House Proceeding on Jan 7th, 2009 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland desire to be recognized? mr. hoyer: madam chair, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 23, resolved that at 10:30 a.m. on tuesday, january 20, 2009, the

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Steny H. Hoyer: house shall proceed to the west front of the alcohol for the purpose of -- capitol for the purpose of attending the inauguration of the president and the vice president of the united states. the stands stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, january 21, 2009. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: the table. mr. hoyer: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland desire to be recognized? mr. hoyer: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland, the majority leader, is correct. the house is not in order.

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Steny H. Hoyer: members who are in the aisles, please take your conversations to the cloakroom. members who are in the aisle who are standing, please take your conversations to the cloakroom. the majority leader is recognized. mr. hoyer: thank you, madam speaker. there will be no votes for the balance of the day and there will be no votes tomorrow. there will be a joint session tomorrow. we will meet for the counting

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Steny H. Hoyer: -- for the report of the electoral college. votes of the november 4 election. there will be votes on friday. and i will be trying to get you additional information on the calendar for friday. clearly there will be at least two bills on the floor. there may be others.

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Steny H. Hoyer: the pay equity bill that we already passed the house last year and the so-called ledbetter bill are two items that have currently already been noticed, but there may be other items that we're working in conjunction with the minority on whether or not we can move those forward. but i wanted to let members

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Steny H. Hoyer: know that there will be no

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Brad Sherman: further votes today that we contemplate nor votes tomorrow, but there will be votes on friday. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: i thank the gentleman. the gentleman yields back. the chair will entertain requests for one-minute

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Speech By: Brad Sherman

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Brad Sherman: speeches for what purpose does the gentleman from california, mr. sherman, rise? mr. sherman: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revisend extend their remarks and tonclude

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Brad Sherman: therein extraneous material. the gentleman from rhode island , mr. langevin.

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Ted Poe: mr. engel of new york. ms. holmes norton of the district of columbia. ms. woolsey of california. ms. kaptur of ohio. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders here turnover

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: entered into, the following member mace be pmitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and includes therein extraneous material. myself, mr. poe, for today, mr. franks for january 14. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the

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Ted Poe: following personal reques. the clerk: leave of absence for whether pl boucher of virginia after 3:30 p.m. on tuesday, january 7, 2009. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. and the request is agreed to. under the speaker's announced

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Ted Poe: policy of january 9, -- january 6, 2009 and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. mr. poe of texas. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, madam speaker. israel and hamas are fighting each other -- the speaker pro tempore: the

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Ted Poe: gentleman will suspend. the house is not in order. will colleagues toik their -- take their conversations to the cloakroom. the gentleman may propro seed. mr. poe: israel and hamas are fighting each other in the gaza strip. the question is, what is this fighting all about in for centuries, jews and muslims fought over a strip of land in

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Ted Poe: what we call the holy land called the gaza strip tavepls territorial dispute but it's also a conflict of religious nature. the gaza strip is a tiny sliver of land about two times the the size of washington, d.c. with a population of about 1.5 million people. it is bordered by the state of israel on three sides and the mediterranean sea to the west.

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Ted Poe: the modern war between israel and the palestinians began ter israel became a sovereign nation in 1948 after the end of world war 26r78 after the egyptian invasion of israel in may of 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the gaza strip, large groups of palestinian refugees began to arrive and live in gaza.

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Ted Poe: in the last half of the 20th century, territorial control bounced back and forth between israel and its muslim neighboring countries. in the 1990's, israel transferred security and civilian responsibility for the palestinian populated areas of gaza to the palestinian authority. after that transfer, palestinianed elected yasser

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Ted Poe: arafat to be their leader a person who is by no means pro-israel but who worked for peace between israel and palestine. in september of 2005, israel withdrew its settlers and soldiers in the gaza strip on the condition that the palestinian terrorist groups

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Ted Poe: like hamas would stop terrorizing innocent civilians in israel near the gaza border that did not happen. hamas continued its relentless attacks against the jews, causing an escalation of tension in that area. then in january of 2006, the people of palestine elected the

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Ted Poe: leadership of hamas to lead the government. the international community did not recognize the hamas-led government because it renews fod -- refused to renounce violence, refused to recognize israel, and refused to recognize previous peace agreements. hamas militants succeed in a violent takeover of all the military and government

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Ted Poe: institutions in the gaza strip. since 2000, hamas terrorists have targeteover a million israeli civilians in gaza an israel, firing thousands of rockets and missiles and morta shells into israel. just the past 10 days hark mas has fired more than 500 rockets into israel. and there's no end in sight.

