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our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: today we bless you and praise you, lord, for friends. friendship is a gift, lord, freely given by one person to another, not merited, not purchased, never manipulated, never demanded.

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Daniel Coughlin: friendship is uncovered in mutual self-revelation and common exchange. found in another's companionship and tested in time, friendship spontaneously grows from within. friends truly know who we are.

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Speech By: Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: friends stand with each other in good times and in bad times. true friends tell the truth without ever hurting. they steer friends away from what is wrong and seek only what is good for their friends. lord, strengthen members of

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Daniel Coughlin: congress with friends who approve faithful no matter what transpires. give them friends who will support them when they're right in spite of pressure from others and who will correct them when they are wrong no matter who agrees with them. a friend may not change your

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Daniel Coughlin: taste, your reading or your opinion, but a true friend will change what you long for and what you love. as different as they are from each other, true friends will accept each other as they are and

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Daniel Coughlin: until they simply enjoy being together. lord, for lasting friends of the past, those we hold in

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Earl Blumenauer: friendship now and those we are yet to meet, we thank you both now and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved.

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Speech By: Earl Blumenauer

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Earl Blumenauer: the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from north carolina, congresswoman foxx. ms. foxx: please join me ithe pledge to our wonderful flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america anto the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty

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and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed to s.con.res. 10, congratulating the sailors of the united states submarine force upon the completion of 1,000 ohio class

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Lois Capps: ballistic missile submarine deterrent patrols in which the concurrence of the house has requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests of 15 -- 15 requests for one-minute speeches on each si of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend

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Speech By: Lois Capps

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Lois Capps: my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the lady is recognized. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i rise today to speak to the need for raising awareness about deep vein thromboses. two million americans are affected by d.v.t. every year. you know, that's more than

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Lois Capps: breast cancer and aids combined. however, many americans are not aware of what d.v.t. is to recognize it, signs and symptoms. we may see people wearing pressure stockings after surgery. the tragic loss of our former colleague, congresswoman jennifer dunn, to d.v.t., shows

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Lois Capps: how close to home this disease to all of us. not only is it killing too many americans every year, it's also taking a toll on our nation's hospital syste, costing $860 million annually, and that is why i'm so proud to join with my colleague, representative kathy mcmorris rodgers, in

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Lois Capps: introducing a retion in recognizind.v.t. awareness month and national d.v.t. screening day.

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Virginia Foxx: i hope we can count on all of our colleagues to join us in supporting this resolution and in raising awareness about this disease. and the speaker pro tempore: the lady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: i ask permission to address the house for one minute.

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Speech By: Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: the speaker pro tempore: so ordered. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i returned to washington yesterday from my weekly visit home and had the privilege of spending time with many of my constituents. they asked i carry back a message to washington, stop the spending bin g. right now americans across the country are hurting. many have lost jobs and many are worried they'll be next.

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Virginia Foxx: small businesses are cutting the american people are makesing the sacrifices necessary to weather this storm and yet they hear on their local news that it's business as usual in washington. it's more spending and mo taxes from the democrat congress and from president obama who promised a new direction. the people in my district know we can't borrow and spend our way back to a healthy economy. let's follow the example set by the american people.

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Virginia Foxx: let's make the tough choices that are necessa to get our economy back on track. let's star restraint and the american people first. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Virginia Foxx: mr. walz: thank yo speaker. i'm proud to rise today to know that this congress has started tackling the issue of care remple in a real meaning -- reform in a real meaningful

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way. we've passed legislation that will have health insurance to millions of uninsured children, bring health care into the 21st century with new health information technology and providing high-quality care at a lower cost. my home state of mb has been a leader in this. in my district, the mayo clinic, in particular, is a renowned medical institution

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that's been at the fore front to improve health care. they helped pioneer the use of electronic medical records. it reduces the time patients spend in waiting rooms filling out rooms and they allow a doctor to access the record in minutes. it saves our entire system billions of dollars. in addition to leading the way

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on medical technology, mayo has been a leader in providing high-quality care. as we move forward on health care reform we need to acknowledge our current system rewards quantity over quality. we can look to mayo for its ability to produce the highest quality outcomes at the lowest possible costs. i'm proud to represent this

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Cathy McMorris: district and i think we can reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from washington rise? mrs. mcmorris rodgers: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: i'm

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Speech By: Cathy McMorris

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Cathy McMorris: proud to recognize a person state of washington, jennifer dunn. she died in 2007. and today my colleague and i, congresswoman lois capps, are introducing a resolution marking the second tuesday in march as the national d.v.t. screening day. it's appropriate we do so because it is these -- it's the

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Cathy McMorris: deep vein thromboses that's killing two million people today. it's preventable. it's time to make screening a health proor the and urge health care providers to be aware of this silent killer.

