House Proceeding 02-23-10 on Feb 23rd, 2010 :: 0:15:55 to 0:35:55
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Speech By: Jo Bonner

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Jo Bonner: democratic colleagues in congress are trying to remember

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Jim McDermott: the words to happy here again, the american people are left wondering, where are the jobs and does anyone in washington care about us? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Speech By: Jim McDermott

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Jim McDermott: .7 c16 c13 mr. mcdermott: like everyone, i was watching the olympics. who was the most famous person in canada. fame is a fleeting thing. 6 o seconds down the hill. the most famous person in canada by a vote on the c.d.c. was a politician, a baptist minister, from saskatchewan.

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Jim McDermott: his name is tommy douglas. 1947 brought universal health care to suss catch juan. -- suss catch juan -- saskatchewan. nobody rembers the people who said they would never have health insurance in canada. nobody rembers all the people that fought him. he was elected five times premier of saskatchewan because

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Jim McDermott: the people rembered who brought them health care. maybe that's why former speaker gingrich said we can't let mrs. clinton succeed or the democrats will be in forever. well, that's what we are seeing again, folks.

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Joe Wilson: maybe the republicans are afraid that they'll never get back in. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. mcdermott: nobody who didn't say yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: i ask permission to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: last wk marked dollar spending bill claimed to

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: produce jobs. by it's been reported at more than four million jobs have been lost. with 7.5 million million jobs lost since speaker pelosi took over, i toured the district i represent where i found people want change from big government failed policies. they supported the concepts of the protch tax cuts of john f. kenny and ronald reagan as

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Joe Wilson: presented today in h.r. 470, to create jobs. sadly the administration obsessively pushes a health care takeover which the national federation of independent business confirms will kil 1.6 million jobs. bo parties should be working together to promote small business, the backbone of america, to create jobs. in conclusion, god bless our troops, we will never forget september 11 and the global war

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Joe Wilson: on terrorism. welcome, mark connor, westbrook, the newborn son ofed that and christie westbrook, born february 19, my sympathy to the family of wayne of richland, the father of chief of staff eric dell of the second district. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the

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Joe Wilson: gentleman from michigan rise?

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> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> i rise to tell the story of an american recovery and reinvestment act project that is set to create new high-tech manufacturing jobs in my hometown of battle creek. last week toda america finalized a grant through the department of energy's electric

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Mark Schauer: drive battery and component manufacturing initiative. without the recovery act, this japanese firm wouldn't be investing $70 million to build a new hybrid battery plant in my district. they wouldn't be hiring 50 to 60 new workers at an averag weekly rage of $900, plus an

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Speech By: Mark Schauer

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Mark Schauer: additional 91 indirect jobs. in michigan with an unemployment rate of over 14%, we need every job we can get. 1850 people will have jobs in my district because of toda's innovation. the recovery act's commitment to battery development.

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and a never give up attitude.

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this is how we turn our economy

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around. one job at a time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lungren: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i returned from my district here a couple days ago after hearing from my constituents at several town hall meetings. one of the things they made

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absolutely crystal clear was they wanted us to start over on health care. they weren't arguing for the status q, they were arguing for a new start. what do we have on thursday? the president inviting members from both houses, both democrat and republican, for what? for what? a session in which it appears that the ground rules are going to be we are going to start with the house and senate

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bills. i don't know, but i'm proud to be in this house in part because of my love of the constitution. i look at the constitution and it says we ha three different branches of government and we are responsible for legislation. i don't see where there's a monarchy where you are supposed to go and have an audience with the monarch surrounded by his

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court jess terse. -- jesters. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota -- >> to address the house for one minute. without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker, last week i, too, had a week to be in my district. we had great conversation abouts how small businesses can continue to create and revitalize our economy. you know what they talked about

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most was health care. they shared stories about double-digit increases in premiums. they shared stories about a difficult time hiring new employees because of the cost of health insurance. one story in particular stuck with me. i walked into julie's jewelry store in st. peter, minnesota. she is a woman who poured her life into making her business work, but she also shared a story with me.

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her son was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. as she and trevor fight for his life, they are also fighting their insurance company to pay for the chemotherapy their doctor ordered. she also told me she fears her son will never be able to change jobs because of a pre-existing condition. our current health system is limiting our ability to grow oueconomy. as you know, mr. speaker, i

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represent the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota, i'm proud to do so because of the high quality, low cost care they provide. i would like to leave you with a quote last week from the mayo clinic. reforming health care in america is absolutely essential. the status quo is not sustainable. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Louie Gohmert: >> thank you, mr. speaker. i went on line and i got the president's proposal here and it's 11 pages, and it's a summary. and then i got the summary of the summary and it looks like it's about 19 pages summarized in the -- summarizing the 11 pages.

