House Proceeding 01-28-09 on Jan 28th, 2009 :: 0:46:40 to 1:06:40
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Speech By: Lee Terry

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Lee Terry: cause an increase in the inflation rate, create interest rates over the next several years.

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: this is not the right way to go at this amount of time. if the bill contained tax c as well as the infrastructure that's much need in america, i could support that. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. is recognized. ms. slaughter: i yield two

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Speech By: Allyson Y. Schwartz
Bill: H.R. 1: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: minutes to the gentlewoman from pennsylvania, mr. schwartz. the speaker pro tempore: th gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. schwartz schwartz thank you, madam speaker. the -- ms. schwartz: the people of my district are both deeply and optimistic about the future under our new president. they know that swift and meaningful action is needo

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: restore confidence in our markets, save jobs and rebuild our economy. this rule allows the house to take an important step to address the needs of people and industries most affected by the current economic do to stimulate the innovation that is essential to drive our economy in the future. action is necessary now towards energy independence, educational advancement,

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: infrastructure and improvements in quality and efficiency in health care to better enable us to meet the economic challenges ahead. i am particularly proud of the major new investment in health information technology. my increasing -- by increasing the use of health implet i. -- this country within 10 year, we

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: with ensure that vital medical information is available at the point of service, we can improve quality and reduce unnecessary interventions, better coordinate care, save lives and save costs for patients, employers and taxpayers. all leading to a healthier, mo economically-competitive mesh. it is a smart -- america. it is a smart, timely investment to meet today's challenges and fulfill

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: america's promise. i encourage my colleagues to vote yes on the rule, to vote yes on filing passage and by

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Speech By: Jeff Flake

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Jeff Flake: doing so, so to vote yes for for the essential investments we need now for fought toture. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i'm happy to yield two minutes to our friend from mesa, arizona, mr. flake. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. flake: i thank the

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Jeff Flake: gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i'm glad that this stimulus, i thi all of us are glad, most of us are glad that this stimulus contains no earmarks from congress. there's a lot of pork in it, certainly, but not earmarks from congress. what most pele don't realize, however, is that next week we're slated to consider a huge omnibus bill to pass spending bills that didn't get passed in

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Jeff Flake: last y that bill, that massive, massive, massive bill is going to come to the floor with at least, we have no idea how many, but at least 4,000 earmarks. 4,000 earmarks that have not been vetted by the whole house. most of them have not even been vetted by the full appropriations committee. some were passed by the subcommittees, but few of them,

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Jeff Flake: like the labor h.h.s. bill, with about 1,200 earmarks, wasn't even vetted by the full committee. yet it's going to be considered on the floor without the ability to challenge these individual earmarks. nobody can stand and challenge individual earmarks. there may be questions about campaign contributions that coincide with earmarks being put out. we can't challenge that. we can't do it because it

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Jeff Flake: simply wasn't allowed. and now the other side will likely blame our side, well, you guys held up appropriations. we've not been in charge of this body for two years yet we're going to be asked to consider legislation with thousands of earmarks that have not been vetted by the full housand where there is no ability by anyone in this chamber to actually strike an

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Jeff Flake: individual earmark or to question spending. now, this rule and the reason i bring it up now, this rule, section 2, reeds it shall insert into the congressional record, no later than february 4, 2009, such materials as he may deem explanatory of appropriation measures for fiscal year 2009.

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Jeff Flake: what that is to do is to finally get the report of ac in the bil well, guess what? february 4 is likely -- may i ask the gentleman for 30 additional seconds? mr. dreier: i'm happy to yield 30 seconds. mr. flake: that's the same day we'll be considering this bill

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Jeff Flake: on the floor. i would k the chairman of the rules committee, the chairlady of the rules committee, if she's listening, if she would consent to -- i would yield to the chairman of the rules committee. i would yield to the chairman of the rules committee to see if she would consider amending the rule to allow the report to

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Jeff Flake: be filed on february 2. that is what our own rules say we should have, that space of time. at least two days for people to actually consider these. i yield to the gentlelady. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. flake: i'm yielding for the purpose of asking her to amend this session.