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Ted Poe: the anti-semitic hate speech propagated by hamas leaders is no figment of anybody's imagination. it's real, it's enticed an entire generation of young people to become terrorists in the name of religion. even our state department designated hamas as a foreign terrorist organizationor as long as that list existed. we don't have to take our own government's word for it.

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Ted Poe: in 2005 a hamaleader in gaza told the media, quote, neither the leb ration of the gaza strip or the west bank will suffice. hamas will pursue the armed struggle until the liberation of of all our lands. we don't recognize the state of rile or its right to hold one inch of palestinian area. palestine san islamic land

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Ted Poe: belonging to all muslims. laettner 2006, another leader said, israel is not a rejit mat entity and no amount of pressure can force us to recognize its right to exist. israel must be degraded and humiliated. these are not the words of people who desire peace or reconciliation. these are people who call for

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Ted Poe: the destruction of israel and will not stop until that happens. what's more, they don't care what it takes to make this happen, even if that includes killing itown people. they've allowed over 200 truckloads of food and medicine to enter gaza, even under shell fire. just today, israel agreed to cease ground fire operations

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Ted Poe: for three hours so humanitarian supplies to get into gaza. meanwhile hark mas prevents its wounded civilians to get to egypt to be treated and they're stealing supplies to use for terrorists. what make has mas even more inhumane is their willingness to put their own people in harm's way.

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Ted Poe: they've intentionally launched missiles into schoolyards and redential areas even hoping for palestinian lives to be lost in these attacks. it's time for the rest of the world to stand with solidarity with israel in the fight against terrorism and demand that hamas end its rocket attacks on israel and stop smuggling arms through tunnels

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Ted Poe: between egypt and gaza. however, hamas says it will never end the war against israel until israel ceases to

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Marcy Kaptur: exist. in the face of such hate, israel is left with no choice but to defend its people from these murderous terrorists. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from rhode island, mr. langevin for five

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Speech By: Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: minutes. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? >> to use mr. langevin's time and address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes.

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Marcy Kaptur: >> the opportunity of a new congress is that it's not bound by the mistakes of the past. as foreclosure rates rise, it's pretty obvious that the federal responses are not working on main street. whether it's the 00 billion wall street bailout or the 00 billion f.h.a. loan workout program.

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Marcy Kaptur: citigroup, for example, was one of the big culprits that caused the financial meltdown. yet they got paid 5 billion from the public treasury, but ohio, where foreclosures are raging, got nothing. instead, out of state mega banks are buying up ohio banks

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Marcy Kaptur: while more ohio homeowners get boed out of their homes. last year in my home county of lucas, another 4,100 homes were foreclosed. that's a minimum of 10,000 -- 10,000 more people who were not helped by treasury's failed tarp program.

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Marcy Kaptur: ohio's families alone need 0 billion to stop the real estate hemorrhage, which is less than what c would go to real people not every sats and paper trades on wall street. in toledo, ohio, you can buy a home f ,500, but last fall, rather than local homeowners

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Marcy Kaptur: being refinanced through this wall street bailout bill, one california investor figured it out he bought 137 foreclosed properties in toledo at auction. an auction sponsored by the very wall street banks that caused the trouble in the first place. houses are being auctioned at prices so low we could have put

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Marcy Kaptur: the orinal occupants back in. even cities would be able to bid on these homes on behalf of their local homeowners, their property owners. but they've not yet received any funds from the billion neighborhood stabilization program that we were told was supposed to keep local nehborhoods whole. but the wall street banks are cleaning up.

