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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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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: after receiving a degree from princeton university, he served in the united states coast guard during world war ii and later traveled the world as a foreign service officer with the state department. in 1960 he was elected to his first of six terms as a united states senator from rhode island. after retiring in 1997, he became our state's longest serving senator.

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James R. Langevin: the esteemed nator once stated the strength of the united states is not the gold at fort knox, all the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. believing that education was the great equalizer, he created legislation that passed in 1972 establishing the basic education

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James R. Langevin: and national endowment for the humanities. he helped shaped our country's foreign policy and believed strongly in the power of diplomacy. he stood up to defend rights for all americans, regardless of race, class, or sexual orientation. knowing him for more than two decades, i can considered senator pell a friend and mentor and had the opportunity of interning in his washington,

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James R. Langevin: advice and support. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. langdon vin: -- mr. langevin: madam speaker, may i request unanimous consent to be recognized for five minutes under my own time? the speaker pro tempore: the chair will recognize the member after calling the next name on the list.

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James R. Langevin: always will be a role model as i work to serve the people of rhode island just as he did with courage and integrity. this past monday senator pell was rembered by his family, colleagues, from the senate, president clinton, vice president elect biden, and many others. it was a fitting tribute to his

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James R. Langevin: and future students who have achieved a higher education because of pell grants. and it will live on in the people of rhode island who have been fitted greatly from his life's work. my thoughts and prayers are with his entire family. especially his beloved wife of

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James R. Langevin: entire pell family. madam speaker, thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. ms. holmes norton of the district of columbia.

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Mike Rogers: >> unanimous consent to seek five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam speaker, i rise today to speak about the devastating situation in gaza. each of us in this chamber knows what it's like to deal with a terrorist attack on our soil and against our people.

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Mike Rogers: over the last several years the israeli people have been constantly bombarded by terrorist attacks on their soil and against their people. since israel crew from gaza in late 2005, more than 6,000 rocket and mortar attacks from hamas and other terrorist groups

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Mike Rogers: and continuing to do nothing could cause long-term detrimental implications to israeli's security in the region. madam speaker, critics who have said that israel responded to hamas in a disproportionate or indiscriminate way are wrong. madam speaker, i ask that what amount of force would have been necessary to stop the brutal

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Mike Rogers: have shaut shelter jeopardizing innocent lives in gaza. only hamas is responsible for the massacre of the people in gaza. hamas is responsible for this conflict. today marks the 12th day of this conflict and i think we all hope for a cease-fire to take place soon. however even if the parties can reach an agreement to a

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Louie Gohmert: i also urge the united states and our european allies to do the same. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has yielded back his time. ms. woolsey of california. under the speaker's announced policy of january 18, 2007, --

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Louie Gohmert: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. it is a pleasure to be here as we start another two years and a

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Louie Gohmert: from people who have been around this place and been on this earth for many, many decades. a fellow down in knacka coachies -- naccadoches had the wisdom when he was told by a young reporter on his 95th birthday, congratulations, i hope you're

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Louie Gohmert: as the 1930's depression. and he said let me tell you about the depreion, i was there. sometimes we went for two days without eating. and i look around now and i see people offended if they don't have three cars in their family, they got a computer, they've got cell phones, they have all these things, and they are trying to

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Louie Gohmert: it was an incredibly rough time for america, but they managed to get through it. there is interesting literature out now that says, by government intervention all through the 1930's the economy never got better until after world war ii started. that all the government intervention may have actually

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Louie Gohmert: not a partisan comment, that apparently is a bipartisan comment because we have seen it on both sides of the party issue. but to be told repeatedly that this is a terrible depression, worst economy since the 1930's, i was around in the late 1970's.

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Louie Gohmert: in january of 1974. and it rose -- mild recession from january to july, but unemployment got to 7.5 and eventually got over 10%. we had -- i recall thinking when

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Louie Gohmert: there is so much to the mental status of the people in this country. but by 1979, inflation had reached 11.3%, in 1980 it soared to 13.5%. and here we had a guy, reagan, who was saying in 1980 that as

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Louie Gohmert: rate being over 10%. and he said, son, it just doesn't get any higher than that. why don't you wait until it comes down? yet at the time we we selling our house after my four years at fort benning, there were people wanting desperately to absorb 12% loans because the interest

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Louie Gohmert: of 1982. and here was this candidate in 1980 named reagan saying, can i help bring these things down. i remember telling my wife at the time, i like this guy. as a member of the army i could not criticize a commander in chief because he was in the chain of command, and that's a court martial offense. you couldn't say anything

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Louie Gohmert: . these things started peaking through the late 1970's to 1981, 1982 and lo and behold, he was able to turn things around. we have a massive tax cut and the economy turned arod and started going the other way.

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Louie Gohmert: george w. bush. i think he is a good man, an honorable man, despite what some folks say about him. i like him. he's smarter than people give him credit. but as jeff foxworthy says when people who are not from the south hear a southern cent, they immediately deduct 50

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Louie Gohmert: 1929, we could have in some of the private meetings, it could be, once the first bank fails, they'll all fail, we'll have the worse depression than the 1930's, all these terrible things, those kind of things, when said from the highest people in the country, can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Louie Gohmert: one of the things we see about this man as he prepares to take over the presidency he has a real gift for spreading confidence, spreading calm, and spreading hope, as he likes to say. now we've been hearing a lot lately, people trying to set the bar so low that anything u do -- he does will pass the

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Louie Gohmert: we don't have hostages being held in iran. and looking just so helpless to the rest of the country. president bush has certainly made clear and i think by some of president-elect obama's appointments, he has made clear to the rest of the world you don't attack us or we will

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Louie Gohmert: about 60 republicans and about three times that many democrats who voted for the bailout bill, mainly because the secretary of the treasury scared them enough into doing so. that's not a basis for making good judgments to help direct this ship of state.

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Louie Gohmert: the bill says is the secretary of the treasury has to do is file a plan. his plan could say, i want to spend 50 billion, and under the law if there's no vote disapproving in 15 days, he