House Proceeding 04-01-09 on Apr 1st, 2009 :: 5:46:45 to 6:06:37
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Speech By: Charles W. Dent

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Charles W. Dent: these businesses onto their children and to their grandchildren. this is an ill-advised budget. the income tax that we will see go up here, too, will also punish many small businesses because they're organized as subchapteresque companies, priorer toships, they will pay the bill. so let us think about this. this budget is ill-advised.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: it is not in the best interest of the american peoplement and strongly urge that it be rejected and at this time i my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. brady: madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time is reserved. the gentlewoman from new york voiced. mrs. maloney: may inquire on the time, please, on both sides of the aisle?

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: the chair: the gentlewoman has 5 1/2 minutes and the gentleman from texas has remaing. mrs. maloney: madam chair, this budget, the democratic budget, invests heavily in education. this budget embraces the president's goal of furthering investments in education for

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Carolyn B. Maloney: americans, from early childhood through post-secondary education and training. our budget provides a fiscally responsible plan to improve american education and train a workforce that is prepared to compete and succeed in the global economy. a highly educated and skilled

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Carolyn B. Maloney: workforce is critical to the overall success of our economy, the benefits to investing in education include higher earnings, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, decreased ne education and welfare services and better health. in 2008 the unemploent rate

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Carolyn B. Maloney: for workers with a bachelor's degree, 2.8%, while the unemployment rate for workers with a high school diploma was double at 5.7%. for workers less than a high school diploma, the unemployment rate was 9%. so if we want to attack unemployment, prepare our young people for the future, we should

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Kevin Brady: invest in education. that's what this budget does. i reserve my time and yield back to my colleague. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from texas is recognized.

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Speech By: Kevin Brady

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Louie Gohmert: mr. brady: at this time i'd like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from texas, a member of the small business committee himself, mr. gohmert. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. can i make a parli??entary inquiry? the chair: the gentleman may state his inquiry.

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Speech By: Louie Gohmert

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Louie Gohmert: mr. gohmert: we've been talking about the time, when i'd come in, i understood the gentlelady across the island had yielded 10 minutes of her time to mr. brady -- aisle had yielded 10 minutes of her time to mr. brady. was there a different understanding from the speaker?

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Louie Gohmert: the chair: the chair understood the gentlewoman from new york to be refreshing a block of time -- reserving a block of time. mr. gohmert: when she said i'm yielding 10 minutes to my friend fr texas, the speaker took that to mean i'm reserving my time? ok, thank you. the chair: allowing him to yield

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Louie Gohmert: for 10 minutes. mr. gohmert: could the speaker repeat that, please? the chair: the chair took it that the gentlewoman from new york was reservinger time and allowing the gentleman from texas his time. mr. gohmert: so when she said i

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Louie Gohmert: yield my friend from texas 10 minutes, that meant she was reserving her time. all right, thank you for the clarification. i did want to take up a couple of things that were mentioned. first of all, my friend across the aisle had indicated that her opponents had wanted to cut benefits to the middle class and

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Louie Gohmert: reward the wealthiest few and even held up a chart showing the kind of deficits that were run up in 2007 and 2008 and this is the same kind of mantra we've been hearing and actually heard that in 2005 and 2006 and the

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Louie Gohmert: fact is there was too much money being spent after president bush took office. when republicans had the white house, the house of representatives and the senate, too much money was being spent. and that's why before the democrats took office or took the majority, there was a $160 billion deficit that was run up.

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Louie Gohmert: it was too much money. it was too much deficit. and that's why the american public said, enough. we're going to put the democrats in charge. we don't want another $160 billion deficit and so what did we get in 2007 and 2008? we got the numbers that the jobs were following, we got a problem

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Louie Gohmert: economy and the runaway spending went wilder than ever and now just in two months, and i was objecting back then, i'm objecting louder nows because now they're going to increase -- now because now they're going to increase that 10 times. we spent nearly $800 billion on a spend louis bill in january

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Louie Gohmert: and february -- spend us will bill in january and february and -- spendulous billn january and february and no another $70 money. $1 trillion? that would pay for an entire year of every individual taxpayer getting back every dime they had. so when we hear that this party,

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Louie Gohmert: these people on this side of the aisle want to make benefits to the wealthiest, you can look at the bill i filed. it was for a tax holiday, to let those who are paying taxes get their money back. that's a solution. that gets the economy going. this cap and tax on energy, that is going to penalize the people

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Louie Gohmert: that are just struggling to pay their gasoline bills and then to hammer the deductions for charities and mortgages that, that ao hammers the people in the middle class trying to get by and it brings home the point that this majority is about the g.r.e., government running everything. the chao?ir: the gentleman's time has expired.

