hiv, we tend to think that one group should solve this. this is really a community challenge. this goes on every day of the year across the globe right now. that is, how do we educate people to practice safe sex? how do we make sure we educate them about the value of using a condom? adults are going to be sexually active. if they are practicing at risk behavior, how do we be sure to counsel them about not doing it the next time? if they're hiv positive, how do we make sure they take their medications? it will be a community effort across all communities. host: donald blanchon, executive director of the whitman-walker clinic. thank you for your time on this world aids day. thank you for your calls. we'll see you tomorrow and every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern time for "washington journal." we take you to the floor of the house of representatives now. they're getting ready for their

daily session. they will do some one-minute speeches. there's a continuing resolution on the floor today. although short-term is basically continues funding for operations of the federal government at current levels for a short period of time to other issues we're looking at in this lame duck session include unemployment benefits that expired last night at midnight. will there be an extension coming along the line? we are looking at a possibility of a vote on the censure possibly today and lots more. enjoy your day. we'll see you tomorrow the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., december 1, 2010. i hereby appoint the honorable henry cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker

of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend tom door, oak park, illinois. thehaplain: gracious lord, the members of the united states house of representatives having given the awesome responsibility and privilege of the stewardship of governance by the citizens of our country. they must be truly grateful for the trust placed in them by those same citizens. today, i ask for your gift of wisdom, judgment and hearts and minds open to your spirit. i pray for the spirit of cooperation and collaboration as they seek to guide our country in the face of significant challenges, both nationally and internationally. although there may be differences on how to accomplish specific goals, the members of the house must always keep in mind the inspiring vision of our

founders, the common good of the people they serve. gracious and loving god, be with them in their deliberations. they may prove limited and disappointing. 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 new jersey, congressman pascrell. mr. pascrell: all join. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the 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 receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam

secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed s. 3386 cited as the restore shoppers confidence act in which the concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 15 requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pascrell: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pascrell: good morning, everybody. mr. speaker, today i re to address the elephant in the room, the expiration of the tax rates that will occur 31 days from now. we all agree that it is imperative that we work together to provide america's working class families with tax relief as soon as possible. that is why i applaud the president for meetinwith members from the house and senate in order to forge a

bipartisan compromise. but to be fair, this past september, i, along with capuano, higgins and owens, proprosed a compromise that gives congress the fiscal flexibility to address our long-term deficit. i'm proud to say that the joint committee on taxation has confirmed that this plan costs significantly less and provides greater flexibility to reduce the national debt. it includes a five-year extension of the middle-class tax rates and the current rates on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends costing $801.5 billion. and a one-year extension for the current rates for income earned between $250,000 and $500,000 costing $8.2 billion. this plan is better than the $2.2 trillion over 10 years which is now before us. it's a compromise and we ought to try it sometime. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, by 2030 america's energy needs will increase b30% and nuclear plants are nearing the end of their life cycles. we need more energy. the bill passed last night will have small reactors shipped to sites at a fraction of the cost. today a typical nuclear power plant costs $10 billion, takes five years to build and produces 1,100 megawatts. mr. murphy: smaller ones can be added to the grid and shipped into place. to rebuild our economy we need products built in our factories and sold all over the world or we can keep sending our dollars to opec. this year the u.s. will buy $350 billion in foreign oil. and for roughly one day's of oil purchased from a foreign

country this bill invests in the technology that produces these new plans. if we couldn't do this in the u.s.a. other countries can and will ship them here. let's support u.s. jobs for u.s. energy and i urge the senate to quickly adopt h.r. 5856. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. ms. schwartz: this morning i rise in support of middle-class americans. as americans continue to face economic challenges, the deadline looms for extending middle-class tax cuts that provide relief where it's most needed. but congressional republicans are holding these middle-class tax cuts hostage in favor of tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% of americans, burdening our children and grandchildren with unsustainable debt. their argument, it will trickle down the middle class and

create jobs. if that were true america would not be in the economic situation it is in now. if personal tax cuts for the very wealthy create jobs, and they've had them for 10 years, where are those jobs? congressional republicans have made it quite clear that they are willing to hold up tax breaks for middle-income families, protect multimillionaires. republicans talk about reducing our deficit but they are perfectly happy to balloon the deficit by $700 billion to give tax breaks to the richest americans. in the coming weeks, we will see if republicans stand up for middle-class americans or if they stand against them. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? ms. -- mrs. miller: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for one minute to address the house. mrs. miller: we saw the organization, wikileaks, release hundreds of thousands of classified documents which threaten to undercut american

foreign policy as well as our security. and the person who has been accused for releasing this information is an american p.f.c. who is now facing charges up to 50 years in prison. these charges are too lenient because this p.f.c. has committed treason. i think that wikileaks and its founder should be facing criminal charges and his website, which he uses to aid and abet our terrorist enemies should be shut down. attorney general eric holder held a press conference proudly saying that they stopped websites that are selling knockoff purses. i say, shut down wikileaks. it's time that the obama administration needs to treat this website what it is, a terrorist organization.

shut it down, shut it down. it's time to shut down this terrorist organization, this terrorist website, wikileaks. shut it down, attorney general holder. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, in 1857, just down the hall, the supreme court, which met in this building at the time, decided dread scott in which they said that a black american was not entitled to the rights of the constitution promised to all men. the good news is that over the years this institution has done the right things, civil rights legislation, any number of things. mr. himes: but 17 years ago this body passed legislation which discriminated against our soldiers, that said if you're gay you can't serve your country, that regardless of how much we spent to train you, regardless of how critical your expertise is to keeping this country safe, you cannot serve your country. a report came out yesterday which indicates that there is

at most a negligentable threat, a problem if we get rid of don't-ask, don't-tell. now is the time to fix that sin of 17 years ago and say to gay americans that if you're patriotic enough to serve this country we welcome you in armed services. i urge the senate to act to repeal this act and to really get us closer to our founder's creation. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. neugebauer: today is december 1, 25 days until christmas. but the american people have christmas on their mind. in fact they sent us a list of what they do and do not want on november 2 to this administration and to this body. they say they want more jobs, not more taxes. they said, they want more jobs, not more spending and deficits. they want jobs, not big government.

if we want to make sure that the american people have a very merry christmas, let's pass h.r. 4676 which i introduced which brings taxpayer certainty, gives every american taxpayer relief everything they deserve and need. let's do the right thing for the american people, let's do the right thing for the future of our children and grandchildren. let's get to work and quit naming post offices in this country and go to work for the american people. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute a to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to ask one question to george w. bush and the republican leadership in congress, where are the jobs? 2001 and 2003 tax cut packages fell well short of their names. from 2001 to 2007 the economy grew at its slowest pace since world war ii.

the bush tax cuts failed to bring the growth they promised and now my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want a no question asked extension of this failed policy. not so fast. 66% of all growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of americans. did that trickle down to the rest of us? all you have to do is ask the family in albany or schectady or troy, new york and they will say it most certainly did not. the choice is clear, i stand with the 98.1% of households in my district, the middle-income community, the working families. i hope my colleagues on both sides will review their own district numbers and do the same. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? mr. fleming: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for one minute to address the house. mr. fleming: mr. speaker, on november 2, americans sent a message to washington that we are sick and tired of the

out-of-control spending and bigger government that has existed over the last two years. while the lame duck congress's unfinished business to complete such as extending the current income tax rates, democrats in congress have hinted at other plans to continue their irresponsible spending spree by passing a massive omnibus spending bill. mr. speaker, after the bell ringing on november 2, surely democrats in their few remaining days of control are not going to intend to use this lame-duck session to continue the failed policies that got us into this mess to begin with. i implore this body to cut spending, balance the budget, extend the current tax rates and set this nation on a new path to greatness while ensuring the people's voice is once again heard in washington. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: f what purpose does the gentlewoman from maine seek recognition?

