House Proceeding 07-08-09 on Jul 8th, 2009 :: 2:36:50 to 2:39:10
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2:36:31 to 2:36:51( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. flake: i would ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from arizona will be postponed. o seeks time? for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia ris mr. kingston: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment.

2:36:50 to 2:39:10( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Jack Kingston

2:36:52 to 2:37:12( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: the clerk: part b, amendment number 7, printed in house report number 111-191, offered the chair: pursuant to house resoluti from georgia, mr. kingston, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. kingston: thank you, mr. chairman.

2:37:13 to 2:37:34( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: for many years the funding level for brond band program or rural loan program was handled by the rural utility surface in the department of agriculture. that funding level was about $400 million. with the stimulus package that we passed in february, $790 billion package, there was about

2:37:35 to 2:37:57( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: $7 billion for broadband grants and loan programs. $2.5 billion of that money went to the department of agriculture, and the rest went to a brand new program which really did the same thing and duplicated what is done in the department of agriculture. it all should have gone there, but if you think about a program

2:37:58 to 2:38:18( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: going from $400 million to about $7 billion, that's not a that's winning the lottery. i can only focus on $2.5 trillion and can't even do that because that's in the stimulus bill already passed and into law, but we can focus on the $400 million. and what this amendment does and

2:38:19 to 2:38:43( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: frankly if i could have a cleaner amendment, i would have just had a straight cut of the $400 million, but what this amendment does is similar. it says you can't use the million that's in this until we have used the $2.5 billion that has law.

2:38:44 to 2:39:04( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: . the reason why it's important, the reason why the stimulus bill was passed, they said we are going to use this money immediately, shovel-ready projects and jobs are going to be created and the unemployment rate was 8% and it's nearly 10%

2:39:05 to 2:39:11( Edit History Discussion )

Jack Kingston: and has not stopped the bleed. but that is still sitting there. and yet, we're coming along now