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Jeff Flake: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has no time. mr. flake: i'm sorry, to amend -- will the gentlelady yield to me? ms. slaughter: i'm sorry, my time is all taken. i'd be happy to answer if you'd been given more time. 30 seconds would do it. mr. dreier: i'd like to yield my friend from mesa an additional 30 seconds.

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Jeff Flake: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. flake: i thank the gentleman. i yield to the gentlelady. ms. slaughter: i thank the gentleman we appreciate your thoughtfulness, mr. flake, and e house but we don't have the capacity to change date for that report. otherwise we would have been happy to consider it.

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Jeff Flake: mr. flake: reclaiming my time. mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield, madam speaker? if my friend would yield, the majority has the ability to modify that date as they see

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David R. Obey: fit and it's a very easy procedure that can be done and i thank my friend for yielding. unless the date is changed, we are likely to get a report on the same day that we vote. more than 4,000 earmarks stuffed into an omnibus bill that we've had no ability to see. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: i yield on minute to the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: madam speaker, i

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Speech By: David R. Obey

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David R. Obey: would offer a proposition to the gentleman from mesa. he continuously raises the question of the nexus between earmarks and campaign contributions. i think there's a terrific way to eliminate that nexus. would he care to join me in co-sponsoring the legislation which i introduced in the first

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David R. Obey: day of the congress, to create 100% total public financing and to forbid a single private dollar from ing contributed to any member of the house's campaign? that's thank certainly would eliminate totally any potential nexus between campaign contributions and earmarks and allow the congress to use its

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David R. Obey: judgment legislatively without bringing into question the integrity of the political process. mr. flake: would the gentleman yield? mr. obey: sure. mr. flake: i see no reason to put the taxpayers on the hook to fund our campaigns. we shouldn't -- mr. obey: taking back my time. it's obvio guess, is more comfortable complaing about earmarks than

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doing something about campaign finance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.s(3 who yields time? the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, at this time i'm happy to yield a minute and a half to our new colleague from peoria, illinois, the home of caterpillar, mr. schock. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for, did you say 90 seconds? 90 seconds.

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Aaron Schock: mr. schock: i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 1. i rise in opposition as a member who submitted a bipartisan amendment to the rules committee. one of the over 200 that was submitted, one of the few that had bipartisan support, my good friend from the state of

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Speech By: Aaron Schock

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Aaron Schock: washington, simply would have required state governments to spell out who is getting the money, what it was intended to use. just shortly a few months ago we arded nearly ./house_proceeding_01-28-09_00.insert0 billion to financial institutions, 50 billion has been spent and many taxpayers in inside district and around the country are asking where it wt. and this simply would have

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Aaron Schock: required this money moving forward would clearly spell out who is getting it and for what purposes. i can tell you coming from the state of illinois where we have a governor on trial giving play to pay contract contributions i and many of my colleagues from my state are wondering where this money is going. second point, this bill flies in the face of the american

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Aaron Schock: public's wishes. frank lutz released a survey that over 80% of the american people wish for more spending on infrastructure. 00 billion in this bill, less than 8%, is going to go for infrastructure. a similar supermajority of americans oppose giving tax incentives, tax credits, tax cuts to people in this country

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Aaron Schock: who do not pay income x, yet this bill does just that. so we've heard a lot of talk

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David Scott: about bipartisanship. we had a great meeting yesterday with the president. his willingness to work with us, but bipartisanship is not you write the bill we vote for it. i urge a no vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott. the speaker pro mpore: the

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Speech By: David Scott

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David Scott: gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. scott: thank you very much, madam speaker. bipartisship is important. and we are reaching out for it. there's no president in history that has reached out and h done more to reach out than president barack obama. he's done so. we on our side, the amendments that you wanted, many of those were included by chairman obey, chairman rangel and the other