ms. pingree: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from maine is recognized. ms. pingree: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, in the remaining days of this congress, we have some choices to make and those choices couldn't be more clear. are we going to extend tax cuts for the break giving them an average break of over $100,000 or are we going to continue unemployment benefits of about $245 a week for out-of-work americans? are we going to approve a giveaway to high-paid c.e.o.'s that the congressional budget office puts at the bottom of their list of what would stimulate the economy? or are we going to extend the unemployment benefits the c.b.o. puts at the top of that same list? are we going to hand out tax breaks to the wealthy that will add $700 billion to the deficit? or are we going to continue funding unemployment checks that generate $2 in economic activity for every $1 in benefits paid? the american people sent us here to set priorities and make

tough choices. putting american workers ahead of millionaires and billionaires should be our priority and shouldn't be a tough choice to make. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized without objection. mr. poe: the federal highway administration is ordering all local governments to go out and purchase new road signs. why? because the brilliant bureaucrats say these signs are easier to read. it took 800 pages of easy to read regulations and red tape to mandate making letters two inches taller. the new signs must be reflective and cannot be in all caps? new york city alone will have to spend $27 million just to revamp their sufficient signs. millions will be spent by other financially troubled cities. why is this happening? because as the saying goes we are from the government and we are here to help you. what if the town refuses to replace their signs with the

federally authorized signs? will the intrusive federal street sign police come out and cart the city officials off to jail for road sign violation? and what's next? will the feds soon require signs be multiple languages? once again big government solves problems that don't exist and answers questions that no one is asking. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? america online to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. baca: thank you. we must remind the american people when president obama took office he inherited $1.2 trillion deficit. the recession, the mounting job losses. in the last two years we have worked hard to end the outsourcing of jobs overseas and lay the groundwork to create new jobs here at home. but the unemployment rate is at 9.6 across the nation and over 14% in my irea in california. we must do more.

if congress does not act to extend the unemployment insurance been fit, two million, i say two million americans stand to lose benefits during the holiday season. yet instead of working with us to provide assistance to struggling families, republicans, i say republicans continue to obstruct and push for budget pushing tax breaks for america's millionaires. we must extend unemployment benefits and we must approve the obama middle class tax cut plan without the deficit, increasing tax breaks for america's richest few. let's work together to help families through these tough times and create jobs for the american people. we need it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: thank you. mr. speaker, islander with a population of -- ire lapd with a population of 4.4 million has been forced to get a $90 billion

bailout without crashing. with our deficit, we are very close to becoming a guy gantic ireland financially. a similar bailout for the u.s. would be over $6 trillion. yesterday's "washington post" concerning what was called the economic crisis wrote this, washington is asking consumers to stop saving and start spending while the government issues more debt and the fed lowers rate all measures designed to increase debt. in other words, he wrote, we are fighting a crisis caused by excessive debt by encouraging excessive debt. is that really the best way to get growth? a few months ago the post editorialized it's time to stop worrying about the deficit and start panicking about the debt. the fiscal situation was serious before the recession. it is now dire, unquote. the problem is that the post like too many in this city always attacks any attempts to cut spending. i yield back the balance of my time.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker, yesterday u.s. secretary of education, arne duncan, placed a call to the principal of the charles barnum elementary school to congratulate the school's 100% math score and 92% reading score in the connecticut mastery test. mr. courtney: it was notable for two reasons, first because they are a good old-fashioned public school that raised its test scores to almost perfection the right way, through teamwork by administration, teachers, staff, students and parents. and second because it's a school adjacent to the goton -- groton navy sub baits. these are families which base tremendous challenges with parents away at sea. despite that environment the community has made sure its kids are achieving the highest level of proficiency in reading and math. congratulations to the principal and everyone at barnum and thank

you for giving the country an example of educational success which we in congress should carefully examine as the time approaches to reform america's schools. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from montana seek recognition? mr. rehberg: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. rehberg: mr. speaker, earmarks. earmarks represent the culture of spending that has led to record deficit and debts that are literally costing us our future. we have got to change that culture. and we've got to start right now. right now. today. we can save the american taxpayer as much as $15.5 billion. that money could go to pay down some of the debt we accrued against our children's future. that's why i made the decision last year to forgo earmarks. it wasn't easy but it was the right one. that's why president obama and montana's democrat governor have also thrown their support behind eliminating earmarks. but earmarks are just the beginning. we also need to balance the budget. and seriously cut spending

across the board. if congress doesn't have the courage to cut earmarks, how can we hope to tackle the bigger problems later? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mrs. dahlkemper: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. dahlkemper: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor a great leader in erie, pennsylvania, antoine girabaldi. he has been a dynamic force in higher education and throughout the community. since 2001, he has worked to ensure that they remain a world class university. his visionary leadership has helped gannon's enrollment grow by more than 24%. with his wife, he has led revitalization efforts in the downtown erie area to make a vibrant thriving neighborhood. their work benefits not only the students of gannon but the whole of the community. i am grateful for their

commitment to our city. antoine girabaldi is a pillar in the community and it is with grateful heart we wish him the greatest of fortune as he takes on the role of president of the university of detroit mercy next year. his service and leadership in erie will be greatly missed and we thank him for all he has done. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute to address the house. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i rise today as a co-sponsor of the national day of recognition for parents of children with special needs. to honor those who have dedicated themselves to making -- lives of their special needs children better. i saw a news program over the thanksgiving holiday that talked about a time in this country when children who were different were often institutionalized or forgotten. that was less than 50 years ago. there are still children who

need extreme care that can't be given by their parents alone. but many of these parents begin a journey with a special needs child with the goal of making their lives as complete and stimulating as possible. the journey takes them through the medical journals and expert opinions a and often places them in opposition to established school procedures and leads them to new solutions to pave the way for other special needs children students. it takes their time, their treasure, and most of all their love and patience. these parents don't give up or give in. and their children are better for it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maryland seek recognition? ms. edwards: permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from maryland is recognized for one minute to address the house. ms. edwards: i rise today to give voice to the growing chorus of millions of hardworking americans who are without their unemployment benefits and middle class taxpayers who deserve tax cuts on their income up to $250,000 permanently. we are seeing a steady

improvement in the economy but families are still struggling and need unemployment benefits to put food on the table and remain in their homes. extending unemployment is more than support for our families, friends, and neighbors. it's also good economics. according to the independent congressional budget office, it's the most cost-effective stimulus available. i want to clear up the confusion. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are fighting for tax cuts for millionaires while millions of americans are losing unemployment benefits. my colleagues on the other side are calling for us to pay for $18 billion to extend unemployment but refuse to see the hypocrisy of putting $700 billion of tax cuts for millionaires on the backs of our children and grandchildren. to be clear, mr. speaker, this congresswoman and congressional democrats are fighting for real families. 98% middle class families. 9.6% unemployed. republicans are fighting for the 2% of the millionaires. let's stop it right here. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from puerto rico seek recognition? mr. sablan: unanimous consent to

address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from puerto rico is recognized for one minute to address the house. >> i rise in support of house resolution 1430 which honors chi-chi rodriguez. he was born into a poor family in puerto rico and began working at the age of 7. he taught himself out to play golf and enemployed a very successful professional career, becoming the first puerto rican inducted into the world gulf hall of fame. i rise today, though, to commend chi-chi not for his extraordinary gulf skills but his philanthropy. mr. pierluisi: he has earned membership in the world humanitarian hall of fame. yesterday it was suggested on the floor of this house that it is a waste of time and resources to consider and pass this resolution. with all due respect it is never a waste of time to recognize and phrase the actions of a great human being, particularly when those actions help our youth.

it is one thing to promote fiscal responsibility. it is quite another to ignore or even worse intend to demean the fete of an extraordinary american. i urge all of my colleagues to vote for house resolution 1430. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, last night the unemployment benefits expired for two million americans, including over 159,000 new yorkers. and 95,000 residents of new york city. the joint economic committee which i chair released a report that finds there could be serious unintended consequences if congress should not renew this vital program. consequences not just for the two million americans who lost their jobs, but for our larger economy as well.

failing to renew the program with its 99-week cap could result in the loss of over one million jobs over the next year, wiping out almost a year's worth of hard-won progress. failing to preserve unemployment benefits would also drain the economy of $80 billion in purchasing power just as our fragile economy is recovering. at a time when there are five unemployed americans for every job opening, failing to extend unemployment benefits goes against both all common sense and economic sense. and we must support and extend this vital renewal of this program. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute to address the house. le >> thank you, mr. speaker,

middle income families are the backbone of our economy and that is why we should not wait any longer to vote on extending tax cuts for the middle income families. ms. johnson: extension of these taxes have been held hostage by the discussion of whether to extend the rate for the wealthiest americans. 98% of americans face a tax increase january 1. the typical middle income american family, that would be the loss of $2,000 a year. the republican demands would mean that those making more than $1 million a year would receive an average of $100,000 annually and the middle income would be saddled with the $700 billion in new debt to pay for the multimillion dollar tax cuts for billionaires. the billionaires' lifestyle will not change and no significant job will be created. if there were going to be, they would be now. i am committed to continuing tax cuts for the middle income

families and on incomes up to $250,000. mr. speaker, i favor jobs, tax cuts for the rich will attain nothing but it will increase the deficit. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. sarbanes: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sarbanes: i rise today in strong support of h.r. 6398 which i was proud to co-sponsor with my colleague, congressman doggett. this important measure will ensure that lawyer trust, the interest income goes to support legal services programs across this country, will be fully insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation. therefore providing for the providers of these programs an important assurance that going forward this source of funding will be protected. . for almost 20 years before i came to this body i had the

privilege of working with some of the finest legal providers in the state of maryland and i want to thank them for the work they do every day to provide assistance for those underserved in our community. every opportunity we get to support their work we should seize upon, and that's what we do with this measure. i thank my colleagues for their support of h.r. 6398, and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. dreier: thank you very much, mr. speaker. we all know the sad news of the expiration of unemployment benefitsand we feevery strongly about ensuring that the american people who are struggling are able to have their needs met. we also feel strongly that it must be paid for. we also feel very strongly, mr. speaker, that the focus should be on job creation and economic growth. and we have three pending trade agreements with panama, colombia and south korea.

