DESERVE THIS 925 00:34:08,001 --> 00:34:10,000 SUPPORT. 926 00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:12,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER 927 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:13,000 PROVIDE TWO-YEAR FUNDING FOR 928 00:34:13,001 --> 00:34:15,000 V.A. MEDICAL PROGRAMS. 929 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:17,000 THIS IS A HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT 930 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:19,000 AND S BEEN ONE OF THE HIGHEST 931 00:34:19,001 --> 00:34:21,000 PRIORITIES OF OUR NATION'S MOST 932 00:34:21,001 --> 00:34:23,000 RESPECTED VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS. 933 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:25,000 THE ADVANCED FUNDING IS A WIN 934 00:34:25,001 --> 00:34:26,000 FOR VETERANS AND FOR 935 00:34:26,001 --> 00:34:28,000 IT WILL ALLOW THE V.A. TO PLAN 936 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:30,000 ITS SPENDING MORE EFFICIENTLY 937 00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:31,000 WHICH WILL IMPROVE HEALTH CARE 938 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:33,000 FOR VETERANS AND SAVE 939 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:34,000 TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS. 940 00:34:34,001 --> 00:34:36,000 THIS BILL FUNDS PRESIDENT 941 00:34:36,001 --> 00:34:39,000 OBAMA'S V.A. REQUEST. 942 00:34:39,001 --> 00:34:41,000 A $5.4 BILLION INCREASE, THE 943 00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:42,000 LARGEST PRESIDENTIAL REQUEST 944 00:34:42,001 --> 00:34:45,000 FOR INCREASED VETERANS FUNDING 945 00:34:45,001 --> 00:34:47,000 IN OVER 30 YEARS. 946 00:34:47,001 --> 00:34:49,000 OTHER MAJOR INITIATIVES IN THIS 947 00:34:49,001 --> 00:34:51,000 BILL INCLUDE NEW TRAINING 948 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:52,000 BARRACKS FOR MILITARY RECRUITS, 949 00:34:52,001 --> 00:34:54,000 HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE FOR 950 00:34:54,001 --> 00:34:56,000 TROOPS BEING RESTATIONED. 951 00:34:56,001 --> 00:34:57,000 ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE 952 00:34:57,001 --> 00:34:59,000 MODERNIZATION OF NATIONAL GUARD 953 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:01,000 AND RESERVE FACILITIES. 954 00:35:01,001 --> 00:35:02,000 AND A ROBUST ENERGY 955 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:03,000 CONSERVATION PROGRAM FOR 956 00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:05,000 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 957 00:35:05,001 --> 00:35:07,000 FACILITIES. 958 00:35:07,001 --> 00:35:09,000 WHEN THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM 959 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:11,000 CALIFORNIA, MS. PELOSI, BECAME 960 00:35:11,001 --> 00:35:13,000 SPEAKER IN 2007, SHE PROMISED 961 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:15,000 THAT SUPPORTING VETERANS WOULD 962 00:35:15,001 --> 00:35:17,000 BE ONE OF CONGRESS' HIGHEST 963 00:35:17,001 --> 00:35:18,000 PRIORITIES. 964 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:20,000 SPEAKER PELOSI, THE STRONG 965 00:35:20,001 --> 00:35:24,000 LEADERSHIP OF CHAIRMAN SPRATT 966 00:35:24,001 --> 00:35:25,000 AND OBEY AND FILNER, HAS KEPT 967 00:35:25,001 --> 00:35:27,000 THAT PROMISE. 968 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:28,000 HERE'S SOME OF THE SIGNIFICANT 969 00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:34,000 RESULTS IN JUST THREE YEARS. 970 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:39,000 A 60% INCREASE IN 971 00:35:39,001 --> 00:35:41,000 145 NEW V.A. COMMUNITY 972 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:44,000 CLINICS. 973 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:47,000 3,384 V. DOCTORS. 974 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:50,000 14,426 NEW V.A. NURSES. 975 00:35:50,001 --> 00:35:53,000 8,300 NEW V.A. CLAIMS PROCESSORS. 976 00:35:53,001 --> 00:35:55,000 AN EXPANSION OF MIDDLE INCOME 977 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:56,000 VETERANS ELIGIBILITY FOR V.A. HEALTH CARE. 978 00:35:56,001 --> 00:35:59,000 MORE THAN A DOUBLING OF MENTAL 979 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:02,000 HEALTH CARE FUNDING FOR VETS. 980 00:36:02,001 --> 00:36:05,000 AND A HISTORIC NEW G.I. COLLEGE 981 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:08,000 EDUCATION BILL. 982 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:11,000 ULTIMATELY THIS IS ABOUT MORE 983 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:13,000 BETTER HEALTH CARE AND BENEFITS 984 00:36:13,001 --> 00:36:15,000 FOR OUR TROOPS AND VETS. 985 00:36:15,001 --> 00:36:17,000 IT IS ABOUT RESPECT. 986 00:36:17,001 --> 00:36:19,000 RESPECT FOR THE SERVICE AND 987 00:36:19,001 --> 00:36:22,000 SACRIFICE OF THOSE WHO DEFEND 988 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:24,000 OUR NATION AND THEIR FAMILIES. 989 00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:25,000 I ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK OUR 990 00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:27,000 RANKING MEMBER ON OUR 991 00:36:27,001 --> 00:36:28,000 SUBCOMMITTEE, MR. WAMP OF 992 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:30,000 TENNESSEE, WHO IS A CRITICAL 993 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:31,000 PARTNER IN OUR WORK ON OUR 994 00:36:31,001 --> 00:36:32,000 PORTION OF THIS BILL AND WHO 995 00:36:32,001 --> 00:36:35,000 ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRATED HIS 996 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:36,000 DEEP COMMITMENT TO OUR TROOPS 997 00:36:36,001 --> 00:36:37,000 AND VETERANS. 998 00:36:37,001 --> 00:36:39,000 AND FINALLY, BUT CERTAINLY NOT 999 00:36:39,001 --> 00:36:40,000 LEAST, I WANT TO THANK AND 1000 00:36:40,001 --> 00:36:42,000 SALUTE OUR SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF 1001 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:44,000 WHOSE PROFESSIONALISM AND 1002 00:36:44,001 --> 00:36:45,000 TIRELESS WORK IS MADE POSSIBLE 1003 00:36:45,001 --> 00:36:48,000 OUR UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENTS 1004 00:36:48,001 --> 00:36:50,000 FOR OUR VETANCE AND TROOPS. 1005 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:52,000 CAROL MURPHY, THE COMMITTEE 1006 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:56,000 CLERK, MARY ARNOLD, TIM 1007 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:58,000 PETERSON, WALTER HERN, DONNA 1008 00:36:58,001 --> 00:37:00,000 CHAVEZ, KELLY SHEA, AND LIZ DAWSON. 1009 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:03,000 IN MY BOOK THEY PERSONIFY THE 1010 00:37:03,001 --> 00:37:05,000 BEST IDEALS OF PUBLIC SERVICE. 1011 00:37:05,001 --> 00:37:08,000 WITH THIS BILL DIP DIP THE 1012 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:10,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1013 00:37:10,001 --> 00:37:11,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD ONE 1014 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:12,000 ADDITIONAL MINUTE. 1015 00:37:12,001 --> 00:37:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1016 00:37:15,001 --> 00:37:18,000 MR. 1017 00:37:18,001 --> 00:37:20,000 THIS BILL W 1018 00:37:20,001 --> 00:37:23,000 TO THOSE MAGNIFICENT AMERICANS 1019 00:37:23,001 --> 00:37:24,000 WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR PROMISE TO 1020 00:37:24,001 --> 00:37:25,000 SERVE OUR NATION AND THE 1021 00:37:25,001 --> 00:37:26,000 AMERICAN FAMILY. 1022 00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:27,000 I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 1023 00:37:27,001 --> 00:37:28,000 TIME. 1024 00:37:28,001 --> 00:37:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1025 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:31,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1026 00:37:31,001 --> 00:37:34,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES DO YOU RISE? 1027 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,000 MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, AT 1028 00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:39,000 THIS POINT I -- NUMBER ONE, HOW 1029 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:40,000 MUCH TIME 1030 00:37:40,001 --> 00:37:41,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1031 00:37:41,001 --> 00:37:42,000 GENTLEMAN HAS 18 MINUTES 1032 00:37:42,001 --> 00:37:43,000 REMAING. 1033 00:37:43,001 --> 00:37:45,000 THE GENTL MASSACHUSETTS HAS 17 1/2 1034 00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:47,000 MINUTES REMAINING. 1035 00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:49,000 MR. LATHAM: AT THIS POINT I'LL 1036 00:37:49,001 --> 00:37:50,000 BE PROUD TO GIVE THREE 1037 00:37:50,001 --> 00:37:52,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM KANSAS, 1038 00:37:52,001 --> 00:37:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1039 00:37:53,001 --> 00:37:54,000 GENTLEMAN FROM KANSAS IS 1040 00:37:54,001 --> 00:37:55,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 1041 00:37:55,001 --> 00:37:56,000 MR. TIAHRT: I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA. 1042 00:37:56,001 --> 00:37:58,000 I ALSO WANT TO THANK CHAIRMAN 1043 00:37:58,001 --> 00:37:59,000 OBEY WHO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF MY 1044 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:02,000 SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND 1045 00:38:02,001 --> 00:38:04,000 HUMAN 1046 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:06,000 BUT, MR. SPEAKER, THIS BILL IS 1047 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:08,000 A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF A 1048 00:38:08,001 --> 00:38:09,000 DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS. 1049 00:38:09,001 --> 00:38:12,000 MY PRINCIPLE OPPOSITION TO THIS 1050 00:38:12,001 --> 00:38:13,000 BILL IS THE EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF SPENDING. 1051 00:38:13,001 --> 00:38:14,000 WE ARE SPENDING MORE AND MORE 1052 00:38:14,001 --> 00:38:15,000 MONEY AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE 1053 00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:17,000 WE ARE GOING TO GET IT. 1054 00:38:17,001 --> 00:38:19,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T HAVE IT. 1055 00:38:19,001 --> 00:38:21,000 IN FACT, THIS FISCAL -- PAST 1056 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:24,000 FISCAL YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 2009, 1057 00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:27,000 WE OVERSPENT BY $1.4 TRILLION. 1058 00:38:27,001 --> 00:38:28,000 THAT'S $5,000 PER PERSON, APPROXIMATELY. 1059 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:32,000 AND FOR TH 1060 00:38:32,001 --> 00:38:33,000 TAXES THAT'S ABOUT $14,000 PER 1061 00:38:33,001 --> 00:38:34,000 TAXPAYERS OVERSPENT LAST YEAR. 1062 00:38:34,001 --> 00:38:37,000 THIS YEAR WE HAVE ALREADY 1063 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:40,000 OVERSPENT $259 BILLION AND WE 1064 00:38:40,001 --> 00:38:42,000 ARE ON COURSE TO OVERSPEND BY $1.6 TRILLION. 1065 00:38:42,001 --> 00:38:44,000 THAT WILL BE AN INCREASE TO 1066 00:38:44,001 --> 00:38:46,000 ABOUT $16,000 PER TAXPAYER. 1067 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:47,000 MONEY WE DON'T HAVE THAT WE HAVE TO BORROW. 1068 00:38:47,001 --> 00:38:49,000 WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING TO 1069 00:38:49,001 --> 00:38:51,000 COME FROM? 1070 00:38:51,001 --> 00:38:53,000 WE ARE GOING TO BORROW IT FROM THE CHINESE. 1071 00:38:53,001 --> 00:38:54,000 MAYBE THEY DON'T WANT TO LOAN 1072 00:38:54,001 --> 00:38:55,000 IT TO US. 1073 00:38:55,001 --> 00:38:58,000 MAYBE WE'LL HAVE TO PRINT IT. 1074 00:38:58,001 --> 00:38:59,000 IF WE PRINT IT THAT DRIVES INFLATION. 1075 00:38:59,001 --> 00:39:02,000 WE ARE HEADED FOR A ROUND OF 1076 00:39:02,001 --> 00:39:04,000 INFLATION BASED ON THE CURRENT PROJECTIONS 1077 00:39:04,001 --> 00:39:06,000 THE EXCUSE WE GET FOR BORROWING 1078 00:39:06,001 --> 00:39:08,000 ALL THIS MONEY IS WE HAVE TO 1079 00:39:08,001 --> 00:39:09,000 SPEND IT TO GET THE ECONOMY TO 1080 00:39:09,001 --> 00:39:10,000 RECOVER. 1081 00:39:10,001 --> 00:39:12,000 BORROWING MONEY TO FUND BIG 1082 00:39:12,001 --> 00:39:14,000 GOVERNMENT DOESN'T GROW OUR ECONOMY. 1083 00:39:14,001 --> 00:39:17,000 IT ONLY GROWS BIG GOVERNMENT. 1084 00:39:17,001 --> 00:39:19,000 SO WE HIRE ALL THESE PEOPLE IN 1085 00:39:19,001 --> 00:39:21,000 BIG GOVERNMENT THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. 1086 00:39:21,001 --> 00:39:22,000 SO THEY WRITE REGULATIONS. 