House Proceeding 03-18-09 on Mar 18th, 2009 :: 0:34:15 to 0:40:45
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Mark E. Souder: ready to meet that responsibility again to the greater good and to our shared community and i urge my colleagues to vote y the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. platts: i yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished ranki the homeland security subcommittee on border and port security, mr. sadr from

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Speech By: Mark E. Souder

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Mark E. Souder: indiana. -- mr. souder from indiana. mr. souder: i thank my friend from pennsylvania and chairman miller. i have some concerns about this bill and one of the challenges as a conservative republican in a congress dominated by democrats in the house and senate and the president is it's likely to be that for most

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Mark E. Souder: bills, i'm likely to have some corns. we lost the election, we're not writing the bills, therefore we're likely to have some concerns. when the republicans last wrote this bill, for example, we had a clause in restricting sex education money usage. it's not likely to be a use of this bill, but as a conservative, i sometimes have

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Mark E. Souder: justifiable paranoia about how liberals may use the money. at the same time, we're not the majority we don't get to write every clause in it it's not necessarily a likely u. i also have concerns about the amount of money the federal government is spending. there are going to be bills in this cycle that many supported

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Mark E. Souder: in the past may haveres.er visions -- reservations. we have run up in the first five months more than than in the previous administration. the question is, how are we going to fund the treasury bills? are interest rates going to go up and drive out the private market? how is a district like mine going to recover? i have deep concerns. i understand this is an

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Mark E. Souder: authorizing bill, not an appropriations bill. authoriz the cap. that lds, however, a lot of pressure internally of, like we signed no child left behind, oh, we're only finding x amount of a bill. that was a cap, not a guarantee the funding was going to go through. when we go through authorizing bill, does this push the

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Mark E. Souder: spending or not? authorizing bills fundamentally guide the programs. if we as republicans say we're never going to participate because we're in the not in the majority and these are authorizing bills that guide the guidelines are we going to give up the actual spending and not participating in the authorizing process? there are fundamental

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Mark E. Souder: differences inside any kind of coalition of people on what the role of government should be. if you're a pure libertarian, it's unlikely you like any of these programs. volunteers are volunteers, government employees are government employees. but if you have, as i have in the past, supported these different programs, some more than others, but basically believe that everything from the seniors, different programs

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Mark E. Souder: to domestic volunteer groups are on the whole a benefit to the commun shape that as best we can and to participate, i think, is helpful. in this particular bill, i want to thank the cha particular amendments we've worked with with congressman grijalva, who heads the national parks committee in the

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Mark E. Souder: resources committee and congressman rush holt, who's been a big supporter of the national parks and i, along with the co-chair of the national parks caucus, we have worked from the leave no child inside bill and this bill to try to include parks and working with others to not only include the national park bus

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Mark E. Souder: other types of parks, particularly mr. sar bane of maryland in the previous bill, but inside the energy corps this will allow volunteers to work with our national park serve to help address backlog and maintenance issues that whenever, particularly when you look at the type of economy we have right now and we're coming up on the 100th birthday of the

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Mark E. Souder: national parks service, during the great depression, frankly, was one of the greatest moves toward american park-itechure. what we think of as a national parkame from many summer jobs program. this is not the same, it's a blended program, it's important that as we see whatever types of legislation goes through,

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Mark E. Souder: even if i as a republican have some concerns about the scope of government and the cost, i still feel that it's important that we participate in that and one of the best uses of this is the national park service, which everybody benefits from an it's an opportunity address some backlog issue there is. there's a second part a program developed, serve america, and i

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Mark E. Souder: want to thank in this case, not only chairman miller and swhe chairman platts and -- sorry, ranking member platts and ranking member mckeon but senator hatch in working with a clause and refing it from the first bill where we had a larger percentage, but it says that 1/3 of the serve america

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Mark E. Souder: grants can go to small institutions. as somebody who has been passionate, that believes that many of these programs come from, which are very small, don't have good grant writers, often don't have the ability to get as much match, particularly when you get into urban cenrs or rural areas, particularly when you get into a lot of the african american and hispanic

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Mark E. Souder: church groups or volunteer groups, they aren't the big, theyren't united way. so how can they partake of this? this says up to 1/306 this can be used for organizations with 10 full-ti and up to 10 part-time or 20 total employees and then they get up to 1/3 of

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Mark E. Souder: the serve america program and they only have to have a smaller match of roughly $1,000. this will enable lots of these small neighborhood groups to be eligible. senator hatch correctly pointed out, he and his staff, that maybe there won't be enough of these small groups. it doesn't guarantee a third of this, but it ezz says up to a

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Mark E. Souder: third can be used this way. i think it's a diversify case of the program that is a valuableddition and will enable a lot of people to use this. i think this is basically a good bill, it's a bill we worked together cooperatively, i appreciate the opportunity to do that 9/11 a congress marked by partisanship, it's a way to show the american people that

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Mark E. Souder: in fact we do work together on