House Proceeding 10-02-07 on Oct 2nd, 2007 :: 0:22:24 to 0:42:24
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Speech By: Brad Ellsworth

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Brad Ellsworth: >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, today is a very special day. today, october 2, marks the birthday o f gandhi. the uni ted nations

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Jim McDermott: approvetid a resolution to designate october 2, as international day of nonviolence it's a start. one that was inspired by sonya gandy after leading "peace nonviolence, empowerment." there

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Speech By: Jim McDermott

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Jim McDermott: is a yearning for peace an toned world hunger and poverty and the -- where peace an justice for all is not a dream, but a reality. gandhi showed us the way, he said, nonviolen,ce is not a garment

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Jim McDermott: to be put on and off at will, its seed is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our being. gandhi is a legacy that et left the whole world. it is up to us to accept great gift.

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Jim McDermott: introduced house resolution 653 to express to the sense of the congress that the concept of nonviolence and the teaching of gandhi remain relevant in this world. as gandhi himself said,

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Jim McDermott: nonviolence is the gratest force at the disposal of mankind it is mightier thanh mightiest st weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. i yield back the balance of my time. the

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Jim McDermott: speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Jim McDermott: >> las t week democrats and republicans gathered to pgaass a bipartisan bill thpaat willi ensure that 10 million low-income - children have access to privas te health care insurance.an

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Keith Ellison: the bill would invest i$35 billion more over the next five years and the -- in the children's health insurance program. it's fully paid for. as this congress has vowed to pay as we go. despite

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Speech By: Keith Ellison

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Keith Ellison: receiving strong bipartisan here in congress, president is threatening to veto this legislation. he says the bill is simply too big. instead the president prosiposes $5 billion funding increase that

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Keith Ellison: the nonparteisan c.b.o. concludes would force 80 -- 800,000 children to lose their health insur ance. talk about misplaced priorities. president bush didn't bat an eye when the pentagon said that it

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Keith Ellison: needed as much as $200 billion, with a b, over the next year to continue the war in iraq. mr. speaker, president bush has no problem sending billions of dollars to iraq every day, but

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Keith Ellison: doesn't seem inclined to support an investment in the children's health car e here in the u.s. talk about misplaced priority, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's

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Keith Ellison: time has expired. pursuant to 22 u.s.c. 1928 a clause 10 of rule 1 and the order of the house of january 4, 2007, the chair announces the speaker's appointment of the following member to the united

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Al Green: states group of the nato parliamentarian assembly to fill in the existing vacancy thereon. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend

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Speech By: Al Green

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Al Green: the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote is joket to under clause 6 -- objected to under clause 6 of rule 20. for what purpose does the gentleman

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Al Green: from texas rise? >> mr. speaker it is i with great pride and a sense of fulfillment that i move i to su spend the rules and pass the bill s. 474 to award a congressional gold medal to the honorable

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Al Green: dr. michael ellis debakey, m.d. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report title of the bill. the clerk: senate 474, an act to award a congressional gold medal to michael ellis debakey,

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Al Green: m.d. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. green, and the gentleman from texas,t mr. burgess each will control 20ol minutes. es the chair recognizes the gentleman

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Al Green: from texas, mr. green. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous

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Al Green: material on s. 474. the speaker pro tempore: obe. -- without objection. mr. green: mr. speaker, today we take the final steps in the gislative process to accord the honorable dr. michael ellis debakey a congressional

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Al Green: gold medal. while i'm proud to be here at the revelations of this process, while we are now revealing all that has taken place and all that has happened thfor us to have this great opportunity,

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Al Green: i must confess that i was not there at the genesis of the process. but, mr. speaker, there is one person who has been a constant throughout the entirety of this process, and that one person,

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Al Green: mr. speaker, is the honorable kay bailey hutchinson, senator from the great state of texas. she has been consistent in that she has annually filed this bill to get it to this point and she

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Al Green: has been persistent in that she has insisted that we work together so that as to cause the honorable dr. michael ellis debakey to have this opportunity. mr. speaker, while i am the original sponsor

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Al Green: of the house bill, h.r. 1154, to accord this congressional gold medal, there are many other persons who must be thanked. i want to thank my chairman of the financial services committee, the

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Al Green: honorable barney frank, for the outstanding job that he has done to help get this piece of legislation, the bill that has already passed out of the committee and to the floor. but he has also done

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Al Green: an outstanding job in helping us to get the senate bill to the floor. and, for this, mr. chairman, we thank you. i also would like to thank my colleague, congressman michael burgess and congressman

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Al Green: john culberson, for the outstanding s job that the two of them jmointly performed in getting the necessary signatures to get this bill to the floor. that would be the bill in the house side,

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Al Green: not the senate bill. but i want to thank them for what they did. because it took getting the house bill through to get us to the point where we can now get the senate bill passed such that we

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Al Green: can accord the gold medal. i would like to thank the entire texas delegation. they have all thought highly of dr. debakey, and they have worked with us to make sure that we were in a position to

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Al Green: get this done. we want to thank the 313 co-sponsors of this legislation. literally we have gone to the floor of the house and we have talked to persons who agreed that the honorable dr.