1087 00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:23,000 REGULATIONS SLOW D 1088 00:39:23,001 --> 00:39:25,000 ECONOMY. IF YOU WANT TO SPEED UP THE 1089 00:39:25,001 --> 00:39:27,000 ECONOMY FREES THE REGULATIONS 1090 00:39:27,001 --> 00:39:28,000 BUTT THEM ON A BENEFIT COST 1091 00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:29,000 ANALYSIS. 1092 00:39:29,001 --> 00:39:30,000 FOR EVERY ONE OF THESE GUYS 1093 00:39:30,001 --> 00:39:31,000 WORKING IN THE GOVERNMENT IT 1094 00:39:31,001 --> 00:39:32,000 TAKES FIVE PRIVATE SECTOR 1095 00:39:32,001 --> 00:39:33,000 EMPLOYEES TO PAY FOR THAT ONE 1096 00:39:33,001 --> 00:39:35,000 BE JOB. 1097 00:39:35,001 --> 00:39:36,000 WE HAVE TO HAVE AN IDEA HOW WE 1098 00:39:36,001 --> 00:39:38,000 ARE GOING TO CREATE PRIVATE 1099 00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:41,000 SECTOR JOBS INSTEAD OF GROWING 1100 00:39:41,001 --> 00:39:42,000 THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT. 1101 00:39:42,001 --> 00:39:43,000 THIS BUSH ADMINISTRATION SPENDS 1102 00:39:43,001 --> 00:39:44,000 SO MUCH MONEY THEY HAVE TROUBLE 1103 00:39:44,001 --> 00:39:45,000 FINDING OUT WHERE THEY COULD 1104 00:39:45,001 --> 00:39:47,000 SPEND MORE MONEY. 1105 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,000 THEY DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO 1106 00:39:49,001 --> 00:39:51,000 FUND FREE NEEDLES TO DOPE ADDICTS. 1107 00:39:51,001 --> 00:39:54,000 I'M JUST GLAD WE ARE NOT BUYING 1108 00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:56,000 KEGS FOR ALCOHOLICS ANONYMO MEETINGS. 1109 00:39:56,001 --> 00:39:58,000 THEY CAN'T PROVE IT'S NOT 1110 00:39:58,001 --> 00:39:59,000 FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS BY THEIR 1111 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:00,000 FEDERAL FUNDS PROVISION BECAUSE 1112 00:40:00,001 --> 00:40:03,000 IT GETS CO-MINGLED. 1113 00:40:03,001 --> 00:40:04,000 THEN WE ARE 1114 00:40:04,001 --> 00:40:05,000 $350 MILLION FROM THE CHINESE 1115 00:40:05,001 --> 00:40:07,000 TO GIVE TO THE WORLD BANK SO WE 1116 00:40:07,001 --> 00:40:09,000 CAN GIVE IT TO SOME WORLD 1117 00:40:09,001 --> 00:40:11,000 COUNTRY TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING. 1118 00:40:11,001 --> 00:40:14,000 WE HAVE A QUESTIONABLE SOURCE 1119 00:40:14,001 --> 00:40:15,000 OF FUNDS 1120 00:40:15,001 --> 00:40:18,000 COUNTRIES TO FIGHT A PROGRAM 1121 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:20,000 BASED ON QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE. 1122 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:21,000 MR. SPEAKER, THIS BILL IS OUT 1123 00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:22,000 OF THE QUESTION. 1124 00:40:22,001 --> 00:40:24,000 I WOULD ASK ALL MY COLLEAGUES 1125 00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:25,000 TO VOTE NO. 1126 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:26,000 I RESERVE. 1127 00:40:26,001 --> 00:40:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1128 00:40:31,001 --> 00:40:35,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1129 00:40:35,001 --> 00:40:36,000 WHO SEEKS RECOGNITION? THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1130 00:40:36,001 --> 00:40:38,000 MASSACHUSETTS, FOR WHAT PURPOSE 1131 00:40:38,001 --> 00:40:41,000 DOES DO YOU RISE? 1132 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:43,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD TWO MINUTES 1133 00:40:43,001 --> 00:40:45,000 TO THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM 1134 00:40:45,001 --> 00:40:46,000 MICHIGAN, MS. KILPATRI THE SPEAKER PROEMPORE: THE 1135 00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:48,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM MICHIGAN. 1136 00:40:48,001 --> 00:40:49,000 MR. OLVER: A MEMBER OF THE 1137 00:40:49,001 --> 00:40:51,000 TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND 1138 00:40:51,001 --> 00:40:52,000 URBAN DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1139 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:53,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM MICHIGAN IS 1140 00:40:53,001 --> 00:40:55,000 RECOGNIZED FOR TWO MINUTES. 1141 00:40:55,001 --> 00:40:56,000 MS. KILPATRICK: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 1142 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:57,000 I THANK THE CHAIRMAN FOR 1143 00:40:57,001 --> 00:40:59,000 YIELDING. 1144 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:00,000 AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE 1145 00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:01,000 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND 1146 00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:02,000 HONORED TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF 1147 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:03,000 THE CONFEREE COMMITTEE, THIS IS 1148 00:41:03,001 --> 00:41:05,000 A GOOD BILL. 1149 00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:06,000 AS YOU KNOW IN THE HOUSE OF 1150 00:41:06,001 --> 00:41:09,000 REPRESENTATIVES WE PASSED ALL 1151 00:41:09,001 --> 00:41:11,000 12 OF OUR APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. 1152 00:41:11,001 --> 00:41:13,000 THE SENATE PASSED NINE OF THEIR 1153 00:41:13,001 --> 00:41:16,000 12 BILLS. UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE NOT 1154 00:41:16,001 --> 00:41:18,000 ABLE TO DO THEM ALL, BUT WE MET 1155 00:41:18,001 --> 00:41:20,000 MANY HOURS AT NIGHT AND PASSED 1156 00:41:20,001 --> 00:41:21,000 WHAT IS CONSIDERED, I BELIEVE, 1157 00:41:21,001 --> 00:41:24,000 A GOOD BILL FOR ALL THE REASONS 1158 00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:26,000 YOU EVER MENTIONED-ER-HEALTH 1159 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:27,000 CARE, VETERANS, EDUCATION, 1160 00:41:27,001 --> 00:41:29,000 TRANSPORTATION. 1161 00:41:29,001 --> 00:41:30,000 HELPING OUR MILITARY MEN AND 1162 00:41:30,001 --> 00:41:31,000 WOMEN WHO ARE ON ACTIVE DUTY 1163 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:33,000 AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT. 1164 00:41:33,001 --> 00:41:36,000 THIS IS A BILL THAT WRAPS UP 1165 00:41:36,001 --> 00:41:37,000 OUR 2009 APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS 1166 00:41:37,001 --> 00:41:39,000 LESS ONE BILL AND WE'LL TAKE 1167 00:41:39,001 --> 00:41:40,000 THAT UP NEXT YEAR. 1168 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:48,000 EXCUSE ME, NEXT WEEK. 1169 00:41:48,001 --> 00:41:51,000 . 1170 00:41:51,001 --> 00:41:53,000 I COMMENT THE CHAIRPEOPLE WHO 1171 00:41:53,001 --> 00:41:54,000 HAVE BROUGHT THE BILLS TOGETHER 1172 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:56,000 WHO HAVE WORKED MANY LONG HOURS 1173 00:41:56,001 --> 00:41:57,000 TO SEE THAT WE GET THE WORK OF 1174 00:41:57,001 --> 00:41:59,000 THE PEOPLE DONE. 1175 00:41:59,001 --> 00:42:00,000 OU 1176 00:42:00,001 --> 00:42:01,000 HANDLED OVER $1 TRILLION FROM 1177 00:42:01,001 --> 00:42:02,000 VARIOUS PROGRAMS OF THE FEDERAL 1178 00:42:02,001 --> 00:42:04,000 GOVERNMENT. 1179 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:07,000 WE TAKE OUR WORK VERY STRONG, 1180 00:42:07,001 --> 00:42:08,000 WORK LONG HOURS, SPEND MANY 1181 00:42:08,001 --> 00:42:09,000 HOURS ON IT. 1182 00:42:09,001 --> 00:42:10,000 ALL THE BILLS BEFORE US TODAY 1183 00:42:10,001 --> 00:42:14,000 HAVE BEEN REVIEWED. 1184 00:42:14,001 --> 00:42:15,000 ALL 12 HAVE PASSED THE HOUSE, 1185 00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:18,000 ARE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME BILLS 1186 00:42:18,001 --> 00:42:20,000 THAT WE HAD IN CONFERENCE THE OTHER EVENING. 1187 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:21,000 I'M PROUD OF OUR WORK. 1188 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:23,000 AS AN APPROPRIATOR WORKING WITH 1189 00:42:23,001 --> 00:42:25,000 OUR COLLEAGUES ON BOTH SIDES OF 1190 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:26,000 THE AISLE BUT SPECIFICALLY THE 1191 00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:28,000 DEMOCRATS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP 1192 00:42:28,001 --> 00:42:29,000 OF CHAIRMAN OBEY, I WANT THE 1193 00:42:29,001 --> 00:42:30,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REST ASSURED 1194 00:42:30,001 --> 00:42:32,000 YOU HAVE A GOOD PRODUCT BEFORE 1195 00:42:32,001 --> 00:42:33,000 YOU. 1196 00:42:33,001 --> 00:42:35,000 WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO WHAT'S 1197 00:42:35,001 --> 00:42:37,000 NECESSARY TO FUND OUR CHILDREN'S 1198 00:42:37,001 --> 00:42:38,000 PROGRAMS, OUR HEALTH PROGRAMS, 1199 00:42:38,001 --> 00:42:42,000 TRANSPORTATION, VETERANS, YOU 1200 00:42:42,001 --> 00:42:44,000 NAME IT, THIS COMPLETES, BY ONE 1201 00:42:44,001 --> 00:42:45,000 BIL, THE 2009 APPROPRIATIONS 1202 00:42:45,001 --> 00:42:47,000 PROCESS. 1203 00:42:47,001 --> 00:42:50,000 I'M HON AND LOOK FORWARD AS WE GO 1204 00:42:50,001 --> 00:42:51,000 FORWARD INTO THE NEW YEAR. 1205 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:52,000 THANK YOU. 1206 00:42:52,001 --> 00:42:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1207 00:42:54,001 --> 00:42:56,000 GENTLEWOMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1208 00:42:56,001 --> 00:42:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN 1209 00:42:57,001 --> 00:42:59,000 WHAT PURPOSE DO YOU ARISE? 1210 00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:00,000 >> I'M PLEASED TO YIELD THREE 1211 00:43:00,001 --> 00:43:01,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1212 00:43:01,001 --> 00:43:03,000 TENNESSEE, MR. WAMP. 1213 00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1214 00:43:04,001 --> 00:43:05,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TENNESSEE IS 1215 00:43:05,001 --> 00:43:07,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 1216 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:08,000 MR. WAMP: THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER 1217 00:43:08,001 --> 00:43:09,000 AND I THANK -- MR. SPEAKER, AND 1218 00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:10,000 I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR 1219 00:43:10,001 --> 00:43:12,000 YIELDING. 1220 00:43:12,001 --> 00:43:13,000 I WANT TO THANK THE MEMBERS FOR 1221 00:43:13,001 --> 00:43:14,000 THEIR WORK THIS YEAR BECAUSE IT 1222 00:43:14,001 --> 00:43:16,000 IS IMPORTANT WORK. 1223 00:43:16,001 --> 00:43:17,000 IT'S THE ONLY MUST-DO WORK THAT 1224 00:43:17,001 --> 00:43:18,000 THE CONGRESS HAS EVERY YEAR AND 1225 00:43:18,001 --> 00:43:20,000 THAT'S PART OF THE POWER OF THE 1226 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:21,000 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND I 1227 00:43:21,001 --> 00:43:23,000 DO THINK THAT JUST BLAMING EACH 1228 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:24,000 OTHER FOR OUR SHORTCOMINGS IS 1229 00:43:24,001 --> 00:43:26,000 NOT PARTICULARLY HELPFUL. 1230 00:43:26,001 --> 00:43:27,000 BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT A COUPLE 1231 00:43:27,001 --> 00:43:31,000 OF THINGS. 1232 00:43:31,001 --> 00:43:33,000 CHAIRMAN EDWARDS IS OUR CHAIRMAN 1233 00:43:33,001 --> 00:43:35,000 OF THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, 1234 00:43:35,001 --> 00:43:36,000 VETERANS' AFFAIRS APPROPRIATIONS 1235 00:43:36,001 --> 00:43:37,000 SUBCOMMITTEE AND I'M A RANGING 1236 00:43:37,001 --> 00:43:38,000 MEMBER AND IT'S AN INCREDIBLE 1237 00:43:38,001 --> 00:43:42,000 PRIVILEGE FOR BOTH OF US TO 1238 00:43:42,001 --> 00:43:43,000 CHAIRMAN EDWARDS IS A TRUE 1239 00:43:43,001 --> 00:43:44,000 PATRIOT, DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB. 1240 00:43:44,001 --> 00:43:46,000 WE'VE GOT A GREAT STAFF. 1241 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:48,000 OUR BILL IS CERTAINLY NOT THE 1242 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:49,000 CONTROVERSIAL PART OF THIS 1243 00:43:49,001 --> 00:43:50,000 OMNIBUS BILL AT ALL. 1244 00:43:50,001 --> 00:43:52,000 AS A MATTER OF FACT OUR BILL 1245 00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:53,000 PASSED THE HOUSE 415 TO THREE 1246 00:43:53,001 --> 00:43:55,000 AND PASSED THE SENATE 1247 00:43:55,001 --> 00:43:56,000 UNANIMOUSLY. 1248 00:43:56,001 --> 00:43:59,000 SO THERE'S HUGE CONSENSUS HERE 1249 00:43:59,001 --> 00:44:00,000 AND WE DESERVE BIPARTISAN PRAISE 1250 00:44:00,001 --> 00:44:03,000 FOR DOING RIGHT BY OUR NATION'S 1251 00:44:03,001 --> 00:44:04,000 VETERANS AND THE MEN AND WOMEN 1252 00:44:04,001 --> 00:44:05,000 AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT ARE IN 1253 00:44:05,001 --> 00:44:06,000 UNIFORM TODAY. 