are 106 with two answering present. the journal stands approved. the house will be in order.

members will take their seats. members will clear the well. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? mr. scott: madam speaker, i send to the desk a privileged concurrent resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 43, resolved that when the house adjourns on the legislative day of friday, april 15, 2011, or saturday, april 16, 2011, on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its majority leader or his designee, it stand adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, may 2, 2011, or until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, which ever occurs first, and that when the senate recesses or adjourns on any day from thursday, april 14, 2011, through april 29,

2011, on a motion offered pursuant to this concurrent resolution by its majority leader or his designee it stand recessed or adjourned until noon on monday, may 2, 2011, or such other time on that day as may be specified in a motion to recess or adjourn or until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section 2 of this concurrent resolution, which ever occurs first. section 2, the speaker of the house and the majority leader of the senate or their respected de-designees acting jointly after consultation with the minority leader of the house and the minority leader of the senate shall notify the members of the house and the senate respectively to reassemble at such place and time as they may designate in their opinion if the public interest shall warrant it. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the current resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.

>> i ask the yeas and nays on that. the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. the gentleman from virginia. >> i do request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. 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 kentucky seek recognition? >> madam speaker, pursuant to

house resolution 218, i call up the bill h.r. 1473, making appropriations for the department of defense and other departments and agencies of the government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. mr. rogers: and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1473, a bill making appropriations for the department of defense and other departments and agencies of the government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 218, the bill is considered as read. the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, and the gentleman from washington, mr. dicks, each will control 30 minutes. the house will be in order. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all

members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 1473 and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. rogers: i'm please to bring to the floor today h.r. 1473, the full year spending agreement for fiscal year 2011. this final c.r. makes nearly $40 billion of real spending cuts compared to fiscal 2010 levels while funding the government critical services and programs and supporting our nation's troops for the rest of this fiscal year. after weeks of hard-fought negotiations, all sides were able to come together in this final agreement to find common

ground and take steps to help balance our budget. this legislation is a bold move for congress, one that points us in the right direction on federal spending. never before has any congress made dramatic cut such as these that are in this final bill. the near $40 billion reduction in nondefense spending is tens of billions of dollars larger than any other cut in history and as a result of this new republican majority's commitment to bring about real change in the way washington spends the people's money. my committee went line by line through agency budgets to execute the agreement reached by our speaker crafting deep but responsible reductions in virtually all areas of government. our bill targets wasteful and

duplicative spending, makes strides to rein in out-of-control federal bureaucracies and will help bring our nation one step closer to eliminating our job-crushing level of debt. this led to the following cuts from the president's budget request -- agriculture accounts were reduced by 14%, commerce, justice and science reduced by 12%. energy and water reduced by 12%. financial services general government 13%. interior and environment by 9%. labor, health and human services and education, 8%. legislative branch, 11% cut. state and foreign operations, 15% cut. and transportation and h.u.d., 19% cut. the department of defense is

funded at $513 billion, which is a $5 billion increase over fiscal 2010 to provide the necessary resources for our troops and the success of our nation's military actions. in this bill, madam speaker, we defunded obama administration czars. we said niet. ending unsuccessful education programs, advanced efforts to repeal obamacare and reduced congress' own budget. we've also put into place mandatory audits for the consumer financial protection bureau, banned taxpayer funding of abortion in washington, d.c., and continued the global fight against terrorism. in addition, with this legislation we have ended the

stimulus spending spree and have taken the next step to cutting trillions of dollars in the years to come. we stood by our commitment to eliminate earmarks, terminated unnecessary and ineffective programs and made real spending cuts that will help right our fiscal ship. and we will continue to hold the government to a standard of responsible, sustainable spending in the future. our goal is and has been to keep precious taxpayer dollars where they are needed most, in the hands of our small businesses and individuals so they can create jobs and grow our economy. i hope, madam speaker, that my colleagues will take the opportunity to support this historic bill and finally close the book on the fiscal year 2011 budget.

for those who have been saying in their career here in this body, i came here to cut spending and to bring down the size of the government, i say to them, here's your chance. if you believe in cutting spending you can vote for $40 billion of it today, the largest any member of congress has ever been able to vote for. this is historic. a historic reduction in federal spending after a two-year spending spree that increased discretionary spending by 82%. this bill will reverse that rise and will start us back down toward responsible spending in the government. now, madam speaker, before i close, i'd like to take a moment and thank these hardworking individuals who've

been toiling behind the scenes now on this bill for the last several months. little fanfare. they get no credit in public that made this legislation possible. our legislative counsels deserve our appreciation, and i want to say thanks to tom cassidy, ryan greenlaw and their group of appropriations coordinators. i'd like also to thank janet ayers and the staff at the c.b.o. and i also want to thank the floor staff, the parliamentarians, capitol police and all those support staff who put in the extra hours to keep this institution running. and finally, i want to offer a special thanks to the appropriations committee's find staff on both sides of this aisle.

those in our full committee, the subcommittee clerks, the subcommittee staffs in both majority and minority. they've been given impossible task after impossible task, facing untenable deadlines, gone for days and weeks, working around the clock and yet have miraculously produced all we have asked of them and more. and i want to especially say a real thanks to the clerk of the committee, bill england, the deputy clerk, will smith, and all of the other staff that's worked on the majority side and mr. dicks and his wonderful staff have been just mag in an muss of their support -- mag in an muss of their support. dicksdicks i want to -- mr. dicks: i want to say thanks to bill and david.

they have all done a phenomenal job under very difficult circumstances. we applaud all of them. i appreciate the chairman mentioning this. mr. rogers: well, they've hardly slept in three months and they worked around the clock, on weekend, at 4:00 in the morning you'd find them still there. it's an amazing performance they contributed to this great body. i reserve the balance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield to the gentleman from virginia, mr. moran, the ranking minority member of the subcommittee on appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. moran: thank you, madam chair. i want to share the comments of those who worked 24/7, around the clock. madam speaker, politics is the art of compromise, and this

continuing resolution is the epitomy of compromise. members on the other side of the aisle, just like many aspects of this bill, as many members on this side of the aisle dislike other aspects of this deal. the compromise reached by the negotiators produced a bill that was imperfect at best. however, it's the responsible thing to do with the government shutdown looming. it does fund the department of defense for the remainder of the fiscal year which is absolutely necessary for our troops currently in combat around the world. in the interior and environment portion where i serve as ranking member, the details of the deal do show constructive compromise at work. i am pleased that all of e.p.a.'s environmental writers were dropped, but the agency was cut by $1.6 billion. mostly on the back of states

with cuts to the safe drinking water and wastewater infrastructure programs. i guess when many republican governors have claimed that the stimulus money was wasteful spending, then they will not object too much to a reduction in these important infrastructure programs even though it's coming out of the pockets of their states. in a compromised agreement we have asked delisting of the gray wolves from the endangered species list. but we have secured increase funding for indian health, which is certainly the right thing to do. as mo udall once said, if you can find something everyone agrees on, you can count on it being wrong. well, everyone in this body, as i said, can find something. in fact, many things, even, that they disagree with in this resolution. but in my judgment it does contain more good than bad. it may represent the only kind

of legislation that can be enacted in this time of heightened partisanship and fundamental differences and political philosophy. the deal reached is a vast improvement from what this house voted on on h.r. 1 just a few weeks ago. the w.i.c. nutrition programs is nearly $ 50 million above h.r. 1. legal services corporation at $405 million. that's $55 million above h.r. 1. head start is funded at $7.6 billion, $340 million above the enacted level. and $1.4 million above h.r. 1. this is in stark contrast to h.r. 1 which zeroed out title 10. may i have another 15 seconds? mr. dicks: 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. moran: because h.r. 1 was set at such a low bar, this was

looked at. we can provide agencies with some certainty and stability so they can go about conducting the people's business. members will have to decide for themselves if elements disappoint them outweigh the good. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the distinguished speaker of the house, the gentleman who toiled long and hard to bring us the largest spending cut in the history of the country, speaker john boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: let me thank the chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. rogers, and his staff and all the staff for the sacrifices and hard work that they put forward over the last several months in order to get us to this point. you know, for years now, our economy's been stalled and stumbling. in the private sector jobs are not being created.