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David Scott: there were some objectionable items -- mr. dreier: madam speaker, i'd like to yield my friend and adigals -- an additional minute. mr. scott: thank you very much. i can certainly use it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. scott: this country is looking for us to provide the kind of leadership that is needed. they don't want us to hang

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David Scott: around the docks like little boats. they're looking for us to go way out where the big ships go. we must think big and bold. our economy is crumbling around us. now, let me speak for a moment about what we need in georgia. i don't know about your states, but georgia's economy is crumbling and is in need. we will get just more than billion in construction, and

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David Scott: these are ready-made construction projects. mr. dreier: will t gentleman yield? mr. scott: let me read what we have in the law. it says that these new starts and provide or the projects will be under construction and we will be able to award contracts at least within 120 days so that we are moving forward and making sure that

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David Scott: these jobs are created in the areas that are needed most. now, we don't have a choice in this. the wrong thing for us to do

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David Dreier: somebody to do nothing. we got to act big, we've got to act bold, and the american people are looking to us. we've got to move with confidence. mr. dreier: madam speaker, will the gentleman yield? mr. scott: i will yield. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for yielding. i concur with several points he made. his first point that president obama has reached out and

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Speech By: David Dreier

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David Dreier: worked in a bipartisan way, it is nearly unprecedented. very impressive that he came and met as the gentleman and i discussed yesterday privately right here in this capitolith republican members. second, the fact that you said we have in fact seen bipartisan ship from the other side. there were 94 amendments submitted by republicans. a grand total of 11 amendmented

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David Dreier: made in order. when you have so my democrats and so many republicans who have been cut out of the process, it's very unfortunate. the third point that the

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David Scott: gentleman makes which i think is a very valid one, we need to have a bold, strong package here rather than doing nothing. that's why i believe passionately that growth-oriented tax cuts, as have been stated by economists after economists are the wave of the future. i thank my friend for yielding. mr. scott: well, thacks cuts are good.

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Speech By: David Scott

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David Scott: they are not the only thing. every economist that we talked with that said it is spending because when you spend you're putting money directly into the economy. mr. dreier yield?

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David Dreier: mr. scott: and those jobs will yield back tax receipts as well. when you have tax cuts it's discretionary. a person can use it to save. they can use it to do whatever. but when you eject money directly into the economy, you are in fact stimulating that economy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. dreier: i'd like to yield myself 30 seconds and engage in

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Speech By: David Dreier

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David Dreier: a discussion with my colleague on this. madam speaker, let me say that economists after economists has pointed to the fact that if we focus on spending, which the gentleman has talked about, there is a lag time. in fact the nonpartisan congressional budget office analysis has indicated that spending will go as far as beyond the 10 years from now. and so the gentleman is absolutely right, madam

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David Dreier: speaker.

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Speech By: David Scott

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David Scott: stimulate the economy. and more than a few of these economists, including christina romert said that tax cuts are the way to provide that immediate stimulus. we have a limited time i already yielded my friend an additional minute. maybe ms. slaughter will yield you a minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. scott: may have 30 seconds to make this point, is it

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David Scott: possible? ms. slaughter: i can yield 30 seconds. mr. scott: wonderful. i'm glad you pointed that out. let me just illustrate to you, everything is different. every state is different. my state has over six billion shovel-ready projects ready to go. in one county alone in clayton

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David Scott: county, we have 43 million dollars ready to go. in cobb county, 0 million.

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David Dreier: in henry county, 2 billion. in douglas county, 1 billion. in fullton county, 2 million. these are shovel-ready projects r jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: let me yield myself 15 seconds. wead a great discussion about clayton county.