1254 00:44:06,001 --> 00:44:08,000 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO 1255 00:44:08,001 --> 00:44:09,000 DO. 1256 00:44:09,001 --> 00:44:10,000 BUT I HAVE TO SAY THIS, WE HAD 1257 00:44:10,001 --> 00:44:12,000 HEARINGS EVERY WEEK THROUGH THE 1258 00:44:12,001 --> 00:44:14,000 SPRING AND WE ALWAYS ASK, WHAT'S 1259 00:44:14,001 --> 00:44:16,000 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN 1260 00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:18,000 DO FOR YOU AND WE HEARD 1261 00:44:18,001 --> 00:44:20,000 VIRTUALLY EVERY WEEK, THE MOST 1262 00:44:20,001 --> 00:44:22,000 IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO FOR 1263 00:44:22,001 --> 00:44:23,000 US IS GET OUR BILL PASSED AND 1264 00:44:23,001 --> 00:44:26,000 ENACTED INTO LAW ON TIME. 1265 00:44:26,001 --> 00:44:27,000 BY OCTOBER 1. 1266 00:44:27,001 --> 00:44:30,000 AS A MATTER OF FACT THAT WAS THE 1267 00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:31,000 BATTLE CRY FOR WHY WE NEEDED 1268 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:34,000 FUNDING IS THEY HAVE TO RELY ON 1269 00:44:34,001 --> 00:44:35,000 THE FUNDING FLOW AND THE 1270 00:44:35,001 --> 00:44:37,000 VETERANS' AFFAIRS AND THEIR 1271 00:44:37,001 --> 00:44:39,000 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND HERE 1272 00:44:39,001 --> 00:44:40,000 WE ARE MORE THAN 10 WEEKS LATER 1273 00:44:40,001 --> 00:44:42,000 JUST NOW PASSING OUR BILL. 1274 00:44:42,001 --> 00:44:44,000 NOW LAST YEAR WE GOT OUR BILL 1275 00:44:44,001 --> 00:44:47,000 DONE ON TIME AND THAT'S NOT MR. 1276 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:48,000 EDWARDS AND IT'S NOT ME. 1277 00:44:48,001 --> 00:44:50,000 IT'S SOMEBODY ELSE ON THE 1278 00:44:50,001 --> 00:44:52,000 SCHEDULING 1279 00:44:52,001 --> 00:44:55,000 COME UP BECAUSE THIS BILL HAD 1280 00:44:55,001 --> 00:44:56,000 SUCH CONSENSUS IT COULD HAVE 1281 00:44:56,001 --> 00:44:58,000 JUST FLOWN THROUGH IN LATE 1282 00:44:58,001 --> 00:45:00,000 SEPTEMBER AND EVERYONE UNDER THE 1283 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:01,000 $78 BILLION FUNDING PROFILE 1284 00:45:01,001 --> 00:45:02,000 WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR MONEY ON 1285 00:45:02,001 --> 00:45:04,000 TIME. 1286 00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:06,000 AND THAT IS A PROBLEM AND I DON'T CARE WHETHER YOU'RE 1287 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:07,000 REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, THAT'S A 1288 00:45:07,001 --> 00:45:08,000 PROBLEM. 1289 00:45:08,001 --> 00:45:10,000 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU COME AND 1290 00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:11,000 SAY, LET'S START FUNDING THEM IN 1291 00:45:11,001 --> 00:45:13,000 THE FUTURE, TWO YEARS OUT, SO 1292 00:45:13,001 --> 00:45:14,000 THAT THEY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE 1293 00:45:14,001 --> 00:45:16,000 THAT THE MONEY'S GOING TO BE 1294 00:45:16,001 --> 00:45:18,000 THERE YET YOU DON'T GET THE BILL 1295 00:45:18,001 --> 00:45:19,000 ON TIME AND YOU'RE 10 WEEKS LATE 1296 00:45:19,001 --> 00:45:20,000 OR MORE. 1297 00:45:20,001 --> 00:45:22,000 THAT MAKES NO SEN 1298 00:45:22,001 --> 00:45:23,000 IT'S NOT ONLY EYE RON ING, -- 1299 00:45:23,001 --> 00:45:24,000 IRONIC, IT'S UNFORTUNATE. 1300 00:45:24,001 --> 00:45:26,000 MAYBE THEY'RE HOLDING THIS BILL 1301 00:45:26,001 --> 00:45:27,000 IN CASE THEY NEEDED A VEHICLE 1302 00:45:27,001 --> 00:45:28,000 FOR ALL THE OTHER BILLS THEY 1303 00:45:28,001 --> 00:45:30,000 COULDN'T PASS. 1304 00:45:30,001 --> 00:45:31,000 I HOPE NO 1305 00:45:31,001 --> 00:45:32,000 I HOPE YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT TO 1306 00:45:32,001 --> 00:45:33,000 OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM. 1307 00:45:33,001 --> 00:45:35,000 AND THEIR FAMILIES. 1308 00:45:35,001 --> 00:45:36,000 AND OUR VETERANS. 1309 00:45:36,001 --> 00:45:38,000 WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT, I 1310 00:45:38,001 --> 00:45:39,000 KNOW. 1311 00:45:39,001 --> 00:45:40,000 I WAS A CONFEREE, I WAS THERE 1312 00:45:40,001 --> 00:45:41,000 MONDAY NIGHT AS WE NEGOTIATED 1313 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:43,000 THIS BILL. 1314 00:45:43,001 --> 00:45:48,000 I TRIED TO TAKE THE TARP MONEY 1315 00:45:48,001 --> 00:45:50,000 LEFT AND PUT IT BACK 1316 00:45:50,001 --> 00:45:52,000 DEBT AND PUT IT IN THE TREASURY 1317 00:45:52,001 --> 00:45:53,000 BECAUSE NOW THERE'S A PLAN TO GO 1318 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:56,000 SPEND THAT MONEY ON THINGS THAT 1319 00:45:56,001 --> 00:45:58,000 MAY OR MAY NOT WORK. 1320 00:45:58,001 --> 00:45:59,000 WHY NOT PAY OUR DEBT DOWN? 1321 00:45:59,001 --> 00:46:04,000 THE CHINESE ARE WORRIED ABOUT 1322 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:06,000 WHETHER WE'LL EVER PAY OUR DEBT. 1323 00:46:06,001 --> 00:46:07,000 WE ARE SINKING AS A NATION UNDER 1324 00:46:07,001 --> 00:46:09,000 A MOUNTAIN OF GOVERNMENT DEBT 1325 00:46:09,001 --> 00:46:10,000 AND WE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT 1326 00:46:10,001 --> 00:46:13,000 IT AND NEITHER PARTY'S GOT A LOT 1327 00:46:13,001 --> 00:46:14,000 TO BRAG ABOUT BUT YA'LL ARE IN 1328 00:46:14,001 --> 00:46:16,000 CH 1329 00:46:16,001 --> 00:46:17,000 WE CAN DO BETTER. 1330 00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:19,000 I YIELD BACK. 1331 00:46:19,001 --> 00:46:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1332 00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:23,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1333 00:46:23,001 --> 00:46:25,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1334 00:46:25,001 --> 00:46:28,000 MASSACHUSETTS, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DO YOU RISE? 1335 00:46:28,001 --> 00:46:30,000 >> I YIELD MYSELF TWO MINUTES, 1336 00:46:30,001 --> 00:46:31,000 MR. SPEAKER. 1337 00:46:31,001 --> 00:46:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1338 00:46:32,001 --> 00:46:33,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZEDOR TWO 1339 00:46:33,001 --> 00:46:35,000 MINUTES. 1340 00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:36,000 >> I FULLY RECOGNIZE THE 1341 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:40,000 ARGUMENT THAT'S BEING MADE BY 1342 00:46:40,001 --> 00:46:42,000 THE OTHER SIDE ON THIS ISSUE, OF 1343 00:46:42,001 --> 00:46:45,000 THE LEVEL OF SPENDING. 1344 00:46:45,001 --> 00:46:48,000 THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN 1345 00:46:48,001 --> 00:46:51,000 THE DISCRETIONARY EX PENDSTURE 1346 00:46:51,001 --> 00:46:52,000 THAT WARE PROVIDING -- 1347 00:46:52,001 --> 00:46:53,000 EXPENDITURE THAT WE ARE 1348 00:46:53,001 --> 00:46:55,000 PROVIDING FOR THE NEEDS OF THIS 1349 00:46:55,001 --> 00:46:56,000 COUNTRY. 1350 00:46:56,001 --> 00:46:58,000 BUT THE FACT IS THAT THROUGH THE 1351 00:46:58,001 --> 00:47:00,000 EIGHT PREVIOUS YEARS BEFORE WE 1352 00:47:00,001 --> 00:47:03,000 -- THE SIX PREVIOUS YEARS BEFORE 1353 00:47:03,001 --> 00:47:09,000 WE CAME INTO THE MAJORITY, 1354 00:47:09,001 --> 00:47:10,000 EXCUSE ME, IS IN THE 1355 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:12,000 DISCRETIONARY EXPENDITURE FOR 1356 00:47:12,001 --> 00:47:13,000 PROGRAMS THAT DO THINGS FOR 1357 00:47:13,001 --> 00:47:15,000 PEOPLE IN COUNTRY, THAT PROVIDE 1358 00:47:15,001 --> 00:47:18,000 MONEY FOR OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM, 1359 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:20,000 OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, OUR 1360 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:23,000 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, OUR 1361 00:47:23,001 --> 00:47:26,000 INFRASTRUCTURE IN GENERAL, NOT 1362 00:47:26,001 --> 00:47:28,000 JUST THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT WATER 1363 00:47:28,001 --> 00:47:29,000 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR 1364 00:47:29,001 --> 00:47:34,000 HOUSING, JUST TO NAME A FEW, AND 1365 00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:36,000 EVEN OUR VETERANS' AFFAIRS, EVEN 1366 00:47:36,001 --> 00:47:38,000 OUR VETERANS' PROGRAMS TO 1367 00:47:38,001 --> 00:47:39,000 PROVIDE SERVICES, WHILE WE HAD 1368 00:47:39,001 --> 00:47:41,000 TWO DIFFERENT WARS GOING ON 1369 00:47:41,001 --> 00:47:48,000 AROUND THE WORLD, ALL OF THEM 1370 00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:49,000 OVER IN ASIA, THAT ARE 1371 00:47:49,001 --> 00:47:52,000 DISCRETIONARY EXPENDITURE WAS 1372 00:47:52,001 --> 00:47:53,000 UNDER VERY SEVERE CONSTRAINT AND 1373 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:55,000 THE LEVEL OF DISCRETIONARY 1374 00:47:55,001 --> 00:48:02,000 EXPENDITURE UND 1375 00:48:02,001 --> 00:48:06,000 PERIOD BEFORE 1376 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:07,000 THAT EX PENDSTURE WAS -- 1377 00:48:07,001 --> 00:48:09,000 EXPENDITURE WAS UNDER A 1378 00:48:09,001 --> 00:48:12,000 CONSTRAINT FORM. 1379 00:48:12,001 --> 00:48:15,000 AND SO THE BUDGETS THAT WE HAVE 1380 00:48:15,001 --> 00:48:17,000 PASSED IN THE LAST THREE 1381 00:48:17,001 --> 00:48:19,000 SESSIONS WHEN WE'VE BEEN IN THE 1382 00:48:19,001 --> 00:48:21,000 MAJORITY HAVE HAD AN INCREASE IN 1383 00:48:21,001 --> 00:48:26,000 DISCRETIONARY EXPENDITURE TO 1384 00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:29,000 PROVIDE A CATCHUP EXPENDITURE 1385 00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:31,000 FOR THINGS GOING ON IN THIS 1386 00:48:31,001 --> 00:48:32,000 COUNTRY. 1387 00:48:32,001 --> 00:48:33,000 WE HEAR AMONG OUR CONSTITUENTS 1388 00:48:33,001 --> 00:48:36,000 ALL THE TIME, WHY ARE WE 1389 00:48:36,001 --> 00:48:38,000 SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY IN OTHER 1390 00:48:38,001 --> 00:48:40,000 PLACES AROUND THE WORLD WHEN WE 1391 00:48:40,001 --> 00:48:42,000 SHOULD BE -- I YIELD ONE MORE 1392 00:48:42,001 --> 00:48:43,000 MINUTE. 1393 00:48:43,001 --> 00:48:44,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1394 00:48:44,001 --> 00:48:46,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 1395 00:48:46,001 --> 00:48:47,000 ADDITIONAL MINUTE. 1396 00:48:47,001 --> 00:48:48,000 MR. OLVER: WHY ARE WE SPENDING 1397 00:48:48,001 --> 00:48:50,000 SO MUCH MONEY THERE IF WE CAN'T 1398 00:48:50,001 --> 00:48:51,000 FIND A WAY OF EXTEND -- 1399 00:48:51,001 --> 00:48:52,000 EXPENDING MORE OF THOSE THINGS I 1400 00:48:52,001 --> 00:48:53,000 MENTIONED, THE HOUSING, THE 1401 00:48:53,001 --> 00:48:56,000 TRANSPORTATION, THE HEALTH 1402 00:48:56,001 --> 00:48:57,000 SERVICES AND EDUCATION? 1403 00:48:57,001 --> 00:48:59,000 WHY CAN'T WE SPEND SOME OF THAT 1404 00:48:59,001 --> 00:49:00,000 HERE? 1405 00:49:00,001 --> 00:49:02,000 SO, YES, OUR EX PENDSTURE HAS 1406 00:49:02,001 --> 00:49:03,000 BEEN UP -- OUR EX PENDSTURE HAS 1407 00:49:03,001 --> 00:49:06,000 BEEN UP BUT -- EXPENDITURE HAS 1408 00:49:06,001 --> 00:49:07,000 BEEN UP BUT WE MAKE NO APOLOGY 1409 00:49:07,001 --> 00:49:09,000 FOR THAT KIND OF EXPENDITURE 1410 00:49:09,001 --> 00:49:12,000 GIVEN FOR THE REASON WHY IT HAS OCCURRED. 1411 00:49:12,001 --> 00:49:13,000 AND SO I THINK -- I LEAVE IT AT 1412 00:49:13,001 --> 00:49:15,000 THAT. 1413 00:49:15,001 --> 00:49:21,000 WE MAKE NO APOLOGY FOR 1414 00:49:21,001 --> 00:49:22,000 INCREASING DISCRETIONARY 1415 00:49:22,001 --> 00:49:24,000 EXPENDITURE ON OUR OWN PEOPLE 1416 00:49:24,001 --> 00:49:27,000 AND THE NEEDS OF OUR OWN PEOPLE 1417 00:49:27,001 --> 00:49:28,000 AND THAT SHOULD CONTINUE, IN 1418 00:49:28,001 --> 00:49:31,000 FACT. 1419 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1420 00:49:33,001 --> 00:49:34,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 1421 00:49:34,001 --> 00:49:36,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA, FOR 1422 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:37,000 WHAT PURPOSE DO YOU RISE? 1423 00:49:37,001 --> 00:49:38,000 MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, FIRST 1424 00:49:38,001 --> 00:49:40,000 OF ALL I WANT TO THANK E 1425 00:49:40,001 --> 00:49:41,000 GENTLEMAN FOR RECOGNIZING THE 1426 00:49:41,001 --> 00:49:42,000 FACT THAT WE WERE FISCALLY 1427 00:49:42,001 --> 00:49:45,000 RESPONSIBLE BEFORE AND THAT -- 1428 00:49:45,001 --> 00:49:47,000 TO CATCH UP IN TWO YEARS 1429 00:49:47,001 --> 00:49:49,000 SPENDING 85% MORE, INCREASING 1430 00:49:49,001 --> 00:49:53,000 SPENDING BY 85%, IS TRULY MORE 1431 00:49:53,001 --> 00:49:54,000 THAN CATCHING UP, I WOULD SAY. 1432 00:49:54,001 --> 00:49:58,000 I WOULD NOW YIELD THREE MINUTES 1433 00:49:58,001 --> 00:50:02,000 TO THE 1434 00:50:02,001 --> 00:50:04,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM MISSOURI. 