House Proceeding 03-04-10 on Mar 4th, 2010 :: 0:06:34 to 0:26:34
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Speech By: John R. Carter

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John R. Carter: mr. carter: so if i may further inquire, so the words and so on means that you don't go back to original order, you go to

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Speech By: Tammy Baldwin

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Tammy Baldwin: whoever is behind him at the first vacation took place? the speaker pro tempore: it operates in a cascading fashion. mr. carter: in cascading fashion? the speaker pro tempore: that is correct. mr. carter: i thank you for that clarification. the speaker pro tempore: i thank you.

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Tammy Baldwin: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 1137, i call up h.r. 2847 with the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment thereto, and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment to the house

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Tammy Baldwin: amendment to the senate amendment and designate the motion. the clerk: h.r. 2847, an act making appropriations for the departments of commerce, and science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. senate amendment to house

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Tammy Baldwin: amendment to senate amendment. mr. etheridge of north carolina moves that the house concur in the senate amendment to the house amendment to the senate amendment with an amendment. the speaker proempore: pursuant to house resolution 1137, the motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ranking minority

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Bob Etheridge: member of the keb on ways and means or their -- of the committee on ways and means or their designees. the gentleman from north carolina, mr. etheridge, and the gentleman from california, mr. nunes, will each control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. etheridge. mr. etheridge: thank you, madam speaker.

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Speech By: Bob Etheridge

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Carolyn B. Maloney: prior to myself yielding four minutes, i'd yield to the lady of four minutes for a unanimous consent question. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. s. maloney: madam speaker, i rise in strong support of h.r. 2847 and ask unanimous consent to place my statement in the record and to also submit to the record excerpts from recent

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

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Bob Etheridge: joint economic hearings underscoring the need for targeted, timely action to boost employment. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from nort carolina is recognized. mr. etheridge: thank you, madam speaker. and i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into

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Speech By: Bob Etheridge

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Bob Etheridge: the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. etheridge: thank you. i am pleased to rise in support of h.r. 2847, the hiring incentives to restore employment act. the hire act is really all about our three most important priorities in this congress,

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Bob Etheridge: jobs, jobs and jobs. the hire act builds on legislation that the senate passed last week, including direct hiring tax incentives for buness, support the recovery act bond incentives that put local dollars to work creating jobs across this country, and transportation funding that improves our communities, builds

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Bob Etheridge: infrastructure and supports local businesses. all told, more than one million jobs would be created by this legislation. this bill really is help for small businesses on main street and millions of americans who are ready to see the benefits of a growing economy.

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Bob Etheridge: across this great country, our economy is showing signs of recovery, but consumers need more confidence and employers need incentives to hire workers. today, we gi business direct incentives to hire new workers. ani am pleased that the hire act accomplishes this in a responsible manner.

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Bob Etheridge: not only does it fully pay for all the important investments in job creation, but it actually our deficit by nearly $1 billion. let me repeat that ain. reduce the deficit by $1 billion. the bill is a good step to rebuild our job market, but we

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Bob Etheridge: still have a ways to go. i expect this will be just a down payment on our continuing work to create jobs and restore our economy. this bill includes, as you've already heard, about $77.1 billion in the surface transportation projects. it also re-authorizes federal

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Bob Etheridge: highway public transit initiatives and highwayafety funding that's needed all across america. when the extensions were blocked last week in the senate, transportation projects across this country were held up. and nearly almost 2,000 employees were furloughed.

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Bob Etheridge: today, we are going to take action, not only to make sure that doesn't happen again, but that we create the kind of jobs by investing in local priorities across this country. not only transportation projects that needs to be moving in our community, buildingn infrastructure and providing jobs for america, but also the hire act that creates

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Bob Etheridge: high, and too many americans are unemployed. in my state it's above the national average. almost 11.2%. just this past week, i visited an employment office were people were saying, all we need is a hand up, not a hand out. give us an opportunity to go to work. in addition to that, we are

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Bob Etheridge: providing funds for making sure that our qualified school construction bonds in the recovery act that we passed last year will work. this bill really is about jobs. i can say to you when we're talking about jobs we're talking about education, and i happen to believe that education is that one thing that levels the playing field for everyone. today, we're going to have the

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Bob Etheridge: opportunity to put our stamp and vote for a piece of legislation that will provide