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Louie Gohmert: . mr. gohmert: i have a bill that i'm filing again that would have no increases, a level spending bill, no automatic increases and they're running that up like crazy. the federal government has been too busy trying to run everybody everybody's else's business,

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Louie Gohmert: telling the banks what to do. theyorget their job is to provide defense against enemies foreign and domestic.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: like madoff, the cheaters, we should have been after them. that should be the job of the government. not running everybody's business. i yield back. mr. brady: i reserve. the chair: the gentloman from new york is recognized. mrs. maloney: i yield myself such time as i may consume.

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: over the last eight years through fiscal reckless policies, prarb squandered the clinton-era surplus and left behind a legacy of debt and deficits. he made a number of records, but wrong kind of records. record deficit, record trade

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Carolyn B. Maloney: deficit, record debt. over the seven years from 2002 and 2008, those surpluses from the clinton years would accumulate. instead under president bush, the governnt ran seven straight years of budget

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Carolyn B. Maloney: deficits totaling $2.1 trillion. when president obama was inaugurated in january, he inherited from president bush an estimated deficit of $1.5 trillion, the worst budget deficit in history. and trillions more in deficits over the next 10 years. now, the democratic budget

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Carolyn B. Maloney: resolution begins the process of turning around the republican budget legacy of deep deficits, mounting debt and economic decline due to the administration's reckless fiscal policies. it takes steps to put the budget back on a fiscally sustainable

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Carolyn B. Maloney: path by restoring fiscal responsibility and substantially reducing the deficit. the president set a firm goal of cutting the budget deficit in half over four years. and this budget does just that. it takes a record1.5 trillion deficit that p e 111th congress inherited in

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Carolyn B. Maloney: 2009 and cuts the deficit from $1.7 trillion in 2009 to $586 trillion in 2013. and our budget makes strategic investments in health care, education, energy independence, areas critical to a strong economic future.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: for these and other key priorities, it includes deficit-neutral reserve funds that will accommodate legislation in these areas consistent with the paas-you-go principle. and our budget generates valuable savings by expanding oversight activities and large benefit programs, more

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Carolyn B. Maloney: aggressively pursuing fraud and increasing tax compliance and enforcement activities to ensure taxpayers' dollars are spent wisely. it is a balanced and fair budget that makes investments in

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Todd Russell Platts: critical areas. i reserve the balance of my as to how much time is remaing gentleman's. the chair: the gentlewoman has the gentleman from texas is recognized and has four minutes

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Speech By: Todd Russell Platts

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Todd Russell Platts: remaining. mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. i would like to yield 2 1/2 minutes to the distin gentleman from missouri, leader on armed services and engineer. he kwsis numbers, mr. akin. the chair: the gentleman from missouri is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. akin: people have said that

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Todd Russell Platts: america is becoming a socialized nation, just like the countries over in europe, we are a socialized nation, but that's not a fair thing to say, because withhis level of debt, the europeans would not accept us as part of the european union. i noticed we have spent more time blaming president bush than talking about the positive solution of the democrat budget,

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Todd Russell Platts: and that's not a good sign when we spend at midnight talking about how bad bush is, when we are supposed to be debating a democrat budget. i don't think the democrats are proud of this budget. and if i was a democrat, i wouldn't be proud of the budget either. while talking about president bush, i've got the numbers and

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Todd Russell Platts: do a direct comparison and see what the difference is here. we are only finishing up march. we have the second half of the wall street bailout, $350 billion. we burned through that economic stimulus, $787 billion. now if you were to add up the costs of the war in iraq and

