House Proceeding 10-02-07 on Oct 2nd, 2007 :: 0:00:58 to 0:20:00
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Speech By: Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: in all intellectual pursuits. guide committed students to adjust to the needs of our times and look beyond self-interest to serve the broader community wi global perspective. confirm professionals

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Daniel Coughlin: and the elderly with educational opportunities which will draw upon their experience and offer greater wisdom. may educational possibilities flourish in this nation so that growth and technology,

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Daniel Coughlin: science, and human understanding may create an exciting future for your people and give you greater glory founded upon solid reasons for faith and love. both now and forever. amen. the

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Daniel Coughlin: speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved.

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Daniel Coughlin: the pledge of allegiance wie ll be led by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. pitts. mr. pitts: i invite our guests in the balcony to join us in saying the pledge. i pledge allegiance to

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Jim Cooper: the flag of the 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 pro tempore: the chair will

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Speech By: Jim Cooper

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Jim Cooper: entertain requests for one minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore:

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Jim Cooper: without objection. mr. cooper: mr. speaker, brush having vetoed fewer bills than almost any presidentmo in american history is now talking i about vetoing many bills. one of these is thes

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Jim Cooper: children's health insurance bill, i the so-called chip or schip piece of legislation. to veto this bill would be a big mistake. one reason is the senate's already demonstrated it has the i

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Jim Cooper: votes for an override and i think in the house it's just a question of time. until we have the votes to override. ov but the key point is this, it's a good bill. and i don't say that light. i

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Jim Cooper: voted against the first version of the schip legislation that came through the house. i thought it was unaffordable and over the half the bill wasn't for kids at all. it was for senior citizens.

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Jim Cooper: this bill is tightly focused on poor children, poor children, only up to 200% of poverty, not the $80,000 you may be hearing about on talk radio. these are the tiny tims of the united states.

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Jim Cooper: president bush should not want to play ebb kneesier scrooge in this play. -- ebenezer scrooge in this place. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise?

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Jim Cooper: mr. wilson: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, harry , shuler dent

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Jim Cooper: passed away friday. the charleston post courier c recognized him as the h father of the present day south carolina republican party and a white house southern strategist. lee bandy of columbia's

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estate outlined his career as a journalist, chief of staff for senator strom thurmond, white house deputy counsel and founder of a multinational lay ministry. i was grateful to see firsthand

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Bart Stupak: harry's achievements. under his leadership the south carolina republican party grew in the 19 60's from no office shoulders to having majorities in the state legislature, congressional

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Speech By: Bart Stupak

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Bart Stupak: delegation, and statewide offices. in romania i watched his ministry take action and provide medical equipment to a local hospital. his greatest achievement was to marry his high school sweetheart.

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Bart Stupak: in their 56 years of marriage they produced four outstanding children, harry jr., jack, dolly, and jenny, along with nine grandchildren. as a political advisor, mission director, and dedicated

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Bart Stupak: family man he has made an extraordinary difference for the people of south carolina. in conclusion, god bless our troops, we will never forget t september 11.be the speaker pro tempore:

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Bart Stupak: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. stupak: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend

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Bart Stupak: my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. stupak: mr. spmreaker, during g the speech at the 2004 republican nat ional convention, presiden t bush made a promise to cover america's

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Bart Stupak: uninsured children. the esident said in a new term we will lead an aggressive effort to roll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for the government's health insurance

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Bart Stupak: program. last week both this house and the senate passed a bill to re-authorize the state children's healthnsurance program or schip. which provide health coverage for children in low-income

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Bart Stupak: families who would otherwise be uninsured. this bipartisan bill will allow four million children who are currently eligible for schip but not yet enrolled to now receive coverage. in fact,

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Bart Stupak: it does just what president bush said he would do if america re-elected him. but despite this election year promise, president bush is now threatening to veto the bipartisan schip re-authorization

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Bart Stupak: act. mr. speaker, if the president vetoes this much needed legislation, he'll be breaking his election year campaign promise to enroll millions of currently eligible but uninsured children in the

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Bart Stupak: schip program. i hope the president will reconsider his veto threat and instead hold to his promise to strengthen the schip program. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for

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Bart Stupak: what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. pitts: to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pitts: the peaceful

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Bart Stupak: protesters in burmaes deserve our support and the brutal generals in charge must be health accountable. ac reports on the number of deaths ordered by the dictatorshi| range from hundreds to

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Joseph R. Pitts: thousands. it's difficult to get specific numbers, particularly as other reportsetail the regime burning dead bodies so that no one can get an accurate count of the dead and disappeared.