something's clogging the engine of our economy. that something is uncertainty. uncertainty being caused by the actions that are being taken in this town. and one of the prime causes of uncertainty is spending. our failure to do -- deal with a spending binge has been chipping away with the economic confidence that the americans want to have in their country. and washington's spending addiction is a bipartisan problem. it didn't start under the current administration but the current administration clearly made it worse. this problem is not going to be fixed overnight and this bill does not fix it. the budget proposed by chairman of the budget committee, mr. ryan, the path to prosperity, does deal with the long-term problem. what this bill does, it stops the bleeding. it also starts us moving back in the right direction.

does it cut enough? no. do i wish it cut more? absolutely. do we need to cut more? absolutely. but there are some who claim that the spending cuts in this bill aren't real. that they're gimmicks. well, i just think it's total nonsense. a cut is a cut and this bill will cut an estimated $315 billion over the next 10 years. the largest nondefense discretionary cut in the history of our country. you want discretionary cuts? this bill has billions of them. you want mandatory cuts? they're in here too. clearing out some of the underbrush in the federal budget while we get ready to debate the path to prosperity. every dime in this bill that is cut is a dime that washington will spend if we leave it on the table and if you vote no on this

bill you're voting to do exactly that. leaving this money on the table to be spent by unelected bureaucrats. there are some who say that the spending cuts in this bill aren't real. that they're already scheduled. well, let me show you what was already scheduled. this chart is based on a chart produced last week by an economist at stanford university, john taylor. what it shows is the difference between what the president wanted to spend this year and what we will actually spend this year when this bill passes. the difference, $78.5 billion less than what the president requested. nower there are some who want to say that this bill is just more of the same. well, if you believe that it's more of the same, this chart will show you the direction of

federal spending over the last couple of years. on that 1/3 of the budget that we call discretionary spending that we fight over all year. it couldn't be more stark. it's like driving down the highway and throwing your car into reverse and instead of spending more and more and more, guess what? we're actually going to spend less in the discretionary budget this year. now there are some press articles who have picked up on some spin from our colleagues across the aisle suggesting that the bill will result in smaller savings than advertised between now and september. and it's just not the case. it comes down to the fact that there's a difference between budget authority and budget outlays. a budget authority is how much an agency is allowed to spend on a given program, it's the license to spend taxpayer dollars. outlays show how much an agency will spend over time based on

current and prior budget authority. and these are the results of how quickly taxpayer dollars are spent. the final agreement cuts nearly $40 billion in budget authority, taking away the license to spend the money which will result in deficit savings of an estimated $315 billion over the next decade. and when we pass this bill, washington will spend $315 billion less than it's currently on track to spend over the next 10 years. and it is just that simple. the path to prosperity is the plan that will take us where we truly need to go. this bill doesn't do that. but this bill starts us moving in the right direction. it eliminates one program from the president's health care law, cuts another program in his health care law in half. it eliminates funding for some of the administration's czars, bureaucrats that were charged with implementing the bailouts and takeovers, and guarantees

that they won't be coming back. it bans taxpayer funding of abortion in the district of columbia, ensuring that taxpayer funds won't be used to fund the destruction of human life. it saves the d.c. opportunity scholarship program, giving thousands of children here in this city a chance at a decent education. is it perfect? no. i'd be the first one to admit that it's flawed. well with, welcome to divided government -- well, welcome to divided government. i can tell that you the negotiations that went on over the last four or five weeks, they weren't easy. especially when you've got another body on the other side of this capitol that doesn't want to cut spending and clearly an administration that doesn't want to cut spending. but i'll tell you that this is the best we could get out of divided government. the gentleman referred to it earlier as a compromise. well, i'd say it was a hard

fight to get to kind of spending cuts that we got, these are real spending cuts. i think this bill sets up the stage for us to begin making the fundamental changes that need to be made to put our nation back on a path to prosperity. and i would urge all of you to join me in supporting this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will remind all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the house and that any manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceed sgs in violation of the rules of the house -- proceedings is in violation of the rules of the house. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, builds delauro, ranking member -- ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for three minutes. ms. delauro: madam speaker, governing is about choices. everyone in this body agrees that we need to get our fiscal house in order, bring down the deficit and cut programs that do not work.

the question before us is, how we choose to get there. unfortunately at almost every turn in this continuing resolution the majority has chosen to keep special interests giveaways to big corporate lobbyists while making middle class and working families bear the brunt of the spending consults. instead of ending $40 billion in oil company subsidies that this country gives out every year, they're giving them out right now, this resolution cuts $1.6 billion from our attempts to protect the environment, prevent climate change and it slashes education and infrastructure funding, biomedical research and food safety. the chairman of the full committee said a moment ago that we are going to cut this deficit by $40 billion, by cutting those programs. we could have made up that difference with the $40 billion

in the subsidies that we give to the oil companies today. instead of ending billions in subsidies to big agra business it cuts funding for food safety inspections, women's health care under title 10 and virtually eliminates the national health service. instead of ending billions in tax loopholes for corporations who ship our jobs overseas it slashes funding for vital job training services by $1 billion. it ends education programs that our children rely on like even start and teach for america. it ends literacy programs for children in the united states and at the same time we are providing dollars in afghanistan to train their youngsters in literacy by cutting it out in the united states of america. instead of ending the billions in tax breaks for the wealthiest americans it cuts -- guts community health centers by $600 million. it cuts funding for women with infant and children by $500

million, it shortchanges public safety, it cuts biomedical research and cuts the centers for disease control by 11%. the american people expect better from us, they want our budget to reflect common sense, mainstream priorities that are good for our country, good for the middle class. instead this resolution offers the status quo on special interest waste and that hurts people who are trying to do the right thing. this budget will hurt our economy, cost us jobs, put the health and the safety of middle class and working families at risk. it may be an improvement on the tea party budget that this house passed several weeks ago, but that was not the standard we should apply here. this resolution still gives oil companies, special interests, a pass, while hurting american families. these are not the right choices for the american people. i urge my colleagues to oppose this misguided resolution. that would be the right thing to do. we can and must do better.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to the chairman of the defense subcommittee of appropriations, the gentleman from florida, mr. young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for three minutes. mr. young: madam speaker, today i will limit my comments to the division a of this bill which is basically the defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011. this is a bill that should have been passed last year but for some strange reason it didn't get passed. as chairman of the defense committee this year, i'm happy that it's going to become under my watch. but it wouldn't be fair if i didn't point out that the bill basically is a remnant that was crafted together with chairman dicks last year. and should have been passed. we have been functioning, our defense department, and our

national defense, on a continuing resolution since last year. that is not good. the c.r. is not good period. but a c.r. for national defense could become extremely serious. we were getting very close to the point of affecting readiness, of affecting our troops, of affecting our family. and so passing this law, this bill today, is certain that we will do that is right and hopefully it will go through the process and go to the president, everybody will keep their deal and sign off on the bill. i compliment speaker boehner, his leadership team, i compliment chairman rogers and his team, because we looked at this bill very closely and they asked me if the subcommittee could reduce some of the defense spending in this bill. the answer was yes.

we were diligent, we spent days and hours, weeks making sure that we found sources of money that we could eliminate without having a negative effect. and i will say to my colleagues, i would never support an appropriations bill or any other bill that will affect our readiness or that will affect our troops. just won't do it. i can't do it to the defense of our nation and our soldiers who provide that defense is too important. but when chairman rogers asked if we could go to this number, we were very careful. there is a reduction in the defense bill in this bill. for those of who you are concerned that it might have had an adverse effect on our nation's defense, it will not. we don't want to make very many more cuts in the defense bill because today we all know what the requirement is. there's discussion at the white house and with the secretary of

defense who almost seem to disagree now that there should be more cuts, mo draconian cuts. you can't do that. you can't just pick out a number for defense out of the air. you can't roll the dice. you can't spin the wheel. you've got to make your funding and your investment in national defense based on what is the threat to this country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. young: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to congressman mike walz, distinguished leader here in the house, from arkansas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arkansas is recognized for three minutes. mr. ross: thank you, madam speaker, and, you know, i've heard several reasons -- references this afternoon to this two-year spending spree. and i would take issue thank with that, madam speaker -- issue with that, madam speaker. it took george washington through jimmy carter to put this country $3 trillion in debt.

