House Proceeding 12-10-09 on Dec 10th, 2009 :: 0:19:30 to 0:23:05
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Jerry Lewis: this bill our bipartisan support. and i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. t gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. who seeks recognition at this time? the gentleman from io mr. latham: it's my pleasure to yield five minutes to the distinguished ranking mem the full committee, mr. lewis from california. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Speech By: Jerry Lewis

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Jerry Lewis: gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. mr. lewis: mr. speaker, i appreciate very much my colleague yielding as i open remarks, i know i want to join my chairman to express our appreciation for the fine work of our staff. they work long hours. should be very much appreciated by all of us. and so as we break for the christmas recess, i hope you all will enjoy yourself. you all deserve it.

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Jerry Lewis: once again, interestingly enough, mr. speaker, we are finding ourselves approaching the holiday season with our appropriations work largely unfinished. here we are two weeks before christmas and 10 weeks after the end of the fiscal year demonstrating to the world that congress remains incapable of getting its work done. it's ironic that some of the

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Jerry Lewis: house are quick auto to find fault in the lack of efficiency of governments such as iraq and afghanistan. perhaps if we did a better job of meeting our own milestones, like finishing our spding bills by october 1 each year, we would be a better position to guess milestones of others. it's laughable to this member

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Jerry Lewis: that some in the democratic majority are pointing fingers at the republican minority for this failure of leadership. after all, it's the democrat majority that controls both the house and the senate and the white house. as much as it may pain my friends on the other side of the aisle, they can no longer blame george bush or the

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Jerry Lewis: clear the house republicans wil not support passage of a defense appropriations measure if it is used as a vehicle to raise the debt limit and if it contains other controversial legislative items. the reckless record of spending by the congress has national debt to more than

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Jerry Lewis: triple over the last year. in this $450 billion package that's before us today, spending on domestic programs has increased by an astonishing 14% while military construction and veterans funding, for example, is held to only 5%. sadly, the misplaced priorities of this congress have resulted

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Jerry Lewis: in too much spending, fewer jobs and bigger government that the public doesn't want and certainly cannot afford. some in washington refer to this unrestrained spending is a change we can believe in. most people in our country call it business as usual. there is no question that the

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Jerry Lewis: at an all-time low. mr. speaker, i cannot and will not support this package of