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Devin Nunes: good places for teachers to teach and children to learn. with that, madam speaker, i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. nunes: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunes: madam s

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Speech By: Devin Nunes

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Devin Nunes: you first don't succeed try, try again. that seems to be the democrats' creed and motto. there wouldn't any need for today's bill if the failed $1 trillion stimulus package passed last year worked. they promised the so-called stimulus kept unemployment at

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Devin Nunes: 8% butoday put simply, you can't create jobs by dumping $1 trillion into federal agencies. the administration claims that $1.5 billion in stimulus moneys saved or created 1,664 jobs in california's san joaquin valley where i live. even if one assumes the

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Devin Nunes: accuracy of these numbers, the federal government has spent a whooping $900,000 to save or create one job in the san joaquin valley. despite spending $900,000 per job, there are still communities in the valley that suffer from 20% to 40% unemployment. in fact in the wake of the

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Devin Nunes: stimulus we saw three million additional americans lose their jobs rather than the 3.7 million jobs that are now being promised by the obama adminisation. sadly, a record 16 million americans are now unemployed because the stimulus promises were empty and unaffordable. is it any wonder why the

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Devin Nunes: american people continue to ask, where are the jobs? it appears that the stimulus was not very stimulating outside of washington. so here we are back again with yet another multibillion dollar plan slapped together by the democrats that will probably once again fail.

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Devin Nunes: madam speaker, the soviet union experienced that ju because you're going to grow a billion bushels of potatoes does not mean that there will be potatoes on the shelves. similarly, just because the democrats have continued to message this as a jobs bill does not mean that it will actually create a job. the centerpiece of the

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Devin Nunes: democrats' new bill is a payroll tax exemption, a hiring credit for employers to bring on new workers. while i give the democrats credit for acknowledging that tax cuts are prmble to spending increase -- preferable to spending increases, sadly it is a political charade and it won't work. how do we know? because it didn't work when

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Devin Nunes: jimmy carter tried it in the late 1970's. numerous studies by noted economists from all across the political spectrum have confirmed that these temporary hiring incentives will have little, if any, positive effect on jobs.

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Devin Nunes: legislation taken directly to the floor without a committee hearing, without a committee markup, and without an opportunity to even offer amendmts. i understand there was a change inhe chairmanship of the ways and means committee yesterday, but in fact this bill on the floor today proves that it's a political sham.

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Devin Nunes: it is far from serious to enact sound policy to improve our economy when you can't even decide w the chairman of the ways and means committee is going to be. you don't have to read adam smith to know that markets cannot thrive with uncertainty. what employers really need from washington is the assurance of the democrats' massive big government tax and spend agenda

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Devin Nunes: -- isn't going to drive them out of business. employers face uncertainty about the democrats' massive takeover of the health care system, about the new trillion dollar cap and trade energy tax. they face uncertainty with environmental regulations like those that have driven 84 sawmills fm california since 1989. and they face uncertainty about

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Devin Nunes: the largest tax increase in american history that will be enacted this year. madam speaker, employers don't need more federal spending to create good private sector jobs. they aeady know how to create good jobs. if washington would just get

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Bob Etheridge: out of the way. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. etheridge: i would remind the gentleman i was a small business man in the 1970's when this tax credit was in before. not only did we use it and create jobs, we had tremendous growth in this country.

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Speech By: Bob Etheridge

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Bob Etheridge: i talked to two chambers of commerce in the last month. they are tickled to death somebody is willing to help them instead of doing the he very thing the senate did last

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James L. Oberstar: week and hold everything up. it's time we move on got something done. i yield three minutes to the gentleman, mr. oberstar, who knows something about infrastructure. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for three minutes. mr. oberstar: i thank the gentleman for his time and use

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Speech By: James L. Oberstar

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James L. Oberstar: this brief moment to be very specific. under the programs in the stimulus, under the jurisdiction of our committee of transportation and infrastructure, we can account

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James L. Oberstar: for $1,095,005 jobs in the past year. one year from the date of enactment. we have this documented in 14 incentive monthly hearings on progress made by state d.o.t.'s, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and state revolving loan fund organizations, as well as the other portions of our stimulus

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James L. Oberstar: for which you have documented the funding investments that have created jobs. these are real jobs, building trades, associated general contractors, putting people to work, putting their equipment to work on job sites where they were shut down the previous year.