which not only would have far-reaching economic impacts on the united states of america but at the same time it would have a very, very important geopolitical impact. and it seems to me that as we look at creating good manufacturing jobs for union and nonunion workers in the united states, companies like caterpillar, john deere, whirlpool, other union companies that the single best thing to do for those workers and potential union and nonunion workers is to open up market where there are 40 million consumers in colombia. the single largest free trade agreement, bilateral free trade agreement in the world would be the u.s.-korea free trade agreement. so, mr. speaker, i'd like to join -- and i know there's bipartisan support with this -- for this in encouraging the administration to send up those agreements so that we could focus on what it is the

american people want us to do and that is create good manufacturing jobs right here in the united states. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> to speak for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i am struck by the comments of my colleague from california and his desire to build jobs here in america. my comments today are really directed towards the chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee, mr. oberstar, who will be leaving this house at the end of the year, an extraordinary individual who over his 40 years in this house has led the way for good american union jobs in the construction industry. unfortunately, when it came time in the stimulus bill, not one republican voted for the stimulus bill that created 1 1/2 million union jobs in the

construction industry. unfortunately that was the case. can't have it both ways, i suppose, but mr. oberstar has led the way time and time again for workers' safety, to make sure that americans had the transportation, the infrastructure that they needed. i've had the great pleasure of working with him and learning from him, and i'm sure i join with every colleague in this house, democrat and republican, to say that we will miss him deeply and his leadership will be lost upon us. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute to address the house. ms. watson: mr. speaker, i come to memorialize bob abbott, a young man who saw the future in terms of technology and who worked on inventing the digital ways of communicating. he was a researcher who looked around the world and saw what was needed in terms of

computers. and he helped the team in silicon vaey solve se of those problems. he died about a month ago. he would be appalled to know that all of his hard work to bring communications together would leave out those who are unemployed, and as you know, 39% say that eliminating the tax cuts for those coming -- earning more than $250,000 a year would be a trafficessy. bob worked so hard to a-- travesty. bob worked so hard through his computer communications and we have to make sure that those who worked so diligently in manufacturing and in other areas of technology are taken care of when they lose their

jobs. in memory of a young man who worked so hard to bring communication skills to all americans, i say to him we will make a move to see that the unemployed have work in your memory. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? mr. polis: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 1741 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 247, house resolution 1741. resolved, that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the joint resolution house joint resolution 101, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.

all points of order against consideration of the joint resolution are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule 21. the joint resolution shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the joint resolution are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution to final passage without intervening motion except one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations, and two, one motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for one minute -- one hour. one hour. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. for the purposes of debate only i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. dreier. all time yielded during consideration of the rule is for debate only. i yield myself such time as i may consume, and i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 1741. the speaker pro tempore:

without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized for one minute hour. mr. polis: mr. speaker, h.r. 1741 provides a closed rule for consideration of h.j. resolution 101, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes. the rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. the rule waives all points of order against consideration of the joint resolution except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule 21. the rule provides that the joint resolution shall be considered as read. the rule waives all points of order against provisions of the joint resolution, and finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit the joint resolution with or without instructions. mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of approving a continuing resolution to maintain a level and consistent funding stream for our federal government. it's one of our primary constitutional responsibilities as members of congress to keep

the federal government running through the passage of appropriations legislation. this continuing resolution will ensure that all necessary and vital functions of government will continue uninterrupted until both chambers of our legislature have completed their work. if we do not act now, mr. speaker, the federal government will effectively shut down this friday, december 3. this continuing resolution is a short-term straightforward measure to keep the government running and get us through the next two weeks until december 18 while bipartisan negotiations continue in the house and the senate. it's my hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will work with us to move this important bill forward and to pass a clean continuing resolution contained under this rule. this continuing resolution will find the federal government at levels already approved by the house in fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill and the

fiscal year 2009 supplemental bill. this includes extending the authority for the department of defense, emergency response program, an essential tool for commanders in iraq and afghanistan. it will continue the application period for retroactive stop loss benefits through the duration of the continuing resolution. the retroactive stop loss pay program provides $500 for each month served in stop loss status with an average benefit of $3,700 to the brave service men and women, veterans and beneficiaries of those whose service was involuntarily extended through stop loss. this continuing resolution would also continue to fund v.a. hospitals already under construction. including one in my home state of colorado, the denver v.a. hospital, which serves 58,000 veterans living in colorado, kansas, nebraska and wyoming. millions of veterans and their families across this nation depend on the v.a. for medical care and support. and we must pass this c.r. so we can continue to build these

much-needed these facilities. absent the c.r., construction on those v.a. facilities will grind to a halt leaving our veterans in a lurch. our veterans took an oath to defend our country. they need to have a quality hospital that meets their needs. it will allow the federal air marshals to continue the fourth quarter coverage levels for international and domestic flights. this funding will allowed for continued training including criminal terrorist behavior, firearms profishency and self-defense measures that is necessary to protect the flying public. it will allow the federal air marshals to protect the nation and the crew. without the passage of this c.r., those efforts with regards to our air marshals will grind to a halt leaving the traveling public at greater risk.

this continuing resolution would also allow the commissioner of u.s. customs and border security to maintain the level of customs and border protection personnel in place for the final quarter and the final few weeks of fiscal year 2010. this provides proper funding to keep terrorists and their weapons out of the united states, secure and facilitate trade and travel and enforce hundreds of u.s. regulations, including immigration and drug loss. u.s. customs and border protection law enforcement professionals serve as america's front line defense on our nation's borders. at ports of entry, field stations and checkpoints across the united states. it's important we maintain a consistent level of personnel at our nation's borders. by interrupting these funds, we would be jeopardizing customs and border protection's ability to do their job in protecting america. these funds will help them process trade, combat terrorism and smuggling. a vote against this continuing

resolution is a vote to gut our border security when we need it the most. in addition to extending the existing authority to provent high levels of risk, this continuing resolution would also extend the existing federal emergency management agency, or fema authority to provide technical and financial assistance to states and localities for predisaster hazard mitigation activities. as an example, in my home state of colorado, this continuing resolution would mean keeping in place vital programs like the 2008 colorado springs wildfire mitigation project that removed -- and removes vegetation around critical facilities and communities. to the 2008 denver regional hazard mitigation plan which assists 37 communities, townships and counties in the denver metro area in analyzing their risk. to the flood reduction project

to help the town of erie around the coal creek crossing to eliminate future damages. my district recently suffered one of the worst forest fires in the history of colorado which completely destroyed over 100 residences. these emergencies can strike anywhere, anytime, and if we fail to pass this continuing resolution we would cripple the ability the federal government to help with emergencies wherever they occur and whatever their nature is. this continuing resolution would also maintain the additional $23 million in funding for the department of interior's new ocean energy management for offshore oil rigs. in light of the recent disasters we saw unfold in the gulf of mexico these funds should be the last thing we would want to allow expire or cut. these funds are critical to ensure that the deepwater horizon spill is not repeated and that our oil rigs are

inspected. it will allow oil rigs to continue operating to protect the sensitive environmental areas and to protect our future economy from job loss. and if this continuing resolution before us also maintains the current rate of the foreign military financing, f.m.f. program, to include the $965 million that was advanced for israel, egypt and jordan in the fiscal year 2009 supplement. by providing assistance and aid to our allies in the middle east we make a vital investment in global and national security. a vote against this continuing resolution is a vote to cut off aid to our allies like israel and the middle east at a time when they are critical for the global fight against terrorism and to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to iran. .

