House Proceeding on Jun 11th, 2008 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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John Lewis: the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain,

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Speech By: John Lewis

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John Lewis: reverend john i. capples jr., jesus name, apostolic church, illinois. the chaplain: our father, we thank you for the blessings and the prosperity of our country. you have told us as parents

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John Lewis: tell their children to make wise choices. however, when you don't know what to do, seek guidance. your words say, if my people will humble themselves and seek my face and turn from their wicked

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John Lewis: ways that you would heal their land, teach us to value -- the value of unity because a house divided cannot stand. teach us the value of oneness, father, son and holy spirit, these three

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John Lewis: are one. teach us that the well-being of the country as a whole is more important than any portion alone. you have told us that when the righteous are in control the people rejoice. we invoke

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John Lewis: you to guide our leaders as you did king solomon. give them the wisdom to govern so great a people and so great a nation. these things we ask in jesus' name. amen. the speaker: thank you,

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John Lewis: reverend. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from south carolina, mr. barrett. mr. barrett: will you please join me in the pledge? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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Nancy Pelosi: united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last

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Nancy Pelosi: day's proceedings compem -- and announces to the house her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. without objection, the gentleman from illinois, mr. kirk, is

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Mark Foley: recognized for one minute. mr. kirk: thank you, madam speaker. i am very honored to welcome pastor john i. caples to open the house today. i first really got to know pastor caples after the

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Speech By: Mark Foley

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Mark Foley: murder of a 16-year-old. it was pastor caples that brought together the families of the murdered with the families of the murderers that ended a cycle of violence in my community. he helped restart

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Mark Foley: an athletic program. with assistance from the wider community, built a basketball court in just eight weeks to relieve some of the tensions of the community. he then started the family

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Mark Foley: first center. first in a basement, now three stories tall, reaching out to help at-risk youth, turn away from violence and gangs, but especially dispair, saving one hearpt at a time. pastor

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Mark Foley: caples tells us the government can't do it all. he's one of the men i admire most, whose ministry saves lives, he changes hearts. and most importantly, he returns the soul to a community that

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Mark Foley: is in need of a very big heart with hope. the speaker: thank you. the chair will entertain up to 15 further one minutes on each side of the aisle. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida,

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Ron Klein: mr. klein. mr. klein: madam speaker, i congratulate natalie crate. natalie is a 10th grader at jupiter high school.r and her artwork let's people look out at urban sprawl. the contrast between the

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Ron Klein: natural and the man-made is in her work. the congressional art competition is in its 27th year. we bring young artists from all over the united states. i'm proud nationally's work

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Ron Klein: will be among them. i congratulate natalie, her parents and teachers and all of the artists for all of their accomplishments. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro

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Ron Klein: tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous const to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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John A. Boehner: mr. boehner: mr. speaker, this quote from daniel webster appears above the speaker's chair, right up at the top of the chamber. and it says this, let us develop the resources of our land,

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Speech By: John A. Boehner

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John A. Boehner: call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests and see whether we, also in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. as families

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John A. Boehner: struggle with soaring gas prices, our nation's energy solutions, i think lie in webster's words. the house republicans have a plan to lower gas prices by developing the resources of our

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John A. Boehner: land in an environmentally safe way. this is an approach that is supported by some 60% of the american people a recent poll. but the majority won't listen. instead, they let gas prices surge

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John A. Boehner: even higher by refusing to schedule a plan to break america's dependence on foreign sources of energy. mr. speaker, i think american consumers deserve better. it's time to develop the resources

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John A. Boehner: of our land and bring down gas prices on behalf of american families and small businesses. and that is, as webster said, would be worthy to be remembered. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

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Jay Inslee: does the gentleman from washington rise? mr. inslee: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. inslee: mr. boehner quoted daniel

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Speech By: Jay Inslee

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Jay Inslee: webster. what is the single resource that america has, the only resource that america has that can really bring down the price of fuel and break our addiction to middle eastern oil? there is

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Jay Inslee: one secret resource that we can promote, and that is the resource of intellectual capital, creativity and innovation. we know that just poking more holes in the ground cannot solve this problem.