we've added the other $13 trillion not in the last two years but we have added it since 1981. so i think if we're going to be honest with the american people we've got to say, we've been on a 30-year spending spree with the exception of four years during the clinton administration where we had back to back balanced budgets. but i rise today to discuss the importance of education funding to our children and our nation's future success and prosperity. while i commend all sides for coming together to make spending cuts, i also believe that these are important investments in education that must be protected , prioritized and maintained. proven programs like title 1, idea, trio and education technology should be maintained and prioritized because they provide essential services to the students with the greatest needs throughout our nation. i'm concerned that we are moving away from basic education aid to all states and increasingly relying on competitive grants

which often disadvantage rural school districts and rural students in many states like my home state of arkansas. ultimately i believe that how we choose to invest our nation's resources, reflect -- resources reflect our priorities as a people and as a nation and if we truly want to grow our economy and create jobs in an ever-increasing global economy, our priority must be on our nation's education system and ensuring that all students receive a world class education. as we continue working together to reduce our debt and reduce spending, i hope that we can put an emphasis on the educational needs of our children and continue to invest in their futures. our children did not get us in this fiscal mess. let's not punish them, rather let's make the difficult choices and the tough decisions that the people sent us here to make, to ensure that we can put this nation on a path toward a

balanced budget. and with that, madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: yield two minutes to the gentleman from virginia, frank wolf, who is chair of the commerce, justice, science, appropriations subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia voiced for two minutes. mr. wolf: i think john boehner has done an incredible job and also mr. rogers and the appropriations staff on both sides of the aisle for their god work. this has really not been done before. i rise in strong support of the bill, provides the appropriations for the department of defense and other agencies. the bill before the house is a long overdue conclusion to the fiscal year 2011 appropriations process which previous congresses have failed to really address. the new congress has crafted a package of thoughtful and necessary reductions to discretionary spending which will put the country back on a path of fiscal responsibility. the bill includes a total of

$53.4 billion on the jurisdiction of commerce, justice, science. reduction of $11 billion or 17% from fiscal year 2010 and reduction of $7 billion or 12% from the president's imp. at the same time the bill -- president's request. at the same time the bill has the f.b.i. national security programs and the basic scientific research supportive of the national science foundation and nist and others. also, the bill includes a funding language needed to allow nasa to move forward with the new space exploration program that we'll outline in the re-authorization bill. this takes care of nasa and there is language prohibiting nasa and the office of science and technology in the white house from participating in bilateral cooperation with china.

the chinese regime is engaged in aggressive espionage program to steal from companies. almost all of the agencies but also the defense department and congress included is being hacked. it's easy to condemn and complain but this is a good bill and i urge all members to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to the distinguished the gentlelady from ohio, congresswoman kaptur, who is the senior member of the appropriations committee and the senior woman of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for two minutes. ms. kaptur: i thank the gentleman for yielding.

madam speaker, here is the silly appropriations process. it ends on a day when unemployment claims are going up, not down, when gas prices are rising, and when food prices are dramatically on the rise. i say to my colleagues that it is math matcally impossible to balance a $1.5 trillion deficit by only cutting from the 12% of total federal discretionary spending and with no tax breaks spending on the table. for the largest account, defense and homeland security, they're not even included in the reduction. yet, job creating accounts like transportation and housing are cut by 18%, 1/5. how does this make sense when 40% of american building trade workers are out of work and housing is in the doll drum. agriculture programs for the unemployed, seniors and children are cut by 13% when wall street is walking away with billions. if we are going to be serious

in this congress about balancing the federal deficit, then we need to put everything on the table, all programs, all revenue accounts, entitlement programs, mandatory programs, farm subsidies, outdated direct federal subsidies to the west. we must address tax expenditure, spending and nonpayment of tax by the most well-endowed corporations and individuals in this country. corporate profits are at an all-time high yet they're not hiring. shareholders benefits but not the workers. mr. rorges and mr. dicks have tried to do everything they can to get to this point. they are to be highly commended by having an open pro he sess and working with the other side of the aisle. it's time that the other chairmen look at tax spending under their jurisdiction and make necessary cuts to bring our account into balance. i've been part of the congress that have balanced budgets year after year but back in the 1990's what we did is focused

on job and job creation and used budgets to aid the creation of job and revenue they generate. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. kaptur: could the gentleman yield 30 seconds? mr. dicks: i don't have the time. 15 seconds. ms. kaptur: all right. i thank you. for the sake of this institution and our republic, i hope a final vote on this c.r. can end the slow, sad and silly process we've endured. i won't be able to support the bill because it really is a bill that will cost jobs, not create jobs, but at least will end the budget whiplash we've been through and subjected the country to in the last few months. i yield back the remainder of my time. mr. rogers: i yield two minutes, madam speaker, to the distinguished chairman of the energy and water subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: madam speaker, i share the desire to have additional spending cuts

to this continuing resolution. even though this measure cuts more federal spending than any other bill in the history of our nation, i recognize that the president and the senate will not support additional reductions. this is unfortunate because like many of us in this house recognize that our nation is compiled a public debt of $14 trillion and an annual budget deficit -- our annual budget deficit will total $1.5 trillion into the foreseeable future, an unsustainable amount. simply put, we are broke and this bill is but a first step towards putting us on a much more sound fiscal staff. the 2012 fiscal year package lies ahead and we need to take additional steps to cut spending and do it in a rational way to promote jobs and economic growth. the energy totals $31.75 billion, a 10% cut from the president's budget request. our approach was simple. every program in our

jurisdiction was scrutinized for savings while protecting national security and providing appropriate support for job growth and a balanced energy supply. overall funding for the national nuclear security administration, $696 million, a 7% increase from fiscal year 2010. the only significant increase in this section. this funding will assure that our nuclear weapons remain reliable and our programs to stop the spread of fissile materiels overseas stays strong. there's no important mandate for the department of energy. funding for the army corps of engineers is $4.9 billion, below the request. program dollars was concentrated in the operations and maintenance accounts to ensure that the corps has sufficient funding for its key missions. madam speaker, these cuts are only the beginning.

we need to do more and i support the measure and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the distinguish gentleman from virginia, mr. fattah, the ranking member on the subcommittee of energy and science. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. fattah: let me thank the ranking member, the gentleman from washington, and thank the chairman. i've had the opportunity to work with chairman wolf on the commerce, science, justice activities contained in this c.r., and i think that notwithstanding the very challenging fiscal circumstances that chairman wolf has worked towards a set of priorities that will help move our country forward. i want to point out our highest priority within that section of the commerce department, the mferings extension partnerships which -- manufacturing extension partnerships which

will see a rise and there are major increases for the f.b.i. and its important role related to national security. there's a lot of discussions about the cuts here. we passed an omnibus on the floor of the house on december 10 when the democratic party was in the majority. we cut some $45 billion from the president's request in appropriate ways that we felt were necessary. the new majority has reduced some accounts, some we would agree with, some we would disagree with. what's critically important is to focus on the fact that even though the c.r. makes cuts actually authorizes appropriations over $1 trillion. these are needed appropriations that is important for our country. things related to nasa and our

international space station, relative to noaa and its severe weather warnings and tsunami protections, focus on the commerce department and nist and a whole range of agencies, it's very, very important that we get out of the temporary c.r. business. we can't run the greatest country on the face of the earth on a week-by-week basis, and this had bring a final conclusion to this, and i want to say finally as we approach f.y. 2012, even though there's been a lot of talk about cutting, i would hasten to add that we are not shadow boxing as a nation. we are in an international global competition with countries that are investing a great deal of money in research and innovation and technology, and we cannot sell future generations of our country short by being unwilling to make decisions to appropriate money where we need to appropriate it, to educate future generations, to invest

in technology and innovation and research so that we can both provide for our national security and for our national prosperity. i yield back the remainder of my time. i thank the gentleman from washington for granting me this time. and i thank chairman wolf for working with me in a bipartisan basis. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the homeland security subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from alabama, mr. aderholt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for two minutes. mr. aderholt: thank you, mr. chairman, for yielding. madam speaker, as many have said here today, our government has a spending problem and the american people are -- we are finding a solution. this bill is a step in finding that solution. the bill we are voting on this afternoon is truly historic. it contains discretionary spending cuts that are nearly five times larger than any cut in history. the homeland security title of this c.r. strikes the right