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Todd Russell Platts: afghanistan, it would be less than this thing. and then you have the omnibus deal. hey, we are starting to spend some real money. look at a comparison if we want to talk about bush. we can blame the hurricane on him. it's bad when a president brings a hurricane in, but let's talk about what this annual budget deficit is. this is the annual average

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Todd Russell Platts: deficit under bush, $300 billion. we're not proud of that. but the current president's proposed budget, this is what they're proposing, has got him beat 2-1. here's the highest deficit. when the democrats were in the house under bush, $459 billion. but president obama, his

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Todd Russell Platts: projections $1.2 trillion, clear winner by 2-1. and then the increase in national debt, $2.5 trillion, again 2-1 en you look att, here's what it looks like. every one of these lines that goes down is a deficit. every one going up -- now does anybody see something disturbing in this pattern?

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Todd Russell Platts: we have heard the gentlelady from new york is bragging about the fact that given some time, this number here, the low number, is going to be cut in half. that doesn't give me satisfaction at all. if i look at that, i would say holy smokes, i'm moving to another country.

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Kevin Brady: the people in america are smoking funny cigarett what are in the world are they doing with this deficit? the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time.. the gentlewoman from new york.

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Speech By: Kevin Brady

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Kevin Brady: mrs. maloney: i reserve the balance of my time for a closing statement. mr. brady: i yield myself such time as i may consume. let me thank the gentlelady from new york, the chairman of the joint economic committee for not just the tone of tonight's debate but the tone of your leadership on joint economic committee. i truly enjoy serving with you.

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Kevin Brady: while we are sitting here, i got an e-mail from a constituent who asked, how do you make debt go away by spending 10 times as much? are they trying to sell america magic beans? sounds funny, but the truth of the matter is, this isn't funny times. america's finances are on the

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Kevin Brady: wrong track. we need to change that path now or we risk never seeing a balanced budget in our lifetime. we can't spend, tax and borrow our way back to prosperity. the republican alternatives i like, focus on small businesses.

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Kevin Brady: doesn't raise taxes. encourages private investment rather than bailout and whittling down this debt so we will see a balanced budget again. madam speaker, we are at a historic moment in america's history. we have a path of bigger debt and higher taxes and huge loads on our children or we can g

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Kevin Brady: the right path again. the republican alternative does that.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: we urge a no on this fiscally irresponsible budget. let's find a way to get back to the balanced budget. the first start is the republican alternative. and i would yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, the

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been tried and we are all living through the disastrous results. our budget is an important blueprint for getting our economy back on path that restores competence, produces growth and puts people back to work. we make critical investments in

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Carolyn B. Maloney: health care, clean energy and education that will create jobs and enhance our global competitiveness. we will also restore fiscal responsibility by cutting the deficit by nearly 2/3 by 2013. a budget is fundamentally about to strengthen the economy and

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Carolyn B. Maloney: help struggling families regain their footing. americans are optimistic by nature, and i'm optimistic that the investments we make now will pay off later and that together we will emerge from this current cris stronger and better prepared for the 21st century challenges that we face. madam speaker, my time has

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Carolyn B. Maloney: exred. i thank my colleague for his leadership. and i move that the committee now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion trise. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: the committee rises. the speaker pro tempore: madam chair. of the committee of the whole

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Carolyn B. Maloney: house on the state of the union reports that that committee has had under consideration

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h.con.res. 85 and has come to n resolution i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and ext and include extraneous material on h.r. 1256. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. daum mrs. dahlkemper: i move that the

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house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house communications. the clerk: theab speaker, house of representatives, madam, pursuant to section 841b of the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2008, public law 101

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hafe 181, i appoint christopher shays to the commission on wartime contracting. the previous appointee resigned on octer, 2008. mr. shays has expressed interest in serving in this capacity and i'm pleased to fulfill his request. signed john a. boehner, republican leader.

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the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: requested for mr. levin of michigan for today and for mrs. schmidt of ohio for today. the speaker pro tempore: without

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objection. the requests are granted. the the gentlewoman from pennsylvania. mrs. dahlkemper: i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those