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: one new image shows the badly bruised and semidressed body of a buddhist monk floating facate down in the rangoon river. the regime also has no respect for journalists. a japanese journalist

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Joseph R. Pitts: has shot point-blank by the dictator troops and the regime detained other journalists. one senior burmese intelligence official is claiming that thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies

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Joseph R. Pitts: of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle. we must do everything possible to press the regime to stop the killing and detentions. this includes sanctions against the regime,

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Joseph R. Pitts: specifically freezing bank accounts of members of the dictatorship. the people of burma deserve toes live in peace and freedom. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has

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Joseph R. Pitts: expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. kagen:

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Joseph R. Pitts: mr. speaker, what kind of nation are we? and is anyone reallye listening? 47 million m citizens haveve no health care coverage at all. zero. and the costs, the costs for care are simply impossible

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Steven Kagen: i to pay. people cannot afford to pay for or their bills, for their doctor bills, for their hospital tests and treatments. they can't even afford their cancer treatments. and why? it's

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Speech By: Steven Kagen

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Steven Kagen: simple. they don't have the money. what kind of nation are we when in wisconsin at the courthouse 19 out of 20 families going bankrupt due do so because they can't pay their medical bills? we need a

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Steven Kagen: uniquely american solution to this crisis and we need it now because my patients, my patients can't hold their breath any longer. mr. speaker, what kind of nation are we? let's all agree

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Steven Kagen: here right now and right here to change this situation. this is a national disgrace. my constituents are listening and so ared yours. let's end this national nightmare andnd guarantee accesscc

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Steven Kagen: to affordable care for everyone, everywhere in these united states. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request

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Steven Kagen: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: mr. speaker, the , government acc ountability office is in the border crossing business. like

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Ted Poe: the illegals, drug dealers, smugglers that cross both our s oouthern and northern borders at will, g.a.o. investigators recently crocessed undetected from canada into the united states in three hr

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: different areast with, get this, red duffel bags of radioactive material, detonators, and narcotic. ic they crossed with no problem and no border agent was anywhere in sight. on the 5,000-mile

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Ted Poe: canadian border there are no more than 250 border agents on duty at any given time, according to deappute chief of the border patrol. it sounds easy to slip back and forth unnoticed across

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Ted Poe: the border. a g.a.o. investigator said that there was substantial vulnerability on the northern border to terrorists and criminals entering the united states undetected. while america's watching

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Ted Poe: the front door to illegal crossing at the southern border, the backdoor is wide open to unwanted illegal guests on thes northern border. homeland security needs to get serious aboutab homeland

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Ted Poe: security. and shut the open doors to our homeland. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise?

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Ted Poe: mr. lampson: to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: ke without object ion. mr. lampso n: i'm proud to be a t member of thiser congress which has delivered

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Ted Poe: to the american people real and meaningful change. we are fiscally responsible, we have institutesedti pay-as-you-go rules, and deficit reduction d discipline. li where the majority has made real

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Nick Lampson: progress by creating greater opportunity and chance for prosperity for all. already we have reduced the cost on student loans and increased the size of pell grant scholarships, and president

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Speech By: Nick Lampson

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Nick Lampson: bush signed our college affordability bill into law last week. we thank him. we gave millions of americans a pay raise bye increasing theas minimum wage and restored government oversight lacking

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Nick Lampson: l for the last six years. savi ng billions of taxpayer dollars and exposing corrup tion. these investments done for all americans are a few examples of how this congress is taking america in

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Nick Lampson: ain new direction. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: jeb -- the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska

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Nick Lampson: rise? >> to address the house for one minute. te the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >>>> i rise today for exporting our markets. it is a challenge we need to meet. the agreement

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Nick Lampson: laid onme the table will create significant new opportunities for american s farmers, rancher s, businesses, and consumers by opening new markets an d reducing tradeed barriers. nebraska's

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Peter Welch: agric ulture produc ers, manufacturers, and service providers deserve more access to f oreign markets. last month i host add forum on the importanceta of exports for nebraska and the united

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Speech By: Peter Welch

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Peter Welch: states. trade supports nearly one in five jobs in nebraska and nebraska exportedka $2.8 billion on worth of agriculture products in 2005. opening new export markets has long been a priority of

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Peter Welch: mine. it goes without saying that agriculture markets are tremendously important to my district and the nation as an whole. and i hope to help nebraska's products continue to compete in the global

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Peter Welch: marketplace. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: yield back the balance of my time. for what purpose does the gentleman from vermont rise? mr. welch: to

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Peter Welch: address the house se for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without object ion. mr. welch: last week congress passed legislation toed re-authorize the children's health insurance program. it's

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Peter Welch: a bipartisan bill, provides health coverage toh 1 million low-income americans, fully paid for, no change in eligibilityig requirements, and the p resident says he's going to veto it because it's going

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Peter Welch: to lead to "socialized medicine." you know, we havew, had children who have received access to doctors for years. many states have done it on their own. the federal government has supported it

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Peter Welch: with children's health care initiative. ti what's happened? children have been able to see a doctor. parents have gone to bed at night with theni confidence that if their child was sick they

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Peter Welch: would have access to health care. it is bipartisan. republican senator susan collins said i can't believe the president would veto a progra m that benefits low-income children. ch arles grassley,

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Peter Welch: the president's understanding of our bill is wrong. i urge him to reconsider. senator hatch, we are h talking about kids who basically don't have coverage. no justification for this veto,

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Peter Welch: mr. president change your mind. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mrs. miller: unanimous consent

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Peter Welch: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. miller: mr. speaker, the recent contract negotiated by general motors and the united auto

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Peter Welch: w orkers was a historic water shed forr the autout industry. by tackling the issues of pension reform and job security ec and most i mportantly health care reform, the industry is now poised

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Candice S. Miller: tod compete and win against fo reign competitors. the domthestic auto indusotry has momentum and moving toward a brighter future, a future that will include high tech alternative fuel vehicles

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Speech By: Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: that will help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil. i had the opportunity last week to check out one of these vehicl es. this was a ford edge powered by a lithium battery. it used no

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Candice S. Miller: gas. that is the future if t we join the cause. this congress needs to partner with the domestic auto d industry and theth u.a.w. to ensure we produce those a utomobiles right here in america.