we also continue the rate of operations for the pakistan counterinsurgency capability fund of $730 pl-m million. it includes the terps and conditions in fiscal 2009 and 2010 supplemental which help build and maintain the counterinsurgency capability of pakistan under the same terms and conditions. mr. speaker, i have not been a supporter of the escalation of efforts in afghanistan or in iraq, but, mr. speaker, i think there is a strong bipartisan consensus in this body that assisting the government of pakistan in counterinsurgency efforts is one of the most critical fronts to protect americans from terrorism from a resurgence of the taliban and allowing al qaeda a foothold in that area. they are vital froms we -- programs we must continue to fund. there may be some to question the need for a c.r. let me remind everyone that with the exception of fiscal years 1989, 1995, and 1997 at least

one continuing resolution has been enacted for each fiscal year since 1955. i encourage my colleagues to support the necessary rule for this c.r. as well as the underlying c.r. to prevent the federal government from shutting down, jeopardizing our allies and friends across the world as well as the safety and security of americans. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. want to begin by expressing my appreciation to my good friend from boulder, hardworking member of the rules committee. i want to associate myself with much of what he said. we obviously have very important priorities that need to be addressed. whether it's dealing with environmental issues, border security, f.m.f., the pakistani anti-insurgency efforts, all of those things are very, very high

priorities which need to be addressed. so i think he's right on target in pointing to those. the unfortunate thing, mr. speaker, is that what is it that got us to the point we are at this moment. we all know the american people are hurting. we know that unemployment benefits are expired. we know that we have looked at the election that took place on november 2 and that in and of itself was evidence of a high level of anger and frustration that has been shown by the american people. the largest turnover in this institution in nearly 3/4 of a century. and by virtue of that it seems to me that we need to realize that there is a message that has been received and that message is a clear one. this business as usual pattern cannot continue. when i say business as usual,

it's a very tragic and sad commentary as to what business as usual has become. because in this 111th congress we have for the first time since passage of the 1974 budget and empowerment act not passed a budget. we have not even dealt with the budget issue and that has played a role in getting us to where we are at this moment. the importance of keeping the government running is one which democrats and republicans alike acknowledge, but we also know that we have what my friend described as constitutional responsibilities. and those constitutional responsibilities under article 1, section 9 are for us to do everything that we can to make sure that we responsibly expend those taxpayer dollars. we basically abrogated our responsibility. for the first time in history we have not passed a budget.

and then, mr. speaker, if you look at what has happened in the last two years, we have for the first time ever not allowed democrats or republicans an opportunity to participate in a free flowing open debate on appropriations bills, which had always been the case on virtually every appropriations bill up until this congress. and it's unfortunate that we got to this point because if we had had that free flowing debate, mr. speaker, i'm convinced that we wouldn't be here today with this continuing resolution. of course i acknowledge the continuing resolutions have taken place in the past, but i wrote down the remarks that my friend just offered when he said that this continuing resolution will continuing -- continue the funding levels that we had already in existence. that's the funding level for the massive trillion dollar appropriation -- supplemental --

the so-called stimulus bill, the appropriations bills which have seen a 91% increase in the past four years in nondefense discretionary spending. that's what is being maintained with this continuing resolution and that's why we are very, very concerned, mr. speaker, about continuing to move in that direction. now, i believe there are a number of things that have to be done and the reason i'm concerned and opposed to the continuation -- continuing resolution that we have before us is that it does perpetuate this business as usual. so i mentioned the message that came from the november 2 election. we all know that. democrats and republicans alike recognize that the american people are angry, they are hurting, and they want change. mr. speaker, we know how important this issue is that we are trying to address. we have the debt commission, which was scheduled to have a vote today, it's been postponed until friday, they are looking

at attacking this issue. we have a month before the 112th congress convenes. and it seems to me that at this moment certainly following the outcome of the november 2 election, the responsible thing for us to do would be to take on, take on these issues right here and now. i think that as we look at the challenge of getting the economy growing, as i said in my one-minute presentation, i bring this up because i know my friend from boulder shares the commitment that i have to prying open new markets around the world so that we can create good american jobs for people. in fact, i met yesterday with the ambassador, the new ambassador from colombia who has just taken over working diligently to try and pass that u.s.-colombia free trade

agreement which has been languishing for three years. and again for the first time in history having passed the trade act in 1974 we saw that measure thrown aside by speaker pelosi nearly three years ago after the deal had been signed and was set up by then president bush. the numbers that we got yesterday from this meeting that i'm going to be releasing in a dear colleague that i know my friend from look at interestingly enough is that in the area of agricultural products we have seen the level of exports of u.s. agricultural goods drop from 46% to 22% in the last two years. from the u.s. to colombia. and at the same time colombia is dramatically expanding its trade relationship with the four countries in south america, they have developed a greater linkage with western europe and here the

united states of america when we can create good jobs, get our economy growing, and generate revenues to deal with many of these priority items that my friend mentioned in his remarks that need to be addressed, border security, foreign policy issues, environmental issues, we have the revenues to deal with those if we could create good american jobs by opening up these markets. so that's why, mr. speaker, it seems to me that as we look at the notion of a 17-day continuing resolution to keep the government going and the expiration of unemployment benefits, what we should be doing is we should have a laser like effort focused on our need to create good american manufacturing jobs. my california colleague was critical of me for talking about the importance of creating union jobs. he said that i couldn't have it both ways because i didn't vote for the nearly trillion dollar

stimulus bill and somehow want to create good union jobs by expanding market opening opportunities for u.s. workers. i believe that union and nonunion workers will benefit. workers from companies as i mentioned in my one-minute speech like caterpillar, john deere, whirlpool, and others, companies in my state of california but have the chance to have union members, union and nonunion workers have opportunities that don't exist today because we haven't opened up these markets. so, mr. speaker, it seems to me as we look at the challenges that are lying ahead, the notion of saying we are going to continue funding at the levels that created a 91% increase in nondefense discretionary spending, that we are going to continue the funding levels that have created that obviously failed $787, if you add interest

and all, it's a trillion dollar stimulus bill which has been decried as having failed from people all across the political spectrum, and if you look at the notion of our denying the american people a chance to have their proposals heard through their elected representatives with the kind of free flowing debate when it comes to the notion of trying to bring about reductions in spending is just plain wrong. so that's why i'm going to urge my colleagues, mr. speaker, to oppose this measure and i believe that we can do better. and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i agree with my colleague from california that to the extent we can grow american markets we need to work together in a bipartisan way to do that. i join my colleague on letters

to the president, as colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to encourage the further development of trade relationships. certainly starting with trade agreements that are very near completion with colombia, panama, and south korea. also the opportunity to host the honorable ambassador from panama in my district of colorado not too long ago, and i was able to introduce him to a number of colorado businesses which stand to benefit from this. of course as a matter how this comes to task, these efforts cannot be initiated by this body. we cannot have an amendment to a c.r. if this was an open rule, we could not have an amendment to an appropriations bill which contained a trade agreement. it has to be negotiated and delivered to us by the administration. i know that president obama has been committed to delivering and working on these trade agreements. in fact in this very body in the state of the union address president obama very proudly talked about the export agenda and what it meant for american job creation. of course this means union jobs

and nonunion jobs. it means job creation overall. and the president remains committed to continuing to grow the market for american products and services across the world. and that includes enforcing intellectual property provision. it includes making sure that american products are available across the entire world. now, again, one of the issues that would be threatened if this continuing resolution is not passed is the flow of products across our border. the funding will run out for the border patrol and the ports of entry. products coming into this country for good reason have to be inspected. some of that has to do with whether there are illegal, ill -- illicit products being smuggled, illegal people being smuggled, or whether products that not allowed to be sold here or created in compliance with our existing trade agreements are created. the border security efforts would be gutted if this

continuing resolution does not pass. leaving trade in the lurch. leaving american job creation in the lurch. so this bill does have an important nexus in international trade. the passage of this continuing resolution will facilitate the continued funding of our ports of entry. the continuing funding of our border inspection services for both goods and people which must continue. what degree of confidence would our negotiating partners of south korea, panama, colombia many others have in our own ability to deliver on our trade agreements if the funding ru out. at our ports of entry for goods and products. we must not allow that to happen. i also certainly agree that the public has demonstrated in the last election they want a change in the business as usual. and i think that change has not yet fully manifested itself. yesterday this body passed the