1435 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:06,000 >> THANK YOU, I'D LIKE TO 1436 00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:07,000 ADDRESS THE FINANCIAL SERVICES 1437 00:50:07,001 --> 00:50:09,000 OF THE OMNIBUS AND FIRST WANT TO 1438 00:50:09,001 --> 00:50:10,000 COMMEND CHAIRM 1439 00:50:10,001 --> 00:50:11,000 EFFORTS IN CRAFTING THE BILL. 1440 00:50:11,001 --> 00:50:13,000 IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK 1441 00:50:13,001 --> 00:50:15,000 WITH HIM AND WHILE WE DON'T 1442 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:17,000 ALWAYS AGREE, HE HAS AT 1443 00:50:17,001 --> 00:50:18,000 OPEN TO LISTENING TO THE 1444 00:50:18,001 --> 00:50:20,000 MINORITY'S IDEA. 1445 00:50:20,001 --> 00:50:21,000 WHILE I APPRECIATE CHAIRMAN 1446 00:50:21,001 --> 00:50:23,000 SERRANO'S EFFORTS, I'VE GOT A 1447 00:50:23,001 --> 00:50:24,000 LOT OF CONCERN WITH THE 1448 00:50:24,001 --> 00:50:26,000 FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION AND 1449 00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:29,000 SO -- IN SO FAR AS IT'S A 7% 1450 00:50:29,001 --> 00:50:32,000 INCREASE OVER FISCAL YEAR 2009 1451 00:50:32,001 --> 00:50:33,000 OR $24 1452 00:50:33,001 --> 00:50:34,000 THIS IS VERY, VERY GENERAL 1453 00:50:34,001 --> 00:50:36,000 ROWLS. 1454 00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:38,000 AND I BELIEVE THAT THE RESOURCE 1455 00:50:38,001 --> 00:50:39,000 REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGENCIES 1456 00:50:39,001 --> 00:50:40,000 FUNDED IN THIS BILL CAN BE MET 1457 00:50:40,001 --> 00:50:42,000 WITH A SMALLER ALLOCATION, 1458 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:43,000 PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE 1459 00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:44,000 GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL 1460 00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:46,000 SITUATION. 1461 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:47,000 HOWEVER, WITH THE ALLOCATION 1462 00:50:47,001 --> 00:50:48,000 PROVIDED TO MR. SERRANO, HE'S 1463 00:50:48,001 --> 00:50:50,000 DONE A GOOD JO 1464 00:50:50,001 --> 00:50:52,000 THE FUNDING IN THE BILL AND I'M 1465 00:50:52,001 --> 00:50:55,000 GRATEFUL FOR EFFORTS TO PROVIDE 1466 00:50:55,001 --> 00:50:56,000 INCREASES TO CRITICAL PROGRAMS 1467 00:50:56,001 --> 00:50:58,000 SUCHS E FINANCIAL CRIMES 1468 00:50:58,001 --> 00:51:00,000 ENFORCEMENT NETWORK, 1469 00:51:00,001 --> 00:51:02,000 TREASURY TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL 1470 00:51:02,001 --> 00:51:03,000 INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, DRUG FREE 1471 00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:04,000 COMMUNITIES AND HIGH INTENSITY 1472 00:51:04,001 --> 00:51:07,000 DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS. 1473 00:51:07,001 --> 00:51:08,000 I'M ALSO PLEASED THAT THE BILL 1474 00:51:08,001 --> 00:51:11,000 PROVIDES $75 MILLION FOR D.C. 1475 00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:13,000 EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDING $42 1476 00:51:13,001 --> 00:51:16,000 MILLION TO D.C. P 1477 00:51:16,001 --> 00:51:18,000 AND I'M HAPPY TO SOME EXTENT 1478 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:20,000 THAT THE BILL DOESN'T TOTALLY 1479 00:51:20,001 --> 00:51:21,000 ELIMINATE THE OPPORTUNITY 1480 00:51:21,001 --> 00:51:23,000 SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM BUT I MUST 1481 00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:24,000 SAY I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT 1482 00:51:24,001 --> 00:51:26,000 THE PROGRAM IS LIMITED TO 1483 00:51:26,001 --> 00:51:27,000 STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN 1484 00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,000 THE PROGRAM. 1485 00:51:29,001 --> 00:51:30,000 MY OWN DAUGHTER TEACHES IN THE 1486 00:51:30,001 --> 00:51:31,000 D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO I KNOW 1487 00:51:31,001 --> 00:51:34,000 FIRSTHAND HOW THESE SCHOOLS ARE 1488 00:51:34,001 --> 00:51:35,000 FAILING THE CITY'S CHILDREN. 1489 00:51:35,001 --> 00:51:38,000 AND I ASK HOW WE CAN POSSIBLY 1490 00:51:38,001 --> 00:51:39,000 LIMIT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 1491 00:51:39,001 --> 00:51:42,000 FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS WHEN WE 1492 00:51:42,001 --> 00:51:43,000 KNOW THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS 1493 00:51:43,001 --> 00:51:45,000 UNDERPERFORMING. 1494 00:51:45,001 --> 00:51:46,000 ANOTHER AREA OF THE BILL THAT 1495 00:51:46,001 --> 00:51:47,000 DEPARTMENT DEEPLY CONCERNS ME IS 1496 00:51:47,001 --> 00:51:49,000 CONTROVERSIAL CHANGES TO 1497 00:51:49,001 --> 00:51:50,000 LONG-STANDING GENERAL PROVISIONS 1498 00:51:50,001 --> 00:51:52,000 REGARDING ABORTION AND MEDICAL 1499 00:51:52,001 --> 00:51:53,000 MARIJUANA IN THE DISTRICT OF 1500 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:54,000 COLUMBIA. 1501 00:51:54,001 --> 00:51:55,000 WE HEARD MR. TIAHRT ADDRESS THAT 1502 00:51:55,001 --> 00:51:58,000 A LITTLE WHILE AGO. 1503 00:51:58,001 --> 00:51:59,000 AND LET ME THEN LASTLY DISCUSS 1504 00:51:59,001 --> 00:52:01,000 AN ISSUE THAT IS NOT DIRECTLY 1505 00:52:01,001 --> 00:52:04,000 RELATED TO THIS BILL BUT IT I 1506 00:52:04,001 --> 00:52:06,000 RELATED TO THE DEPAMENT OF THE 1507 00:52:06,001 --> 00:52:08,000 TREASURY WHICH IS PART OF OUR 1508 00:52:08,001 --> 00:52:11,000 BILL AND IT IS THE ADMINISTRATION OF TARP. 1509 00:52:11,001 --> 00:52:13,000 THE TARP HAS EATLY EXPANDED 1510 00:52:13,001 --> 00:52:15,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNNT'S REACH 1511 00:52:15,001 --> 00:52:16,000 INTO THE PRIVATE SECTOR NOT BY 1512 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:19,000 PURCHASING TROUBLED ASSETS AS 1513 00:52:19,001 --> 00:52:21,000 WAS ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE BUT BY 1514 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:23,000 PURCHASING COMMON SHARES OF 1515 00:52:23,001 --> 00:52:25,000 BANKS, OWNING LARGE AUTO 1516 00:52:25,001 --> 00:52:27,000 COMPANIES AND SUBSIDIZING HOME 1517 00:52:27,001 --> 00:52:28,000 MORTGAGES. 1518 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:29,000 TODAY MANY DEMOCRATS, INCLUDING 1519 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:31,000 THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF 1520 00:52:31,001 --> 00:52:32,000 THE TREASURY, ARE DISCUSSING 1521 00:52:32,001 --> 00:52:35,000 USING TARP FUNDS TO PAY FOR YET 1522 00:52:35,001 --> 00:52:36,000 ANOTER STIMULUS BILL WHEN THE 1523 00:52:36,001 --> 00:52:37,000 FIRST STIMULUS BILL HAS ALREADY 1524 00:52:37,001 --> 00:52:39,000 BEEN A FAILURE. 1525 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:42,000 UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT 10%, ONLY 12% 1526 00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:44,000 O 1527 00:52:44,001 --> 00:52:45,000 THE STIMULUS BILL HAS BEEN 1528 00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:47,000 SPENT, YET OUR FRIENDS ON THE 1529 00:52:47,001 --> 00:52:49,000 OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE PLAN TO 1530 00:52:49,001 --> 00:52:51,000 SHOVE THROUGH YET MORE 1531 00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:52,000 GOVERNMENT SPENDING UNDER THE 1532 00:52:52,001 --> 00:52:53,000 GUISE OF JOB CREATION THAT'S 1533 00:52:53,001 --> 00:52:56,000 GOING TO DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD 1534 00:52:56,001 --> 00:52:57,000 AND WE'RE GOING TO OFFSET IT 1535 00:52:57,001 --> 00:52:59,000 WITH SURPLUS TARP FUNDING. 1536 00:52:59,001 --> 00:53:00,000 WELL, THE TARP FUNDING WAS NEVER 1537 00:53:00,001 --> 00:53:02,000 SUPPOSED TO BE USED AGAIN AND 1538 00:53:02,001 --> 00:53:04,000 AGAIN AND AGAIN. 1539 00:53:04,001 --> 00:53:05,000 OUR NATIO 1540 00:53:05,001 --> 00:53:10,000 TRILLION AND THE FISCAL YEAR 1541 00:53:10,001 --> 00:53:12,000 2010 DEFICIT IS PROJECTED TO BE 1542 00:53:12,001 --> 00:53:14,000 MEMBERS ARE GOING TO BE ASKED TO 1543 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:16,000 INCREASE DEBT LIMITS, WE CANNOT 1544 00:53:16,001 --> 00:53:18,000 SUSTAIN THIS LEVEL OF SPENDI 1545 00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:20,000 TARP SAVINGS MUST BE USED FOR 1546 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:21,000 DEBT REDUCTION AND I YIELD BACK 1547 00:53:21,001 --> 00:53:22,000 THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 1548 00:53:22,001 --> 00:53:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1549 00:53:24,001 --> 00:53:25,000 G 1550 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:26,000 THE GENTLEMAN 1551 00:53:26,001 --> 00:53:27,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 1552 00:53:27,001 --> 00:53:31,000 MR. OLVER: HOW MUCH TIME REMAINS 1553 00:53:31,001 --> 00:53:32,000 ON EACH SIDE? 1554 00:53:32,001 --> 00:53:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1555 00:53:33,001 --> 00:53:36,000 GENTLEMAN FROM HAS 13 MINUTES 1556 00:53:36,001 --> 00:53:37,000 REMAINING. 1557 00:53:37,001 --> 00:53:39,000 MINUTES REMAINING. 1558 00:53:39,001 --> 00:53:41,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA HAS NINE MINUTES REMAINING. 1559 00:53:41,001 --> 00:53:43,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 1560 00:53:43,001 --> 00:53:45,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1561 00:53:45,001 --> 00:53:46,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD THREE MINUTES 1562 00:53:46,001 --> 00:53:49,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FR NORTH 1563 00:53:49,001 --> 00:53:50,000 CAROLINA, MR. PRICE, WHO'S ALSO 1564 00:53:50,001 --> 00:53:52,000 A MEMBER OF THE TRANSPORTATION, 1565 00:53:52,001 --> 00:53:53,000 HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 1566 00:53:53,001 --> 00:53:54,000 SUBCOMMITTEE. 1567 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1568 00:53:56,001 --> 00:53:57,000 GENTLEMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA IS 1569 00:53:57,001 --> 00:53:59,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 1570 00:53:59,001 --> 00:54:00,000 MR. PRICE: MR. SPEAKER, OUR 1571 00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:01,000 REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES THIS 1572 00:54:01,001 --> 00:54:02,000 AFTERNOON HAVE RAISED THE ISSUE 1573 00:54:02,001 --> 00:54:04,000 OF GUANTANAMO BAY, SO I'D LIKE 1574 00:54:04,001 --> 00:54:08,000 TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO CLARIFY 1575 00:54:08,001 --> 00:54:10,000 THE TREATMENT OF GUANTANAMO BAY 1576 00:54:10,001 --> 00:54:13,000 DETAINEES IN THIS BILL AND IN PREVIOUS BILLS. 1577 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:15,000 AS OUR COLLEAGUES ASURELY -- AS 1578 00:54:15,001 --> 00:54:18,000 OUR COLLEAGUES SURELY KNOW, THIS 1579 00:54:18,001 --> 00:54:20,000 IS AN ISSUE THAT WAS DEBATED ON 1580 00:54:20,001 --> 00:54:22,000 THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL. 1581 00:54:22,001 --> 00:54:23,000 THE BILL PRODUCED BY THE 1582 00:54:23,001 --> 00:54:25,000 SUBCOMMITTEE WHICH I CHAIR. 1583 00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:27,000 THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW. 1584 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:29,000 LANGUAGE IN OUR BILL RESTRICTS 1585 00:54:29,001 --> 00:54:30,000 THE MOVEMENT OF DETAINEES AND 1586 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:31,000 REQUIRES GREATER TRANSPARENCY ON 1587 00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:35,000 THE PART OF THE ADMINISTRATN 1588 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:37,000 AS IT DISPOSES OF EACH DETAINEE'S CASE. 1589 00:54:37,001 --> 00:54:39,000 IT ALLOWS THE TRANSFER OF 1590 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:40,000 DETAINEES TO U.S. FOR 1591 00:54:40,001 --> 00:54:41,000 PROSECUTION ONLY WITH 1592 00:54:41,001 --> 00:54:43,000 REQUIREMENTS OF THED A -- THAT 1593 00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:44,000 THE ADMINISTRATION PROVIDE A 1594 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:45,000 RISK MITIGATION PLAN FOR EACH 1595 00:54:45,001 --> 00:54:48,000 TRANSFER AND ADVANCED NOTICE TO 1596 00:54:48,001 --> 00:54:51,000 CONGRESS AND TO THE DESTINATION 1597 00:54:51,001 --> 00:54:53,000 STATE. 1598 00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:55,000 NOW, THAT SAME EXACT LANGUAGE 1599 00:54:55,001 --> 00:54:56,000 WAS CARRIED IN THE INTERIOR 1600 00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:58,000 APPROPRIATIONS BILL WHICH WAS 1601 00:54:58,001 --> 00:54:59,000 ALSO SIGNED INTO LAW AND THE 1602 00:54:59,001 --> 00:55:00,000 CONFERENCE REPORT BEFORE US 1603 00:55:00,001 --> 00:55:02,000 RESTATES THIS LANGUAGE YET 1604 00:55:02,001 --> 00:55:03,000 AGAIN. 1605 00:55:03,001 --> 00:55:04,000 EXACTLY THE SAME LANGUAGE THERE. 1606 00:55:04,001 --> 00:55:06,000 SHOULDN'T BE ANY CONFUSION AT 1607 00:55:06,001 --> 00:55:07,000 ALL AS TO WHERE CONGRESS STANDS 1608 00:55:07,001 --> 00:55:09,000 ON THIS ISSUE. 