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Jay Inslee: we've got 25% of the world's oil. we have 3% of the oil in our land. what can solve this problem is innovation, innovation like the a-123 battery company in boston that will allow us to

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Jay Inslee: drive electric cars getting 100 miles on one electrical charge. the sapphire company that will get power from algae resources. the optimists on this side of the aisle are doing that. the pessimists

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Jay Inslee: on this side of the aisle want to remain addicted to gasoline. that is a path that is doomed to failure. let's be optimistic and solve this problem. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's

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Jay Inslee: time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. barrett: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

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J. Gresham Barrett: objection. mr. barrett: mr. speaker, what's the deal? lately when i've been in south carolina i've been talking to a lot of frustrating folks and they're frustrated because tushey a re watching their

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Speech By: J. Gresham Barrett

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J. Gresham Barrett: hard-earned paychecks burn up their gas tanks. two years ago the democrats said they would introduce a commonsense plan to help the energy crisis. and today when the americans need it

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J. Gresham Barrett: most, when they're paying $4 a gallon for gas, no energy plan. yet, i stand here today week after week, as i'm doing asking my friends on the democratic side, where's the plan? i've only

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J. Gresham Barrett: seen plan one, and that's been drafted by the republican party. are my democratic colleagues not hearing the pleas of the american public about high gas prices? have they not heard the public's

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J. Gresham Barrett: frustration or do they choose to ignore them? as members of congress, it's our duty to solve the problem, and it's just not good enough to tell them we have no plan. the speaker pro tempore: for what

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Chris Carney: purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, in the coming days the house will consider the

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Speech By: Chris Carney

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Chris Carney: new g.i. bill which will promise a four-year college scholarship to the veterans, similar to the ones after world war ii. the original g.i. bill of 1944 allowed millions of families to achieve

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Chris Carney: the american dream and set the economy on the right course after a draining war. after world war ii, for every dollar spent on the g.i. bill, $7 was returned to the economy. the new g.i. bill

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Chris Carney: will spark yet another american economic recovery, one that is needed during this time of economic uncertainty with skyrocketing gas prices and food prices and devastating job losses. but even

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Chris Carney: more importantly, it will fulfill our promise to our military personnel that if they serve their country in war they will receive a quality education at home. the current benefits simply does

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Chris Carney: not live up to that promise. mr. speaker, while president bush and his republican allies remain strong advocates for continuing the war in iraq, it is important that they join us in keeping

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Chris Carney: this important promise to our nation's troops. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. mchenry: i rise to

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address the house for onminute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mchenry: thank you, mr. speaker. one day will end our dependence on foreign oil and power our economy with alternative

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sources of energy. but until that day comes, we have to do everything in our power to strengthen our economy by making energy more affordable by increasing domestic american production. n roughly

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70% of what we pay at the pumps comes from the price of oil in the global market, which is driven by relationships between supply and demand. to lower gas prices, we have to use american

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Stephen Cohen: energy resources. right now the u.s. produces 41% of the petroleum we use. we can do much better than that. just by opening up a small portion of alaska for oil production, we can recover 15

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: years of saudi arabian crude oil. by streamlining rules for energy exploration out of the outer continental shelf, we can access roughly 115 million barrels of oil, enough oil to power 60 million

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Stephen Cohen: cars for 60 years. with gas prices over $4 a gallon, this congress must act. we have to increase supply, doing anything else will be irresponsible. . e speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

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Stephen Cohen: does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. this morning's memphis commercial

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Stephen Cohen: appeal had distressing news for our city. delta airlines had canceled part of its contract with penticlare lines, an airline that had 1,000 jobs in our commute, the c newspaper reported that stockholders