balance between funding party programs that are essential to our nation's security and at the same time keeping our discretionary spending in check. in fact, this bill marks the first time that the annual discretionary budget for homeland security has been reduced from the previous fiscal year. this c.r. provides the total of $41.75 billion in discretionary funding for the homeland security, department of homeland security. this funding level is $784 million below the f.y. 2010 and $189 billion below the president's f.y. 2011 request. in contrast to previous annual spending bills, this c.r. provides funding for annual costs of disasters from within the existing budget. so rather than us relying on emergency supplements to fund the disaster relief -- supplementals to fund the disaster relief, this is

something the president failed to address in the f.y. 2011 budget request. supporting the cost of security demands truth in budgeting and this congress is delivering where the president and o.m.b. has failed. having said that, the department of homeland security is not immune from fiscal discipline. and underperforming programs have been significantly cut in this area. by implementing these cuts, we are not choosing between homeland security and fiscal responsibility. both are serious and national security items must be dealt with immediately. that is precisely why this c.r. also includes sufficient funding to sustain the crucial -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. aderholt: can i have 30 seconds? 30 seconds? mr. rogers: i yield 30 seconds. mr. aderholt: this is precisely where this c.r. has sufficient funding to sustain critical operations at the front line

agencies such as c.b.p., coast guard, i.c.e., secret service, t.s.a. and the department's intelligence office. madam speaker, homeland security is far too important to be subject to budget gimmicks and inadequate justifications. the homeland security title of this c.r. responsibly funds programs vital to our nation's security and will help get our federal budget on track. i thank the distinguished committee chairman for yielding the time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. farr, who's the ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee on agriculture and rural development. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. farr: madam speaker, thank you very much and thank you, mr. dicks, for yielding. . i rise in appreciation for the hard work that's gone on in our appropriations committees. when you think about it, this saturday will mark two months from the day that this house passed h.r. 1.

which is a really draconian bill that put all kinds of riders and eliminated all kinds of family planning money for things like planned parenthood. it sort of new the price of everything and value of nothing. i would like to compliment the republican leadership for coming around. it's a much better improvement than h.r. 1. it also shows they are not whetted to h.r. 1. the message goes out that they makes adjustments. they restored nearly all the $1.9 million. 9% higher than h.r. 1 in overall spending. the w.i.c. program, the program that feeds low-income women, expecting children or have children, is funded at a level sufficient to support what we think will be the participation levels this year when a lot of people are unemployed and in poverty. the food safety activities at the usda are increased by more

than 8% over h.r. 1. they broke the h.r. 1 hold and have come up and i compliment them for that. the food and drug administration was increased by nearly 17%. 17% in an earla when we are worried about food safety and the issues of food safety. the mcgovern-dole program which is food aid to foreign countries provides our american food to really needy countries is nearly twice what it was in h.r. 1. the rural and water waste programs are 30% higher than h.r. 1. but agriculture title really falls short in the -- from the president's request of 2000, particularly in the emergency food for people around the world who are in desperate need. we take surplus american food and give it to countries that are really starving. while we are trying to win the hearts and minds of people, we need to have this program not decreased but increased when the world's in a lot of hurt. lastly i'd just like to point

out that what really bothers me is that we are putting $5 billion more in the defense department at the same time cutting $25 million from the peace corps. the peace corps is only $400 million. it's a small weapons system for the military, the entire thing. we have 7,000 peace corps volunteers in 77 countries, 10 more countries want us. 14,000 americans want to be in the peace corps, and we are cutting it? you can't win the war without winning the hearts and minds. the war corps of $5 billion isn't going to do as much as the peace corps. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairwoman of the financial services subcommittee on appropriations, the gentlelady from missouri, mrs. emerson. the chair: the gentlelady from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs. emerson: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, when i took hold of the gavel of the subcommittee on financial services and general government, i took to

heart the responsibility to reduce federal spending on behalf of future generations of americans. the financial services section of this act provides a total of $22 billion. $2.4 billion or 10% reduction from fiscal year 2010 levels and reduction of 3.4 billion or 14% from the preeze's fiscal year 2011 request. deciding how to apply these deductions was challenging. our propensity to spend now and repay with interest has saddled our children and grandchildren with $14 billion of debt. as such the money in this act is directed at high priority programs such as court security, counterterrorism, drug cold task forces and small business assistance. funding for new construction by the general services administration is dramatically reduced to gain control over management and operation of the federal building inventory. other programs are selectively reduced including programs within the executive office of the president and the treasury

department because these two agencies should be the model of efficiency and economy for the rest of the executive branch. the act measurably improves oversight and accountability of the executive branch by requiring a new annual g.a.o. study of all financial services regulations, including the consumer finance protection bureau, a new g.a.o. study on the use nulness and accuracy of the consumer product safety commission, consumer complaint data base, and the elimination of four executive branch stars not confirmed by the senate and not accountable to the people. they act also includes $77.7 million for school improvement in d.c., including a $2.3 million increase for opportunity scholarships. this funding along with the speaker's language to re-authorize the program will increase educational opportunities for low-income students in the nation's capital. this effort represents an important starting point for our committee and our congress and i look forward to continuing to

work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mrs. emerson: thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from georgia, mr. bishop, the ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee on military construction and veterans' affairs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. bishop: thank you, madam speaker. thank you to the gentleman from washington for yielding. madam speaker, today marks the end of the f.y. 2011 process. a process that should have been completed a long, long time ago. failing to stop a government shutdown, would have destroyed the american people's confidence in the ability of congress to govern. thankfully with only minutes to spare last week the house, senate, and white house came together to avoid a government shutdown, striking a compromise to keep our federal government running for the remainder of f.y. 2011. this bill is by no means perfect.

i'm particularly concerned about the impact of funding reductions to several areas, including $35 billion cuts in pell grants for our students. $700 million in cuts while local and state law enforcement personnel, the people who keep us safe, i'm also very concerned about rural, agricultural communities, cuts in $433 million to the foreign service agency for direct and indirect loans. madam speaker, this bill is a far cry from the draconian meat cleaver approach of h.r. 1 and i hope my colleagues will think about what we just went through and use this final resolution as an example of how we should approach f.y. 2012. our country cannot afford to repeat the irresponsible process going forward that we resolve here today. democrats and republicans on both sides of capitol hill must work in a bipartisan fashion to produce a responsible budget

that will help grow our economy and responsibly reduce our deficit. this spending package becomes law, congress will have made the largest cuts to discretionary spending in the history of this body, cutting nearly $40 billion from the f.y. 2010 budget. the c.r. provides 73.1 billion for military construction and veterans' affairs, which is $3.4 billion below the f.y. 2010 enacted levels. construction accounts are conformed to the f.y. 2011 national defense authorization act, which included reductions in the budget request for f.y. 2011. savings were found by taking reductions in unobligated appropriations from years past, as well as cap turing savings from projects that have been coming in under budget. the c.r. also includes a reduction of $160 million below both the request and the f.y. 2010 level for the department of veterans affairs. to reflect cancellation of information technology development programs as well as

i.t. program policies resulting from portfolio management reviews. the c.r. also removes funding for the civilian pay race that was included in the f.y. 2011 advances of the v.a. following the president's decision to freeze pay. in addition, the bill rescinds $75 million from prior year unobligated construction balances. it also rescinds $12 million from the veterans benefits administration for initiative to place a printer on every desk. some of these are commonsense reforms that save taxpayer dollars and help put us on a path to fiscal sustainability. many of these reductions in milcon-v.a. will taken in the full year c.r. passed in the last congress. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. bishop: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield a minute and a half to the distinguished chairman of the military,

construction, and v.a. appropriations the gentleman from texas, mr. culberson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. culberson: the military construction and veterans' affairs portions of this bill vividly illustrates the importance of passing our appropriations bill as soon as possible. our war fighters in the field cannot afford to have any air bubbles in the logistical pipeline that supports their operations. their families, their loved ones cannot afford to have the barracks, living quarters in which they are housed to be delayed any longer. the marine corps urgently needs bachelor enlisted quarters to get done. marines have had several billion dollars worth of projects already delayed. as a fiscal conservative i want to see more cuts. i'm committed as our chairman is, as our speaker is to balancing the budget as fast as humanly possible. this is simply the first step in a long war to get us back on to a balanced budget. to restrain federal spending.