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Al Green: michael ellis debakey should be accorded this preeminent privilege and this great honor. i want to thank the house leadershi p, because the leadership made it possible for the follow ship to

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Al Green: be in in position today. and, again, we thank senator hutchinson, and all of the members of the senate who have helped us with this process. mr. speaker, the congressional gold medal has 535

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Al Green: judges. 100 in the senate, 435 in the house. because each member of the house and each member of the senate has a vote on the congressional gold medal. . i am honored to say that while we must receive

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Al Green: 290 votes in the house and 67 votes in the senate, we have exceeded the required numbers in both the house and the senate. people were excited about the opportunity to accord the honorable dr.

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Al Green: michael e. debakey a congressional gold medal. what is a congressional gold medal? it is the nation's highest and most distinguished civilian award. it was originally awarded to military leaders

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Al Green: for their service. and later became a civilian medal. it is the congressional equivalent of the presidential medal of freedom. each medal is unique. it is designed by the u.s. mint and is duplicated

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Al Green: in bronze for sale. the congressional gold medal has been awarded approximately 134 times to approximately 300 individuals. some notable recipies include our first president, george washington.

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Al Green: general andrew jackson, the wright brothers, thomas edison, sam rayburn, former speaker of this august body, sir winston churchill, robert kennedy, lady bird johnson, mother teresa of india, nelson

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Al Green: mandela, rosa parks, pope john paul ii, the reverend dr. martin luther king and coretta scott king, and the last recipients were the tuskegee airmen. i was honored to be present in the rotunda

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Al Green: when they received thr congressional gold medal in april of 2006. mr. speaker, i think that dr. michael e. debakey, the oldest of five children, born of parents of lebanese descent has truly

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Al Green: been an outstanding american. he was born in louisiana in lake charles, performed his residency at charity c hospital. mr. speaker, i am fro louisiana . i was born in new orleans. i was born at

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Al Green: chirt hospital. while it may be -- charity hospital. while it may be a bit of wishful thinking, there may be the possibility, possibility may exist that i am a debakey baby and that he was

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Al Green: performing his residency at charity hospital at the time that i was born. mr. speaker, he was on the faculty of the baylor college of medicine from 1948 to 1993 where he chaired the department

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Al Green: of surgery. he served as president and chancellor of the baylor college of medicine. and, mr. speaker, i say from the bottom of my heart that i thank god for the honorable dr. michael e.

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Al Green: debakey. he has earned the right to receive a congressional gold medal. he served his country in world war ii and he volunteered to perform this service. he helped to develop while in the military

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Al Green: the mobile army surgical hospital. we know it as the m a s h units. and, mr. speaker, there is a tv program and a movie that was made popular because of the m a s h units that were involved

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Al Green: by -- because of the honorable dr. michael e. debakey. it may be said that but for the honoble michael e. debakey there might not be a m a s h television series. he helped to establish

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Al Green: the v.a. hospitals. he helped to establish the current veterans' affairs medical system. he was one of the first to successfully perform a coronary pass . he established the field of surgery

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Al Green: for strokes. he led the movement to establish the national library of medicine. he performed the historic transplantation procedure with a team of surgeons, of course. he was the first person to

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Al Green: successfully use a partial artificial heart to help patients who could not be weaned from the heart-lung machine following heart surgery. he pioneered the field of telemedicine. with the

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Al Green: first demonstration of open heart surgery transmitted overseas via satellite. he invented the dacron tube using his wife's sewing machine and fabric he purchased from a store in houston, texas.

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Al Green: this, mr. speaker, was the first artificial artery. he was a leader in the development of the artificial heart. he operated on more than 60,000 patients in houston. he has published over 1,600 articles.