1609 00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:12,000 NOW, OUR REPUBLICAN FRIENDS IN 1610 00:55:12,001 --> 00:55:14,000 CONFERENCE ATTEMPTED ONCE AGAIN 1611 00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:16,000 TO PLAY GOTCHA WITH THIS GITMO 1612 00:55:16,001 --> 00:55:17,000 ISSUE. 1613 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:19,000 THEY ATTEMPTED TO OVERTURN THESE 1614 00:55:19,001 --> 00:55:21,000 PROVISIONS INCLUDED IN PREVIOUS 1615 00:55:21,001 --> 00:55:23,000 BILLS AND TO BAR THE 1616 00:55:23,001 --> 00:55:24,000 ADMINISTRATIOFROM PROSECUTING 1617 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:26,000 U.S. -- FROM PROSECUTING 1618 00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:28,000 DETAINEES IN U.S. CRIMINAL 1619 00:55:28,001 --> 00:55:29,000 COURTS. 1620 00:55:29,001 --> 00:55:31,000 I THINK WE OUGHT TO STRONGLY 1621 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:33,000 OPPOSE ANY SUCH EFFORT TO STAND 1622 00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:34,000 IN THE WAY OF BRINGING 1623 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:36,000 TERRORISTS TO JUSTICE. 1624 00:55:36,001 --> 00:55:37,000 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS ALL 1625 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:39,000 ABOUT. 1626 00:55:39,001 --> 00:55:40,000 WE MUST NOT TIE THE HANDS OF THE 1627 00:55:40,001 --> 00:55:41,000 DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE AND 1628 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:43,000 DEFENSE AS THEY SEEK TO 1629 00:55:43,001 --> 00:55:45,000 PROSECUTE TERRORISM SUSPECTS 1630 00:55:45,001 --> 00:55:47,000 HOUSED AT GUANTANAMO BAY AS THEY 1631 00:55:47,001 --> 00:55:49,000 SEEK TO DO THAT WHERE 1632 00:55:49,001 --> 00:55:51,000 APPROPRIATE IN U.S. CRTS. 1633 00:55:51,001 --> 00:55:53,000 NOW, OUR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES 1634 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:54,000 WOULD RATHER KEEP GUANTANAMO 1635 00:55:54,001 --> 00:55:55,000 OPEN, APPARENTLY, AND TO 1636 00:55:55,001 --> 00:55:56,000 EXCLUSIVELY USE MILITARY 1637 00:55:56,001 --> 00:55:58,000 TRIBUNALS FOR PROSECUTIONS. 1638 00:55:58,001 --> 00:55:59,000 THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT THREE 1639 00:55:59,001 --> 00:56:01,000 CONVICTIONS BY MILITARY 1640 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:03,000 TRIBUNALS IN THE ENTIRE PERIOD 1641 00:56:03,001 --> 00:56:04,000 OF THEIR EXISTENCE IS AN 1642 00:56:04,001 --> 00:56:05,000 IMPRESSIVE RECORD. 1643 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:07,000 ONE OF THOSE WAS BY A GUILTY 1644 00:56:07,001 --> 00:56:08,000 PLEA. 1645 00:56:08,001 --> 00:56:10,000 THIS ISN'T AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD, 1646 00:56:10,001 --> 00:56:11,000 IT'S A DISMAL RECORD. 1647 00:56:11,001 --> 00:56:14,000 BY CONTRAST, A RECENT ANALYSIS 1648 00:56:14,001 --> 00:56:16,000 OF THE 119 TERRORISM CASES 1649 00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:17,000 INVOLVING 289 DEFENDANTS TRIED 1650 00:56:17,001 --> 00:56:20,000 OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS IN U.S. 1651 00:56:20,001 --> 00:56:22,000 COURTS SHOWS THAT 91% CONVICTION 1652 00:56:22,001 --> 00:56:24,000 RATE FOR THE CASES THAT HAD BEEN 1653 00:56:24,001 --> 00:56:27,000 RESOLVED AS OF JUNE 2. 1654 00:56:27,001 --> 00:56:28,000 NOW I CAN'T TELL YOU WHETHER ONE 1655 00:56:28,001 --> 00:56:30,000 OPTION OR THE OTHER IS BETTER 1656 00:56:30,001 --> 00:56:31,000 FOR ANY GIVEN CASE, BUT THAT'S 1657 00:56:31,001 --> 00:56:34,000 NOT THE CALL WE HAVE TO MAKE IN 1658 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:35,000 OUR APPROPRIATIONS BILL. 1659 00:56:35,001 --> 00:56:37,000 WE CAN, WITH CURRENT LAW, LEAVE 1660 00:56:37,001 --> 00:56:39,000 THAT DECISION TO THE EXPERTS IN 1661 00:56:39,001 --> 00:56:40,000 THE ADMINISTRATION WHO CAN BEST 1662 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:43,000 DECIDE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS 1663 00:56:43,001 --> 00:56:45,000 WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTED IN THE 1664 00:56:45,001 --> 00:56:47,000 U.S. AND WHAT MITIGATION PLANS 1665 00:56:47,001 --> 00:56:50,000 ARE NECESSARY TO ADDRESS ANY 1666 00:56:50,001 --> 00:56:51,000 RISK THAT MAY RESULT FROM THESE 1667 00:56:51,001 --> 00:57:27,000 TRIALS. 1668 00:57:27,001 --> 00:57:28,000 . ABSURD. 1669 00:57:28,001 --> 00:57:30,000 IT'S CRIMINAL PROSECUTION -- IS 1670 00:57:30,001 --> 00:57:31,000 CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AN OPTION 1671 00:57:31,001 --> 00:57:33,000 WE WANT TO CLOSE OFF? 1672 00:57:33,001 --> 00:57:36,000 OF COURSE THE ANSWER IS NO. WE SHOULD BE USING THE 1673 00:57:36,001 --> 00:57:38,000 SELECTED PROSECUTIONS TO SEND A 1674 00:57:38,001 --> 00:57:39,000 MESSAGE TO THE WORLD THAT WE 1675 00:57:39,001 --> 00:57:41,000 WILL NOT ALLOW TERRORISM TO 1676 00:57:41,001 --> 00:57:43,000 UNDERMINE THE RULE OF LAW IN OUR 1677 00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:44,000 COUNTRY AND WITH THAT I YIELD 1678 00:57:44,001 --> 00:58:00,000 BACK. 1679 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:04,000 . 1680 00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:05,000 >> I RISE TO SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT 1681 00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:07,000 OPERATIONS OF THIS OMNIBUS 1682 00:58:07,001 --> 00:58:08,000 PACKAGE. 1683 00:58:08,001 --> 00:58:10,000 AS THE RUNNING BACKING MEMBER OF 1684 00:58:10,001 --> 00:58:11,000 THE SUBCOMMITTEE I'M PLEASED 1685 00:58:11,001 --> 00:58:12,000 THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE IT TO WORK 1686 00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:14,000 CLOSELY WITH CHAIRMAN LOWEY THIS 1687 00:58:14,001 --> 00:58:15,000 YEAR. 1688 00:58:15,001 --> 00:58:16,000 SHE AND HER STAFF HAVE WORKED TO 1689 00:58:16,001 --> 00:58:18,000 ADDRESS CONCERNS RAISED BY 1690 00:58:18,001 --> 00:58:19,000 COMMITTEE RMPS -- REPUBLICANS 1691 00:58:19,001 --> 00:58:21,000 AND BY ME AND I THANK HER FOR 1692 00:58:21,001 --> 00:58:22,000 HER COMMITMENT TO 1693 00:58:22,001 --> 00:58:24,000 BIPARTISANSHIP. 1694 00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:25,000 I ALSO THANK OUR SENATE 1695 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:27,000 COLLEAGUES, THEIR STAFF, FOR 1696 00:58:27,001 --> 00:58:29,000 WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE 1697 00:58:29,001 --> 00:58:30,000 COMMON GROUND IN THE CONFERENCE 1698 00:58:30,001 --> 00:58:32,000 AGREEMENT. IN THE END, MANY SHARED 1699 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:34,000 PRIORITIES WERE PRESERVED. 1700 00:58:34,001 --> 00:58:35,000 FUNDING NEW COMPACTS FOR THE 1701 00:58:35,001 --> 00:58:36,000 MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 1702 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:37,000 CORPORATN, FIGHTING DRUG 1703 00:58:37,001 --> 00:58:40,000 TRAFFICKING IN MEXICO, CENTRAL 1704 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:41,000 AMERICA AND COLOMBIA, AND 1705 00:58:41,001 --> 00:58:44,000 CONTINUING SECURITY ASSISTANCE 1706 00:58:44,001 --> 00:58:45,000 TO KEY ALLIES LIKE ISRAEL, EGYPT 1707 00:58:45,001 --> 00:58:47,000 AND JORDA 1708 00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:50,000 FUNDS PROVIDED IN THIS BILL WILL 1709 00:58:50,001 --> 00:58:51,000 ALLOW STATE AND USAID TO HIRE 1710 00:58:51,001 --> 00:58:54,000 MORE THAN 1,000 NEW STAFF WHICH 1711 00:58:54,001 --> 00:58:57,000 WILL HELP BALANCE THE THREE D'S 1712 00:58:57,001 --> 00:58:59,000 OF SMART POWER, THE NATIONAL TO 1713 00:58:59,001 --> 00:59:01,000 -- THE APPROACH TO NATIONAL SECURITY. 1714 00:59:01,001 --> 00:59:03,000 IT WILL IN TURN SUPPORT OUR 1715 00:59:03,001 --> 00:59:04,000 NATION'S DEFENSE AND ALLOW OUR 1716 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,000 MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN TO 1717 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:07,000 REFOCUS ON THEIR CORE MISSION. 1718 00:59:07,001 --> 00:59:09,000 AS THE CONGRESS PROVIDES 1719 00:59:09,001 --> 00:59:10,000 ADDITIONAL STAFF AND INCREASES 1720 00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:11,000 FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FUNDING THE 1721 00:59:11,001 --> 00:59:13,000 LEVEL OF COMMITMENT TO REFORM 1722 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:14,000 MUST BE EQUAL TO FUNDING 1723 00:59:14,001 --> 00:59:15,000 COMMITMENT MADE. 1724 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:18,000 OVERSIGHT MUST BE A PRIORITY. 1725 00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:21,000 FOR THAT REASON THE BILL 1726 00:59:21,001 --> 00:59:22,000 PROVIDES $149 MILLION FOR 1727 00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:24,000 INSPECTORS GENERAL AND THE 1728 00:59:24,001 --> 00:59:25,000 OVERSIGHT PROVISIONS AND 1729 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:27,000 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ARE ALSO 1730 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:28,000 INCLUDED. 1731 00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:30,000 THE CONFERENCE AGREEMENT RETAINS 1732 00:59:30,001 --> 00:59:32,000 THE LANGUAGE, IT PREVENTS U.S. 1733 00:59:32,001 --> 00:59:33,000 TAX DOLLARS FROM GOING TO 1734 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:36,000 ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT OR 1735 00:59:36,001 --> 00:59:37,000 PARTICIPATE IN INVOLUNTARY OR 1736 00:59:37,001 --> 00:59:38,000 COERCIVE METHODS OF FAMILY 1737 00:59:38,001 --> 00:59:39,000 PLANNING. 1738 00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:41,000 THERE ARE LEGITIMATE CONCERNS 1739 00:59:41,001 --> 00:59:42,000 ABOUT FAMILY PLANNING FUNDING 1740 00:59:42,001 --> 00:59:44,000 THAT GOES ABROAD AND LEGISLATIVE 1741 00:59:44,001 --> 00:59:46,000 SAFEGUARDS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE 1742 00:59:46,001 --> 00:59:47,000 THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. 1743 00:59:47,001 --> 00:59:50,000 I REGRET THAT THIS PACKAGE LUMPS 1744 00:59:50,001 --> 00:59:53,000 SIX BILLS TOGETHER IN A PACKAGE 1745 00:59:53,001 --> 00:59:56,000 OF CLOSE TO HALF A TRILLION 1746 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:57,000 DOLLARS AND DOES NOT ALLOW THIS 1747 00:59:57,001 --> 00:59:58,000 BODY TO ADDRESS APPROPRIATIONS 1748 00:59:58,001 --> 01:00:02,000 BILLS INDIVIDUALLY AND FULLY VET 1749 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:03,000 THEM SO I COULD SUPPORT THEM. 1750 01:00:03,001 --> 01:00:05,000 . 1751 01:00:05,001 --> 01:00:06,000 I SUPPORT THE MANY BILLS IN THIS 1752 01:00:06,001 --> 01:00:08,000 PROGRAM HOWEVER WE MUST BE AWARE 1753 01:00:08,001 --> 01:00:10,000 OF THE TRENDOUS DEBT HELD BY 1754 01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:12,000 THIS COUNTRY. 1755 01:00:12,001 --> 01:00:13,000 AND WORK COMPETENTLY, BEING 1756 01:00:13,001 --> 01:00:17,000 AWARE OF THIS ISSUE. 1757 01:00:17,001 --> 01:00:18,000 AGAIN, I THANK CHAIRMAN LOWEY, 1758 01:00:18,001 --> 01:00:20,000 OUR EXCELLENT COMMITTEE STAFF 1759 01:00:20,001 --> 01:00:21,000 A OUR SENATE COLLEAGUES FOR 1760 01:00:21,001 --> 01:00:23,000 WORKING TOGETHER TO ADDRESS 1761 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:24,000 SHARED PRIORITIES. 1762 01:00:24,001 --> 01:00:32,000 I RESERVE MY TIME. 1763 01:00:32,001 --> 01:00:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WHO 1764 01:00:33,001 --> 01:00:34,000 SEEKS RECOGNITION AT THIS TIME? 1765 01:00:34,001 --> 01:00:35,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 1766 01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:38,000 MR. OLVER: I YIELD THREE 1767 01:00:38,001 --> 01:00:43,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 1768 01:00:43,001 --> 01:00:44,000 WISCONSIN, MR. OBE THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1769 01:00:44,001 --> 01:00:45,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN IS 1770 01:00:45,001 --> 01:00:46,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 1771 01:00:46,001 --> 01:00:48,000 MR. OBEY: MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD 1772 01:00:48,001 --> 01:00:50,000 LIKE TO COMMENT VERY BRIEFLY ON 1773 01:00:50,001 --> 01:00:53,000 THE COMMENTS OF THE GENTLEMAN 1774 01:00:53,001 --> 01:00:57,000 FROM TENNESSEE. 1775 01:00:57,001 --> 01:01:00,000 CRITICIZED US BECAUSE WE WERE 1776 01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:05,000 SOME 70 DAYS LATE IN PASSING 1777 01:01:05,001 --> 01:01:07,000 THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION V.A. 1778 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:10,000 APPROPRIATION BILL. 1779 01:01:10,001 --> 01:01:13,000 LET ME SIMPLY POINT OUT THAT WE 1780 01:01:13,001 --> 01:01:14,000 MAY BE 70 DAYS LATE. 1781 01:01:14,001 --> 01:01:15,000 BUT WE ARE GETTING THE JOB 1782 01:01:15,001 --> 01:01:19,000 DONE. 1783 01:01:19,001 --> 01:01:24,000 BASIC BILL, WE ARE FOR THE 1784 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:27,000 FIRST TIME IN HISTORY PROVIDING 1785 01:01:27,001 --> 01:01:30,000 ADVANCED FUNDING FOR V.A. ACTIVITIES. 