we dramatically reduced with the chairman's leadership and the speaker's leadership the national credit card limit by $38 billion. the largest cut, nonwartime cut in the history of the united states after the drawdown after world war ii. we have actually seen reductions for the first time, madam speaker, in this bill. i ask asked the staffers when i came in, brand new to this job, to find savings that would not impact the quality of health care for our veterans our reduce the quality of the housing provided to our men and women in uniform. we have done that with con strucks, savings. we have done it by taking money that was not yet used for information technology. we have done it by reducing money that was taken away, money already there and unspent, both at the veterans' affairs committee and construction accounts. but above all, we preserved the quality of life for our veterans and the quality of our health care while saving money. it's an important bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes

to the distinguished gentlewoman from california, ms. lee, a valued member of the appropriations committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. lee: thank you very much. i want to thank the gentleman from washington for yielding and also for his leadership. i rise in strong opposition to this the continuing resolution. budgets are moral documents that reflect who we are as a nation. they are not just about dollars and scents. these cuts won't create jobs, foster economic opportunity, or provide pathways out of poverty. instead it eliminates billions in investments in our work force, our transportation infrastructure, our small businesses, and most importantly in our people. it's a bold assault on millions of people who rely on our safety net. these budget cuts and warped priorities should be a moral outrage to every member of this body. that's why 36,000 people and approximately 30 members of congress have joined the faith

community in a 24-hour fast to highlight the enormous impact the devastating impact of these budget cuts. this bill is nothing more than a tea party checklist of targeting programs that help the most vulnerable. $504 million from the w.i.c. program. $300 million from cops. $125 million from dislocated worker assistance programs. $49 million from mentoring children of inmates. $17 million for title 10 family planning programs. and $25 million for veterans' affairs supportive housing vouchers. instead of targeting low-income and middle-income individuals and the residents of the district of columbia particularly and especially low-income women, and women of color, we should be serious about getting our bloated military budget together and reduce and end these three wars in iraq, afghanistan, and libya. we could save billions, mind you, billions of dollars by ending these wars. madam speaker, we should reject these cuts which hurt our most

vulnerable populations and the residents of the district of columbia. it's shameful, a moral disgrace, and i urge a no vote on it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: may i inquire of the time remaining on both sides? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has eight. and the gentleman from washington has 7 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield a minute and a half to the chairman of the legislative branch subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from florida, mr. crenshaw. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. crenshaw: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, let me just remind my colleagues that when we vote yes on this resolution, we will be able to say that we have led by example. we were told that we should take the budget cutting knife and look at every agency and make them do more with less. to be more efficient. and we thought we should lead by example. the best way to lead by example is to take that budget cutting knife and turn it on ourself.

and that's exactly what we did. over one half of the cuts that were made to the legislative branch subcommittee, which i chair, were made to this house itself. we cut the office account of every member of this house by 5%. we cut the budget of all the leadership offices by 5%. we cut the budget of all the committees by 5% except the appropriations committee which we cut by 9%. . so we have led by example. now, some people will say we cut too much. some people will say we haven't cut too much. people aren't going to remember the numbers but what we will long remember is this is the day that we changed the direction of this country. this is a day that we turned the ship of state in the right direction. they'll remember this is the

day that we stopped this cultural spending and started a cultural of savings. they'll remember the day we stopped spending our future and we started saving our future. there's a lot of work to be done, but let's clean up this mess, let's move ahead and let's get ourselves on the path to permanent prosperity. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield myself 2 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. dicks: it's another week in congress and we are voting on this appropriation it's bill, h.r. 1473. i'm pleased at the 11th hour last week we were able to reach an agreement, an agreement that made it possible for military wives around the country would be sure to get their paycheck. this had to be done. we kept our parks open. we supported our men and women

in uniform around the world, and at the same time i think we minimized the damage of h.r. 1 in this bill. the bill that is now before us contains current levels of head start including the increase spots for newborns to 2-year-olds. it helps protect the pell grant program. it is the good bill on defense. my good friend, bill young, has done an amazing job and i appreciate so much mr. rogers taking on bill from last year and putting it into this bill. the community services block grant program is restored. w.i.c. is restored. head start is restored. yes, there's some things i don't like. no high speed rail money. some other investment accounts. literacy programs, some of them were taken away. some of the cuts in homeland security were not the best. but as with any compromise some members will see a glass half full and some will see a glass half empty. members will have to consider

all the ramifications of this compromise and vote their conscience. we need to move on to the f.y. 2012 appropriations bill. the bottom line is this bill must pass today. let's get it done so we can fight against the ryan republican budget. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield one minute to a new member of our committee, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. dent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. mr. dent: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of this legislation, h.r. 1473, the fiscal year 2011 spending agreement. it's not a good -- it's not a perfect bill. cutting federal spending seemed impossible but today we're cutting nondefense spending by nearly $45 billion or 7.7% from

the fiscal year 2010 level. now, madam speaker, we have in fact turned the proverbial ship around, the aircraft carrier around when it comes to federal spending. we're not debating how much we're going to increase spending. we're debating, however, we're going to cut spending and how much we're going to cut spending. that really represents an enormous shift in the culture of this place. you know, from the transportation accounts we cut $2.9 billion from the high speed rail initiative. from h.u.d. the bill will force public housing agencies to operate more efficiently, raines in spending for development programs with a history of inconsistent results. so we have a lot here to celebrate today. you know, in november the american people voted for change and the culture of that change is occurring. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i want to reserve my

time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to a new member of our committee, the gentleman from ohio, mr. austria. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. mr. austria: thank you, madam speaker. and i'd like to thank chairman rogers for his hard work and his leadership to finally get us here, to finally get a package before us that should have been done last year that officially ends the stimulus spending binge, that funds our troops, that represents the largest nondefense cut in american history with nearly $40 billion in real cuts. certainly many of us would have liked to seen more cuts included in this final package. as the speaker mentioned earlier, unfortunately republicans only control half of one third of the federal government. until the senate democrats and the administration, president, decide to get serious about stopping the borrowing and cutting spending we're never going to achieve the spending cuts that the american people have demanded. so what does this c.r. mean for us today? for starter, it means approximately $40 billion of

less borrowing. this package sets the stage for trillions more in spending cuts that we will vote on later this week. it reduces our own budget here in congress by $100 million. it defunds four of the administration's czars. it fully funds our men and women serving in our country, some in harm's way. it reduces the backlog and fully funds our commitment to israel, one of our most important allies, while cutting nearly $78.5 billion from the president's 2011 budget. madam speaker, is it a perfect spending cut package? no. but it is a real $40 billion start toward the 2012 budget bill will -- that will begin digging ourself out of the budget deficit and putting our nation on a path toward prosperity once again.

madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. who seeks time? mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield a minute and a half to a new member of this body, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. landry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. landry: madam speaker, i am a tea partyier. i have a tea party poster in my office. my constituents gave me a chainsaw to use to cut the government strength. i am extremely pro-life. this bill will prohibit funds -- funding abortions in d.c. it defunds planned parenthood. the fact that the last congress did not pass a budget left uts in a mess. sometimes we have to wring the

mop out twice to clean up the mess. this bill will cut money, money that will have surely been spent had we not taken control of this body. do i think the cuts are big enough? no. but as my mother warned me of being penny-wise and pound foolish. if we don't pass this c.r. our brave men and women in uniform will not be paid. i am upset that the president and the democrats in the senate -- i served in the national guard for is 1 years. i understand the sacrifice our brave men and women and families make to preserve our freedom. the army range creed states, among other things, that they shall never fail their comrades, they will never leave a fallen comrade and embarrass their country. i will not fail them, i will not leave them and i will not embarrass them and their families who are political pawns in this game. we should not let this happen again. i urge my colleagues to support the concurrent resolution, get the ball rolling, hang in

there, wring out the mop this time and together we continue to make history and clean up all the mess. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield five minutes to the distinguished democratic whip, mr. hoyer from maryland, who has been a real leader in our house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for five minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman from washington for yielding. thank you, madam speaker. this piece of legislation will provide for the funding of our government from now until september 30 of this year. while i do not want to engage in a debate looking at the past, but we are here because we did not fund the government in the last congress through september 30. and frankly there's not much

use in pointing at one another as we've been doing. there was an omnibus that was on the floor at the urging of the leader in the senate, and it was not able to get the 60 votes necessary because those of you on the minority side of the senate did not give votes to do that. notwithstanding that, the issue today is not what happened yesterday but what's going to happen today. and we have a choice to make. we have a choice to make in a divided house, in a divided congress and divided government . the speaker talked about divided government. and that choice is whether we will come together, work together, try to make the best possible agreement that we could make and then move together.

