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Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: serving this nation. bless the work that congress has begun, rectify any defects and strengthen its integrity. let us finish the tasks you set before us in a way that pleases

Erik Paulsen

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Erik Paulsen: you and gives glory to this nation and your holy name both now and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from

Erik Paulsen

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Speech By: Erik Paulsen

Erik Paulsen

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Erik Paulsen: minnes mr. paulsen: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: 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 entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore:

Charlie Wilson

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Speech By: Charlie Wilson

Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: without objection. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in strong support of statutory pay-as-you-go legislation which will be taken up this week by the house. this bill demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and will restore the policy that led us from deficit spending to debt to surpluses.

Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: we have to reduce our deficit spending. if we don't we will not be able to invest in vitally important priorities like health care, education and clean energy. pay-go is very simple. all the policies that cut taxes or reduce revenues must be paid for, offset in five

Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson: years. all policies that expand entitlement spending must be discretionary spending is not subject to pay-go and exceptns could be made for emergencies. this makes common sense and families live by it every day. if you spend more in one area of the family budget, you've

John A. Boehner

0:03:38 to 0:03:58( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: got to cut back in other areas. it's about time that our same rule. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the ty mr. boehner: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boehner: mr. speaker,

John A. Boehner

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Speech By: John A. Boehner

John A. Boehner

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John A. Boehner: before i came to congress, i ran a small business. and in that small business i offered a health insurance benefit to my employees. i offered a pension benefit to my employees. both of these plans were as a result of a 1974 federal law called erisa, the employee retirement income security act, that allows employers to offer retimplete plans to their

John A. Boehner

0:04:20 to 0:04:40( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: employees -- retirement plans to their employees across state lines. over the years employers now provide health insurance to their employees to the total of about 132 million americans today get their health insurance through their employer. but in the democrat health care plan, i noticed this morning in an article from "the wall

John A. Boehner

0:04:41 to 0:05:01( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: street journal" there's a provision in there that in their bill after five years all employer plans will have to be approved by the department of labor and the new health choices commissioner who will set federal standards for what is an acceptable health plan.

John A. Boehner

0:05:02 to 0:05:23( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: now, these employers are providing these plans to their employees. they're trying to provide a benefit their employees want and need, and now the federal government is going to decide what your health plan is going to look like. i would suggest that a lot of employers in erica are going to look at this and decide, you know, this really isn't worth

John A. Boehner

0:05:24 to 0:05:44( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: it. and under their plan, if you're an employer and you don't provide health insurance you have to pay an 8% payroll tax to the federal government. 8%. now, most employers probably pay more than this for their health care, and so as a result, i would think a people are going -- a lot of employers are just going to pay

John A. Boehner

0:05:45 to 0:06:06( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: the 8% tax and allow their employees to be shoved into the government-run plan. according to the congressional budget office, some 23 million americans would lose their benefits from their employers and be forced into government health care. according to one group, 114 million americans would be forced into the government plan.

John A. Boehner

0:06:07 to 0:06:28( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: this is not what the american people want. and if you put an 8% tax on payroll, guess what? employers are going to hire less people, and most of my constituents are asking, where are the jobs? and if you tax employment rough this health care plan or you tax employment under

John A. Boehner

0:06:29 to 0:06:35( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: this crazy national energy tax, you're going to create less jobs in america. at a time when we need jobs and

Ann Kirkpatrick

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Ann Kirkpatrick: we need our economy going again we employers and taxing employment because we're going to get a lot less of it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from arizona rise? ms. kirkpatrick: i ask permission to address the house for one minute.

