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House proceeding 06-20-08 0:00:00 to 0:20:00 of 1:04:01
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Daniel Coughlin:[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008] . the speakerthe house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: how great is your goodness,
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Daniel Coughlin:lord, how good you are to those who fear you. all those in need can place their trust in you because you are faithful and your promises will be fulfilled. you spoke your word, and we were
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Daniel Coughlin:created. your word revealed your love and we were redeemed. you send forth your spirit when we renew the face of the earth. to you, be glory, honor and thanksgiving. so praise this psalm,
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Daniel Coughlin:the house of representatives and this nation today and forever. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house her approval
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Nancy Pelosi:thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> mr. speaker, i demand on approval of the journal. the speaker: the
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question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the madam stands approved. >> madam speaker, i object to the vote on

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Speech By: Timothy Walz

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Timothy Walz:the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. the speaker: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed.
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Timothy Walz:the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from texas, congressman poe. mr. poe: please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america
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Timothy Walz:and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to five requests for one-minute speeches
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Timothy Walz:on each side of the aisle. the gentleman from minnesota. mr. walz: to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection.on mr. walz: madam speaker,  : yesterday i talked to a farmer and
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Timothy Walz:told me he just purchased fuel to power his irrigation pumps. the cost of that fuel, $33,000 worth of diesel. this nation's people and economy are reeling because of high energy costs, and
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Timothy Walz:yet some in this house offer nothing but the same old political games, the exact games that put us in this position. let's be vert'y clear. no one is saying we shouldn't be producing and using
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Timothy Walz:domestic supplies, but land grabs and politics aren't going to get us energy independent. oil companies today are setting on 68 million acres of federal land, your land, madam speaker, and
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Tim Walberg:it produces up to a decade and a half worth of all the fuel this country needs. and yet they are not drilling. future generations deserve that we provide real solutions that not only include
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Timothy Walz:domestic production but innovations and alternative technologies and crack down on speculations. yesterday, madam speaker, china increased their fuel prices by 17%, and the price of oil dropped
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Timothy Walz:by $6 a barrel. by anybody's best estimate, that is more than drilling in anwr would drop the cost. madam speaker, we deserve solutions that extend to the next generation, not the next election.
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Timothy Walz:the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. pitts: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.
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Joseph R. Pitts:mr. pitts: this week's supreme court decision to release detainees of guantanamo bay threatens the separation of power by undermining the president as commander in chief and thwarting repeated efforts
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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts:by congress to address this issue. taking enemy combatants from before military tribunals and putting them before civilian judges is a mistake. justice scalia, who wrote a descending opinion
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Joseph R. Pitts:to the four decisions said, america is at war with radical islamists. the bait and switch will make the war harder on us. it will cost more americans to be killed, end quote. justice roberts said
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Joseph R. Pitts:the court strikes down the most general set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens as enemy combatants, end quote. madam speaker, i believe history will judge the five justices who supported
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Joseph R. Pitts:this policy to be mistaken. unfortunately, this most serious issue has stripped from the jurisdiction of america's elected officials who are accountable to voters and given it to judges
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Joseph R. Pitts:never elected and not accountable to the population at large. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> to address the house for one
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Speech By: Charlie Wilson

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Charlie Wilson:minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, there are two people to blame for the extremely high in increase for gas prices, president
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Charlie Wilson:bush and vice president cheney. two men who came to the white house from the executive suites of big oil. this week the president unveiled a proposal that was literally written by the oil industry.
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Charlie Wilson:give more public resources to the very same oil companies that are r aking in record profits and are sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands they already have leased. the president called
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Charlie Wilson:for opening the outer continental shelf to drilling, even more than 80% of that is already under lease at this time. the president reported the same old rhetoric about drilling in anwr. even
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Charlie Wilson:though his own energy department has concluded that will bring no solution for the next 20 years. this type of rhetoric is what's hurting us and will continue to hurt our country. madam speaker,
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Charlie Wilson:america cannot afford any more failed bush-cheney energy policies. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania
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Speech By: Tim Murphy