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Al Green: he helped to establish the health care system around the world, or i should say he helped to establish health care systems around the world in jordan, morocco, russia, saudi arabia, spain to

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Al Green: name a few countries. he became one of the persons to work at the baylor school of medicine to the extent that baylor has recognized his unprecedented achievements by naming the debakey heart center

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Al Green: in his honor. and also the baylor college of medicine has named the michael e. debakey department of surgery his honor. dr. debakey is a great citizen, mr. speaker, not only of the united

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Al Green: states but also of the world. he is a great humanitarian. he has helped rich and poor alike. if we did not have the congressional gold medal, mr. speaker, we would have to create one for the honorable

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Al Green: dr. michael e. debakey. on his 99th birthday, we called him to let him know that we had completelied -- completedhe process in the house in terms of passing the house bill so that we could

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Al Green: move forward to this point, and his comment was, i am so grateful that i am a citizen of the united states. mr. speaker, i believe that his life stands for the proposition that one person cannot

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Al Green: only impact the world, but can change the world for the good of all. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves the balance

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Al Green: of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i would like to yield such time as he may consume, to the gentleman from texas, one of the original

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Al Green: co-sponsors of this bill, mr. culberson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. culberson: thank you, dr. burgess. i want

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John Abney Culberson: to thank my good friend, al green, my good friend and colleague, michael burgess, senator hutchison who has been a leader in this effort, and the chairman of the fincial services committee as

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Speech By: John Abney Culberson

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John Abney Culberson: well in bringing t his importantt legislation to the floor. chairman frank has been extraord inarily helpful, and i won't be long but i think -- point out that dr. michael debakey is one of

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John Abney Culberson: those singular geniuses whose name will truly be remembered in 1,000 years when our work here toy is long forgotten. what we do here we hope will impact the lives of our children and fellow

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John Abney Culberson: americans in ways that will improve their lives and we all do our best every day to make that contribution, but dr. michael debakey has genuinely made contributions that will last for

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John Abney Culberson: many, many generations. and willan continue c to save lives for many generations. dr. debakey is an inventive genius. he's not only a doctor, he's not only a physician, he's an engineer, an

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John Abney Culberson: innovator, a surgeon, and educator, and the impact that he has had on medicine truly cannot be overstated. many of the medical procedures we rely on today would truly not be available were

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John Abney Culberson: it not for his groundbreaking efforts. he is responsible for pioneering four different types of operations for the treatment of aneurysms in the heart. and the first physician to successfully

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John Abney Culberson: perform bypass surgery. dr. michael debakey's contributions are too numerous to mention here. we have had the privilege of bringing the house bill to the floor here within the last couple of weeks.

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John Abney Culberson: and are very pleased that that chairman frank has brought senator hitchyson's bill to the floor so that we can speed this important legislation to the president's desk. dr. debakey is now 99 years

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John Abney Culberson: old. still in good health. still consulting as a physician in medical cases. the man is truly a legend and it is my singular privilege to be here today to join with my colleagues, al green,

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John Abney Culberson: dr. burgess, senator hitchyson in recogn izing and honoring this -- hutchison in recognizing and honoring this great young man for his contributions to the improvement of the health of all

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John Abney Culberson: humanity inal awarding dr. michae l debakey the congressional gold medal. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves the balance of

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Ted Poe: his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. green : mr. speaker, i will, reserve for now. n make a closing statement. the speaker o tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: mr. speaker,

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: i'm now pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, dr.

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Ted Poe: burgess. thank you, judge green, for sponsoring this legislation. mr. speaker,ea dr. michael debakey's life motto is, strive for nothing less than excellence. and he has achieved excellence

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Ted Poe: in all of his 99 years. he'll be 100 years old next year and he has made remarkable and valuable contreibutions to surgery and to the entire world in the area of heart surgery. when he was

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Ted Poe: only 23 years old, dr. debakey reported the roller pump for blood transfusions which was ler used in the heart-lung machine used in first successful open heart surgery. when he volunteered for

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Ted Poe: the army durin g world war ii, his experience in the surgeon general staff taught him that more was needed to be done for veterans and for the wounded that are on the battlefield. ld he

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Ted Poe: recommendednd massive changes in the management of war wounds and as judge green mentioned he invented the mobile army surgical hospital, or the m a s h unit, as americans know them. we

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Ted Poe: all watched "m a s h" on television and its satire, but m a s h has served a tremendous purpose for those wounded on the battlefield. once the m a s h units came into play, americans

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Ted Poe: wounded during battle at war and were taken to these units, the survival rate increased tremendously. because in previous wars when americans were wounded, most of them died. now when they

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Ted Poe: are wounded and taken to a m a s h unit, most of them survive. he created the medical follow-up for veterans. we call thalt the veterans' affairs medical center. and in 1948 dr.8 debakey

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Ted Poe: joined the baylor university college of medicine staff. he launched of course the first surgical residency program in houston and now baylor medical center is one of the nation's most respected

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Ted Poe: heah science centers in the world. he developed innovative treatments for aneurysms, performed the first successful coronary bypass, successfully used a partial artificial heart to help a patient

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Ted Poe: wean off a heart-hung ma lean after open heart surgery -- heart-lung machine after open heart surgery. and he had the first successful multiorgan transplant. dr. debaker, could be, mr. speaker, the