pigford cobell bill. it had one earmark, a republican earmark, from the senate. a very large earmark that apparently was the price of support of getting it out of that body. i'm happy to say that this c.r. we have before us today is a very clean c.r., very clean continuing resolution. that would allow during this negotiating process and where we wind up with regards to these appropriation bills, next year, the year after is a very important issue for political discussion, a very important issue between both parties to come to consensus around what we can do to pass both bodies, but it's not what we are debating here today. we are simply allowing the federal government to continue to operate its ports of entries, border security, counterinsurgency efforts in pakistan, continued aid to israel, egypt, jordan, the middle east. continue to allow these companies to operate for a two-week period while we seek the bipartisan consensus that will emerge and if necessary to continue to be able to pass the

appropriations bills that are necessary to allow government to continue funding. so this c.r. is an important part of our small d democratic process and one continuing resolution has been enacted for every fiscal year since 1955. they have been in many of those cases clean continuing resolution that is simply allow the previously agreed upon rates by these bodies, the federal government to continue while the negotiateations are pending. . i believe it would impact other markets if the federal government closes down and they think we can't allow the federal government to continue its routine operations while the negotiating process for future agreements is still under way. so i encourage my colleagues to support this process through its conclusion over the next two weeks and support this continuing resolution and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from colorado reserves his time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers on our side and am prepared to yield back the balance of my time and urge my colleagues to vote no on this resolution. so i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. it is standard and bipartisan practice to consider continuing resolutions and -- under a closed rule. i would say that this has been the practice on both sides of the aisle, republicans have issued closed rules for every continuing resolution they considered in both the 108th and 109th congress. our way is to allow these governments to function. our counterinsurgency efforts in pakistan, our border security, our sky marshals. in the last -- in recent history, again, since 1955, at least one continuing resolution has been enacted in each fiscal

year except for three. and in fact during the entire 59-year period from 1952 to 2010 there were four instances when all the regular appropriation acts were enacted on time. mr. speaker, the democratic process is a time-consuming one but one that's worthwhile and one that will ultimately reflect the will of the american people with appropriation bills that emerge from the senate and from the house ultimately to be signed by the president. and this continuing resolution gives our democracy time to work, makes sure the world won't lose confidence in our economy and make sure that the vital security interests are maintained, our security, our ports of entry here at home. we must make sure that the safety of the american people doesn't pay the price for the time it takes for our democracy to work. and i strongly encourage my colleagues to support the rule and the bill and i'd like to thank chairman obey for his leadership on this bill and his

staff fotheir hard work and their dedication. i urge a yes vote on the previous question and the rule. i yield back the balance of my time and i move the question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the adoption of the resolution. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the resolution is agreed to. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. mcgovern:, mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 1742 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 248, house resolution 1742. resolved, that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill s. 3307, to re-authorize child nutrition programs, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 of rule 21. the bill shall be considered as read. all points of order against the bill are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill to final passage without

intervening motion except one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on education and labor, and two, one motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for one hour. mr. mcgovern: thank you. mr. speaker, for the purpose of debate only i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart. all time yielded during consideration of the rule is for debate only. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i also ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on house resolution 1742. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, h.res. 1742 provides a closed rule for consideration of s. 3307, the healthy, hunger-free kids act of 2010. the rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the

committee on education and labor. the rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill except those arising under clause 9 of rule 21. the rule provides that the bill shall be considered as read. it waives all provisions against the bill. finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. mr. speaker, before i begin, as many of my colleagues know, my colleague from florida, mr. diaz-balart, has decided not to seek re-election and move on to other endeavors in his home state of florida. and i just wanted to publicly thank him for his friendship over the years and also thank him for his great service not only to the people of florida but to the people of this country. and this may be the last rule that we handle together, so i wanted to take this opportunity simply to acknowledge his service and to thank him. mr. speaker, we have the

opportunity today to pass a very good bill that will improve the lives of our children. and i believe that we must seize that opportunity. i want to thank speaker pelosi and chairman miller, congresswoman delauro, congresswoman mccarthy and others who have worked so hard on this issue. and i want to say a special thank you to first lady michelle obama. she has been an incredible champion for our children, particularly in the areas of nutrition and obesity. she has challenged us to live up to one of our highest moral obligations, to make sure that the children of this nation have the nutritious food they need to grow, to thrive and to succeed. mr. speaker, as many of my colleagues know, i co-chair both the house hunger caucus and the congressional hunger center, and i've said many times that hunger is a political condition. we have the resources to end hunger, particularly childhood

hunger, and what we need is the political will to make it happen. president obama has pledged to end childhood hunger in america by 2015. if we support that goal, then we must pass this bill. i hope that the members of this house, all of us, democrats and republicans, can come together today to summon the political will necessary to move forward on this issue. there is not a single community in america that is hunger-free. talk to any food bank. they'll tell you that the demand has never been greater. and far too many people who need help are children. the child nutrition bill that we will take up today gives us a chance to provide healthy meals to hundreds of thousands of children who need them. it's also important to remember that hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. the fact is that highly processed, empty calorie foods

are less expensive than fresh nutritious foods. that's why so many families are forced to make unhealthy choices. this bill increases the reimbursement to schools for meals by six cents a meal. six cents. and that's the first increase in 30 years. the first increase in 30 years. too often the only nutritious food our kids get is in a school setting, and this bill also increases access to after-school programs. and the bill helps communities to establish farm-to-school networks which are not just good for children but are good for our local farmers. now, it's no secret, mr. speaker, that i had concerns with how this bill is paid for, and i remind my colleagues that this bill is fully paid for. the cut to the snap or food stamp program don't make a lot of sense to me. i don't believe we should be taking access to food away from some people in order to provide

it for others. but we have been assured repeatedly by the president and the white house that they will work with us to restore these cuts. and i look forward to working with the administration and my colleagues to make sure that the white house lives up to that commitment. and quite frankly, if i did not believe that that commitment to restore snap funding was real, i would have had a hard time voting for the underlying legislation. mr. speaker, this bill, the exact same piece of legislation passed unanimously in the senate. every single member of the senate, including the who's who of the most conservative republicans, voted to support re-authorizing our child nutrition programs. unfortunately, from what i heard in the rules committee last night, that probably won't happen here in the house. some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have no problem expanding wasteful weapon systems.

they have no problem expanding tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires on wall street, but apparently some of them have a problem with expanding access to nutritious food for our children. they say it's an outrageous example of big government or that a high school basketball team would be prohibited from having a bake sale. nonsense. utter nonsense. as the president of the national p.t.a. has said, and let me quote, the measure will effectively eliminate the constance presence of junk food in school while allowing reasonable practices like the periodic p.t.a. or other school group fundraisers such as bake sales and the sale of sodas at after-school sporting events, end quote. a few extra million dollars for a hedge fund millionaire doesn't need it. no problem, some of my republican friends say. but heaven forbid, heaven forbid we spend another six cents to make sure our kids have a more healthy school

lunch. those may be their priorities, mr. speaker, but they're not mine. and they aren't the priorities of the people in my district. my -- some of my friend on the other side will say they want no children in our country to go hungry. fair enough. here's their opportunity to put their vote where their rhetoric is. here's their opportunity to demonstrate that their concern for the hungry in this country is more than just lip service. . i understand the politics here, it's simple. if the president is for it my republican friends are against it. but i could ask them and plead with them to check those politics at the door just this once. please don't sacrifice an opportunity to improve the lives of millions of our children on the altar of partisan politics. the need to act is clear. our moral obligation is clear. our children are getting sicker and sicker and sicker. if kids don't have enough

nutritious food to eat, they don't learn. we are wasting millions and millions of dollars on health care for diseases like diabetes and heart disease that are preventable with healthier diets. today we can begin to turn the tide. please join us in doing the right thing. i urge my colleagues to support this rule and the underlying bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i thank my friend from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, for yielding me the time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: first, mr. speaker, thank you. i don't know if i'll have the privilege again of speaking on this floor while you're presiding. and i want to thank you for your service and especially for your friendship. to mr. mcgovern i thank him for his kind words. i said a few days ago in some

remarks here on the floor that this is a great honor of being a member of congress in the united states i will never forget. for the rest of my days i will feel that honor and i thank all of my colleagues, those who have helped me during the years here and many battles that i have been involved in and those who have opposed me. and so i think it's appropriate to point to the example of the graciousness demonstrated by mr. mcgovern. we have had very strong debates on this floor. and yet he demonstrated that graciousness once again today. i thank him for his words. as i did the other day i thank all of my colleagues, those who have agreed with me and those

who have opposed me for the great honor of allowing -- for the great honor of having been able to serve along with them. here in this congress. mr. speaker, just a few short weeks ago we have been discussing the issue of the effect of the debt on the economic reality of the american people. as a matter of fact as this congress starts reaching an end, i think it's appropriate to bring forth the fact to remind