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Tim Murphy:rise? mr. murphy: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: with oil
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Tim Murphy:and gas prices climbing to record highs and families struggling to make ends meet, what did congress do to help? well, we voted on monkeys. from driving a monkey across state lines. we also
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Tim Murphy:had a lengthy debate on whaling. but no votes to increase energy supply to lower gas prices. good for monkeys, good for whales but not good for america's families. 67% of americans support
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Tim Murphy:safe and environmentally sound exploration of our resources. the american people understand that we need more american energy, not saudi arabian, not russian or venezuelan independence. we
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Tim Murphy:need to to not build skyscrapers in dubai. earlier this week, i introduced house resolution 1282 to encourage removal of the executive ban on drill along our outer continental shelf. the
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Tim Murphy:president has the power to remove this ban today if he chooses. i invite all my colleagues to co-sponsor my resolution. let's bring relief for america's families. i yield back. the speaker
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Tim Murphy:pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker
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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe:pro tempore: without objection, jies -- the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: the drill nothing congress has not made progress on rising gasoline prices. most americans are for
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Ted Poe:offshore drilling. why is the anti-american drilling crowd think it's wrong for us to drill at home but it's right for opec and the saudis to sell us crude that cost americans $425 million
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Ted Poe:a day? the drill nothing congress says those american oil companies, which they seem to despies more than opec and dictator chavez have enough leases on federal land. the problem with that lack
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Ted Poe:of logic is there's no oil on those leases. the land is full of dry holes. it's like trying to lease death valley to the farmers to grow corn. it won't work. the don't drill group thinks american
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Ted Poe:oil companies make too much oil. little do they know, the oil companies are owned by millions of american who are known as stock holders. open up the outer continental shelf. americans
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Ted Poe:will pay millions of lease revenues to americans. america needs to take care of america. drill offshore. and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman
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Mary Fallin:from oklahoma rise? ms. fallin: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute.
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Speech By: Mary Fallin

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Mary Fallin:ms. fallin: thank you, madam speaker. today, i'd like to share with the chamber a very significant moment in our history. 87 years ago today on june 20, 1921, congresswoman alice robertson
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Mary Fallin:became the first woman to sit into the chair and preside over this body. she was a pioneer, an educator, a public servant and only the second woman ever elected to congress. she is a testament
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Mary Fallin:to the power of the 19th amendment, an assemble of the full participation that women have enjoyed in government ever since its passage. today, women occupy many seats in this chamber, even
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Mary Fallin:the speaker's chair. so we owe much to alice robertson, and i ask that you join me in celebrating her legacy in giving thanks to the memory of this wonderful oklahoma woman. thank you,
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Mary Fallin:madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois rise? mrs. biggert: to address the house for one minute. the
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Speech By: Judy Biggert

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Judy Biggert:speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. mrs. biggert: madam speaker, it's with great pride that i rise to congratulate the central red devils on
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Judy Biggert:winning the illinois boy's state tennis tournament held at hershey high school in arlington heights. this marks the second consecutive state championship for central boy's tennis team. dan balentine
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Judy Biggert:placed fifth in the state. additionally teammates crishna, paul cooper all contributed to bringing homing the prize. their outstanding performans on the court won 37 points, a one-point margin of
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Judy Biggert:victory. guiding the team to victory were coach jay kramer and assistant coaches john nezz bit and joe ballentine. our district is so proud of these champions. their dedication and fighting
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Judy Biggert:spirit is a testament to their school and the state of illinois. again, i congratulate the hinsdale central red devils on their state title and wish them best of luck on future seasons. i yield
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Judy Biggert:back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california -- the gentleman from california rise? mr. cardoza: madam speaker,
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by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 1276 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk:

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house calendar number 276, h.res. 1276. resolved, that at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house resolved into the committee

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of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of the bill h.r. 5876, to require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs,

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and for other purposes. the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule

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Susan Collins:21. general debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on education and labor.
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Speech By: Susan Collins