i think the american public expect us to do that. during the course of the debate some days ago i referenced with the chairman of the appropriations committee who comes from kentucky, another famous kentuckyian, henry clay. henry clay came to this congress and was elected speaker on the first day of his service in this congress. interesting enough, he was speaker during the eighth congress, during the 10th congress and during the 13th congress. he served for some 10 years as speaker. he served, also, in the united states senate and, in fact, was deemed to be one of the most outstanding members of the united states senate. he is unique in history. and he said this, and i will repeat it. if you cannot compromise you cannot govern. and what he meant by that, of course, was that the american

people in 435 districts and 50 states -- not 50 states, of course, when he was speaker, -- go to the polls and elect people to come to washington to represent them. and not surprisingly in a democracy they have different points of view. they have different per expectives. they have different -- perspectives. they have different priorities. they come from different geological concerns. their districts have different interests. and so it should not shock any of us that there is not agreement in 100% of the cases or sometimes 70% or sometimes 6 0% and perhaps not even 50%. but there does come a time when the american public expect us to be able to act. gridlock is not what they voted for. madam speaker, i will vote for

this resolution. i do not vote for this resolution any more than anybody else on this house floor will vote for or against this resolution because they like everything that's in it or dislike everything that's in it. if i were writing this resolution the priorities would be different. i heard my friend, rosa delauro, who is now the ranking member on the labor and health subcommittee. very frankly, if i were on the committee, i'm the second ranking member of the appropriations committee, i would be the ranking member of the health subcommittee and i would share her views. i do share her views. i think the priorities that we have agreed to in this resolution are not my priorities, but we have reached agreement. the president of the united states, elected by all the people, the majority leader of the united states senate and the speaker of this house

worked for literally weeks to try to come together to forge an agreement so that we could fund government for the balance of this year. it's not useful to blame anybody as to why we're so late on this, but it is useful to say that we are about to embark after we pass this piece of legislation a critical debate on the differences we do have in the priorities of this country. very substantive, deeply held beliefs on the differences that exist between our two parties. and the budgets that will be offered after we pass this resolution on the budget for the 2012 year -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. hoyer: are going to be the substance of our debate. i would hope at this period of time, madam speaker, that we

pass this resolution, keep our government functioning and come together to debate the real priorities of this country in the next bill. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: may i inquire of the time remaining, madam speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 2 1/2 minutes, and the gentleman from washington has 30 seconds. mr. rogers: i have one additional speaker if the gentleman wants to yield time. mr. dicks: i have 30 seconds. i just -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has -- mr. dicks: i think he has the right to close. the speaker pro tempore: he has an additional speaker. mr. douks: that will close. i have to finish now. i just want to say i thank the chairman and i look forward to f.y. 2012 getting on to the --

our appropriations bills and our commitment to the house that we are going to have open rules. we are going to have subcommittee markups. full committee markups and give people a chance to be involved in the process as they have not been in the past. i yield to the chairman. mr. rogers: i join you in that commitment. that's what we are planning to do. i just want this bill over with. mr. dicks: i'm with you. let's get it over. thank you. yield back. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i yield the balance of our time to the chairman of the interior subcommittee on appropriations, the gentleman from idaho, mr. simpson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from idaho is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. simpson: let me thank you for all the hard work you have done on this appropriations bill. i know it's been tough. mr. speaker, the budget year, budget for fiscal year 2011 is six months and two weeks overdue. it's time to finish this budget. through this legislation chairman rogers and the appropriations committee achieved what some thought would be impossible.

we have succeeded in cutting $40 billion. that's $40 billion from current spending levels. no other single bill in history has cut more spending. think about that for just a minute. while the $40 billion reduction in spending, it is $40 billion contrary to some of the reports that have been out there that that it is $300 some-odd million. this is $40 billion in real reductions in spending. while this is $40 billion, it is just a step, but it is a step in the right direction. we should also think about how the nature of this national conversation has -- on spending has changed. for several years we debated in congress how much we were going to increase spending each year. our debate today centers not on whether we should cut spending, but how much spending should be cut. that is a sea change in the debate both in congress and in the nation and it's a change in the right direction. the interior subcommittee which i'm privileged to chair has cut

spending by 8.1% below the f.y. 2010 enacted level. virtually every agency within the budget has been cut. the c.r. cuts e.p.a. funding by $1.6 billion or 16% below the f.y. 2010 enacted level. funding levels for land acquisition programs are reduced by $149 million. and on and on. even with these deep cuts, funding levels for operational accounts are sustained to prevent employee furloughs and closure of national parks, furlough, smithsonian museums, and other sites. let me just say for a minute about the energy and water appropriation. although no funds were included in the energy and water appropriation to continue and proceed to build yucca mountain, i don't want anyone to misinterpret this vote. congress has voted and spoke many times on the issue of yucca mountain. do not misinterpret this vote that this is a vote against yucca mountain. what we are saying is to the

n.r.c. is proceed with yucca mountain and n.r.c., do your job. which they have failed to do. as i close my remarks, i want to echo what both chairman rogers and ranking member dicks said about the staff. unless you have been on this committee or on any of the committees, the public generally doesn't know the hard work that goes on behind the scenes to make this all possible. i want to thank the staff of both the appropriations committee and really the staff of the house, the staff that sits up here on the dais, they do a tremendous job for us for which this congress would not be able to operate as effectively as we do. some people think that's not too effectively. we wouldn't be able to do our job. most people don't understand that when we went home last friday after extending the government funding for a week, we went home. they were here all day saturday until well into sunday morning and then all day sunday until well into monday morning in order to get the job done so we could do this for the american

people. so i want you to vote for this budget. i urge an aye vote so we can get on with debating what the minority whip mentioned, the important priorities for the f.y. 2012 budget in the ryan republican budget. we appreciate that. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. all time has expired. pursuant to house rule 218 the previous question is ordered on the bill. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. so many as are in favor say aye, those opposed will vote no. third reading. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the department of defense and the other departments and agencies of the government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2011, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on passage of the bill. pursuant to clause 10 of rule 20, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on h.r. 1473 will be followed by five-minute vote on house concurrent resolution 43. this is a 15-minute vote.

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 260, nates are 167. the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the unfinished business is the vote on concurrent resolution 43. the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 43, concurrent resolution providing for adjournment or recess two of the houses. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adoption of the

reconsider is laid upon the table.

the house will be in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i announce that i was detained, i got here right at the close of the vote, i missed voting no because i believed the vote did not live up to our promise.

wanted that in the record. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman's statement will appear in the record. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 218, i call up house concurrent resolution 35 directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of h.r. 1473 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 35, concurrent resolution directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of h.r. 1473. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution

218, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. alexander, and the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. delauro, will each control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. alexis bledel mr. speaker, i ask -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will -- mr. alexander: the gentleman will -- mr. alexander: mr. speaker, i ask -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman may proceed. mr. alexander: i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in h.c.resolution 35. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexander: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman recognized for three minutes. the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman may proceed. mr. alexander: mr. speaker,

house concurrent resolution 35, if adopted, will add provisions to the continuing resolution, h.r. 1437, to prohibit any funds in this act or any previous act from being used to implement the patient protection and affordable act. most importantly the resolution will guarantee that our colleagues in the senate will take an up or down vote on this important issue. i think we can agree this is a vote that the american public has called for and a vote that we owe the american public. mr. chairman, today the house approved a historic spending agreement that cuts nearly $40 billion in federal spending, when signed into law congress will have achieved the first step in addressing our nation's bleeding debt. our economy still suffers from millions of individuals remaining unemployed. at a time like today when the federal government is running

record deficits, coupled with significant unsustainable liabilities like medicare and medicaid, we simply cannot afford this $2.6 trillion entitlement program. it only seems fair that a vote on the billions of dollars in both mandatory and discretionary money required to implement the health reform law is part of the discussion. i, along with my colleagues in the house, have long argued for repeal in this law. several members have also maintained that for this strategy to be successful it must include efforts to defund the enforcement and implementation of a law through the appropriations process, with the inclusion of this language in the c.r. we will move one step closer to reaching that goal. under new leadership the house has already begun to tackle the health care law from previous frunds in january this year the chamber approved a full repeal of the health care law.