our colleagues that this is going to be, i believe, the first congress where we have not seen even one open rule. so we stand here today with another piece of legislation being brought to the floor with no amendments allowed by the rules committee. and this case a product from the senate before us that has had absolutely no input from members of the house. i think that all of us in this house certainly the overwhelming majority of the membership of the house would support, i certainly do, the continuation of re-authorization of reduced and free school food programs. the bill before us,

unfortunately, does not improve upon the current situation in that regard. in fact, the national governors association, the bipartisan national governors association, i was reading some hours ago their objections. they have outlined several problems that they have with this underlying legislation. governors ritter of colorado and rell of connecticut highlighted new certification and monitoring mandates that will be forced on states by this legislation. in order for the states to be able to continue their important participation in these programs. actually i was disturbed to learn from the governors, bipartisan national governors association that the underlying

legislation sets a federally mandated minimum price that school districts must pay for meals. in the past if a school district negotiated lower food costs, that was considered applying smart business practices by the school districts. but no longer. with a mandatory minimum, school districts are now going to have to pay more for their food programs which of course will be passed along to middle class families in the form of higher meal costs. so i think in reality what we are seeing in this legislation is an increase, a tax increase on working families. unfortunately a substitute that was brought forth in the rules committee by the minority, by the ranking member, mr. klein, which would have re-authorized

--. mr. kleine, which would have re-authorized these programs was not allowed to be offered and that substitute amendment would have extnded and strengthened the existing programs but avoiding new mandates on states and communities. another issue, mr. speaker, that i think it's important to bring out, in order to pay for the new programs in this legislation, the congressional majority decided to use previously appropriated funding intended for the food stamp program. now, the food stamp funds were provided under the so-called stimulus legislation. so it's as though the majority is admitting that taxpayer dollars were incorrectly spent and are now using those stimulus funds to pay for these programs.

the stimulus bill was not subject to the so-called pay-go requirements because the majority labeled it as emergency spending. under the rules of the house, emergency spending cannot be used as a pay-go offset for future spending because it was never originally offset. as a result, the rule that we are debating must again waive the important pay-go requirements. i know that's difficult to follow. i was frying to understand it in the rules committee -- trying to understand it in the rules committee last night. but the end result this bill is paid for with funds borrowed by the federal government. i guess we could say we are voting to provide our children with nutritious school lunches that they'll have to pay, foreign entities we are borrowing funds from, in the

future with interest. adding to our national debt and imposing new fees on families while, by the way, we could have done this, we could have re-authorized these programs without doing -- without adding to our national debt and imposing new fees on families. adding to our national debt in that way and imposing new fees on families is not the solution to improving the nation's school meal programs at a time when obviously many are struggling. at this time i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. let me just respond to my colleague briefly by saying that when he talks about borrowing, i can't help but be reminded of the fact that my friends on the other side of the aisle have borrowed countless billions of dollars to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. they have no problem with doing

that. they have no problem with borrowing money to pay for wars. that all goes on to our credit card. they have no problem with that. what we are doing here is improving the quality of nutritious food that our kids will have access to. and in doing so, we accomplish a number of things. one is, we end up with healthier kids. that quite frankly will grow up to be healthier adults, which, guess what? will cost less on our public systems. we are ensuring when our kids get a healthy meal they can learn better in school. i don't think there's any debate, maybe there is on that side of the aisle, i don't think there's any debate about the fact that there's a tie between kids' ability to concentrate and learn and being -- having adequate food and having healthy food. so we are paying for this, i would say to my colleague, mr. diaz-balart, we are paying for

it and i know we are paying for it because i don't like the offsets. i don't like the fact that the offset -- that the senate gave us was in the program. and i have been fighting that offset. that's a real offset. and has real consequences. that's one of the reasons we are lobbying the white house to find an alternate offset. -- alternative offset. let's not diminish the fact that by passing this bill we are actually saving this government. countless billions if not trillions of dollars down the road. by making sure that our kids have access to nutritious food in the school setting. at this point i would like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from colorado, a valued member of the rules committee, mr. polis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for three minutes. mr. polis: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts and would like to join him in expressing our -- my great honor having served with the gentleman from florida. it is my hope that he and i have another opportunity to manage a rule together.

it is my expectation we'll have the opportunity to manage a rule together, in the event that doesn't happen i would like to express my warm wishes for his continued success in his future and very much look forward to seeing what the gentleman from florida will be involved with next and staying in touch and close contact for many years in the future. mr. speaker, i rise in support of s. 3307, the healthy, hunger-free act of 2010. the passage of this bill which would re-authorize the child nutrition act is critical to our nation's children, health, well-being, and academic success in school. making sure our children get a world class education can't be accomplished if our children don't get the proper nutrition to make it through the day and learn. i have a background of involvement in public education both as superintendent of charter school i started, as well as chairman of the colorado state board of education. i tasted and eaten many school

lunches. i have seen firsthand how the lack of the access to nutritious food prevents too many kids from reaching their full potential intellectually, academically, and physically. childhood hunger and poor nutrition are two of the greatest public health challenges and yet education challenges that face our country. nearly 1/3 of american children are overweight or obese. and many of those who are overweight or obese also suffer from malnutrition. and this number has been on the rise nationally as well as in my home state of colorado. this bill tackles both hunger and obesity by addressing access to food and the nutritional quality of food and i'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of the house version of this bill. this bill facilitates a coordinated approach across all levels of government, the private sector, communities, school districts, and families to make real positive change. specifically this bill ensures up to 150,000 more eligible

children access to school meals through direct certification, reducing paperwork, making qualification easier and creating savings for school districts. increases the lunch reimbursement rate by six cents per meal. that's the first real increase in over 30 years. requires updated federal nutritional standards for school meals, strengthens local school wellness policies, and continues to provide schools with increased resources and training to improve meal quality. in particular i'm pleased this bill will strengthen school district's wellness policies. these provisions which i introduced in the house, were also supported by the white house task force on child obesity report and included in the bill. our schools should be our first offense against childhood obesity, and unhealthy nutrition habits stay with kids as they mature into adults. while huger affects -- hunger

affects people of all ages it's devastating for children. 30 additional seconds? overall this is a very strong bill. and makes the necessary and responsible investments to represent a critical step in answering president obama and first lady obama's child to end childhood hunger. i urge my colleagues to support the rule and to pass the healthy hunger free kids act. i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, it's my pleasure to yield three minutes to my friend from new york, who is the author of the proposal that we will be discussing subsequently, the youcut proposal, mr. lee from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for three minutes. mr. lee: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the american people are truly frustrated, and we saw that at

the november election. they are demanding that congress starts to do what they were brought here for, and that is to get our fiscal house in order. mr. speaker, i introduced the stop the overprinting act earlier this year as a commonsense way to cut spending in washington. and i appreciate your support and selecting it as this week's youcut winner. when a member of congress today introduces or co-sponsors a bill, we receive five printed copies of the legislation regardle of the length, and the best example i can show is the 2,000-plus health care bill that stands here. so in essence, you would be getting 10,000 copies of paper in your office. when this in fact can be -- to each office has readily accessible online. a waste of money. this has been -- this bill was

introduced months ago, and we finally now have an opportunity to do something about this needless spending that's going on. when the bill was introduced just on this bill alone, the government printing office had to print nearly half million piec of paper. and, again, that's just on one single piece of bill. in this last congress, we've had more than 14,000 bills that were introduced, a lot of unnecessary cost and waste when the american people keep scratching their head as to what's going on in washington and we have a very simple way to save money. this week's youcut vote will save $35 million over the next 10 years. and the unfortunate thing about washington is unless that amount usually has the -- either a b or a t after it, bureaucrats are ignoring it. and that's got to stop and that's why we saw such a huge

change in the november election. simply put, we got the information online. let's start doing what the private sector's been doing for years is going paperless, and this is a very simple way to do it. we got to start managing a budget and doing what the private sector is and looking for every way that we can start saving a dollar. starting now we truly can change that attitude in washington and start cutting wasteful spending by supporting this youcut bill. over the past several months, house republicans have been stressing for sometime, we proposed over $155 billion in savings for taxpayers through this youcut initiative. despite the more than 2 1/2 million votes cast, republicans and those of you who have cast your votes through youcut have been met with a lot of resistance on the other side. hopefully that will change.