1786 01:01:30,001 --> 01:01:31,000 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE 1787 01:01:31,001 --> 01:01:33,000 VETERANS COMMUNITY HAS WANTED 1788 01:01:33,001 --> 01:01:34,000 FOR YEARS AND YEARS, AND IT HAS 1789 01:01:34,001 --> 01:01:36,000 BEEN THIS CONGRESS THAT 1790 01:01:36,001 --> 01:01:40,000 DELIVERED. 1791 01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:41,000 THAT STANDS IN CONTRAST TO THE 1792 01:01:41,001 --> 01:01:43,000 PERFORMANCE OF THE MINORITY 1793 01:01:43,001 --> 01:01:45,000 PARTY WHEN THEY CHAIRED THIS 1794 01:01:45,001 --> 01:01:51,000 INSTITUTION WITH RESPECT TO 1795 01:01:51,001 --> 01:01:52,000 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION-V.A. BILL. 1796 01:01:52,001 --> 01:01:53,000 THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE FACT 1797 01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:55,000 WE WERE SEVEN DAYS LATE. 1798 01:01:55,001 --> 01:01:58,000 THEY NEVER PASSED THAT BILL AT 1799 01:01:58,001 --> 01:02:00,000 ALL. 1800 01:02:00,001 --> 01:02:02,000 THEY DEW POINT PASS IT IN OCTOBER. 1801 01:02:02,001 --> 01:02:04,000 THEY DIDN'T PASS I IN NOVEMBER 1802 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:05,000 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 30 DAYS LATE. 1803 01:02:05,001 --> 01:02:07,000 THEY DIDN'T PASS IT IN DECEMBER 1804 01:02:07,001 --> 01:02:09,000 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 60 DAYS LATE. 1805 01:02:09,001 --> 01:02:12,000 THEY NEVER PASSED IT. 1806 01:02:12,001 --> 01:02:15,000 AND SO WHEN A NEW CONGRESS TOOK 1807 01:02:15,001 --> 01:02:16,000 OVER, WE HAD TO P 1808 01:02:16,001 --> 01:02:18,000 THOSE DOMESTIC APPROPRIATION 1809 01:02:18,001 --> 01:02:20,000 BILLS AND THE MILITARY 1810 01:02:20,001 --> 01:02:23,000 CONSTRUCTION BILL. 1811 01:02:23,001 --> 01:02:25,000 SO I THINK IT IS QUAINT INDEED 1812 01:02:25,001 --> 01:02:28,000 WHEN THEY ATTACK US ON 1813 01:02:28,001 --> 01:02:29,000 QUESTION OF PERFORMANCE ON, OF 1814 01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:31,000 ALL BILLS, THE MILITARY 1815 01:02:31,001 --> 01:02:32,000 CONSTRUCTIOBILL. 1816 01:02:32,001 --> 01:02:33,000 I THINK THEY NEED TO GO BACK 1817 01:02:33,001 --> 01:02:35,000 AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE 1818 01:02:35,001 --> 01:02:36,000 WHEN THEY SHARED THIS PLACE. 1819 01:02:36,001 --> 01:02:39,000 WITH RESPECT TO THE FUNDING 1820 01:02:39,001 --> 01:02:40,000 LEVELS IN THIS OVERALBILL, 1821 01:02:40,001 --> 01:02:42,000 LET ME SIMPLY REPEAT WHAT I 1822 01:02:42,001 --> 01:02:44,000 SAID EARLIER. 1823 01:02:44,001 --> 01:02:46,000 WHEN YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE 1824 01:02:46,001 --> 01:02:48,000 NECESS 1825 01:02:48,001 --> 01:02:50,000 VETERANS DISABILITY, FOR THE 1826 01:02:50,001 --> 01:02:52,000 CENSUS, FOR THE WAR COSTS WHICH 1827 01:02:52,001 --> 01:02:55,000 ARE NOT BEING HIDDEN IN THE 1828 01:02:55,001 --> 01:02:57,000 SUPPLEMENTAL AS THEY WERE UNDER 1829 01:02:57,001 --> 01:02:58,000 THE STEWARDSHIP OF THE FRIENDS 1830 01:02:58,001 --> 01:03:01,000 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE, 1831 01:03:01,001 --> 01:03:03,000 WHEN YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE 1832 01:03:03,001 --> 01:03:04,000 INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE AND 1833 01:03:04,001 --> 01:03:06,000 FUND 1834 01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:07,000 THAT WE NEED TO PREPARE THE 1835 01:03:07,001 --> 01:03:10,000 HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR THE 1836 01:03:10,001 --> 01:03:11,000 LEGISLATION WHICH IS ABOUT TO 1837 01:03:11,001 --> 01:03:14,000 PASS, THE REST OF THE INCREASES 1838 01:03:14,001 --> 01:03:15,000 IN THE BILL BEFORE US AMOUNT TO 1839 01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:17,000 1%. 1840 01:03:17,001 --> 01:03:19,000 I HARDLY THINK THAT THAT'S 1841 01:03:19,001 --> 01:03:21,000 EXCESSIVE GIVEN THE 1842 01:03:21,001 --> 01:03:22,000 CRISIS THAT WE FACE. 1843 01:03:22,001 --> 01:03:23,000 I THANK THE G 1844 01:03:23,001 --> 01:03:25,000 TIME. 1845 01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1846 01:03:26,001 --> 01:03:27,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1847 01:03:27,001 --> 01:03:30,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA, FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES DO YOUISE? 1848 01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:31,000 MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, I JUST 1849 01:03:31,001 --> 01:03:32,000 HAVE ONE COMMENT. 1850 01:03:32,001 --> 01:03:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1851 01:03:33,001 --> 01:03:34,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1852 01:03:34,001 --> 01:03:36,000 MR. LATHAM: I THAT I -- THINK 1853 01:03:36,001 --> 01:03:38,000 IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THE 1854 01:03:38,001 --> 01:03:40,000 GENTLEMAN TALKED ABOUT WE ARE 1855 01:03:40,001 --> 01:03:42,000 FINALLY GETTING MILITARY 1856 01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:44,000 FUNDING. 1857 01:03:44,001 --> 01:03:46,000 TH 1858 01:03:46,001 --> 01:03:48,000 FUNDING ARE DEFENSE, WHICH WILL 1859 01:03:48,001 --> 01:03:51,000 BE 80 DAYS OUT FROM THE START 1860 01:03:51,001 --> 01:03:53,000 OF THE NEW 1861 01:03:53,001 --> 01:03:54,000 THE MILITARY 1862 01:03:54,001 --> 01:03:56,000 BILL. 1863 01:03:56,001 --> 01:03:57,000 BUT IF YOU REMBER BACK WITH 1864 01:03:57,001 --> 01:03:59,000 THE SCHEDULE THE VERY FIRST 1865 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:01,000 BILL THAT WAS PASSED AND SIGNED 1866 01:04:01,001 --> 01:04:03,000 INTO LAW WAS TO FUND CONGRESS ITSELF. 1867 01:04:03,001 --> 01:04:04,000 SO WE TOOK CARE OF 1868 01:04:04,001 --> 01:04:06,000 HERE FIRST. 1869 01:04:06,001 --> 01:04:07,000 AND THE MILITARY WAS THE VERY, 1870 01:04:07,001 --> 01:04:09,000 VERY LAST. 1871 01:04:09,001 --> 01:04:10,000 I THINK THAT'S VERY 1872 01:04:10,001 --> 01:04:12,000 UNFORTUNATE. 1873 01:04:12,001 --> 01:04:14,000 I'M NOW PL 1874 01:04:14,001 --> 01:04:16,000 MINUTES TO TH 1875 01:04:16,001 --> 01:04:17,000 OHIO, MR. LATOURETTE. 1876 01:04:17,001 --> 01:04:18,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS 1877 01:04:18,001 --> 01:04:19,000 RECOGNIZED FOR TWO MINUTES. 1878 01:04:19,001 --> 01:04:20,000 MR. LATOURETTE: I THANK THE 1879 01:04:20,001 --> 01:04:21,000 SPEAKER AND I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 1880 01:04:21,001 --> 01:04:23,000 I'M GOING TO BREAK THE MOLD 1881 01:04:23,001 --> 01:04:24,000 HERE AND SAYOMETHING NICE 1882 01:04:24,001 --> 01:04:26,000 ABOUT FIVE PAGES OF THE BILL. 1883 01:04:26,001 --> 01:04:27,000 THIS BILL IN FRONT OF ME, I 1884 01:04:27,001 --> 01:04:28,000 THINK IT WAS FIVE PAGES RIGHT 1885 01:04:28,001 --> 01:04:33,000 HERE, AND SAY SOMETHING NICE 1886 01:04:33,001 --> 01:04:34,000 ABOUT MR. OBEY AS WELL AND MR. 1887 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:36,000 SERRANO. 1888 01:04:36,001 --> 01:04:38,000 BY WAY OF HISTORY, PEOPLE KNOW 1889 01:04:38,001 --> 01:04:39,000 THAT THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN THIS 1890 01:04:39,001 --> 01:04:40,000 COUNTRY GOT IN TROUBLE. 1891 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:43,000 AND THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION 1892 01:04:43,001 --> 01:04:46,000 MADE A DECISION TO USE LEFTOVER 1893 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:47,000 TARP FUNDS TO BAIL OUT CHRYSLER 1894 01:04:47,001 --> 01:04:48,000 AND GENERAL MOTORS. 1895 01:04:48,001 --> 01:04:49,000 BOTH CAR COMPANIES SUBMITTED 1896 01:04:49,001 --> 01:04:50,000 REORGANIZATION PLANS IN 1897 01:04:50,001 --> 01:04:53,000 FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR AND BOTH 1898 01:04:53,001 --> 01:04:54,000 WERE REJECTED BY THE TASK 1899 01:04:54,001 --> 01:04:55,000 FORCE. 1900 01:04:55,001 --> 01:04:56,000 THE AUTO TASK FORCE WAS A 1901 01:04:56,001 --> 01:04:58,000 STRANGE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE 1902 01:04:58,001 --> 01:04:59,000 THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE 1903 01:04:59,001 --> 01:05:01,000 IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY AT ALL. 1904 01:05:01,001 --> 01:05:03,000 MOST DIDN'T OWN CARS. 1905 01:05:03,001 --> 01:05:04,000 THOSE THAT DID OWNED FOREIGN CARS. 1906 01:05:04,001 --> 01:05:06,000 THEY DETERMINED THAT THE CAR 1907 01:05:06,001 --> 01:05:08,000 COMPANIES HAD TO BE MORE 1908 01:05:08,001 --> 01:05:10,000 AGGRESSIVE WHEN IT CAME TO DEALERSHIPS. 1909 01:05:10,001 --> 01:05:11,000 AS A RESULT, ABOUT 800 CHRYSLER 1910 01:05:11,001 --> 01:05:14,000 DEALERS WERE CLOSED. 1911 01:05:14,001 --> 01:05:15,000 AND ABOUT 2,000 G.M. DEALERS. 1912 01:05:15,001 --> 01:05:17,000 THE PROBLEM BE WITH THAT IS 1913 01:05:17,001 --> 01:05:18,000 WITH RAMPANT UNEMPLOYMENT, 1914 01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,000 ABOUT 60 PEOPLE WORK AT EACH 1915 01:05:20,001 --> 01:05:22,000 CAR DEALERSHIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 1916 01:05:22,001 --> 01:05:23,000 CAR DEALERSHIPS DON'T COST THE 1917 01:05:23,001 --> 01:05:25,000 CAR COMPANIES Y MONEY AND IT 1918 01:05:25,001 --> 01:05:26,000 WAS A STRANGE WAY TO DO 1919 01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:27,000 BUSINESS. 1920 01:05:27,001 --> 01:05:29,000 POTENTILY TAKE 200,000 PEOPLE 1921 01:05:29,001 --> 01:05:32,000 AND PUT THEM ON THE STREET. 1922 01:05:32,001 --> 01:05:34,000 A COUPLE OF YOUNG FRESH FACED 1923 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:37,000 DEMOCRATS, MR. MAFFEI OF NEW 1924 01:05:37,001 --> 01:05:41,000 YORK AND CATOVILLE OF MARYLAND 1925 01:05:41,001 --> 01:05:42,000 LAUNCH -- KRATIL OF MARYLAND, 1926 01:05:42,001 --> 01:05:44,000 LAUNCHED A LEGISLATIVE EFFORT. 1927 01:05:44,001 --> 01:05:45,000 BUT ONE OF THE PIECES OF 1928 01:05:45,001 --> 01:05:46,000 LEGISLATION TO LEAVE TOWN WERE 1929 01:05:46,001 --> 01:05:48,000 THE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. 1930 01:05:48,001 --> 01:05:50,000 WE DRAFTED SOME LANGUAGE AND 1931 01:05:50,001 --> 01:05:51,000 PUT IT IN MR. SERRANO'S BILL 1932 01:05:51,001 --> 01:05:53,000 AND MR. OBEY TOOK IT. 1933 01:05:53,001 --> 01:05:54,000 MR. SERRANO AND MR. OBEY TOOK T 1934 01:05:54,001 --> 01:05:55,000 THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO. 1935 01:05:55,001 --> 01:05:56,000 THEY PROBABLY GOT IN TROUBLE 1936 01:05:56,001 --> 01:05:59,000 FOR TAKING IT. 1937 01:05:59,001 --> 01:06:00,000 THAT BECAME THE 800-POUND 1938 01:06:00,001 --> 01:06:02,000 GORILLA THAT HAD TO BE DEALT 1939 01:06:02,001 --> 01:06:03,000 WITH AS GENERAL MOTORS AND 1940 01:06:03,001 --> 01:06:06,000 CHRYSLER MOVED FORWARD ON HOW 1941 01:06:06,001 --> 01:06:07,000 TO DEAL WITH THIS DEALER SITUATION. 1942 01:06:07,001 --> 01:06:09,000 I ALSO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING 1943 01:06:09,001 --> 01:06:11,000 NICE ABOUT THE MAJORITY LEADER, MR. HOYER. 1944 01:06:11,001 --> 01:06:13,000 HE TOOK UP THE MANTEL AND SAID 1945 01:06:13,001 --> 01:06:14,000 WE ARE GOING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. 1946 01:06:14,001 --> 01:06:18,000 AS A RESULT THE FIVE PAGES THAT 1947 01:06:18,001 --> 01:06:19,000 ARE HERE IN THE BILL INDICATE 1948 01:06:19,001 --> 01:06:21,000 THAT THOSE AGGRIEVED DEALERS 1949 01:06:21,001 --> 01:06:23,000 NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 1950 01:06:23,001 --> 01:06:24,000 BINDING ARBITRATION AND THE 1951 01:06:24,001 --> 01:06:26,000 FACTS NEED TO BE BROUGHT 1952 01:06:26,001 --> 01:06:30,000 FORWARD AND HOPEFULLY FAIRNESS 1953 01:06:30,001 --> 01:06:31,000 WILL BE -- PREVAIL, BUT THAT WO 1954 01:06:31,001 --> 01:06:32,000 SOMETHING GOOD AND BIPARTISAN 1955 01:06:32,001 --> 01:06:33,000 HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 1956 01:06:33,001 --> 01:06:34,000 I YIELD BACK. 1957 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:37,000 E SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1958 01:06:37,001 --> 01:06:39,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 1959 01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:55,000 WHO SEEKS RECOGNITION AT THIS TIME? 1960 01:06:55,001 --> 01:06:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA. 1961 01:06:57,001 --> 01:06:59,000 MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, IT IS 1962 01:06:59,001 --> 01:07:01,000 MY HONOR TO YIELD ONE MINUTE TO 1963 01:07:01,001 --> 01:07:02,000 THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE 1964 01:07:02,001 --> 01:07:03,000 HOUSE, THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, 1965 01:07:03,001 --> 01:07:04,000 MR. BOEHNER. 