House Proceeding 02-24-09 on Feb 24th, 2009 :: 0:11:00 to 0:31:00
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Speech By: Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: mr. speaker, tonight president obama will level with the american people about the $1.3 trillion deficit that he inherited from president bush.

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in the days ahead, we will work with president obama to make the hard choices n put us back on a f responsible path. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one

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minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. l during our work periodback in the district to be at seven of my county courthouses. what i did was i met one-on-one all morning and met until the afternoon and we got locked in the courthouses in the evening to talk to these people that we represent. and they're concerned.

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they're concerned about the spending that's been going on in this congress. i had one gentleman wait four hours, four hours to come up and to sit across from the desk from me for 30 seconds to say we're spending too much money in this country. they're worried about what's happening to their future, to their kids' future and their grandkids' future. you know, it's tough when you

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Peter A. DeFazio: pick up the paper and try to explain it to them and say, where is this money coming from that's being borrowed? and over the weekend when we saw the secretary of state over there in china with cup in hand saying, we need to keep buying our debt. the folks back home are concerned about their future and they want this congress to and that means we got to quit

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Speech By: Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: spending. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: to address the house r one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. defazio: well, we just heard from the republican side of the aisle that they're ready to make the tough fiscal choices. unfortunately, they're about

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Peter A. DeFazio: short with their newfound fiscal conservativism. remember, george bush inherited a surplus. wh was the answer to the surplus? tax cuts. then we 9/11. we had tax cuts. we had the misbegotten war on iraq. tax cuts. then we had the bank collapse

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Peter A. DeFazio: and the recession, growing into a depression. what was the answer of george bush, tax cuts.

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and what's the answer to the re tax cuts. for them to say they're for fiscal responsibility and honest budgeting after those eight years is laughable. the obama administration is going to give it to the american people straight tonight. they had a hash out of it and we're going to try and fix it but it's going to take some time.

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the speaker pro tempore: the for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: mr. speaker, someday in the future we may live in a land flowing with renewable green energy. windmills on every corner, cute little battery operated cars in every garage, but the path to blissful nirvana is long and we

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have just begun that journey. right now our primary fuel source for vehicles is crude oil, whether we like it or not. we get most of it from the middle east. we transfer billions of dollars of taxpayer money to countries that don't like us or respect us. countries that have ties to radical terrorists that want to kill us. the american people support clean offshore drilling. it's good for the country. we will keep our money in

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america instead of sending it overseas. offshore drilling creates high-paying jobs for americans. we reduce the risk of oil spills from tankers from the middle east and oil companies will send millions of dollars for our treasury for the right to lease offshore and it can be done cleanly and safely. but the new administration has blocked offshore drilling. with all the rhetoric about stimulating the economy, one

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Rush D. Holt: would think a real stimulus would be to drill off our shore and bring jobs and money to americans instead of going into debt with the illusive stimulus it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

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Speech By: Rush D. Holt

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Rush D. Holt: the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. holt: mr. speaker, i rise today to represent mike she he, the national security advisor for the speaker. mike shehee -- when the speaker first selected me on the committee of intelligence, mike was one of the first people i turned to. his deep experience on

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Rush D. Holt: intelligence matters as well as his knowledge of the house and its members have served the speaker and all of us well over the years. especially after the speaker asked me to chair the select intelligence oversight panel, i frequently sought his advice on a wide range of issues, and i found him to be always thoughtful and well informed. and, i might add, always calm.

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Rush D. Holt: he's a consummate professiol. as he leaves his professn here on capitol hill,

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others want to recognize him, thank him and wish him well. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. kirk: to revise the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kirk: mr. speaker, the house will vote on the $410 billion omnibus appropriation bill this week. the bill's text was finished weeks ago but kept secret from

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the american people. and now we know why. the legislation contains 9,000 earmarks to be approved ironically the same week as we had a fiscal responsibility summit. last night my staff and i stayed up to read this bill longer than the stimulus. we found no less than 12

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earmarks for clients of a lobbying firm that was raided by the f.b.i. three months ago. the leaders of paul magalechiti and associates will go to jail, but their earmarks are in this legislation. totaling over $8 million of the taxpayers' money. all approved by the leaders of

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this house. this is irresponsible spending by a criminal enterprise to the detriment of this congress. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? >> to address the house for o minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. sutton: mr. speaker,

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president obama inherited a scal mess created by eight years of republican economic and fiscal policies. tonight our new president will begin the slow process of restoring fiscal discipline to washington. he will do that first by leveling with the american people about the true costs of the budget he'll release on thursday.