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Joe Baca: jennifer had a commitment to families around the world. let us rember her and others as we recognize the risk and treatment for d.v.t. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. baca: last month the

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Speech By: Joe Baca

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Joe Baca: department of homeland security reported that over 100,000 parents -- i state, 100,000 parents of u.s.-born children were deported between 1998 and 2007. the homeland security inspector even stated that these figures were incomplete because the agency does not keep track of how many children each parent has. this past saturday i hosted an

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Joe Baca: event in my district for families to to come and share their stories of how they've been impacted by the broken immigration system. the audience had to hold back their tears, hold back their tears as they heard the stories of how families like the serrano family from bloomington, california, who have been separated from their parents.

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Joe Baca: like children like the serro families are real victims, i state, real victims of the outdated immigration system that separates families. and speaker pelosi said this morning in a meeting with the latino leaders, we must immediately end raids and not

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John Fleming: separate families. i urge my house and colleagues on the senate and psident obama to work with c.h.c. for comprehensive immigration. i yield back the balance of my the speaker pro tempore: the for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? mr. flemg: mr. speaker, request unanimous co addr minute.

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Speech By: John Fleming

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John Fleming: the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. fleming: thank you, mr. speaker. the interior department is going forward with the oil and gas production lease sale in the central gulf of mexico. i welcome the interior secretary to my home state of louisiana this march. while visiting our great state, i would like to remind secretary salazar that although it is a positive gesture to

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John Fleming: move forward with this lease sale, the benefit of these leases will greatly be diminished under tax hikes. that is, removal of exploratory incentives that's included in this administration's budget proposal. this $30 billion tax increase could devastate an industry that directly and indirectly

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John Fleming: employs over 300,000 louisianans. this tax increase will wreak havoc on small, independent producers and third-party services. it will continue to perpetuate the cycle of high fuel prices and our addiction to foreign sources of energy who want to see our democracy fail. in short, this proposed budget

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John Fleming: does nothing to solve our energy needs. if anything, it will lead to

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Stephen Cohen: more cost and massive job loss for many americans, escially in louisiana, who are suffering in this economic recession. and i yield back. ntleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr.

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: speaker. we've had a change in american. we've gone from a previous president who for eight years didn't believe in regulation and believed in tax cuts, which led us to the greatest economi cris that we face in this country in 76 years to a president who believes in regulation and who believes in stimulating the economy. there are two ways you can help get the economy moving. one is monetary policy and the other is fiscal.

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Stephen Cohen: right now the only way we can do is fiscal because monetary has gone down to about zero. we've done all we can do with monetary. so the stimulus package, the recovery r what america needs. some may submiwe have not done enough. but the fact is we can only get three republican votes in the senate and one vote more than we needed to pass the bill in

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Joseph R. Pitts: the senate so you get what you can get in the senate. i support the president because he has a policy and program that will get us out of recession and move america forward of being the great national and international leader we need to be in the 21st century and we can only do that with suppo president with a stimulus package. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pr gentleman's time has expired.

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: for what purpose does the gentleman fromennsylvania rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. pitts: there's an effort under way in washington to take away the secret ballot vote from american workers. colleagues on the other side of the aisle will introduce today a bill misnamed employee free choice act, also called card

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Joseph R. Pitts: check bill. this is a bill that would allow for the establishment of a union not by secret ballot vote but simply if a majority of employees in a company sign a card lending their support. this process called card check opens employees up to coercion and intimidation. but the secret ballot is a fundamental principle of american democracy. if individuals want to join a union they're certainly entitled to that right and they

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Joseph R. Pitts: can show their support with that vote. but if workers don't want to pay union dollars to be used to advance a political agenda, they disagree with, they should also be afforded the same right to cast their vote free of coercion and intimidation in a secret ballot election.