1966 01:07:04,001 --> 01:07:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1967 01:07:07,001 --> 01:07:11,000 FOR ONE MINUTE. 1968 01:07:11,001 --> 01:07:12,000 MR. 1969 01:07:12,001 --> 01:07:13,000 WE'RE BROKE. 1970 01:07:13,001 --> 01:07:15,000 AMERICA'S BROKE. 1971 01:07:15,001 --> 01:07:16,000 ALL YEAR LONG OUR FRIENDS 1972 01:07:16,001 --> 01:07:18,000 ACROSS THE AISLE HAVE BEEN ON 1973 01:07:18,001 --> 01:07:21,000 THIS MASSIVE SPENDING SPREE 1974 01:07:21,001 --> 01:07:22,000 THAT OUR NATION CAN'T AFFORD. 1975 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:23,000 WE HAVE A TRILLION STIMULUS 1976 01:07:23,001 --> 01:07:26,000 BILL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO 1977 01:07:26,001 --> 01:07:29,000 CREATE JOBS IMMEDIATELY AND YET 1978 01:07:29,001 --> 01:07:30,000 UNEMPLOYMENT IS NOW 10% OF 1979 01:07:30,001 --> 01:07:31,000 AMERICA. 1980 01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:32,000 THREE MILLION PEOPLE HAVE LOST 1981 01:07:32,001 --> 01:07:33,000 THEIR JOBS SINCE THE BILL WAS 1982 01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:35,000 SIGNED INTO LAW. 1983 01:07:35,001 --> 01:07:37,000 WE PASSED A BUDGET THAT'S GOING 1984 01:07:37,001 --> 01:07:38,000 TO DOUBLE THE NATIONAL DEBT IN 1985 01:07:38,001 --> 01:07:42,000 FIVE YEARS, TRIPLE IT IN 10 1986 01:07:42,001 --> 01:07:45,000 YEARS. 1987 01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:46,000 WE HAVE A $12 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT. 1988 01:07:46,001 --> 01:07:47,000 WE BROUGHT A NATIONAL ENERGY 1989 01:07:47,001 --> 01:07:48,000 TAX BILL TO THE FLOOR THAT'S 1990 01:07:48,001 --> 01:07:50,000 GOING TO COST $1 TRILLION. 1991 01:07:50,001 --> 01:07:51,000 PASSED OF IT. 1992 01:07:51,001 --> 01:07:53,000 THE HEALTH CARE BILL HERE 1993 01:07:53,001 --> 01:07:54,000 SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, ANOTHER 1994 01:07:54,001 --> 01:07:56,000 TRILLION DOLLARS, PASSED IT. 1995 01:07:56,001 --> 01:07:58,000 WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO SAY 1996 01:07:58,001 --> 01:08:00,000 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH? 1997 01:08:00,001 --> 01:08:01,000 HERE WE ARE TODAY, WRAPPING SIX 1998 01:08:01,001 --> 01:08:02,000 APPROPRIATION BILLS TOGETHER. 1999 01:08:02,001 --> 01:08:04,000 WE ARE GOING TO SPEND HALF A 2000 01:08:04,001 --> 01:08:06,000 TRILLION DOLLARS, AND IT'S GOT 2001 01:08:06,001 --> 01:08:08,000 OVER 5,000 EARMARKS IN THE 2002 01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:10,000 BILL. 2003 01:08:10,001 --> 01:08:12,000 THINGS LIKE $292,000 FOR THE 2004 01:08:12,001 --> 01:08:16,000 ELIMINATION OF SLUM AND BLIGHT 2005 01:08:16,001 --> 01:08:18,000 IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. 2006 01:08:18,001 --> 01:08:23,000 $300,000 FOR A MUSIC AND 2007 01:08:23,001 --> 01:08:25,000 EDUCATION PROGRAM AT NEW YORK 2008 01:08:25,001 --> 01:08:26,000 CITY'S CARNEGIE HALL WHERE THEY 2009 01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:29,000 PAY THE EMPLOYEE WHO RUNS THIS 2010 01:08:29,001 --> 01:08:32,000 PROGRAM $530,000 A YEAR IN 2011 01:08:32,001 --> 01:08:34,000 SALARY AND BENEFITS. 2012 01:08:34,001 --> 01:08:35,000 AND THERE'S PLENTY IN HERE FOR 2013 01:08:35,001 --> 01:08:37,000 WASHINGTON AS WELL. 2014 01:08:37,001 --> 01:08:39,000 $1350,000 FOR THE NATIONAL 2015 01:08:39,001 --> 01:08:40,000 BUILDLING MUSEUM. 2016 01:08:40,001 --> 01:08:44,000 $250,000 FOR WOLF TRAP CENTER 2017 01:08:44,001 --> 01:08:45,000 FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS IN OUR 2018 01:08:45,001 --> 01:08:48,000 CONCERT VENUE. 2019 01:08:48,001 --> 01:08:49,000 AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WORTHY ANY 2020 01:08:49,001 --> 01:08:51,000 OF THESE PROJECTS ARE, I DO 2021 01:08:51,001 --> 01:08:53,000 HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, ARE 2022 01:08:53,001 --> 01:08:54,000 THEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR 2023 01:08:54,001 --> 01:08:55,000 KIDS AND GRANDKIDS WHO HAVE TO 2024 01:08:55,001 --> 01:08:56,000 PAY THE DEBT? 2025 01:08:56,001 --> 01:08:57,000 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY 2026 01:08:57,001 --> 01:08:58,000 TO SPEND ON THIS. 2027 01:08:58,001 --> 01:09:00,000 IT'S OUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS 2028 01:09:00,001 --> 01:09:02,000 THAT ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. 2029 01:09:02,001 --> 01:09:04,000 AND YET WE CAN'T FIND WAYS TO 2030 01:09:04,001 --> 01:09:06,000 CUT SPENDING. 2031 01:09:06,001 --> 01:09:08,000 BEFORE THE PRESIDENT TOOK 2032 01:09:08,001 --> 01:09:10,000 OFFICE, HE SAID, HE WANTS TO GO 2033 01:09:10,001 --> 01:09:13,000 THROUGH THE BUDGET AND THESE 2034 01:09:13,001 --> 01:09:14,000 BILLS LINE BY LINE AND PAGE BY 2035 01:09:14,001 --> 01:09:19,000 PAGE. 2036 01:09:19,001 --> 01:09:21,000 BILLION OMNIBUS SPENDING BILL 2037 01:09:21,001 --> 01:09:22,000 EARLIER THIS YEAR WITH 9,000 2038 01:09:22,001 --> 01:09:24,000 EARMARKS, THE PRESIDENT SIGNED 2039 01:09:24,001 --> 01:09:26,000 IT AND HE SAID, WELL, THAT WAS 2040 01:09:26,001 --> 01:09:28,000 LAST YEAR'S BUSINESS. 2041 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:29,000 NOW THE PRESIDENT SS REDUNG 2042 01:09:29,001 --> 01:09:31,000 THE DEFICIT IS NEXT YEAR'S 2043 01:09:31,001 --> 01:09:33,000 BUSINESS. 2044 01:09:33,001 --> 01:09:35,000 AND THAT WE NEED TO SPEND OUR 2045 01:09:35,001 --> 01:09:36,000 WAY OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC 2046 01:09:36,001 --> 01:09:38,000 RESCISSION WE AREN. 2047 01:09:38,001 --> 01:09:39,000 I THINK THE PRESIDENT OHT TO 2048 01:09:39,001 --> 01:09:41,000 GO THROUGH THIS BILL LINE BY 2049 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:43,000 LINE AND PAGE BY PAGE. 2050 01:09:43,001 --> 01:09:45,000 ALL 2,500 PAGES OF IT. 2051 01:09:45,001 --> 01:09:46,000 AND THEN MAYBE THEY'LL FIGURE 2052 01:09:46,001 --> 01:09:48,000 OUT WE DON'T NEED TO BE 2053 01:09:48,001 --> 01:09:49,000 SPENDING THIS MONEY WE DON'T 2054 01:09:49,001 --> 01:09:51,000 HAVE AND PROBABLY MORE AND -- 2055 01:09:51,001 --> 01:09:53,000 PILING MORE AND MORE DEBT ON 2056 01:09:53,001 --> 01:09:54,000 THE BACKS OF OUR KIDS AND 2057 01:09:54,001 --> 01:09:57,000 GRANDKIDS. 2058 01:09:57,001 --> 01:09:59,000 INSTEAD OUR BOND RATING, OUR 2059 01:09:59,001 --> 01:10:00,000 TRIPLE-A BOND RATING IS IN 2060 01:10:00,001 --> 01:10:02,000 JEOPARDY, AND OUR DEMOCRAT 2061 01:10:02,001 --> 01:10:05,000 FRIENDS WANT TO RAISE THE DEBT 2062 01:10:05,001 --> 01:10:08,000 LIMIT NEXT WEEK BY $1.8 2063 01:10:08,001 --> 01:10:09,000 TRILLION. 2064 01:10:09,001 --> 01:10:11,000 LET'S STOP THE MADNESS AND VOTE 2065 01:10:11,001 --> 01:10:13,000 NO. 2066 01:10:13,001 --> 01:10:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2067 01:10:14,001 --> 01:10:16,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2068 01:10:16,001 --> 01:10:17,000 WHO SEEK REX NATION? THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2069 01:10:17,001 --> 01:10:18,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 2070 01:10:18,001 --> 01:10:19,000 MR. OLVER: HOW MUCH TIME DOES 2071 01:10:19,001 --> 01:10:20,000 EACH SIDE NOW HAVE. 2072 01:10:20,001 --> 01:10:22,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2073 01:10:22,001 --> 01:10:23,000 GENTLEMAN HAS SEVEN MINUTES REMAINING. 2074 01:10:23,001 --> 01:10:24,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA HAS 2075 01:10:24,001 --> 01:10:26,000 THREE MINUTES REMAING. 2076 01:10:26,001 --> 01:10:28,000 MR. OLVER: 2077 01:10:28,001 --> 01:10:31,000 THREE MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN 2078 01:10:31,001 --> 01:10:32,000 FROM WISCONSIN, MR. OBEY. 2079 01:10:32,001 --> 01:10:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN IS 2080 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:35,000 RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES. 2081 01:10:35,001 --> 01:10:37,000 MR. OBEY: MR. SPEAKER, I REGRET 2082 01:10:37,001 --> 01:10:41,000 THAT THIS HAS BECOME ANOTHER 2083 01:10:41,001 --> 01:10:43,000 TYPICAL WHO SHOT JOHN DEBATE, 2084 01:10:43,001 --> 01:10:45,000 BUT SINCE IT HAS, LET ME 2085 01:10:45,001 --> 01:10:48,000 RESPOND TO THE DISTINGUISHED 2086 01:10:48,001 --> 01:10:49,000 MINORITY LEADER. 2087 01:10:49,001 --> 01:10:51,000 LET'S COMPARE WHAT PRESIDENT 2088 01:10:51,001 --> 01:10:54,000 OBAMA INHERITED WITH WHAT 2089 01:10:54,001 --> 01:10:55,000 PRESIDENT BUSH INHERITED. 2090 01:10:55,001 --> 01:10:57,000 WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH WALKED INTO 2091 01:10:57,001 --> 01:10:58,000 THE WHITE HOUSE HE INHERITED $6 2092 01:10:58,001 --> 01:10:59,000 TRILLION IN PROJECTED 2093 01:10:59,001 --> 01:11:01,000 SURPLUSES. 2094 01:11:01,001 --> 01:11:04,000 HE INHERITED THREE YE 2095 01:11:04,001 --> 01:11:08,000 ROW OF BUDGET SURPLUSES UNDER PRESIDENT CLINTON. 2096 01:11:08,001 --> 01:11:11,000 AND HE INHERITED AN ECONOMY IN 2097 01:11:11,001 --> 01:11:13,000 WHICH ALL 2098 01:11:13,001 --> 01:11:15,000 ALL INCOME GROUPS SAW THEIR 2099 01:11:15,001 --> 01:11:16,000 INCOME RISE BY ROUGHLY THE SAME 2100 01:11:16,001 --> 01:11:17,000 PERCENTAGE. 2101 01:11:17,001 --> 01:11:18,000 IN CONTRAST WHEN MR. OBAMA 2102 01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:21,000 WALKED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE HE 2103 01:11:21,001 --> 01:11:24,000 INHERITED $1 TRI 2104 01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:26,000 HE INHERITED T 2105 01:11:26,001 --> 01:11:27,000 PAID FOR ON THE CUFF BUT WITH 2106 01:11:27,001 --> 01:11:29,000 BORROWED MONEY. 2107 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:30,000 HE INHERITED $6 TRILLION IN 2108 01:11:30,001 --> 01:11:33,000 PROJECTED DEFICITS. 2109 01:11:33,001 --> 01:11:36,000 AND HE INHERITED AN ECONOMY IN 2110 01:11:36,001 --> 01:11:39,000 WHICH FOR SIX STRAIGHT YEARS 2111 01:11:39,001 --> 01:11:40,000 THE INME GROWTH IN THIS 2112 01:11:40,001 --> 01:11:42,000 COUNTRY, 94% OF THAT INCOME 2113 01:11:42,001 --> 01:11:44,000 GROWTH WENT TO THE WEALTHIEST 2114 01:11:44,001 --> 01:11:46,000 10% OF PEOPLE AND EVERYBOD 2115 01:11:46,001 --> 01:11:48,000 ELSE GOT TABLE SCRAPS. 2116 01:11:48,001 --> 01:11:50,000 IN ADDITION, HE INHERITED AN 2117 01:11:50,001 --> 01:11:53,000 ECONOMY THAT WAS PROJECTED TO 2118 01:11:53,001 --> 01:11:54,000 HAVE A 2119 01:11:54,001 --> 01:11:57,000 BECAUSE OF THE BIGGEST COLLAPSE 2120 01:11:57,001 --> 01:12:01,000 OF THE ECONOMY IN 75 YEARS. 2121 01:12:01,001 --> 01:12:03,000 AND SO INDEED MR. OBAMA AND THE 2122 01:12:03,001 --> 01:12:05,000 MAJORITY PARTY IN THIS CONGRESS 2123 01:12:05,001 --> 01:12:07,000 SPENT MONEY TO TRY TO PRIME THE 2124 01:12:07,001 --> 01:12:10,000 PUMP TO KEEP THE ECONOMY GOING 2125 01:12:10,001 --> 01:12:12,000 BECAUSE WE WERE LOSING 700,000 2126 01:12:12,001 --> 01:12:14,000 JOBS A MONTH. 2127 01:12:14,001 --> 01:12:24,000 THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. 2128 01:12:24,001 --> 01:12:26,000 . 2129 01:12:26,001 --> 01:12:27,000 WE HAVE NOT GOT THAT DONE LAST 2130 01:12:27,001 --> 01:12:29,000 MONTH. 2131 01:12:29,001 --> 01:12:30,000 IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH BUT IT'S 2132 01:12:30,001 --> 01:12:31,000 CERTAINLY A LOT BETTER THAN THE 2133 01:12:31,001 --> 01:12:33,000 SITUATION WAS WHEN WE INHERITED 2134 01:12:33,001 --> 01:12:34,000 IT. 2135 01:12:34,001 --> 01:12:35,000 THE GENTL 2136 01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:38,000 DEBT CEILING. 2137 01:12:38,001 --> 01:12:40,000 THE DEBT HAS ALREADY BEEN 2138 01:12:40,001 --> 01:12:41,000 UP AND NOW THE QUESTION IS, WHEN 2139 01:12:41,001 --> 01:12:44,000 THE BILL COMES IN THE MAIL, IS 2140 01:12:44,001 --> 01:12:48,000 IT GOING TO BE PAID OR NOT? 2141 01:12:48,001 --> 01:12:51,000 THE FACT IS, OTHER THAN $1.8 2142 01:12:51,001 --> 01:12:55,000 TRILLION DEBT INCREASE, $1.4 2143 01:12:55,001 --> 01:12:57,000 TRILLION OF THAT IS DIRECTLY 2144 01:12:57,001 --> 01:12:58,000 TRACEBLE TO POLICY ACTIONS THAT 2145 01:12:58,001 --> 01:13:01,000 WERE TAKEN BY THE PREVIOUS 2146 01:13:01,001 --> 01:13:02,000 ADMINISTRATION IN THE PREVIOUS 2147 01:13:02,001 --> 01:13:06,000 REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND $400 2148 01:13:06,001 --> 01:13:08,000 TRACEBLE TO THE ACTIONS WE'VE 2149 01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:09,000 HAD TO TAKE TO TRY TO BAIL THE 2150 01:13:09,001 --> 01:13:11,000 ECONOMY OUT OF THE MESS THAT YOU 2151 01:13:11,001 --> 01:13:13,000 FOLKS GOT US INTO. 2152 01:13:13,001 --> 01:13:14,000 SO IF YOU WANT TO START 2153 01:13:14,001 --> 01:13:16,000 COMPARING RECORDS, I'D BE HAPPY 2154 01:13:16,001 --> 01:13:22,000 TO. 2155 01:13:22,001 --> 01:13:23,000 I'D MUCH PREFER TO TALK ABOUT 2156 01:13:23,001 --> 01:13:26,000 INDIVIDUAL -- AND THE INDIVIDUAL 2157 01:13:26,001 --> 01:13:27,000 PROGRAMS IN THIS BILL BUT SINCE 2158 01:13:27,001 --> 01:13:29,000 SOME OF THE GENTLEM ON THE 2159 01:13:29,001 --> 01:13:31,000 OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE PREFER 2160 01:13:31,001 --> 01:13:33,000 TO POLITICIZE EVERYTNG, I THINK WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE TH 2161 01:13:33,001 --> 01:13:35,000 DEBATE AT THAT LEVEL. 