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Marcy Kaptur: they get the bailout money, they don't have to manage those properties, they auction them, to outsiders, and then they're just waiting for their taxes to be filed for 2008 at the i.r.s. get all those losses booked and get more back from the people of the united states.

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Marcy Kaptur: something is very wrong and uncoordinated with the man for the which the federal government is being -- is allowing equity to be bled from local homeowners and from our communities at large and awarded to wall street whole. wall street banks that hold or sell mortgages on foreclosed properties are not managing their property holdings.

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Marcy Kaptur: these holdings are frequently stripped of copper, electrical wiring, and other materials, further devaluing adjacent properties and decimating entire neighborhoods. the 00 billion f.h.a. program designed to help modify troubled mortgage loans is as ineffective as the wall street bailout.

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Marcy Kaptur: the program has received fewer than 200,000 applications nationwide and not a single loan has been modified. a bank's receipt of tarp funds should be conditioned on then engaging in money work outs to make surthe program starts to work somewhat. many banks and servicers are

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Marcy Kaptur: still reluctant to structure workable solutions with their mortgagees. among them are j.p. morgan chase and others who received 5 billion among them. what's fair about that? may the 111th congress pass more than just hollow legislation. let's pass a measure worthy of

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Marcy Kaptur: the oath we took yesterday to protect our republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic. jesse james robbed banks because he said that's where the money is. well, wall street just robbed the biggest bank of them all, the public treasury. it's time for congress to blink

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Marcy Kaptur: and do what's right in the 111th congress of the united states. madam speaker, i thank you very much and yield back my remaing time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. mr. jones of north carolina.

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Marcy Kaptur: mr. engel of new york. for what purpose does the

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gentleman from rhode island

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Speech By: Patrick J. Kennedy

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Patrick J. Kennedy: seek recognition? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize without objection. >> if i could, madam speaker, submit bymy full text for the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. kennedy: thank you, madam speaker.

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Patrick J. Kennedy: today i join my colleague, representative langevin, in this tribute to senator powell, the grt statesman from rhode island. his name is well known throughout this country, associated most notably with the pell grant. the grant that allows millions of young people in this country opportunity to get a higher education.

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Patrick J. Kennedy: but, madam speaker, we wanted to pay tribute to senator pel not only for what he --ell t only for what he did to open doors to millions in this cuptry for economic and educational opportunity. we wanted to pay tribute to him for all that he's done as a five-term senator from rhode

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Patrick J. Kennedy: island and one of the most distinguished senators ever to serve not only rhodisland but this country. he was the author of the humanities act national endalmt -- endowment for the humanities which allows the art s to be accessible to the average person as well. he was really the founder and

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Patrick J. Kennedy: the person who real i-- really began the belief that we ought to work cooperatively around the world in terms of foreign policy as the chairman of foreign policy, foreign relations committee. he was the one who led in diplomacy. and my friends, he was far ahead of his time as an environmentalist as well.

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Patrick J. Kennedy: madam speaker, we could talk about his policiesnd what they meant to our country, but to know him as a person is to real rah -- really say the most about senator pell. he was the most self-efface, genteel, kind-hearted man you can ever know and in a world of rough and tumble politics it's

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Patrick J. Kennedy: hard to find such a genuine person such as that. for that reason, on a personal level, i was honored to know

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James R. Langevin: him an serve with him and today join my colleague jim langevin in paying tribute to him. with that, i'd like to yield the floor to my colleague and friend from the second congressional district, congressman langevin. the speaker pro tempore: mr. langevin is recognized. .

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Speech By: James R. Langevin

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James R. Langevin: mr. langevin: i tha my colleague for yielding and i'm honored to join with him today in paying tribute to our state's former senior senator, senator claiborne pell, who passed away on the first of this year. he was an incredible public servant and someone who i was proud to call friend and a

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James R. Langevin: mentor. he was one of rhode island's greatest statesmen and gentlemen. as i said, who passed away on the first day of 2009. born on november 22, 1918 into a prominent wealthy family, senator pell was better known as the champion for the common man and also the father of the pell grant program.