again, thank you for your vote and for your participation in cutting washington spending through this youcut initiative. and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. baca, who will focus on the important issue of child nutrition. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. baca: thank you very much. first of all, i thank the gentleman from massachusetts and then thank the gentleman from florida and wish him the very best of luck in his future. he's been a very good friend and a terrific legislator here as well. i rise in support of s. 3307, the healthy, hunger-free kids act. too many families are struggling to put food on the table. there are 40 million people going hungry in the united states right now, and we recently put stimulus money to increase the snap program to provide food for many of the individuals. there's 9.6% unemployment in

the united states. 14% in my district alone. these are individuals that are struggling to put food on the table. and can you imagine now a child that does not have the ability to put food in their stomach? one in four american children are currently at risk of going hungry, going hungry. you have to feel what a person who is actually going hungry and doesn't know where their meal is coming from and one and three american children are either overweight or obesed. when we talk about the going to cost the taxpayers money, no. it's actually going to save the taxpayers money in the long run because it's costing us right now $147 billion in what we're paying for obesity right now. it would reduce our health cost in that area, reduce our cost overall. as chair of the house of the agriculture committee on nutrition, i chaired hearings both in washington and in california finding ways to

fight childhood obesity and increase access to healthy foods. today's legislation offers a step forward in addressing both the child hunger and obesity. this bill expands the after-school and summer meal programs, better connects children with free food and meal benefits, improves and expands the school breakfast program, expands the w.i.c. certificate certification period for children and puts more fruits and vegetables in our schools. we passed the no child left behind act. can you imagine a child going to school having to pass a test. many times it becomes difficult because they can't -- can i have 30 seconds? mr. mcgovern: additional 30 second, mr. speaker. mr. baca: many children have a difficult time passing a lot of these tests because they're going hungry. none of us are pleased with the cuts of the sflap programs made by this bill, but i'm -- snap programs made by this bill, but

i'm trying to ensure that we fully fund the snap program. i urge my colleagues to stand up with our children. i say stand up with our children and pass this much-needed legislation. i yield back the balance of my time and ask you to support this. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, it's my pliverage to yield two minutes to -- privilege to yield two minutes to my friend from michigan, mrs. miller. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. mrs. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding mtime. mr. speaker, on election day the american people sent a very clear and unmistakable message that it is time to reduce the size of government and to cut spending. in fact, they've been demanding that we take these steps for sometime, but unfortunately the leadership in this congress has been unwilling to listen. the republicans in this house have heard the call of the american people and earlier this year began the youcut program in which the american people actually get to choose specific spending cuts that we attempt to bring to the floor.

we understand the need to change the culture around here from one of spending to one of fiscal discipline. cutting spending and ending the practice of piling a mountain of debt onto future generations. today's youcut looks to end the practice of wasteful spending by eliminating the mandatory printing of all congressional bills and resolutions by the government printing office. potentially saving over $35 million over the next 10 years. certainly that is something that we can all agree is a commonsense cut. i would urge my colleagues to join me in voting no on the previous question so that we could have the opportunity to bring this commonsense spending cut to the floor. if they do not intend to join us in the effort to end this spending now, american taxpayers can rest assure that our new republican majority will bring this cut and many, many others, mr. speaker, forward in the next congress as we endeavor to get america's fiscal house in order.

i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me just say to the gentlewoman that, you know, when they're in charge i'm happy to support her in eliminating excessive paperwork. i wish she and others would understand the importance of what we're discussing here today, feeding hungry kids, making sure that our children get nutritious meals in schools. i mean, i got to be honest with you. i think that's a hell of a lot more important. and the fact that to some of my friends on the other side of the aisle, this appears as if it is some sort of a trivial issue, tells me they haven't been to the food banks and haven't been to some of the schools talking to teachers and talking to people who oversee the food school program to see the challenges in providing healthy meals to our kids. we all talk about how we want to control health care costs. let's give our kids healthy food in school settings. that will do more to control health care costs and ensure that kids will have a healthy

adulthood. you want to deal with the issue of better test scores, making sure kids have a good nutritious meal and a school -- in a school setting is one of the ways to do that. that's an important issue. this is a big deal what we're talking about here today. this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that has come to this floor. and i would appreciate if my friends on the other side of the aisle would join us in supporting this underlying bill so we can get it on the president's desk at the end of the day to get him to sign this so we can move forward in an area that is of great importance. mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield four minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro, who's been a champion on this and so many other issues dealing with food and security and hunger and good nutrition. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized for four minutes. ms. delauro: i thank the gentleman, and i might just say to the prior speaker on the other side of the aisle that

the american people did not vote to cut food for kids in our country. they voted to cut the tax cuts that are provided to the corporate special interests in this nation, which the other side of the aisle seems to have no problem with. i rise today in support of this rule, the hunger-free kids act represents a long overdue, a much-needed recommitment to the health and to the well-being of our schoolchildren. we all know the double-edge problem that millions of young people currently face. today's kids are threatened by both the growing obesity epidemic and far too many struggling families in this economy are facing hunger. and according to a recent report, one out of every four young adults are too overweight to serve in our military. at the same time, according to

the food research action center, one out of every four households with children experience food hardships this year, meaning they did not have the money to purchase the food their families needed. don't let people fool you with words like food hardship and food insecurity. it results in hunger. kids in this nation are going to bed hungry every single night. this bill marks a significant step forward against both fronts of this dangerous movement by expanding access to emphasizing good nutrition for all schoolchildren. this bill will reduce hunger. it will reduce obesity. the hunger-free kids act will add $115 -- 115,000 new students into the school meal program. it uses medicaid data to certify eligible kids. it will provide an additional 21 million meals a year by reimbursing providers for

after-school meals to low-income children. while expanding access to meal programs, this bill works to improve the nutritional quality of all the food in our schools. it sets national nutrition standards that will finally get all of the junk food infiltrating our classrooms and our cafeterias out the door. and for those schools who comply with these revised nutrition standards, it provides the first real reimbursement rate increase. six cents a meal. and that is the largest increase we have seen in over 30 years. this bill will also strengthen the far-to-school network so that more healthy produce, local food, even the foods that are grown in the school garden can find their way into the menus. our kids consume roughly 35% to 50% of their daily calories during the school day. by passing this bill we can

help see that they are getting enough nutritious food to stay healthy, to grow, to learn, to succeed, and given the current economic climate, i know some will ask -- how can we afford this bill? i say, how can we afford not to pass it? leaving millions of children hungry, malnourished in the name of budget cutting is penny-wise, pound foolish, especially from those who will say let's provide the richest 2% of those in this nation with a tax cut and over $00,000 a year. they're eating well. they're eating high on the hog and kids are going to bed hungry every night in our nation. countless studies have shown that kids with access to a nutritious breakfast perform well, do better in school. from the very beginning i have been working and others have been working to expand access to federal aid, including the food stamp program for eligible

children. we want to make sure that all of our kids have access to the nutrition they need for a healthy future. using the food stamp money for an offset -- thank you. using the food stamp money as an offset is a time when one in five kids received food stamp assistance moves us away from that goal. nevertheless, this legislation is a big step forward. i for one and others have said we will continue to push, to see that the snap funding is restored. we will work with the white house to make sure those funds are restored, and i'm happy to see the congress moving in the right direction today and pledge to fight to continue to have access to the resources that will allow us to have all kids who are eligible for these resources have the accessibility to gain these resources. i urge my colleagues, vote in favor of this rule. nothing that we do in this body is as important than ensuring that our children, or grandchildren and the next generation of americans have

the tools, the opportunity and the nutrition that they need to thrive and to succeed. our kids deserve no less. thank you and i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i would like to point out i think it's important to clarify that if our proposal today to -- the youcut proposal to eliminate for the taxpayer unnecessary spending on paperwork. if that's adopted, it doesn't negate in any way, it would not negate in any way consideration of the underlying bills. on the lunch programs. at this point i'd like to yield two minutes to my friend from west virginia, mrs. capito. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from west virginia is recognized. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to say that i applaud the first lady, michelle

obama, for her efforts in childhood obesity. i hail from the state of west virginia who has probably some of the highest percentage of childhood obesity and i think the issue in the underlying bill is tremendously important for our nation and for the future as is the nutritional aspects of that. and as the gentleman from florida said, i'm going to talk on the youcut because i believe cutting spending and not passing on generational debt to those same children is an important issue as well. over the last few months millions of americans have used youcut as a way to voice their concern over the out-of-control spending in washington and many have offered their own solutions on how the government can be more efficient' more accountable. unfortunately a lot of these -- most of these have fallen on deaf ears as the congress has voted repeatedly to try to rein in the spending of taxpayer dollars and we simply cannot continue down this path. each week we brought a simple yet effective way to cut wasteful spending before the house and it has failed every

