House Proceeding on Jun 12th, 2008 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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Speech By: Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain. chaplain coughlin: it would seem, lord, that peace can come to both sides of any wall that divides any people.

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Daniel Coughlin: truth, justice, love and freedom. so, lord, we pray that truth will build peace. as every individual sincerely acknowledges not only his or her rights but also one's duty to protect the

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Daniel Coughlin: rights of others. justice will build peace, lord, if everyone respects the rights of others and actually fulfills one's duties toward all others. love will build peace if people feel the needs

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Daniel Coughlin: of others as their own and share what they have with others, especially the values of mind and spirit, which they possess. freedom will build peace, lord, if in their choices people act, according

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Daniel Coughlin: to sound reason, and are willing to accept the consequences of their own actions. therefore, lord, we pray for this nation that your people will speak the tru, act justly, love safely and live

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Daniel Coughlin: freely and so find peace, both here and 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 her

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Daniel Coughlin: approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegianceans will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, congressman pallone. mr. pallone:

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please join me in the pledge. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to five requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi

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rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for one minute. mr. childers: madam speaker, i rise today to honor mr.

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moore for his 41 years of outstanding service as executive director of the institute of community services head start program in mississippi's first district. he began his work in 1967 with

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the i.c.s. head start program and had the vision to build a successful program. he served terms as president of the national head start association and is known to many and mr. head start. arvern has

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established vital head start partnerships with businesses and stakeholders but is always remained focused on the families of mississippi. today the head start program, headquartered in holly

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Tim Murphy: springs, mississippi, serves more than 3,600 head start children. it is my honor to recognize arvern moore to his 41 years of service, to mississippi's children and families. please join me on the occasion

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Speech By: Tim Murphy

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Tim Murphy: of his retirement, in wishing him a rewarding life in the community he has worked so hard to support. we offer heartfelt congratulations to him as we wish him and his family a joyous celebration of

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Tim Murphy: this milestone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> to address the house for one minute.

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Tim Murphy: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> oil prices climbing to record highs, gasoline over $4 and climbing towards $5, food price is up and rising, family

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Tim Murphy: budgets stretch their limits. and how do we handle this? we beg opec. venezuela say they want $200 a barrel oil. foreign speculators say, let's hopeho the market will fall. americans say, what about

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Tim Murphy: america, what about american oil, why not explore for oil off america's coast and the shale oil? saying no to americans is not an energy policy. begging other americans is not a policy. american

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Tim Murphy: jobs, american control of its own destiny and returning america to be the greatest nation on earth and not a nation that has its hat in its hand saying, please, help us. i yield back the

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Tim Murphy: balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? >> to address the house for one minute.

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Tim Murphy: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wu: thank you, madam speaker. it is no wonder that the only republican solution to our record high gas prices is

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David Wu: more drilling. who would expect anything less when two former oil executives occupy the white house? the pro blem is that this has been the republican energy plan for the last seven years.

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Speech By: David Wu

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David Wu: it's created -- it was created in secret by vice president cheney and oil executives and it's responsible for the record high oil prices that we all face at the pump today. republicans claim that

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David Wu: we could lower the price at the pump if we would only approve more and more drilling leases. that's their rhetoric.c. here are the facts. oil companies do not need new areas to drill.

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David Wu: they need to focus on areas that are already open to them. of the 42 million acres of federal land currently leased by oil and gas companies, only two million is being drilled. madam speaker,

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David Wu: if the republican claims about more drilling are correct, why aren't they demanding big oil explore drilling on the 30 million acres of federal land that are already open to them but that they

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David Wu: refuse to explore? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the

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David Wu: house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, two years ago, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle told the american

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Ken Calvert: people they had a commonsense plan to bring down gas prices. unfortunately, we still haven't seen this commonsense plan, so i'd like to offer my own. this is a drill bit. drill bit goes

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Speech By: Ken Calvert

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Ken Calvert: into the ground. oil comes out of the ground. oil goes to refinery. gasoline comes out of the refinery. more gas price comes down. let me repeat that for those who on the other side that seem

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Ken Calvert: not able to understand this. this is a drill bit. the drill goes down into the ground. oil comes out of the ground. oil goes to the refinery. gasoline comes out of the retypery. more gas.

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Ken Calvert: price comes down. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> to ask unanimous consent

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Ken Calvert: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> americans still find themselves falling behind.

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John Lewis: i rise today in my home state of georgia who are hurting. i rise for those whose wallets get thinner every time they go to the gas station. i rise for those who must decide between $4 a gallon

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John Lewis: gasoline or food for their families. those who must decide between $4 a gallon gasoline are paying the mortgage. america will continue to make these decisions until enough is enough.

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John Lewis: let's change our energy policy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois rise? mrs. biggert: i ask unanimous

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John Lewis: consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mrs. biggert: madam speaker, it's with great pride that

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Judy Biggert: i rise to congratulatehe valley wariers on winning the -- warriors on winning the girl's soccer championship. they won three consecutive game to capture the state title against a competitive field.

