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Barney Frank: the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. the gentleman from msachusetts has claimed and yielded back the balance of his time. mr. diaz-balart: i now would like to yield as much time as would use to the the gentleman

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Vernon Buchanan: they are now finding their homes inunhabitable. john left his home and he is forc to not only pay the mortgage and rent on his new place and this is happening on a lot of people in my area in southwest florida. i wrote the u.s. trade representative and the federal trade commission asking them to take the appropriate steps to confront this problem.

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Vernon Buchanan: i'm concerned about the health effects and the effects of the chinese drwall for the health effects in our region. pregnant women have been advised to move out of their home. i'm grateful for the gentleman bringing this amendment forward. i look forward to working with

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Robert Wexler: i rise in strong support of this amendment, because my constituents in florida and citizens throughout our nation are facing a real and a growing emergency from dangerous and harmful dry wall imported from china. the level of threats to the health and homes of our citizens is akin to a natural disaster.

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Robert Wexler: i thank mr. diaz-balart for his leadership on this crucial issue. the effected dry wall produces gases that could road copper and electrical wiring and are likely to be responsible for chronic health problems for the occupants of the homes. this is an acute and growing cris, with an estimated 35,000

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Robert Wexler: physicians to move out of their homes. and children have been waking up regularly to bloody noses and sign us infections. it is in this vein that i along with mr. diabalart under his leadership have introduced h.r. 1977, the dry wall safety act of 2009, which would require the consumer products safety

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Robert Wexler: results may not be known for months, especially considering the problem is expected to grow during the hot and humid summer months. we are therefore urging the e.p.a. and c.d.c. to exhaust all possible resources to expedite dry wall testing. we have requested critical emergency funding that would allow relevant agencies to

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Mario Diaz-Balart: wall awell as provide public information resources to alert those impacted by the risks they may be facing. i want to applaud the efforts of governor charlie crist and the florida department of health for their leadership. this is a complex and growing problem and do extent. i thank mr. diaz-balart. the chair: the gentleman's time

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Mario Diaz-Balart: has expired. mr. frank: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from massachusetts yields back. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i do wanto thank the chairman of the committee, mr. frank and mr. wexler for his leadership. this is a critical issue not only for florida, but for thousands and thousands of other homeowners. and with that, i urge a yes vote.

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Mario Diaz-Balart: gentleman from new york rise? mr. weiner: i offer an amendment. the chair: the clerk will

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Anthony D. Weiner: amendment number 14 printed in mr. wiener from new york. title 8, freddie mac -- mr. weiner: requestions unanimous consent that the modification be considered as read. the chair: without objection. is there an objection to the modification?

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Anthony D. Weiner: >> no objection, -- the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. neugebauer: we don't object, but we would like the gentleman to clarify what his amendment does. the chair: without objection, the amendment is modified. the gentleman from new york. mr. weiner: i thank you, mr. chairman. i want to begin by offering my gratitude to the chairman of the

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Anthony D. Weiner: we are trying to strike the balance. one of the challenges we have, we have a large number of condos that are in now starting to find buyers, people areaying, you know what, the prices have come down and ak purchases. at the same time the standards have been raised boy fannie and

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Anthony D. Weiner: long. they leave with their deposits in hand and frankly we get into the cycle where these units remain on the market. we need to clear out the stock and we want to give credit where it's due. what my amendment does, it says, looking at the guidelines and looking at our desires not to have unnecessary risk taken, if you want a change based on

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Anthony D. Weiner: amendment. but we want nem to be lexible to say that if you have communities like new york, where they want to buy condos, to make

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Anthony D. Weiner: recognized for five minutes. mr. neugebauer: in his u.c., he was trying to fix the pay-go issue. could you explain how your unanimous consent request addressed that pay-go issue. mr. weiner: i will do the best i can, but it was a fairly obscure thing and i was commenting earlier, we have outsourced our authority, but they apparently were concerned that language in my bill would have required them

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Anthony D. Weiner: to make loans or make certain changes in regulations. what we did is we dialed down some of the language and we said take actions that are appropriate to revise schedules and we also made it -- we made changes to make it clear, we weren't requiring any specific action that might trigger a budget implication.

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Barney Frank: told us this new la doesn't trigger pay-go. and i didn't want the thought that it might happen or drag down the whole bill so we made the changes they have recommended. mr. frank: this doesn't involve the pay-go issue and this is not

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mandating, but encouraging and that's solving the problem. mr. neugebauer: instead of being mandatory, it's discretionary? mr. frank: that's correct. mr. weiner: i yield back. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york as modified. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of

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hensarling of texas. amendment number 7 by mr. price of georgia. amendment number 9 by mr. mchenry of north carolina. minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in