time. today i will support eliminating the requirement to print copies of every single bill and resolution imagine how many pages that is, that's been introduced in congress because a lot of these, all of these are already available online. i want to congratulate mr. lee of new york for bringing forth this proposal. this will save millions of dollars over the next decade. a small number in the grand scheme of things but nevertheless a significant start. there's no question that cutting the deficit will require some tough decisions on or part. let's start out now one which everyone can agree, i think this should be one of them. with that i would like to yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, when my friends talk about passing on to future generations debt, i can't help but wonder where they were when president bush passed his tax cuts that added over a

trillion dollars to our debt. totally unpaid for. most of them going to millionaires and billionaires. i want to know where they are right now, why they are not saying that the -- they want to extend the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, they still don't want to pay for it. but somehow when it comes to debt and piling it on to future generations, when it comes to tax cuts for very healthy people, they are silent. they are silent. where were they when president bush at 2:00 in the morning, whatever, kept a roll call open for three hours and passed the medicare prescription drug bill totally uncalled for that cost more than advertised. totally silent. where are they when some of us are saying we ought to pay for these wars? if you want them you ought to pay for them or end them? i prefer to end them, but for those who want them you ought to pay for them. they are silent. when it comes to closing

loopholes for big corporations that routinely stick it to the american people, no, we can't do that. that might even though it might save money for taxpayers, we put it toward deficit reduction, no. those are very wealthy special interests. they want to protect them. whether it's big oil or pharmaceuticals or whatever, at any cost. so when i hear them talk about debt, i'm reminded of the fact that when president clinton left office we had a surplus. they ran this place, and drove this economy into a ditch. and quite frankly it's been a nightmare trying to dig us out of this ditch. and i give the president great credit for his courage in trying to move this country forward in the area of health care. and today in the area of trying to move this bill forward on child nutrition. they have no credibility when it comes to talking about reducing deficits or debt.

and in fact as we speak they are trying to figure out a way, i think probably to defeat this bill to take the money that this bill -- that this bill cost, the offsets for this bill, take that money and put it toward tax cuts for rich people. that's what they want to do. again i would urge my colleagues to understand the importance of what we are doing today. we are trying to make sure that our kids get healthy food and nutritious food in school settings. we are trying to pave the way for healthy futures for our kids. we want to make sure our kids learn better. this is important stuff that we are talking about here today. i would urge all of my colleagues to support the rule. to -- and to support the underlying bill. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i would ask mr. mcgovern if he has any additional speakers? mr. mcclovenn i'm the -- mr. mcgovern: i'm the final

speaker. mr. diaz-balart: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise andxtend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. -- h.res. 1742. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, i believe it's fitting that those of us on this side of the aisle are bringing forward another proposal, youcut proposal, that's been voted on and recommended to this house by a significant number of our constituents. they continue to sound the alarm on government spending and we must, this congress must finally listen. to date participants in republican whip kantor's -- cantor's youcut initiative have voted to cut over $180 billion in spending this week those

participating have voted for a proposal by congressman lee of new york who we heard from before to end the unnecessary printing of congressional bills and resolutions. i think it's appropriate that we finally acknowledge the existence of the internet and that much unnecessary spending is taking place through the printing of documents. that was appropriate and logical in the past, but not after the development of many new technologies. so i will be asking members to vote no on the previous question so that we can have a vote on congressman lee's proposal. again, i remind my colleagues that a no vote on the previous question will not preclude

consideration of the underlying legislation. that we have been debating today. i ask unanimous consent, mr. speaker, that the text of the amendment and extraneous material be placed in the record prior to the vote on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. diaz-balart: and again i urge my colleagues to vote no on the previous question and no on the rule. having said that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: how much time do i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: five minutes. mr. mcgovern: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, my republican friends will do what they always do, they'll come up with some stunts to try to get us to delay or to not pass this bill today. that's just what they do. and the fact is that if we change this underlying bill in

any way, i would urge my colleagues to be prepared for probably an uncomfortable or ugly motion to recommit later on in the debate, but if any of their procedural stunts prevail, then we will end up not passing this bill. the senate will not consider an amended child nutrition bill. it ended right here an now and that would be a tragedy. i would urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stop the politics just for a few minutes and do the right thing when it comes to this child nutrition bill. this is a bill that will improve access for our kids. this is a bill that increases the focus on nutrition quality and on children's health. it's a bill that will improve program management and program integrity. it is fully paid for. this is no cost to the taxpayers. and i would say to my colleagues on the democratic side who are concerned about the current

offset that we have a commitment from the white house to fix that in a future vehicle so the offset is not the snap cuts. but the underlying bill here is a good bill. it is a good bill that will mean a world of difference for hundreds of thousands if not millions of our kids all throughout this country. making sure that hungry kids get at least one, hopefully more than one, nutritious meal a day in a school setting. it's something we all should be for. it should not be the subject of partisan politics. making sure our kids get healthy nutritious food and not junk in school. should be a priority of all of ours, republican and democrat alike. this shouldn't be a partisan issue. the fact that we are here today and there's some controversy around this bill tells me it's just politics as usual. my friends on the republican

side don't like it because the president likes it. well, you know what, that's been your -- the routine throughout the entire tenure of this president. but for once, for once just put the party politics aside and do what's right. i co-chair the house hunger caucus and congressional hunger center. hunger is a problem in this country. there are tens of millions of our citizens who are hungry. 17 million children in this country. the united states of america, the richest country on this planet, are hungry. it's a national disgrace. all of us in this congress should be ashamed of that fact that we haven't been able to help be part of the solution in a more significant way. this is one way that we can be proud of that solution. and so -- i have a list of national organizations, state organizations too many to put in the across-the-board -- congressional record, and -- but

it is significant. the support across this country for this legislation is significant. and i want to thank the speaker of the house and chairman george miller and rosa delauro and carolyn mccarthy and barbara lee and so many others. i want to thank senator blanch lincoln who is a champion of this legislation over in the senate. but we must act today. we must do what's right for our kids, for our kids. not for our political party but for our kids. so enough of the stunts, let's say no to all the stunts today. let's say yes to this important child nutrition re-authorization bill. yes to a healthier future for our kids. yes to making sure they can better learn in school. yes to develop better and healthier habits that will last them a lifetime. this is a good, this is an important bill, this is a big deal today. it is a huge deal. and everybody should join and support the final passage of the

bill. so i urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the rule. i urge my colleagues not to fall for any motion to recommit stunts when the bill is under consideration. and i yield back the balance of my time. i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. ayes have it. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by five-minute votes on adopting house resolution 1742, if ordered, adopting house

resolution 1741, and suspend the rules with regards to house concurrent resolution 323, house resolution 1735, if ordered, and house resolution 1430, if ordered. members this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: 229. the nays are 177.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 229.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 232. the nays are 180. the previous question is ordered. the esti is on adoption of the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: we request the yeas and nays.

the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. members, this is a five-minute vote. five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 230 and the nays are 174. the resolution is adopted and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

motion motion of the adoption of house resolution 1741 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 247, house resolution 1741, resolution providing for consideration of the joint resolution, house joint resolution 101, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2011 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the adoption of the resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device. members, this is five-minute vote, five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 230 and the nays are 169.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are -- 236 and the nays are 172. the resolution is adopted. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from new york -- the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. mccarthy, to suspend the rules and agree to house res. concurrent resolution 323 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 323, concurrent resolution supporting the goal of ensuring that all holocaust survivors in the united states are able to live with dignity, comfort and security in their remaining years. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to

the concurrent resolution. members will record their vote by electronic device. members, this is a five-minute vote, five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 406. the nays are none. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the concurrent resolution is agreed to. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the unfinished business is the question on suspend the rules and agreeing to house resolution 1735, which the clerk will report by title. the speaker pro tempore: house resolution 1735, resolution condemning north korea in the strongest terms for its unprovoked military attack against south korea on november 23, 2010.

the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative -- >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the rules are suspended. resolution is agreed to. the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from colorado. >> on that i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. members, this is a five-minute vote. five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the naonal captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas were 403. the nays were two.

2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the unfinished business is the question on suspend the rules and agreeing to house resolution 1430 as amended which the clerk will report by title. the speaker pro tempore: house resolution 1430, resolution honoring and saluting golf legend juan antonio chi-chi rodriguez for his commitment to latino youth programs of the congressional hispanic caucus institute. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the -- a recorded vote is requested.