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Speech By: David Dreier

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David Dreier: i appreciate the fact that he has several shovel-ready projects. i still point out to the fact that the congressional budget office report says it will not happen as the gentleman from clayton county as i would like to at this point i'd like to yield, madam speaker, a minute and a half to our very g working -- hardworking friend,

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David Dreier: former chairman of small business, the gentleman from illinois. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Donald A. Manzullo: gentleman from illinois is recognized for five minutes. >> i rise in opposition to this rule. the problem today is nobody is talking about restarting manufacturing. that's what we need to do in order to reallstimulate the economy. we need to make sales. and the place to start is by offering a voucher so that if you buy a brand-new automobile

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Speech By: Donald A. Manzullo

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Donald A. Manzullo: you get a ,000 this is the way to jump-start the economy without continuing to spend trillions of dollars. in 207, 17 million new cars were sold. a year later only 10 million. that sucked 75 million out of the economy. if we can get back to selling 15 million new cars we can add

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Donald A. Manzullo: 25 billion to the economy. and if you multiply that times three or seven which is economic -- economic growth, easily over trillion. when cars and trucks start selling people go back to work. it refurbishes local and state tax funds, it restarts the

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Donald A. Manzullo: manufacturing, the supply chains. people instead of receiving unemployment compensation start paying federal and state income tax. this is so easy. get the people back to work to manufacturer the automobiles, have a ,000 voucher, th total cost is only 5 billion

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Adam B. Schiff: for 15 million new automobiles. this is what it takes. this is called trickle up economic. you aim the focus of the stimulus at the problem and that's lack of sales of automobiles and trucks in this country. the speaker pro gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i

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Speech By: Adam B. Schiff

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Adam B. Schiff: yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. schiff. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. schiff: i thank the chairman. i rise in support of the rule and the stimulus bill. in 2008, more than 2.6 million americans lost their jobs, the highest yearly job loss total since 1945. in my home state of california, the unemployment rate soared to

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Adam B. Schiff: 9.3% last month, its highest in 15 years. it's clear that congress must take aggressive action to stave off a long and deep recession. this legislation will help create jobs quickly, restore purchasing power and help those in need. with such a large stimulus under consideration, we also have an opportunity to build infrastructure that will provide long-term prosperity.

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Adam B. Schiff: while we have to place a premium on dispensing funds quickly, we must also make a large significant and lasting investment in our country's future. when this recession is far behind us, i hope we can look back and see that something positive came out of it. by investing in renewable energy we can achieve both short-term and long-term goals. we can fund many shovel-ready

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Adam B. Schiff: projects that will give the economic a quick boost, but we can also make an investment in

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John J. Jr.Duncan: america's future and create high-paying jobs and changing country. let's make sure we produce a foundation for the nation's and a lasting improvement in our standard of living. i yield back. the speaker pro tempor the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: thank you very much, madam speaker. at this time i'm happy to yield a minute to our very thoughtful

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Speech By: John J. Jr.Duncan

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John J. Jr.Duncan: and hardworking colleague, mr. duncan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessees recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: i thank the gentleman and i thank you, madam speaker. i rise in opposition to the bill and the rule that it brings to the floor. the bill has good things in it but we can't afford them. when a family falls deeply head over heels in debt, they can't increase spending.

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John J. Jr.Duncan: worse trouble. the majority voted to increase our national debt to an incomprehensible 1,315 billion in the last big bailout bill. now we're told we face trillion deficits for several years to come. we simply cannot afford this so-called stimulus package. all it is really a short-term fix for our addiction to spending.

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John J. Jr.Duncan: it's false to say if we don't pass this package we're voting to do nothing. we haven't given enough time to see what effect all the trillions of dollars of actions taken by the federal reserve and the treasury over the last few months have had and will have. most americans support more spending on our infrastructure. but this is less than 8% of this bill and highway spending is only 3%. we could do far more, madam

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John J. Jr.Duncan: speaker, for our economy at far less cost if we gi significant tax credits to anyone who will buy another home or buy o cars. the speaker pro tempor gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: may inquire how many speakers he has remaing? mr. dreier: we have a couple