Ann Kirkpatrick

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Speech By: Ann Kirkpatrick

Ann Kirkpatrick

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Ann Kirkpatrick: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. kirkpatrick: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the statutory pay-as-you-go act. this commonsense measure will help bring fiscal responsibility back to washington. with the national debt at almost 11.6 trillion dollars, congress needs to start showing some discipline. i launched my do more with less

Ann Kirkpatrick

0:07:20 to 0:07:41( Edit History Discussion )

Ann Kirkpatrick: campaign to cut inefficient spending and reduce the debt. i have been proud to support billions of cuts in the fiscal year 2010 appropriation bills and i have called on the treasury secretary to use returned bailout funds to pay back what we owe. i am also pleased to be an

Ann Kirkpatrick

0:07:42 to 0:08:02( Edit History Discussion )

Ann Kirkpatrick: original co-sponsor of the pay-go bill. by requiring that congress offset spending dollar for dollar, this legislation will ensure that washington makes the tough chces it takes to get our country back on track. pay-go helped produce the budget surpluses of the late 1990's and it will help us

Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: restore the balance now. i urge my colleagues to with me and support passage of this bill. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i rise drouse and to revise and extend my remarks. -- to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks.

Eric Cantor

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, at a time when millions of americans are losing their jobs and families are desperately seeking employment, this congress and this administration have made job creation a secondary concern, and as a result, they have squandered a golden opportunity to put people back to work. and frankly the american people have had enough.

Eric Cantor

0:08:45 to 0:09:07( Edit History Discussion )

Eric Cantor: they've had enough of the stimulus bill that's wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and not staved off job loss. they have had enough with the national energy tax that will impose extraordinary job killing taxes on the people of this country, and now, mr. speaker, they've had enough of talk of a health care bill that not only will fail to deliver the access and quality that we

Eric Cantor

0:09:08 to 0:09:15( Edit History Discussion )

Eric Cantor: need but it will cripple small businesses by imposing an 8% payroll tax on them. mr. speaker, the question is,

Joe Baca

0:09:16 to 0:09:38( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Baca: where are the jobs? congress and this administratn have been asleep for too long and we can do the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. baca: mr. speaker, i ask unanimou the house for one minute. the spea without objection.

Joe Baca

0:09:20 to 0:10:40( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Joe Baca

Joe Baca

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Joe Baca: mr. baca: american health system is not working. we can not stay with the failing system that we now -- we cannot stay with the failing system that we now have. what good is an insurance card if there's no real access to service? what good is the current system if i have a senior under medicare, like in my district,

Joe Baca

0:10:00 to 0:10:21( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Baca: scared that their doctors won't see them anymore? we also need a health care reform that gets pt the politics and past the rhetoric that every single person is covered. i stand here to advocate for those without a voice, for those who cannot afford to travel to washington, d.c.

Joe Baca

0:10:22 to 0:10:41( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Baca: i stand here to advocate for a viable public option to compete with the private sector. i stand here to advocate for the american families, and i say the american families who are busting at the seams who are trying to meet their ends by hoping that one day that they won't get sick and they'll have the coverage. i urge my colleagues to

Mike Pence

0:10:42 to 0:11:02( Edit History Discussion )

Mike Pence: advocate for all american families and pass health care reform that is needed for all american family in this country. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman om indiana rise? mr. pence: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore:

Mike Pence

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Speech By: Mike Pence

Mike Pence

0:11:03 to 0:11:23( Edit History Discussion )

Mike Pence: without objection. mr. pence: thank you, mr. speaker. in the midst of the worst recession in 25 years, after months of runaway federal spending, bailouts, record deficits and a national energy tax, now comes a government takeover of health care paid for with nearly $1 trillion in tax increases. before we move on to the next big government scheme of this administration, the american

Mike Pence

0:11:24 to 0:11:45( Edit History Discussion )

Mike Pence: people are asking, mr. president, where are the jobs? make no mistake about it, the president's health care bill will do nothing to lower the cost of health care and would be a disaster for the american economy. if obama care passes, according to the experts, if obama care passes, you'll probably lose your health insurance and you

Mike Pence

0:11:46 to 0:11:50( Edit History Discussion )

Mike Pence: might just lose your job. the american people know we can do better. we must do better.