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Speech By: Louie Gohmert

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Louie Gohmert: i guess we are creating jobs by jjtrying to do summaries of the summaries of the summaries. that's not good enough. people are out of work. we have heard last year, a year ago, that if we did not pass the stimulus bill, the porkul ous bill, the employment might go as high as 8.5%.

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Louie Gohmert: god would that we would be there instead of where we are today. this is not going to create jobs. it's going to suck more money out of the economy the government uses that the businesses will not have to create jobs. let's help america.

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: let's put people back to work so they can afford their own health care. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jacksolee: fighting in the civil rights movement, you could always count on the naysayers to stand to the side and say america cannot tolerate the equality of

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Speech By: Sheila Jackson-Lee

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: so many new people. here we are today with the same crowd complaing about the good. let me tell you about the investment act that has generated opportunities for bs. before i tell you that, we do have a health care plan. one that will provide the largest middle class tax cuts in american history for affordable health care.

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: one that will provide you with a competive marketplace to go in and buy your no pre-existing condition can ever keep you from health insurance. as far as i'm concerned, the people in the 18th congressional district understand the good and they know that health care this form is good for them. then as we stood with speaker pelosi at the port of houston

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: on monday and were able to announce $45 million to fix one of the most dangerous bridges in the nation, investment, and

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Erik Paulsen: to acknowledge 2,000 jobs and 3,000 extra jobs, the good is on the way. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. paulsen: mr. speak recently held a job fair in my district and despite one of the snowiest travel days of the entire winter, more than 2,000

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Speech By: Erik Paulsen

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Erik Paulsen: people showed up. the overwhelming turnout makes one thing clear, we have a long, long way to go to create real jobs. but instead, congress has embraced record borrowing and record spending while unemployment now hovers at about 10%. millions of americans are scraping by wondering why hundreds of billions of dollars

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Erik Paulsen: of their tax money is being wasted with millions of lost jobs to show for it. an economic recovery without jobs is not a recovery. we need to strengthen small business and create the private sector jobs. if we want to boost our economy and put people back to work, we have to get our priorities straight to help the entrepreneurs, the risk takers, the innovators, the dreamers

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Lois Capps: instead of growing government. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, the news that private health insurance companies earned a record $12.2 billion in profits last year is a stark reminder of the need for enacting health

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Speech By: Lois Capps

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Lois Capps: reform now. their profits are up 56% from the previous year. yet more and more americans can't afford health insurance and are being dropped wh they get sick. as we have seen with anthem through crs in california, insurance companies are raising thr premiums on individuals by as much as 40%. this is ridiculous. fortunately we have a plan to address this huge problem.

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Lois Capps: our colleagues on the other side of the aisle may think the statusuo is fine. i certainly don't. we must enact health reform legislation holding insurance companies accountable, ensuring that patients have access to affordable care, improving the quality of health care for everyone. i welcome the release of the president's proposal to achieve these goals. i look forward to the outcome

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Lois Capps: of thursday's summit as these outrageous premium increases show, we have an urgent need to

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Joseph R. Pitts: move forward on health care reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yield back. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pitts: mr. speaker, last week marked one year since the passage of the $862 billion so-called stimulus bill.

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: a bill that was supposed to keep unemployment under 8%. a bill that was supposed to boost the economy and private sector job creation. a bill completely paid for with borrowed money in the time of bloating deficits. we have not seen the broad benefits promised by the stimulus bill, would you will he soon have to pay the price for this borrowing and spending. i encourage all my colleagues

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Joseph R. Pitts: to turn to age 819 in today's "wall street journal" -- a-19 in today's "wall street journal" and read about the true economic cost of the stimulus bill. according to a harvard economist, over five years the stimulus package creates an extra $600 billion in puic spending, but at the cost of $900 billion in private expenditures. we spent money that we didn't

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Joseph R. Pitts: have and for each dollar spent we'll have to pay back a doll snar in higher taxes. he sums it up by saying, quote, the 2009 stimulus bill was a mistake, end quote. we need to focus on private

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Stephen Cohen: sector job growth not borrowing for moreovernment spending. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> to address the house for one minute. thspeaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. indeed it's been a year since the american recovery and reinvestment act passed without a republican vote in this house. maybe only one in the senate.