2162 01:13:35,001 --> 01:13:37,000 EXPECT VERY LITTLE BUT THAT FROM 2163 01:13:37,001 --> 01:13:39,000 THE OTHER SIDE, I REGRET TO SAY. 2164 01:13:39,001 --> 01:13:41,000 DO I WANT TO THANK THE GENTLEMAN 2165 01:13:41,001 --> 01:13:45,000 FROM OHIO FOR TRYING TO INSERT A 2166 01:13:45,001 --> 01:13:46,000 DEB 2167 01:13:46,001 --> 01:13:47,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2168 01:13:47,001 --> 01:13:49,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 2169 01:13:49,001 --> 01:13:50,000 WHO SEEKS RENGNIGS AT THIS TIME? 2170 01:13:50,001 --> 01:13:52,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM IOWA. 2171 01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:54,000 MR. LATHAM: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 2172 01:13:54,001 --> 01:13:55,000 MYSELF AS MUCH TIME AS I MAY 2173 01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:56,000 CONSUME. 2174 01:13:56,001 --> 01:13:57,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2175 01:13:57,001 --> 01:13:59,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 2176 01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:01,000 MR. LATHAM: I'M FIRST OF ALL 2177 01:14:01,001 --> 01:14:03,000 GOING TO CLOSE, I DON'T KNOW IF 2178 01:14:03,001 --> 01:14:04,000 THE GENTLEMAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS, 2179 01:14:04,001 --> 01:14:06,000 BUT I'M PLANNING ON CLOSING. 2180 01:14:06,001 --> 01:14:11,000 I JUST WANT TO THANK THE STAFF 2181 01:14:11,001 --> 01:14:15,000 ON BOTH SIDES, BUT IN OUR 2182 01:14:15,001 --> 01:14:17,000 SUBCOMMITTEE AND TREASURY AND 2183 01:14:17,001 --> 01:14:19,000 H.U.D., DO AN OUTSTANDING JOB, 2184 01:14:19,001 --> 01:14:20,000 WORK TOGETHER AND JUST VERY, 2185 01:14:20,001 --> 01:14:22,000 VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT 2186 01:14:22,001 --> 01:14:23,000 THEY'VE DONE AND THE KIND OF 2187 01:14:23,001 --> 01:14:27,000 COMMITMENT THEY'VE SHOWN AND 2188 01:14:27,001 --> 01:14:30,000 JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR 2189 01:14:30,001 --> 01:14:31,000 HAVE EXHIBITED THROUGHOUT THIS 2190 01:14:31,001 --> 01:14:33,000 WHOLE PROCESS. 2191 01:14:33,001 --> 01:14:35,000 MR. SPEAKER, I'M GOING TO OPPOSE 2192 01:14:35,001 --> 01:14:41,000 THIS FOR VARIOUS REASONS. 2193 01:14:41,001 --> 01:14:43,000 NUMBER ONE, THE 2194 01:14:43,001 --> 01:14:47,000 $450 BILLION BILL IS A 14% 2195 01:14:47,001 --> 01:14:51,000 INCREASE IN SPENDING OVER LAST 2196 01:14:51,001 --> 01:14:53,000 HURTING, WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS 2197 01:14:53,001 --> 01:14:56,000 KINDF ADDITIONAL DEBT THAT'S 2198 01:14:56,001 --> 01:14:58,000 BEING PUT ON TAXPAYERS ON THE 2199 01:14:58,001 --> 01:15:01,000 FAMILIES AT HOME. 2200 01:15:01,001 --> 01:15:02,000 REALIZING THAT IN THE LAST TWO 2201 01:15:02,001 --> 01:15:04,000 YEARS DISCRETIONARY SPENDING IN 2202 01:15:04,001 --> 01:15:09,000 THIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2203 01:15:09,001 --> 01:15:12,000 HAS INCREASED NOW 2204 01:15:12,001 --> 01:15:15,000 MONEY ON DISCRETIONARY MONEY 2205 01:15:15,001 --> 01:15:19,000 BEING SPENT TODAY THAN JUST TWO YEARS AGO. 2206 01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:21,000 DOES ANYBODY AT HOME HAVE 85% 2207 01:15:21,001 --> 01:15:22,000 MORE MONEY TODAY THAN WHAT THEY 2208 01:15:22,001 --> 01:15:24,000 HAD TWO YEARS AGO? 2209 01:15:24,001 --> 01:15:26,000 IS IT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY, 2210 01:15:26,001 --> 01:15:28,000 SHAPE OR FORM TO HAVE THAT KIND 2211 01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:30,000 OF AN INCREASE? 2212 01:15:30,001 --> 01:15:31,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2213 01:15:31,001 --> 01:15:33,000 MASSACHUSETTS, I APPRECIATE HIS 2214 01:15:33,001 --> 01:15:34,000 PROFESSIONALISM, MADE THE CASE, 2215 01:15:34,001 --> 01:15:36,000 BASICALL 2216 01:15:36,001 --> 01:15:37,000 WE HELD DOWN SPENDING 2217 01:15:37,001 --> 01:15:39,000 PREVIOUS 2218 01:15:39,001 --> 01:15:41,000 AND THIS EXPLOSION THAT WE'VE 2219 01:15:41,001 --> 01:15:44,000 SEEN JUST THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET 2220 01:15:44,001 --> 01:15:47,000 IS SIMPLY WRONG. 2221 01:15:47,001 --> 01:15:50,000 WE CANNOT SUSTAIN 2222 01:15:50,001 --> 01:15:52,000 ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATIONS. 2223 01:15:52,001 --> 01:15:53,000 THEY'RE GOING TO PAY THIS BILL 2224 01:15:53,001 --> 01:15:57,000 AND THE 2225 01:15:57,001 --> 01:15:59,000 PAY THIS BILL AND IT SIMPLY IS 2226 01:15:59,001 --> 01:16:01,000 NOT FAIR, IT'S GENERATIONAL 2227 01:16:01,001 --> 01:16:02,000 THEFT, AND WE'VE GOT TO FINALLY 2228 01:16:02,001 --> 01:16:04,000 HOLD T 2229 01:16:04,001 --> 01:16:08,000 IN THIS CONGRESS AND FIND SOME 2230 01:16:08,001 --> 01:16:09,000 KIND OF SANITY AROUND HER 2231 01:16:09,001 --> 01:16:13,000 THAT EVERYONE WOULD VOTE NO. 2232 01:16:13,001 --> 01:16:14,000 WE COULD GET SOME 2233 01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:16,000 COULD SEPARATE THESE BILLS, HAVE 2234 01:16:16,001 --> 01:16:18,000 THEM DONE CORRECTLY AND IN A 2235 01:16:18,001 --> 01:16:21,000 RESPONSIBLE WAY AND JUST ONE 2236 01:16:21,001 --> 01:16:22,000 OTHER THING IN CLOSING, I WANT 2237 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:26,000 TO AGAIN THANK CHAIRMAN OLVER 2238 01:16:26,001 --> 01:16:28,000 FOR BEING A VERY 2239 01:16:28,001 --> 01:16:30,000 HIS PROFESSIONALISM AND SOMEONE 2240 01:16:30,001 --> 01:16:31,000 THINK A REALLY ADMIRE. 2241 01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:32,000 SO WITH THAT, MR. SPEAKER, I 2242 01:16:32,001 --> 01:16:33,000 YIELD BACK. 2243 01:16:33,001 --> 01:16:35,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2244 01:16:35,001 --> 01:16:36,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 2245 01:16:36,001 --> 01:16:38,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 2246 01:16:38,001 --> 01:16:39,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 2247 01:16:39,001 --> 01:16:41,000 MASSACHUSETTS, FOR WHATURPOSE DO YOU RISE? 2248 01:16:41,001 --> 01:16:44,000 MR. OLVER: 2249 01:16:44,001 --> 01:16:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2250 01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:46,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR FOUR 2251 01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:49,000 MINUTES. 2252 01:16:49,001 --> 01:16:50,000 MR. OLVER: MR. SPEAKER, MY 2253 01:16:50,001 --> 01:16:55,000 COUNTERPART, THE RANKING MEMBER 2254 01:16:55,001 --> 01:16:56,000 FROM IOWA, HAS GRACIOUSLY 2255 01:16:56,001 --> 01:17:02,000 THANKED THE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES 2256 01:17:02,001 --> 01:17:05,000 WHO HAVE DONE ALL THE WORK, THAT 2257 01:17:05,001 --> 01:17:06,000 OUR SUBCOMMITTEE DEALT WITH. 2258 01:17:06,001 --> 01:17:10,000 ACTUALLY SINCE THERE'S SIX 2259 01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:12,000 DIFFERENT BILLS HERE I WOULD 2260 01:17:12,001 --> 01:17:15,000 LIKE TO EXTEND THAT THANKS TO 2261 01:17:15,001 --> 01:17:19,000 THE PEOPLE ON THE STAFFS 2262 01:17:19,001 --> 01:17:21,000 OF THE SIX SUBCOMMITTEES ON EACH 2263 01:17:21,001 --> 01:17:24,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE WHO PUT 2264 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:27,000 COUNTLESS HOURS INTO THE WORK 2265 01:17:27,001 --> 01:17:29,000 THAT HAS BROUGHT THIS BILL TO 2266 01:17:29,001 --> 01:17:32,000 THE FLOOR AT T 2267 01:17:32,001 --> 01:17:36,000 BUT PARTICULARLY LET ME JUST 2268 01:17:36,001 --> 01:17:41,000 PERSONALIZE IT ONE MORE STEP. 2269 01:17:41,001 --> 01:17:44,000 ON OUR SIDE MY 2270 01:17:44,001 --> 01:17:48,000 CATE CALLAHAN, AND ON THE 2271 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:50,000 REPUBLICAN SIDE, THEIR CLERK, 2272 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:53,000 DEAN VERAN, AND THE PEOPLE WHO 2273 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:54,000 WORK UNDER THEM, FOR THEM AND 2274 01:17:54,001 --> 01:17:57,000 WITH THEM AND FOR US AND FOR THE 2275 01:17:57,001 --> 01:18:05,000 PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY, THEY HAVE 2276 01:18:05,001 --> 01:18:06,000 DONE AN EXEMPLARY JOB IN THE 2277 01:18:06,001 --> 01:18:08,000 H.U.D. COMMITTEE AS I THINK EACH 2278 01:18:08,001 --> 01:18:11,000 OF THE OTHER GROUPS HAVE DONE 2279 01:18:11,001 --> 01:18:13,000 FOR THEIR OWN PTICULAR 2280 01:18:13,001 --> 01:18:14,000 SUBCOMMITTEES. 2281 01:18:14,001 --> 01:18:15,000 I PREFER YOU SHOULD ALL BE VERY 2282 01:18:15,001 --> 01:18:19,000 GRATEFUL FOR THAT. 2283 01:18:19,001 --> 01:18:23,000 WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS BILL 2284 01:18:23,001 --> 01:18:24,000 AND I'M GOING TO URGE PASSAGE AS 2285 01:18:24,001 --> 01:18:27,000 I CLOSE, WITH THE PASSAGE OF 2286 01:18:27,001 --> 01:18:30,000 THIS BILL WE WILL, ON OUR SIDE, 2287 01:18:30,001 --> 01:18:35,000 HAVE COMPLETED THE WORK ON 11 OF 2288 01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:37,000 THE 12 BILLS AND THEREBY WE WILL 2289 01:18:37,001 --> 01:18:40,000 BE A VERY LARGE STEP CLOSER TO 2290 01:18:40,001 --> 01:18:42,000 THE FINISH OF THE BUDGETARY 2291 01:18:42,001 --> 01:18:46,000 PROCESS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE 2292 01:18:46,001 --> 01:18:48,000 THE YEAR -- TO PROVIDE FOR THE 2293 01:18:48,001 --> 01:18:54,000 YEAR 2010. 2294 01:18:54,001 --> 01:18:56,000 AND SO I'M VERY OPTIMISTIC 2295 01:18:56,001 --> 01:18:58,000 TO 2296 01:18:58,001 --> 01:19:00,000 RISES FROM THE SHOULDERS OF ALL 2297 01:19:00,001 --> 01:19:02,000 THE CHAIRS AND RANKING MEMBERS 2298 01:19:02,001 --> 01:19:04,000 OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES. 2299 01:19:04,001 --> 01:19:11,000 AND WITH THAT LET ME JUST URGE A 2300 01:19:11,001 --> 01:19:14,000 YES VOTE ON THE -- ON THIS 2301 01:19:14,001 --> 01:19:18,000 BUDGET BILL IN ORDER TO BE ABLE 2302 01:19:18,001 --> 01:19:20,000 TO REACH THAT POINT VERY CLOSE 2303 01:19:20,001 --> 01:19:22,000 AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF 2304 01:19:22,001 --> 01:19:23,000 MY TIME. 2305 01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 2306 01:19:24,001 --> 01:19:26,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 2307 01:19:26,001 --> 01:19:27,000 ALL TIME FOR DEBATE HAS EXPIRED. 2308 01:19:27,001 --> 01:19:28,000 UNDER THE RULE THE THE PREVIOUS 2309 01:19:28,001 --> 01:19:29,000 QUESTION IS ORDERED. 2310 01:19:29,001 --> 01:19:31,000 THE QUESTION IS ON ADOPTION OF 2311 01:19:31,001 --> 01:19:32,000 THE CONFERENCE REPORT. 2312 01:19:32,001 --> 01:19:33,000 THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE ORDERED. 2313 01:19:33,001 --> 01:19:35,000 MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES 2314 01:19:35,001 --> 01:19:36,000 BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE. 2315 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:37,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20, 2316 01:19:37,001 --> 01:19:39,000 THIS 15-MINUTE VOTE ON ADOPTION 2317 01:19:39,001 --> 01:19:40,000 OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT WILL BE 2318 01:19:40,001 --> 01:19:41,000 FOLLOWED BY A FIVE-MINUTE VOTE 2319 01:19:41,001 --> 01:19:42,000 ON SUSPENDING THE RULES AND 2320 01:19:42,001 --> 01:19:44,000 PASSI 2321 01:19:44,001 --> 01:19:46,000 MEMBERS WILL LORD THEIR -- 2322 01:19:46,001 --> 01:19:53,000 RECORD THEIR VOTES BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE. 2323 01:19:53,001 --> 01:19:54,000 THIS SHALL BE A 15-MINUTE VOTE. 2324 01:19:54,001 --> 01:19:56,000 [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY THE 2325 01:19:56,001 --> 01:19:57,000 NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE, 2326 01:19:57,001 --> 01:19:58,000 INC., IN COOPERATION WITH THE 2327 01:19:58,001 --> 01:20:00,000 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF 2328 01:20:00,001 --> 01:20:01,000 REPRESENTATIVES. 2329 01:20:01,001 --> 01:20:02,000 ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED 2330 01:20:02,001 --> 01:20:03,000 COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE 2331 01:20:03,001 --> 01:20:05,000 PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR 2332 01:20:05,001 --> 01:20:06,000 COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS EXPRESSLY 2333 01:20:06,001 --> 01:20:53,000 PROHITED BY THE U.S. HOUSE OF