Travis Childers

0:11:51 to 0:12:11( Edit History Discussion )

Travis Childers: for the sake of our economy and reform, i implore my democratic colleagues, say no to a government takeover of health care and higher taxes and say yes to a bipartisan majority in this congresthat is committed to fiscal and putting americans back to work. the speaker pro tempore: the

Travis Childers

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Speech By: Travis Childers

Travis Childers

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Travis Childers: for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the ho minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. chilleder: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege to come to the house floor toy to express my steadfast support for pay-as-you-go legislation that is scheduled to be introduced this week. as a member of the fiscally

Travis Childers

0:12:33 to 0:12:54( Edit History Discussion )

Travis Childers: conservative blue dog coalition, i believe reinstituting pay-go is vital to restoring confidence with e american people, that washington and this congress is indeed serious about reducing the federal deficit and not continuing the reckless spending policies so often associated with washington over the past decade. the people of north mississippi and the american people all understand that at some point

Travis Childers

0:12:55 to 0:13:17( Edit History Discussion )

Travis Childers: the bills have to be paid. going from a $5 trillion debt at the end of the clinton administration to a now over $11 trillion debt, it is not hard to imagine the daily frustrations i see every weekend at home on the faces of individuals and families struggling in this economic downturn. it is time for congress to start operating just as the

Travis Childers

0:13:18 to 0:13:20( Edit History Discussion )

Travis Childers: families in my district do and adopt statutory pay-go as the

Cathy McMorris

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Cathy McMorris: law of the land. i urge all of my colleagues to join me in s landmark legislation. time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose doe gentlewoman from washington rise? mrs. mcmorris rodgers: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore:

Cathy McMorris

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Speech By: Cathy McMorris

Cathy McMorris

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Cathy McMorris: without objection. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: the health care version currently being debated in congress is recognized and called by many as a prescription for disaster, disaster as it relates to ensuring quality and affordable health care, and disaster as to the impact it would have on our economy. governors across the country, republicans and democrats, are fearful it will only add

Cathy McMorris

0:14:04 to 0:14:24( Edit History Discussion )

Cathy McMorris: additional costs to an already unsustainable system. the mayo clinic says this bill misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for our patients. in fact, they say it will do the opposite. c.b.o. last week stated it would worsen our economic outlook by increasing deficits

Cathy McMorris

0:14:25 to 0:14:40( Edit History Discussion )

Cathy McMorris: and driving our nation more deeply into debt. there's many reasons to be skeptical of this plan. the job loss, the additional debt, the government intrusion between you and your doctor and your health care decisions. some continue to say it's better than nothing.

Jim McDermott

0:14:41 to 0:15:02( Edit History Discussion )

Jim McDermott: when you are sick or your son or daughter is sick, you don't want the doctor just to do something. you want them to do the righ thing. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. gentleman from washington rise? mr. mcdermott: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

Jim McDermott

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Speech By: Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott

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Jim McDermott: mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, 15 years ago frank luntz wrote the speeches for newt gingrich to come out here and scare the american people about the clinton health reform. they succeeded 15 years ago, and what have the people gotten since then? nothing. the number of people have gone

Jim McDermott

0:15:24 to 0:15:45( Edit History Discussion )

Jim McDermott: up and up and up and up who do not have health insurance. so here they are all here again today one at a time. folks, they're here to scare yoagain. mr. speaker, the people are smarter this time. in the election of 2008, they

Jim McDermott

0:15:46 to 0:16:07( Edit History Discussion )

Jim McDermott: elected a president who said he would bring health care reform to this country, and they gave the democrats an overwhelming majority because they're tired of the fear machine. now, i know you all have your talking points. frank luntz pulled them out of

Jim McDermott

0:16:08 to 0:16:11( Edit History Discussion )

Jim McDermott: the door and shined them up for 2008 and heaid, here's what

John R. Carter

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John R. Carter: worked in 1994. use it again. it won't work, mr. speaker. the people want health care reform and we're going to give it the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will remind members to direct their comments to the chai .

John R. Carter

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Speech By: John R. Carter

John R. Carter

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John R. Carter: mr. carter: the lady on television said where's the beef? where's the jobs? one of the things that the president promised was jobs for this country. the speaker said it's about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. but the national unemployment is 9.5% and in the midwest, it's double digits.