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John Yarmuth: card check is an assault on the principles of our nation and would be a job killer during a time when we cannot afford to lose more jobs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlema mr. permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the

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Speech By: John Yarmuth

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John Yarmuth: gentleman is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i rise today to applaud president obama's execut the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. i join scientists across the country, especially researchers at the university of about the opportunities that expanded research presents. but as we all know, there's another dimension to this issue and it involves moral questions about the use of discarded

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John Yarmuth: embryos for scientific purposes. i fully respect the views of those who raise moral objectives to embryonic stem cell research. their convictions are just as valid and unasailable about stem cell research. on the other side, however, are equally valid and to my mind moral arguments that support

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John Yarmuth: president obama's decision this week. they are analogous to the arguments made in support of organ donation and transplantation. here, human material, that has the potential to save life, is not being squandered. like those who raise moral objections to stem cell

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Dennis R. Rehberg: research, i would have problems with the production of embryos for scientific purposes. but to me the destruction of embryos that can be used to advance science and the service of life raises similar moral problems. i congratulate president obama on his action. the speaker pro tempore: the ge .

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Speech By: Dennis R. Rehberg

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Dennis R. Rehberg: mr. rehberg: whether it's the self-reflective vietnam war memorial an the too many in the arlington national cemeteryary. the freedoms we enjoy was paid for by the men and women in uniform. there is another price they must pay which we can now alleviate. i have introduced the veterans pass act which will provide veterans an annual national

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Dennis R. Rehberg: a sharp discount of $10 down from the normal cost of $80. i encourage my colleagues to join me in co-sponsoring this legislation. the majestic beauty of our nation's national parks are just as fitting a monument to the

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Donna Edwards: sacrifices of our soldiers as is a monument made of marble. we should make visiting these living monuments easier for our veterans. please join me in the veterans pass act. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from maryland rise? ms. edwards: wish to house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Speech By: Donna Edwards

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Donna Edwards: objection. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. edwards: health care reform is an essential component to our nation's economic recovery. the expansion and re-authorization of the state children's health insurance program that was passed by this congress and signed into law by president obama expands health insurance to an additional four million children covering 11 million children in all. including dental coverage and

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Donna Edwards: mental health parity. $20 billion investment that we have made in health information technology in our recovery and reinvestment act will modernize health care -- the health care system, saving monny, reducing medical errors, improving quality, and creating health care jobs aoss all the recovery package is $87

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Donna Edwards: billion in funding to the state medicaid programs is a significant boost to our state's economy in maryland. it's a budget gap filler for our state. and finally, the president's budget with an over $630 billion down paymentrioritizes health care reform at long last for nearly 50 million people without

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Donna Edwards: health care will finally get health care for all. quality, affordable, accessible health care for all.

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Steve King: i thank the president and congress for their leadership on health care. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. kirk: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: w objection. mr. kirk:00 than you. -- mr. kirk: thank you. the stock market has rendered a bipartisan verdict on the policies of this congress. from the year-end to the inauguration it fell 5%.

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Speech By: Steve King

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Steve King: from secretary geithner's speech to the budget, it fell 12%. from the budget to today it fell another 11%. we are now suffering from the fastest market decline ever. faster than even under presidents hoover or roosevelt. the market has fallen in part because it's learned more about

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Steve King: this congress, record borrowing, rigged union elections, 9,000 earmarks, and nationalizing health care. i think it's time to look at new policies to help stocks like suspending the marker mark to market rule that triggers bank runs and restarting the uptick rule to undercut the short sellers.

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Steve King: today i'll introduce the stock market recovery act with these two key reforms. we are digging an economic hole

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Charlie Wilson: and it's time and these reforms will help. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> mr. speaker, i request one minute to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. today to introduce give our teachers a head start act. a bush administration which

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Speech By: Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: makes strong investment in today's head start teachers and teachers aides. in this challenging economy, head start programs around the nation are feeling the consequences. when budget shortfalls hit this program, it's with the children who suffer. many teachers and attempt to fill the gap and make

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Charlie Wilson: personal financial provide their students with classroom supplies. the average head start teacher with a b.a. degree earns almost half of the average kindergarten teacher. but is excluded from the current law permitting k through teachers an income tax deduction. this legislation will permit head start teachers and

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Charlie Wilson: tetchers' aides the ability to subtract from their gross income up to $250 in expenses that would be associated with the purchase of classroom supplies. when funding falls short and teachers sacrifice to fill the gap t. seems own fair they

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Joe Wilson: should at least get a tax deduction. i urge my colleagues to this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempor objectio the gentleman is recognized. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, it appears the latest definition of fiscal responsibility in

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Speech By: Joe Wilson