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: we have heard a lot of vitriol here today about it. the fact is, almost every economist including mark zandy who advised the republican candidate for president have said it helped. it helped in a major way from our country falling off a precipice into another great depression. a difficult vote but a needed vote. and 95% of americans received tax breaks, things that the

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Stephen Cohen: other side of the aisle normally is much in favor of. but for 95% of america they didn't care and they didn't vote for them. the fact is, there were three quarters of a billion jobs lost in the -- three quarters of a illion jobs lost in the last quarter of president bush's administration. in the last quarter of president obama, there was 35,000.

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Stephen Cohen: the stock market has gone up by 50% since president obama came in office, and the jobs stimulus program was passed. there has been improvements. we had a great crisis and we were in a ditch and we are

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John R. Carter: digging our way out. we need to work together in a bipartisan measure for jobs. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. carter: we have a problem here in washington since the democrats took control. it's called insanity.

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Speech By: John R. Carter

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John R. Carter: specifically, political schizophrenia. yesterday the senate voted to spend another $15 billion in taxpayer money to create a hoped for 250,000 jobs. yesterday president obama introduced a health care proposal that is estimated to cost 600,000 jobs by his own supporters.

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John R. Carter: and up to 5.2 million jobs estimated by business groups. so in one day democrats pushed two proposals, one to create jobs and one to cut jobs, that combined will result in a net

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Jackie Speier: job loss between 350,000 and 4.8 million jobs. the madness has to stop or maybe the president starts claiming he's george washington. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. speier: to address the house for one minute. the without objection. ms. speier: thank you, mr. speaker.

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Speech By: Jackie Speier

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Jackie Speier: in bob marley's iconic he describes the plight of the buffalo soldiers as fighting on arrival, fighting for survival. no troops in american history have given more and received less in return than the known as -- regimens known as

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Jackie Speier: the buffalo soldiers. each year these sons of slaves hike millions of miles from san francisco to monterrey to yosemite to sequoyah canyon. regrettably, i have lived my entire life within walking life of the buffalo soldier's trail. and until recently never knew this part of our history.

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Jackie Speier: i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 4491 which directs the

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Pete Olson: national park service to study and promote the buffalo soldiers. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Speech By: Pete Olson

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Pete Olson: mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, since nasa's inception, the challenges that american scientists and engineers overcame to put men in space and on the moon has brought forth a slew of cutting edge technology that made their way into our daily lives. now, the administration i willing to throw away 50 years

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Pete Olson: of progress on a suborbital taxi cab that places the u.s. firmly behind china and other nations who are willing to make the investments we used to because they understand the importance of human space exploration. on the campaign trail in florida, the president said we cannot see our leadership in space.

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Pete Olson: that's why i'll help close the gap by speeding the success of the shuttle successor. his proposed budget kills the constellation program thereby contradicting his comment. is a path to second place for

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Donald M. Payne: the united states. the president has a voice in the federal budget process but not the final word. i intend to fight to maintain hundreds of thousands of high technology jobs in america and america's global leadership in human space exploration. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

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Speech By: Donald M. Payne

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Donald M. Payne: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. payne: the american recovery and reinvestment act was made in the first month of president obama's presidency. just one year ago our nation was headed towards an economic

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Donald M. Payne: collapse with the less of 600,000 jobs a month. state and local cutbacks was putting teachers and education in jeopardy. there is no contradiction that our economy was hurting. this year marks the one-year

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Donald M. Payne: anniversary of the recovery act which jump-started our economy by saving or creating it 2.4 million jobs, putting $20 billion in tax cuts for 95% of working families as well as businesses across the country. the act has loan nearly $20 billion to small businesses to expand and create jobs. funding more than 1200 transportation projects

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Donald M. Payne: nationwide and kept police officers and fighters on the job. it has funded more than 300,000

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Jean Schmidt: educational jobs, keeping teachers in their classrooms. myrick, i say, let's -- mr. speaker, i say, let's continue the work. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? ms. schmidt: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. schmidt: mr. speaker, americans are hurting. a year ago this congress passed

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Speech By: Jean Schmidt

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Jean Schmidt: a $787 billion stimulus bill which was supposed to keep unemployment under 8%. but since i ectment, more than 3 1/2 million jobs hav been lost. the national unemployment rate remains around 10%, and in ohio it's worse. our unemployment rate is nearly 11%, and the real unemployment

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Jean Schmidt: rate in some areas in my district is over 20%. by all measures, this stimulus bill has failed to create jobs. congress needs to act to provide the environment for private sector job creation. instead, this congress continues to seek solutions that tax too much, spend too

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Jean Schmidt: much and borrow too much creating massive debts for our children and our grandchildren. let's focus on getting americans back to work. more government borrowing and spending is only heaping more and more debt on our children