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Stephen Cohen: are concerned of the existence -- continued existence of the business. if the merger takes place, and delta and northwest merge, it's entirely possible that delta will cancel the remaining

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Stephen Cohen: portion of pinnacle's business with northwest airline where they serve many customers through northwest airlines that. would be devastating to the memphis economy and possibly cost us thousands

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Stephen Cohen: ever jobs. i am very concerned and plan to call delta airlines to find out why this contract was canceled, what possibly could happen, how this merger would affect those 1 ,000 people, and if

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Stephen Cohen: possible reregulation of the airlines is in order to make sure abrupt changes in contracts that might cause irreparable harm and immediate damage can't take place if they threaten an industry

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Stephen Cohen: and employer in my district such as pinnacle airlines. i'm concerned about the future of this large business and my community and plan to look into it for the benefit of the employers and my overall

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Stephen Cohen: business community. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. burgess: to address the house

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Stephen Cohen: for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burgess: this the congress has placed a significant burden on american families. now they are having to decide whether to buy

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Michael C. Burgess: food or gasoline, the price of both have increased significantly in the past six months. and now back in my district they are having to defend themselves from opportunistic gas grabbing criminals.

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Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

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Michael C. Burgess: thieves are actually posting internet videos discussing how to steal gas from cars. the kind of information that used to be shared in the prison yard has made it's way into the broadcast

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Michael C. Burgess: yourself genre of websites. it's shocking but it's not surprising because we have ignored the issue of providing supply of energy in this country. americans may have given up on waiting for

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Michael C. Burgess: the majority party to ease the pain at the pump. so americans may just file this under desperate times, call for desperate measures. the speaker may be able to ignore the members who have asked

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Michael C. Burgess: for something to be done to address gas prices, primarily on the supply side. eventually the consequences of the blatant disregard for rising prices, it's going to come home. let's hope, let's hope

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Michael C. Burgess: that this speaker, this majority party will take action before our families get robbed by thieves in the middle of the night. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has

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Michael C. Burgess: expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? ms. sanchez: to address the house for one minute. revise a extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. sanchez:

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Loretta Sanchez: thank you, mr. speaker. this saturday, june 14, the orange county water district will celebrate its 75th anniversary. along with the other members of the orange county delegation i introduced

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Speech By: Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: house resolution 1199 to honor this significant occasion. the orange county water district's 7 5th anniversary is particularly meaningful as it comes just months after we opened up the largest

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Loretta Sanchez: ground water treatment replenishment system in the nation on january 10 of this year -- of 2007. the replenishment system is on the sutting edge of water reuse technology, it will purify

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Loretta Sanchez: 70 million gallons of water a day, providing clean water to over 100,000 families in orange county. the vision and the initiative by the district is in establishing the ground water replenishment

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Loretta Sanchez: system is the reason it received the 2008 claire a. award and named the public water agency of the year in 2008. the district is a leader and identified in creating new and exciting options

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Loretta Sanchez: to meet the water needs of california, the nation, and world, and high pressure this resolution will make its way to the house quickly. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro

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Loretta Sanchez: tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from something sook rise? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute. revise

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Joe Wilson: and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, americ ans are puzzled. puzzled why gas prices have topped $4 per gallon and why house democrats have

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: done nothing. they are puzzled why america sits on an estimate ited untapped reserve of -- estimated untapped reserve of $175 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and $1.1 trillion barrels

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Joe Wilson: of oil, and yet we remain increasingly dependent on foreign oil. the american people should know that there is a plan in washington for energy independence. republicans have a comprehensive strategy

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Joe Wilson: of exploration, innovation, and conservation that will set america on a positive track. we have the tools and capacity to put our plan into motion. all we need are democrats to step forward,

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Joe Wilson: join us, and tell the american people that washington is no longer going to stand in the way of energy exploration in this country. that the short-term and long-term strategy and economic value