John R. Carter

0:16:55 to 0:17:15( Edit History Discussion )

John R. Carter: yes, the democrats have given us some jobs. they have given this cap and tax bill, which is going to stick a tax collector in everybody's pocket, destroys small businesses and destroy jobs. they have given us 33 czars at $

John R. Carter

0:17:16 to 0:17:30( Edit History Discussion )

John R. Carter: 137,000 a year to reward cronies by creating new jobs in washington. last night the energy and commerce committee voted to put a bureaucrat between the doctor and his patient to tell him how he's going to treat that sick person.

Ed Perlmutter

0:17:31 to 0:17:51( Edit History Discussion )

Ed Perlmutter: that's a new job they want to create. they've got this idea that if they throw enough money to acorn they will create jobs and keep the indictments away from them. these are not jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. fo gentleman from colorado rise? mr. perlmutter: to address the

Ed Perlmutter

0:17:35 to 0:18:50( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Ed Perlmutter

Ed Perlmutter

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Ed Perlmutter: house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. perlmutter: i appreciate my friends wanting to talk about jo. the arguments they want to pursue, but don't want to let the facts get in the way of their argument. and let's start with the report we received today from the federal reserve. we know that jobs fell off a cliff last fall and earlier this

Ed Perlmutter

0:18:14 to 0:18:36( Edit History Discussion )

Ed Perlmutter: year as part of the bush administration efforts for jobs. private nonfarm employment fell by 670,000 on average per month from january to april but declined to 312,000 in may and 415,000 in june. the declines in construction jobs were the smallest since last fall.

Ed Perlmutter

0:18:37 to 0:18:50( Edit History Discussion )

Ed Perlmutter: small declines in temporary jobs and employment in nonbusiness services turned up in may and increased further in june. that's why we have the stock market going up. that's why consumer confidence is going up because this is

David Dreier

0:18:51 to 0:19:11( Edit History Discussion )

David Dreier: working, eve arguments are not working. with that. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the for what purpose does the gentlen from california rise? mr. dreier: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker prtempore: without objection. mr. dreier: last night i talked to one of my constituents.

David Dreier

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Speech By: David Dreier

David Dreier

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David Dreier: this man is an unemployed truck driver. and his statement to me was a very clear one, where are the jobs? where are the jobs? he said, you guys back there in washington are putting together -- you put together a so-called stimulus bill that cost me -- he's still a taxpayer, $1

David Dreier

0:19:33 to 0:19:54( Edit History Discussion )

David Dreier: trillion and now you plan to take over the entire health care system in this country. he said it would be devastating. and i'm looking for a job as a truck driver again. and with what you have done on cap and trade, it's going to undermine my ability to do that. the message is loud and clear.

David Dreier

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David Dreier: it's not coming from anyone putting together talking points, mr. speaker. it's coming from the american

0:20:01 to 0:20:24( Edit History Discussion )

Walter Minnick: people to democrats and republicans alike in this congress. where are the jobs? the speaker pro teore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho rise? >> aress the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Speech By: Walter Minnick

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Walter Minnick: objection. milk milk mr. speaker, today congress will consider a law requiring that what every taxpayer must do, something very simple and basic, pay for what we spend. 10 years ago, thinking it didn't need fiscal discipline, congress abandoned this commonsense approach and went on a spending

0:20:47 to 0:21:07( Edit History Discussion )

Walter Minnick: frenzy doubling our national debt and now we face the largest budget deficit in our nation's history. our government cannot continue to borrow and spend and create higher levels of debt and pass the costs to our children and grandchildren. we are relying on trillions of

0:21:08 to 0:21:25( Edit History Discussion )

Walter Minnick: dollars on money borrowed from china and meench oil states to pay our bills. this can't continue. it's time to grow up and act like responsible adults and return to fiscal santi.

Kevin McCarthy

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Kevin McCarthy: any new spending we pass must be deficit-neutral. this is the first step towards returning to fiscal responsibility to ensure our creditors and demonstrate that we deserve to govern. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time ha the chair must enlist the cooperation of members of heeding the gavel at the expiration of their time.

Kevin McCarthy

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Speech By: Kevin McCarthy

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