additionally during the historic open debate on a previous continuing resolution, h.r. 1, this chamber debated and approved various provisions that would prohibit or slow the implementation of the health care law by restricting annual appropriations from going toward implementation. in fact, just yesterday we passed a measure that would repeal just one section of the health care law that included $17.5 billion in mandatory automatic appropriations. this resolution will go forward by eliminating all the funds, both mandatory and discretionary, which is clear that we presently cannot afford. it will also allow time for us to offer a new solution to our nation's health care challenges, that will not have long-term negative consequences for job creation and economic growth. putting all arguments on the merits of the health care law

aside this resolution simply ensures accountability is restored over how hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being spent. the health care law turned hundreds of billions of dollars in discretionary spending into mandatory spending. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. alexander: yes. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, instead of working to create jobs, redules the deficit and do the business of the american people, this majority has been consumed for months now with trying to repeal health care reform. like the attempted repeal we saw the first week of this congress, like the tea party budget passed in february and like the many attempts we have seen to decimate health care reform, this concurrent resolution once again tries to take away the

consumer protection of the affordable care act and put insurance companies back in charge. it is a further demonstration of the majority's special interest priorities and their hypocrisy on job creation and deficit reduction. passing this resolution will destroy jobs in the health profession, it will slow job growth by $2 -- 250,000 to 400,000 jobs a year, it will increase medical spending and add nearly $2,000 to the average family insurance premium. and according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, it will add $230 billion to the deficit within 10 years and $1 trillion more within 20. let me repeat that. this amendment adds billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to the deficit, starting with $5.5 billion this year. this is not what we promised the american people. they want us to cut the deficit, to get rid of special interest waste like oil company subsidies

and breaks for corporate lobbyists. instead the majority wants to let insurance companies discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, even children with pre-existing conditions once again. they want to see women denied coverage because they survived breast cancer, were the victim of domestic violence or had a c-section. they want to see four million small businesses lose $40 billion in tax credits and seniors health care and drug costs continue to rise at staggering rates. we're here to serve the needs of the american people, not the whims of the health insurance companies. this resolution will cost money and cost lives and i urge my colleagues to vote against it, be happy to yield to the chairman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. dicks: i want to associate myself with the gentlelady's remarks and i rise in strong opposition to this concurrent resolution. ms. delauro: thank the gentleman and i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentlelady reserves her time. the gentleman from louisiana. mr. alexander: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from montana, mr. rehberg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from montana is recognized for three minutes. mr. rehberg: i thank the gentleman for his leadership on this issue to repeal obamacare, defunding, so i rise in support of the resolution. it's impossible in the short time i have to describe the many reasons to justify defunding, repealing and replacing obamacare. today, i want to mention one, the adverse effects on those on medicare. in montana this is a huge issue because our population is quite a bit older than other states. folks have paid into medicare all their lives and they rightfully expect the benefits to be there for them. but medicare's going broke and will be bankrupt in 11 years. supporters of the new health care laws say they strengthen medicare, closing the doughnut hole on prescription drugs. let's examine that a little more carefully.

the cost to the government to fix the doughnut hole is about $27 billion between now and 2019. but obamacare cuts medicare benefits and reimbursements by more than $500 billion. these cuts aren't being used to save medicare. they're being used to pay for the cost of new entitlements in obamacare, for seniors in montana and the rest of america, this is not a good trade. but that's not all. most people aren't even aware that obamacare includes a $210 billion tax increase on medicare. again, that money isn't going to be used to save medicare. this tax will go to pay for the cost of new entitlements. obamacare cuts medicare benefits, increases medicare taxes and doesn't do anything to protect medicare the and the new medicare cuts in taxes, along with the hundreds of billions of dollars in new

taxes, penalties and fees won't take effect until after the 2012 election. that's not a coincidence. this is a classic bait and switch. we get all the small benefits upfront and get hit with a pile of burdens after the 2012 elections. just one of the many reasons to defund obamacare now. that's the first step towards replacing it with real reform to rein in health care costs and improve -- with real reform, to rein in health care costs and improve it. ms. delauro: i will assume that he will vote against the ryan budget. with that i yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. lowey: i rise in strong opposition to the resolution. the house should be debating legislation to increase jobs.

pregnant women and cancer survivors would lose coverage when they most need it. young adults would lose coverage on their parent's plan. seniors would pay higher drug costs. families will not receive tax credits. and to spend 85% of premiums and benefits. vote against this resolution to support vital consumer protections in health reform, decrease the deficit, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from louisiana. mr. alexander: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from iowa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from montana who has drilled into this deeply and it's a big reason why we're able to be here today. i appreciate his representation of seniors in montana and i may well have the privilege of representing the most senior

congressional district in all of america. i've watched what's happened, not by medicare but with obamacare entirely. an when i hear the comments of the whims of the health insurance industry, that may well have been what helped write this bill in the first place, is large insurance companies, but we had 1,300 of them when we started this process over a year ago. we have a fewer today. we have 100,000 health insurance policy varieties. we have fewer today. we're looking at a $2.6 trillion in outlays over obamacare for the first full decade of its implementation. and we've seen two federal courts rule obamacare unconstitutional. we've uncovered, i think it was intentionally hard to find numbers that were hidden in the automatic appropriations of obamacare to the tune of $105.5 billion to be laid out. we're sitting right now on top of $23.6 billion that are being used intensively to implement

obamacare all the while while we expect and the president will expect it to be ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court. this sent 85 freshmen republicans in november. this voted to cut off everything that could be ruled in order on the floor in h.r. 1 that will be used to implement or enforce obamacare. this is the language that cuts off the automatic spending to obamacare. it puts a freeze on it so the courts can decide, so the will of the people can be reflective, not just on the house of representatives, but eventually in the united states senate and also let's bring a president that will sign this repeal. this unconstitutional takings of american liberty that's known of obamacare. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut.

ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, mrs. capps. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. mrs. capps: i thank my colleague and, mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to the misguided resolution. it's another attempt by the republicans to take away important consumer protections, return to a health care system that's clearly broken. i strongly oppose this amendment because it is harmful to the american people and to our economy. the majority of americans and certainly those in my district are opposed to this defunding stunt. seniors do not want to go back to a life of worry, about how they will make it through the doughnut hole. parents do not want to go back to worrying that their child will be uninsured this summer because she graduates. and small businesses do not want to can sell their employee's health care coverage because they would lose the tax credits to pay for it. the affordable care act is law, and attempts by my republican colleagues to repeal it have failed. instead of debating the past, we need to focus on the future. let's work on creating jobs and

strengthening our economy. vote no on this foolish resolution. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from louisiana. mr. alexander: mr. speaker, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, could you tell me how much time is left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut has 6 1/2 minutes remaining and the gentleman from louisiana has 2 1/2 minutes remaining. ms. delauro: if i could ask the gentleman from louisiana, do you have additional speakers? mr. alexander: no. ms. delauro: so just you to close. ok. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. waxman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, this resolution would defund the implementation of the affordable care act. this is just another way republicans are trying to repeal that law. the very first week of this congress they voted to repeal the health care law. they said they want to repeal it and replace it. we still have not seen what

they propose. they are not proposing reforms to help the middle class. ineffect what they would do is increase the number of uninsured in this country by 50 million people. this is a particularly reprehensible way to help reform. stop implementation. americans are already benefiting from the law. seniors are getting discounts on their prescription drugs. adult children will be able to stay on their parent's insurance until age 26. they would reverse the prohibition against pre-existing condition denials for children and they would stop allowing consumers access to preventive care with no cost sharing. they pull the rug out under current state efforts to have vibrant competitive marketplaces which is the centerpiece for competition in insurance plans to get the consumers choice. but what is most distressing is the dangers it poses to

