House Proceeding on Dec 19th, 2007 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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Daniel Coughlin: purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.f ] the speaker: the house will be in order. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will be offered by the chaplain. chaplain coughlin:

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Speech By: Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: let the nation be the land of promise and the citadel of freedom for the world. that all the people rejoice to find the lord, their god, in their midst. it is not only our children who live

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Daniel Coughlin: with dreams and take delight in this season filled with blessing, lord all your people look to your visitation which takes away the dark days and fills them with light. older and wiser, understanding

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Daniel Coughlin: your full embrace of our humanity, we seek deeper truth and lasting gifts. stir again within us the longing for family life, secure in faithfulness. give us brazen dignity in work undertaken

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Daniel Coughlin: and achieved. free from the discontent of false expectations, bless us with the contentment that the reality of your love reveals to us. let the feast begin when heaven and earth are united in

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Daniel Coughlin: the song, "a child is born for us" the word becomes flesh, divine presence is found in our midst. promises and oaths fulfilled you prove yourself our lasting hope, lord. for you are the

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Daniel Coughlin: lord our god and have become all in all both now and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal j of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his

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Daniel Coughlin: approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from arkansas, mr. boozman. mr. boozman: i pledge allegiance

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Stephen Cohen: 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 justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: receive a message. the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the senate. the speaker pro tempore: shall madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house

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Stephen Cohen: that the senate has agreed to s.con.res. 621, providing for conditional adjournment or recess of the senate, or conditional adjournment of the house of representatives in which the concurrence of the

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Stephen Cohen: house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain 15 one-minute requests from each side. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: to address the house

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Stephen Cohen: for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker. today this congress will adjourn. i want to thank the people of the ninth

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Stephen Cohen: district of tennessee for giving mee the honor to represent them in this congress. from the first vote that we as freshmen took to break the glass ceiling and elect speaker pelosi to whatever

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Stephen Cohen: the last vote is today. i during this year we passed historic legislation in the energy on ethics, and the environment. we have done thiavngs on children's health care that hasn't come to fruition,

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Stephen Cohen: but we tried. the same thing in ending a war. this has been a congress that has tried to aomplish a lot. has accomplished some. brought change for the american people . and will continue to

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Stephen Cohen: do so next year. i have had the honor to stand up in my district for the med, for the cops program, for blue cross at the university of memphis, and for our largest employer, federal express. madam

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Joe Wilson: speaker, it's been grand year. i'm proud to be a member of this united states congress and to represent this great country. god bless of united states of america. thank you. the speaker pro tempore:

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: madam speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute.

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Joe Wilson: revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: madam speaker, i rise today to wish a fond farewell to a member

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Joe Wilson: of the second district staff, george harper. george has been a 34e78 of our team for almost two years and has brought a strong level of professionalism to the job. i'm happy to report that

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Joseph Crowley: george will not be traveling far as he joins congressman jon porter's office as a legislative assistant. a graduate of the university of nebraska, george first came to capitol hill as a summer intern

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Speech By: Joseph Crowley

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Joseph Crowley: in the office of senator jim demint of south carolina. after serving as a deputy legislative assistant to senator chuck hagel of nebraska, he joined our office first as a scheduler, and

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Joseph Crowley: then as legislative correspondent. george's hard work, dedication, and prescient demeanor have made him an invaluable member of our staff as we work hard to address the needs and concerns of the

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Joseph Crowley: people of the second congressional district. our office will miss george tremendously and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors. in conclusion, god bless our troops. we will never

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Virginia Foxx: forget september 11. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. crowley: to address the house

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Speech By: Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: for one minute. ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. crowley: i thank the speaker. r. madam speaker,

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Virginia Foxx: i rise to applaud the bravery of a young man, hassan ascari, on december 9 of this year he risked his own safety and life to defend a group of strangers who were attacked on a new york

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Virginia Foxx: city subway. which started as an exchange of merry christmas and happy hanukkah between fellow passengers ignited into a violent exchange of anti-semitic slurs and violence. a group of men

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Virginia Foxx: and women attacked the jewish passengers and only one came to their defense. pahan. -- hassan. like the man he was trying to help was beaten and pummeled by the attackers. as his sudden regard

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Virginia Foxx: to his actions i quote, i believe we are all members of one family and my religion teaches me always to come to the aid of my fellow man in distress. hassan is a muslim from bangladesh. he was taught

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Vic Snyder: as we should be that we are humans first. first and foremost. and no matter what our faith our race, we should treat each other with respect. hassan's actions on the subway were human

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Vic Snyder: nature at its best and i applaud him for interceding to stop a senseless act of violence and hate. i hope his action also serve as an example for all of us. thank you. i yield back the balance

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Vic Snyder: of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: permission to address the

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John Boozman: house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. how much longer do american taxpayers have toha wait

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Speech By: John Boozman

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John Boozman: for congress to pass a sensible and fair fix to the alternative minimum tax? this highly punitive tax originally intended to catch only the worst of tax scoff flaws will hit 23 million middle