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Candice S. Miller: what we should not do is enact draconian fuel economy standards that will stifle innovation, assist our foreign competitors, and kill american jobs. both management and labor are doing

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Candice S. Miller: their jobs to strengthen the industry. now is the time for congress to step up and do ours. focus on the future, focus on technology, and focus on american jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's

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Candice S. Miller: time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. klein: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without object ion. mr. klein:

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Candice S. Miller: mr. speaker, when , president bush announceden that he was keeping the troop escalati on plan in effect until next summer twarkses clear he had no plan for ending the war in iraq. in

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fact, the administration admits that they seets our troops remaining in iraq for at least 10 more years. president bush continues with the status quo in iraq even though the iraqi government is not

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fulfilling its promise to meet the politicalal benchmarks that were outlined by president bush himself ear lier this year. ar . house democrats are not gotsing tot tolerate another decade of

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Mike Pence: our troops serving as referees in a civil war. while this congress cannotc force the president to change course in iraq, until some republicanub colleagues break rank with the administration,

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Speech By: Mike Pence

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Mike Pence: i think that they see the value of forcing this administration to finally come up with the nmeext strategy that is strategic in purpo se. the house will vote to require the pr esident and

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Mike Pence: the th administration to submit a comprehensive redeployment e strategy wit hin the next 60 days. this war cannot go onot indefinitely and this administration needs to begin to prepare

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Mike Pence: for the date when we can finally bring our troops home. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> to address the house for one minute

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Mike Pence: and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> inn 1998, ,the republican congress enacted the statet childre n's health insurance i program to helppr children of

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Mike Pence: family's near poverty. but now true to their bigir government agenda,g the bige democrat congress has sent the e president a massive idincrease in the schip program that will usher in a new era

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Mike Pence: of socialized medicine in aminerica. this bill will takise a program designed to help children near the poverty level and expand it to include families with incomes up to $83,000. and democrats would

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Mike Pence: pay for this middle class entitlement with a 61 c ent per pack tax increase on cigarettes. let's provide health insurance to the children of the poor oand near poor.ar but let's reject a

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Mike Pence: liberal democratic congress attempt to create middle class entilatlements on the back of american smokers. mr. president, veto this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance

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Mike Pence: of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> to address thehouse foor one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cohen: on sunday night, a football

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Stephen Cohen: player, a young man named taylor bradford was murdered on the t campus. university mourns the passing of this fine young man. we play a game tonight on espn2 against marshall. there will be

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: a momente for silence. a moment of silence for that young man's memory. while it's national news event e because he's a football player, he's an example of people who ha ve senselesslyn been

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Stephen Cohen: killed in this country and there are crime problems everywhere, thart's why we need to pass the cops bill that this house has passed and senate shou ld pass to pro vide community policing

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Stephen Cohen: and aid to require more policemen pto be on e the streets to protect our citizenry. while there are horror stories in baghdad, there are horror stories in america and we need to protect our own.

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Stephen Cohen: i will rather taylor bradford and i will remember all victims of senseless crime tonight. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california

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Stephen Cohen: rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objectio n. >> i ri se today tot urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 2003, the ethiopia democracyc and accountability

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Michael M. Honda: act. as c hair of the ethiopia caucus,u i believe if given the necessary true, ethiopia c,ould be a lighthouse for afterry cafment in the dawn -- of africa. in the dawn ofw the ethiopian mill

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Speech By: Michael M. Honda

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Michael M. Honda: yum, -- i will continue to be an advocate of humanitarian assistance to ethiopia and supportive policies that promote trade and economic development there. but i can not comply with clear offenses

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Michael M. Honda: to the democratic process by the ruling government right now. i believe that the financial and idealogical backing of the united states administration could encourage the either opian government

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Michael M. Honda: to allow for -- ethiopian government to allow for parliamentarians in civil society. i hope it can provide a way to find financially more support for true political and economic partnership with

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Michael M. Honda: the ethiopian people. will vote yes on the legislation. i ask my colleagues to do so too. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> to address the house

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Michael M. Honda: for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week the holause and senate passed a bill ensuring that 10 million low-income children have access

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Charlie Wilson: to the quality health ty care coverage theyre need toe lead healthy andhe productivedu lives. democrats and republicans ad like work together to do what was right for our nation's children. this

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Speech By: Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: bipartisan agreement will strengthen the chip program over the next five years by assuring -- insuring that an additional four million low-income children receive ac cess to health care coverage