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second, he will reinstitute the pay-as-you-go guidelines similar to those that have been in place here in the democratic house now for the last two years. the principal of pay-as-you-go played an instrumental role of the surplus the 1990 's. unfortunately they were rejected by the bush administration and helped lead to the record deficit our country must now address.

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third, president obama's expected to propose mandatory congressional reco -- across-the-board spending cuts to offset any new initiative that expands the red ink. these reforms will help cut the budget next five years which is not bad considering what we inherited from our republican friends. i yield back.

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the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: witho objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, welcome to the ally in wonderland world of congressional budgeting. a place where congress calls for fiscal responsibility but then spends bond, well beyond our

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means even as the budget deficit grows to over $1.4 trillion. we are all too familiar with the litany of the spending. it's already occurred this session. 3d50 billion for the tarp bailout. $787 billion for the pork-filled imulus bill. and this week, right after the so-called fiscal responsibility summit, congressional leaders

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will bring up a giant omnibus spending bill that will spend another $410 billion, an 8% increase over funding for last year and has over 9,000 earmarks. my constituents aren't seeing an 8% increase in their paychecks. the brookings institute, the nonpartisan brookings institution, also cited recently, i quote, these are not

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Russ Carnahan: just deficits as far as the eye can see, but they are trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. we are making sacrifices every day. congress should continue to do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expir for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Speech By: Russ Carnahan

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Russ Carnahan: mr. corporation has a proud history of producing cars, trucks, and fans in the plant. the workers there help chrysler survived its darkest hours in the 1980's. and helped thrive during the 1990 's and 2000. the u.s. government has september stepped in to help our american auto makers survive and protect american jobs. i was truly disappointed to read

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Russ Carnahan: in the "st. louis post dispatch" that the plant may be at risk under chrysler's viability plan. by almost every measure the fenton, missouri plant has the key ingredients to be part of the survival and success of chrysler. the work force at the plant is among the most productive in the industry and the plant itself has had a half a billion dollars

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Russ Carnahan: invested in it from flexible manufacturing, giving it the ability to build the cars of the future today. the manufacturing technology reduces the carbon footprint and provides long-term savings and energy use.

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Charles W. Jr.Boustany: this state-of-the-art plant and record setting workers are the example of what can help the industry and and thrive in the fuhr. i yie back. -- future. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does t from louisiana rise? oofer a unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without mr. boustany: mr. speaker, tonight president obama is

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Speech By: Charles W. Jr.Boustany

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Charles W. Jr.Boustany: expected to unveil some of his health care reforms. and i hope to work with the president to lower costs for american families and make health care more accessible without dramatically raising taxes. some of my democratic colleagues advocate for government-run universal health coverage. but coverage alone does not guarantee access. too many rural communities

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Charles W. Jr.Boustany: currently lack doctors. and medicare payment cuts and frivolous lawsuits have driven providers out of business in underserved communities. health care reform should be be based on three basic principles -- informaon, choice, and control. information that provides real

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information to patients and doctors. choice that allows freedom of choice to choose a doctor and develop a doctor-patient relationship. and control which creates real portability fofamilies. working together can achieve real results and make health care much more affordable and we all agree that our will make america more

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Donald M. Payne: competitive and give families peace of mind. and that's why we need to work together to put theoctor and patient back in control. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey mr. pane: -- mr. payne: unanimous consent to

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Speech By: Donald M. Payne

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Donald M. Payne: revise and extend. address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. payne: mr. speaker, over the last eight years the bush administration turned our budget situation from rosy to grim. president bush and the republican congress pushed their economic policies as they -- as an answer to the prolonged

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Donald M. Payne: growth that never came. they let budget rulesapse and enacted expensive tax cuts the wealthiest few with no offsets. now it turns out instead of sparring long-term growth these trickle-down policies have cost our nation dearly. our economy nationwide and my

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Donald M. Payne: home state of new jersey is in worse shape than ever. as a result of theconomic

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deterioration that occurred under president bush's policy to projected deficit for fiscal year 2009 has reached an unprecedented $1.2 trillion. this deficit did not arise overnight. and out of the blue. president bush inherited a healthy $5.6 trillion surplus.

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so, mr. speaker, we need to bring our country back to fiscal responsibility. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> mr. chairman, i request unanimous consent to address the the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cassidy: two weeks ago this

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body sent -- >> two weeks ago this program spent $1 stimulate the economy to help us get out of this financial cris. consumer confidence rem and fear the future remains as evidenced by the lest dow since 1997. last week i held two town hall meetings in my district in northwest northwest louisiana.

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in both meetings the feelings were the same. people are scared and they are angry. they are looking for us for solutions, instead we give them wasteful spending. now we hear a plan to finance this with taxes on the back of small businesses and on taxpayers themselves.