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James L. Oberstar: with those jobs we are paying those workers are paying $353 million in federal taxes, avoiding $279 million of unemployment compensation checks because they are getting a payroll check in12ed of an -- instead of an unemployment compensation check. we have 25,000 direct on

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James L. Oberstar: project full-time equivalent in the revolving loan fund program, and paved 24,000 lane miles of highway and restored or replaced 1,200 bridges. that highway mileage is equivalent to half of the interstate highway system that took 50 years to build. this was done in a year.

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James L. Oberstar: this extension of funding for the surface transportation program will provide $77 billion to continue safetea-lu for the next 15 months, for the 15-month period, that is this fiscal year and three months beyond. it's a $21 billion increase over the funding levels of the continuing resolution.

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James L. Oberstar: it restores the $84.7 billion revision that occurred september 0 that everyone was wringing their hands about but required by the bush administration and consented to by house and senate republicans in the last meeting of the house-senate conference on safetea-lu. that money is restored. we said we would do it. it's done. the bill also restores $19.5 billion of interest foregone

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James L. Oberstar: since 1998 when we had to agree to concession insisted upon by then speaker gingrich and then the clinton administration, treasury department to forgo interest on the trust fund. that interest is restored. repatriated to the trust fund and in the future will collect interest like all other trust

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James L. Oberstar: funds. mr. etheridge: another 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. oberstar: but there are two issues in this bill at i was very concerned about. the senate passed the bill that had a funding formula that was very, very discriminatory. four states benefited with 58%

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James L. Oberstar: of the funding and 22 states got nothing. senator reid has consented in a letter he sent to me and to speaker pelosi to restore the house funding formula that we proposed in a subsequent bill that will pass the senate this month -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

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James L. Oberstar: mr. oberstar: to get those additional highway formula funds as we pros posed in a formula -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. etridge: 15 seconds. mr. observer sta -- observe --

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Jerry Lewis: mr. oberstar: and the letter from senator reid, which he's discussed with various committees, that letter will be available at this table at this desk to show that we will restore the funding formula the way it is intended in safetea-lu. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. nunes: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from

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Speech By: Jerry Lewis

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Jerry Lewis: california, my good friend, mr. lewis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. lewis: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, i rise to eak on the highway provisions of h.r. 2847. i think it's important that my colleagues understand that the bill before us isn't a clean extension of and transit programs.

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Jerry Lewis: but cludes new policies that would continue the program on the current road to ruin. i suprt a strong surface transportation bill. i worked with mr. oberstar for years in connection with that. i know our constituents depend upon this program to keep our roads and transit systems opened and safe. and to help keep economic

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Jerry Lewis: investments coming to our communities. but we also know that the highway trust fund is badly broken. it has been broken for some time. the trust fund has been in a nose dive for years due to overspending, but nothing was

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Shelley Berkley: ever done about that, and, madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. etheridge: thank you, madam speaker. i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from nevada, ms. berkley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from nevada is recognized. ms. berkley: thank you, madam

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Speech By: Shelley Berkley

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Shelley Berkley: speaker. i rise in support of this jobs bill. nevada is experiencing unprecedented economic challenges and an unempyment rate of well over 13%. it is essential that this congress institutes policies and programs that will spur long-term economic growth and create the jobs that the people of las vegas and across the

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Shelley Berkley: united sta desperately need. this legislation is a positive step in that direction. incentives such as paoll tax holiday, a tax credit for retaining workers, the extension of enhanced expensing for smal businesses will all help create conditions for increased hiring and retention of new employees. in addition, the extension for

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Shelley Berkley: funding for highways and surface transportation projects will provide employment both today and in thfuture by continuing the infrastructure investments that are critical to long-term economic growth. and finally, the direct payment option for certain tax credit bond programs will enable the clark county school district which i represent to increase

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Shelley Berkley: school construction and continue to fund essential projects. nevada and the nation needs the jobs and other support proded in this bill. i urge my colleagues to vote no on -- vote yes, a resounding

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Sam Johnson: yes on this piece of legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. nunes: madam speaker, at this time i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman for two minutes. mr. johnson: thank you. i thank the member for allowing me to speak.

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Speech By: Sam Johnson

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Sam Johnson: on behalf of the american taxpayer, i'm deeply disappointed that the democrat majority is not allowing me to offer a commonsense amendment to protect the american taxpayer. the amendment was simple. it would require businesses seeking to use a hiring tax incentive in the bill before us