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John Boozman: class taxpayers next year if congress doesn't act now. unfortunately the majority's delay tactics have already caused a cascade effect that will delay the tax refunds of 50 million americans. if

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John Boozman: congress keeps stalling, things will go from bad to worse. the senate already reject add poorly conceived plan that temporarily patches the a.m.t. but on the condition of enacting a permanent

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Marion Berry: tax cut. only in washington does it make sense to make a temporary one-year tax patch and counter it with a permanent tax hike. let's stop the charade and pass an a.m.t. fix that protects millions

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Speech By: Marion Berry

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Marion Berry: of middle class americans from a huge tax increase. if congress delays any longer those 23 million taxpayers will be saddled with an unexpected and severe $2,000 tax increase. the senate sent

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Marion Berry: us a clean a.m.t. bill nearly two weeks ago, before we go home we need to do the right thing and pass it. american taxpayers deserve no less. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time

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Marion Berry: has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? mr. snyder: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr.

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Marion Berry: snyder: my 18-month-old little boy thanks to his mother's teachings can do the official signs for touchdown, illegal procedure, block in the back and his favorite, hogs number one? the arkansas razorbacks.

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Marion Berry: i say thanks to his mother because while she is now a full-time methodist minister i'm convinced that for several decades of her life the holy trinity was the father, son, and the holy

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Joseph R. Pitts: coach. with a coach being frank broils of the arkansas razorbacks. coach broils' career is coming to an end at the end of this month as both a great outstanding coach and outstanding athletic

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Joseph R. Pitts: director. he has also been very active, may have visited members here in congress, about his work on behalf of alzheimer's research and the treatment with respect and dignity of alzheimer's

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Joseph R. Pitts: patients. we wish him well as his career is ending. although it wouldn't surprise me that another college might try to pick him up. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

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Mike Ross: yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? mr. boozman: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the

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Speech By: Mike Ross

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Mike Ross: geleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boozman: thank you, madam speaker. i proudly rise with my arkansas colleagues this morning to recognize a man who meant a great deal in my life

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Mike Ross: and a grea deal to those who are fans of college football and the universityth of arkansas. i rise to honor the legacy and career of frank broyles, the athletic director of the un iversity

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Mike Ross: and former head football coach who will end his 50-year run with the raisorbacks on december 31. -- razorbacks on december 31. he's a legend in the world of collegiate athletics. his new mission

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Mike Ross: among other things will be to educate americans on caring for lovered ones suffering with alzheimer's. the names of those associated with coach broyles are impressive. jerry jones, jimmy johnson,

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Mike Ross: barry switzer, joe gibbs, raymond berry, and the list goes on and on all played or coached with him over his career. he even teamed with the legendary keith jackson for several years to bring

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Jeff Flake: the college games to our homes every weekend. i will be forever proud to be a razorback and have had the opportunity to be one under coach broyles. i congratulate him on his career and sincerely

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Speech By: Jeff Flake

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Jeff Flake: thank him for his service to the great state of arkansas and as we say in arkansas, wu peek sui. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? >> to address

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Jeff Flake: the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. berry: madam speaker, first i would encourage everyone to remember our men

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Jeff Flake: and women in uniform and their families. and reach out to them. the arkansas delegation rises this morning to pay tribute to a man that has made magnificent contributions to the state of

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Jeff Flake: arkansas, to college athletics, to this country. his leadership, working together with the people of arkansas, has demonstrated the great value of the people working together for the common

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: good. his contributions are unmatched . he has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt the value of integrity and decency. always taking the highroad. he has made us all very proud to be razorbacks

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: as has just been alluded to from my colleague from northwest arkansas. he has also demonstrated to the human race what it means to not only be a razorback but to be a man of great class

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: and integrity and always take the highroad. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania

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Mary Fallin: rise? mr. pitts: permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: pr without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pitts: madam

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Speech By: Mary Fallin

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Mary Fallin: speaker, the world has watched over recent months as the brutal dictatorship in burma has arrested and killed buddhist monks and democracy activists. as it continues to attack, rape, and

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Mary Fallin: kill ethnic minorities. the house passed an excellent bill imposing further sanctions on burma, the jade act. amazingly in the senate leading democrats don't want the house version of the bill. instead

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Mary Fallin: they want to allow for cash, money, to go to the ruling regime for humanitarian purposes. hello? aid that goes through the regime does not get to the people of burma. the rulers simply

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Mary Fallin: enrich themselves with any moneys coming into the country. in addition, certain senders wish to give the treasury department an opening one could drive a mack truck through so that treasury

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Bruce Braley: could make any regulation it likes regarding u.s. money going into burma. i hope those senators will read the reports and look at the photos from burma. the democracy activist, monks, and

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Speech By: Bruce Braley

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Bruce Braley: ethnic minorities are the ones that should get our support. not the brutal military regime. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the