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to help this economy we must allow business to expedite depreciation schedules, eliminate capital gains taxes, and reduce payroll deductions. as we move to consider the half trillion dollar omnibus, i urge my colleagues to act fiscally responsible and in a bipartisan the speaker pro tempore: the

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Joe Baca: gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. baca: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro temp objection. mr. baca: i rise today to urge my colleagues, our leadership, speaker pelosi, president obama to work with c.h.c. on comprehensive immigration reform. two weeks ago this body passed a significant bill

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Speech By: Joe Baca

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Joe Baca: that will help our devastated economy. we cannot forget other grasping wounds are broken immigration system. we are making a big mistake if

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Eliot L. Engel: we continue million to 14 million undocumented immigrants who are part of this commifment this is not something we should sweep under the rug with more unrealistic enforcement, only fixes to the immigration system, enforcement only approaches, makes the situation worse by generating an underground economy and encouraging a demand for undocumented workers.

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Speech By: Eliot L. Engel

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Eliot L. Engel: i urge my colleagues not to let politics cloud a real solution. the only answer is comprehensive immigr i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks.

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Eliot L. Engel: the speaker pro tempore: without mr. engel: tonight when president obama speaks to a joint session of congress, i will be on the aisle to greet him as i have for the past 20 years. it's always my honor and privilege to shake the hand of a president of the united states. it's really electrifying. i think tonight, mr. speaker,

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Eliot L. Engel: the anticipation is even more electrifying than usual. our new president who has done such a wonderful job in bringing us hope is going to come tonight to speak with the congress and tell us his plans. i hope and i know that under his administration we will fix

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health care and have it universal for everyone. we know and under his administration we will look at our energy policy and wean ourself off of foreign oil so america can truly be energy independent. we need to get our fiscal house in order and the president's going to address that as well. so as we anticipate his speech,

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mr. speaker, i want to say to the president othe united states that i am willing and want to work with him hand in hand. hope we can do it in a bipartisan basis. i look forward to his words tonight. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? mr. kagen: to address the house for one minute. revise the speaker pro tempore: the

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Steven Kagen: gentleman is recognized. mr. kagen: mr. speaker, we are going to be listening this evening to president obama, and one of his featured subjects will be health care. we don't need in the united states is socialized medicine. we don't need more government control of our personal lives. what we do need is access t affordable hea everyone. and to guarantee access to

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Speech By: Steven Kagen

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Steven Kagen: affordable care for every citizen, we need to enact the essential elements of health care which are first that there against any citizen due to any pre-existing condition. second, there should be open disclosure of all prices so we know the price of a pill before we swallow it. third, we need to secure the same discounts for all citizens

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Steven Kagen: so we all pay the same price for the same service or product. we can also create the larst risk pool as possible to leverage down price force all of us.

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Corrine Brown: imagine this, we are only one law away from guaranteeing access to affordable care for everyone. everywhere in these united states. i yield back my time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? miss brown: to revise and ex the speaker pro tempore: the gentleladys recognized. ms. brown: earlier this month

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Speech By: Corrine Brown

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Corrine Brown: house republicans refused to a person to support the economic course that president obama economic recovery plan offered. the republican proposal is made up almost entirely of tax cuts

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Jesse L. Jr.Jackson: for the wealthy versus all the job creation investment that was necessary to transform our economy for the future. their alternative plan had no funds for american infrastructure needs, no investment in energy efishen, and no protection for health care norks money for police officers and teachers, and no food assistance for struggling families. and offered no chance for

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Speech By: Jesse L. Jr.Jackson

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Jesse L. Jr.Jackson: america to come out of this recession stronger and more able to compete economically. mr. speaker, when the house republicans is going to realize you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? ms. jackson lee: to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker.

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Jesse L. Jr.Jackson: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. . ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. what an exciting and wonder flee forward -- wonderfully forward day we will have today, when we will be addressed by the commander in chief regarding the state of the

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Jesse L. Jr.Jackson: nation. and all i can think about as we planted the seeds of the economic stimulus package, a plan that should help no matter who you are and where you are in the nooks and crannies of this nation how this commander in chief will tell us of the prosperity ahead, of the brighter days ahead. i look forward to that kind of leadership. for when you're in troubling times you plant the seeds to

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Jesse L. Jr.Jackson: make it better. and our instruction to america

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is no area should be left out. the rule -- the rural areas should not be left out. the urban areas should not be left out. we're going to call them to be able to be held accountable because this money is not fog their own peonal piggy bank. let me also say, mr. speaker,