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Speech By: Judy Biggert

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Judy Biggert: despite the lost of illinois gatorade player of the year, bree rodriguez, who suffered a torn a.c.l., they had a 3-0 victory in the championship. this is the second consecutive state championship

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Judy Biggert: for the girl's soccer team, which this season recorded an undefeated record of 26 wins, zero losses and one tie. mckellen, green had hard-earned goals. and claire kept her record-keeping streak alive

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Judy Biggert: by securing her 22nd shutout of the season. indeed, every member of the team stepped forward to bring the trophy home through her outstanding play. and guiding them to the championship was the

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Judy Biggert: coach. madam speaker, the warriors' success can be attributed to their spirit and strong work ethic. these ladies made the entire state of illinois pride. so once again, i congratulate

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Judy Biggert: the waiors on this historic achievement and wish them continued success in the years to come. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. for what purpose does

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Judy Biggert: the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. green: fraudulent recruiters

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Gene Green: are increasing alien workers by claiming there is a labor shortage for this type of work. these recruiters advertise positions with wages below what they should be paid when there are in responses,

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Speech By: Gene Green

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Gene Green: the employer claims there is labor shortage, bringing in foreign workers to do their work. the immigration nationality act says that it would not affect the wages and working conditions of u.s.

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Gene Green: workers. in the occupation and area of intended employment. however, these regulations are not being strictly enforced. the department of labor is proposing new procedures basedw on the contention

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Gene Green: that the state work force agency has greatly increased in recent years due to the visa program. the funding to meet the increased workload has not occurred. proposed changes would cover many

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Gene Green: areas of the visa process, including the moving of filing state work force agencies to the national processing center. new requirements for employers to report on these visas should be enforced, madam

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Gene Green: speaker. i ask unanimous consent to have my full statement placed in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania

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Gene Green: rise? pitts pitts to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pr tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. pitts: i rise today to talk

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Joseph R. Pitts: about the generals in burma saying that the nobel peace prize winner and rightful leader, elected by the people, deserves to be flogged. come again? the generals who stonewalled for weeks

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: and refused to allow humanitarian aid to get to the people after the cyclone, who ordered their military to attack ethnic groups across the country, who in 1988 issued a blood assimilation order

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Joseph R. Pitts: to their troops to murder or rape the ethnic women in order to, quote, help the bloodline, to strip children, who plant land mines around the villages they attack so that returning villagers

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Joseph R. Pitts: get named or killed, who pillage burma so they can have huge weddings with millions of dollars of jewels around the necks of their daughters, it's the spdc generals, brutal dictators with

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Joseph R. Pitts: campaigns of ethnic cleansing who deserved to be stripped of power and placed under arrest for many years to come. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the

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Joseph R. Pitts: balance of his time. for what purpose doeats the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: to address the house for one minute, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection,wi

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Joseph R. Pitts: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. pallone: thank you, madam speaker. for seven years, the americans have endured the failed economic policies of president bush.

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Frank Jr.Pallone: policies that have favored the wealthiest few and the big corporations at the expense of the middle class and those aspiring to reach the middle class. last week for the fifth month in a row we learned

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Speech By: Frank Jr.Pallone

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Frank Jr.Pallone: that the bush economy has lost more jobs than it created. this unimpressive economic record is drawing comparisons to that of another president, herbert hoover. george bush has had the worst

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Frank Jr.Pallone: job creation since herbert hoover. and just like herbert hoover, president bush refuses to take the necessary action to begin to turn this economy around and to help those who are suffering

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Frank Jr.Pallone: the most. madam speaker, history is not going to be too kind to president bush when it comes to his handling of our nation's economy. but this week he has the opportunity to work on that

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Frank Jr.Pallone: record by supporting our efforts to extend unemployment benefits to millions of our nation's workers. and it's the right thing to do. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

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Frank Jr.Pallone: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is

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Frank Jr.Pallone: recognized for one minute. mr. poe: madam speaker, the anti-crude oil crowd has an ethical dilemma. you see, they don't want to drill for crude in alaska, they don't want to drill offshore,

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Ted Poe: especially off that say credit west coast, they don't want any refineries to produce that crude into produs. they are just against all that nonsense. after all, they say crude is the demon of

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: the earth. however, they don't have a problem of using things that come from crude oil, like gasoline that comes off the east coast, refine in american refineries. it seems that the irrational

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Ted Poe: nondrillers would lead by example by preaching dam nation to crude oil but using the byproducts every day. so no more plastic water bottles, no more fertilizer, nylon, paint, perfume,

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Ted Poe: computers or diteshents. no more home heating oil come winter. after all, all these come from crude oil. the radical don't drill folks should literally walk the walk instead of talking the big

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Ted Poe: talk of how they're going to save us from demon crude oil but use the products every day. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has

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expired. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. arcuri: by direction of the committee on rules i call up house resolution 1265 and ask for

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its immediate resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 234, house resolution 1265, resolved that upon the adoption of this

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resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h.r. 5749, to provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation. all points of order against consideration of the