medicare, medicaid and the children's health insurance program, our health care safety net. according to a letter from secretary sebelius, the affordable care act modifies -- and i'm quoting -- the affordable care act modifies and improves almost every medicare payment system. if this resolution were enacted, the centers for medicare and medicaid services would not be able to use any funds to administer payments based on any rate calculated on the basis of provisions of the affordable care act which is to save virtually all rates. medicare and medicaid could grind to a halt. the secretary goes on to say, this resolution would adversely affect health care in rural areas. c.m.s. would no longer be able to provide the bonus payments to primary care and general surgery physicians for eligible services. i ask for another 30 seconds. ms. delauro: i yield the

gentleman. mr. waxman: the affordable care act also gives c.m.s. new tools to fight fraud and helps us move from a pay-and-chase system to a comprehensive focused strategy. this resolution would impede c.m.s.'s proven and successful efforts to reduce waste and fraud in the health care system, results in increased erroneous payments. this is a harmful resolution to the interest of the american people, and i urge my colleagues to oppose it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. pallone: thank you. all i hear from the other side, the gentleman from iowa, is trying to rehash the campaign, talking about who got elected in november, saying that the president should be defeated so

we have a new president. what are you doing to create jobs? it's 100 days of the republican majority and i don't see a single job creation bill. now, the democrats with our health care reform, we're trying to expand options, give people low-cost insurance, end discrimination, look for new ways of training doctors so we have more doctors to cover people. we're trying to give the american people options and choices and eliminate all the problems they had with the health care system. and the republicans say, no, get rid of it, defund it. how many times are we going to vote on the same thing? and then later today you are going to come back and try to destroy medicare and say that the elderly should not have health care options and should have to go out and buy their insurance and maybe get a little help from the government. what if they have to go to a nursing home, you are going to block medicaid and say the nursing home may not be available to them or the quality of the nursing home care would be really terrible. again, as it may have been years ago. so i don't understand what you're up to. look for the american people.

look to create jobs for them. look to create health care options. don't destroy. don't destroy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for one minute. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. among the many programs which others have talked about that would be blown up with this measure, the early retiree reinsurance program which is one of the most successful aspects of the health care law, will be blown up. over 5,000 employers all across america, over half the fortune 500 companies, like coca-cola, general electric, have all signed up with this program which uses the same principles as flood insurance is strengthening early retiree benefits which have been collapsing over the last 20 years. these are the companies that will go out and hire people, particularly young people because early retirement allows their work force to actually have its natural change so that young people can find jobs. the economy created 200,000

jobs last month. it's because of programs like the early retiree reinsurance program which the health care law created, we should not end that program by passing this resolution. these employers have signed up in good faith and that good faith du serves our commitment to follow through on the program that this country offered them. that's a strategy, that's a winning strategy to create jobs for this country. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from maryland is recognized for one minute. mr. edwards: i -- ms. edwards: i feel like i'm in the movie "groundhog day." i can't believe we're standing here today when we should be talking about creating jobs in this country for the millions of people who are unemployed instead of taking away their health care, instead of taking away their ability of a young person up to age 26 to stay on

their participant's health care plan. we are -- parent's health care plan. we're talking about the ability of young people who have children, who have pre-existing conditions, to be denied coverage once again instead of creating jobs. instead of creating jobs, mr. speaker, we're here telling seniors that we want them to reach into their pockets and into their retirement to pay for outrageous prescription drug coverage. we're standing here instead of creating jobs telling small businesses that you're not going to get a tax credit to provide health care insurance for -- for your business. i mean, this is ridiculous. and, mr. speaker, i have to tell you, the american people must be wondering what it is that this republican majority is doing when they want to rip off seniors, rip off children and stop health care for the american people. and with that i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: how much time is left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has one minute remaining. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: finally the united states of america made real the possibility of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, all of which are literally impossible unless health care is a right for all in our great country. this resolution goes in the opposite direction, a vote in favor of this resolution tells americans and small businesses that they will be left to do battle with insurance companies on their own, insurance companies that will once again refuse coverage, deny claims and subject them to double-digit premium increases. and under their budget plan, they now want to end medicare and leave seniors and disabled people to the mercies of private insurers. enough is enough. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. does the gentlelady from connecticut reserve? ms. delauro: i reserve. how much time is left? the speaker pro tempore: 15 seconds remaining. ms. delauro: i think the gentleman from louisiana has the

right to close? in that 15 seconds let me say, they will defund health care, they will end medicare, they will kick seniors out of nursing homes, send health care back to the insurance companies, it shows you where my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are and i urge my colleagues to vote against this measure. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from louisiana. mr. alexander: mr. speaker, a key component of this spending agreement is a guaranteed up or down vote in the senate on a provision that would prohibit any funds in this act or any previous act from being used to carry out the patient protection and affordable care act. let's return to congress, let's review this funding annually and exercise full oversight. house concurrent resolution 35 does just that. at a time when we are being called on to rein in government spending, the american taxpayer

deserves this vote. i urge my colleagues to support this enrolled resolution, to deliver on their promise today and call on the senate to do the same. mr. speaker, thank you, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time for debate has expired. pursuant to house 218, the concurrent resolution is considered read and the previous question is ordered. those in favor of the adoption of the concurrent resolution say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker, 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 and remain standing until counted. 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.

for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. pursuant to house resolution 218, i call up house concurrent resolution 36, directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of h.r. 1473 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 36, concurrent resolution directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of h.r. 1473. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi, mr. nunnelee, and the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro, will each control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on house concurrent resolution 36. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. nunnelee: mr. speaker, i'd

like to yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunnelee: this resolution would deny funding to planned parenthood. it's morally wrong to have taxpayer dollars from my constituents in mississippi or from any other state go towards organizations that provide abortions. since 1977 planned parenthood has assisted in aborting the lives of over five million children. this resolution before the house is simple and straight forward. not only those who will frame the resolution as a debate over denying health care benefits for women. this isn't the case. in fact, in this resolution not one dime of women's health or family health planning funding is reduced. it simply says those dollars cannot go to planned parenthood. this is an organization that has protected those who prey on our children and has protected those who rape our granddaughters.

planned parent hooth -- parenthood holds self above the law by ignoring mandatory requirements, by skirting parental consent, by aiding and abetting child trafficking. they put quick and secret abortions ahead of the welfare of victimized young girls and it has to stop. now, those who oppose this resolution are enabling them. i refuse to reach into the pockets of our taxpayers to fund this sort of activity. i've always viewed these young women as much of a victim as the unborn child and want to go after those corrupt and immoral businesses that exploit them. we did a pretty good job of running them out of the state of mississippi. in fact, in november mississippi will have on its ballot a ballot initiative that defines

personhood and over 106,000 mississippians put the signatures on the initiative to get this on the ballot. and planned parenthood is a political organization and is funding the opposition to this ballot. bottom line, we need to deny funding to those agencies that support abortions and this resolution will do that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield myself two minutes. i rise in opposition to this concurrent resolution. it has nothing to do with the budget and everything to do with ideology. this is an attempt to turn back the clock on women's health and basic rights. the majority wants to impose a traditional view of a woman's role and take us back to a day when family planning was not available. with this resolution the majority aims to exclude one specific health care provider, planned parenthood, from all federal resources. this will needlessly put lives in danger.

planned parenthood carries out millions of life-saving, preventive and primary care services every year. they deliver immunizations, routine exams, nearly one million screenings for cervical cancer, 830,000 breast exams and nearly four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections like h.i.v. every single year. if this resolution passes all of these services would be lost. 75% of their more than three million patients live at or below 150% of the poverty level. make less than $33,000 for a family of four. one of every five women in america has gone to planned parenthood for access to health care. 60% of these women considered planned parenthood their main source of care. and in fact even the number of men planned parenthood serves has doubled over the past decade. all of these women and men would lose access to these services if this should pass. this resolution guts a primary source of care for millions of american families. we all know this has nothing to

do with federal funding of abortion. federal funds are already banned from going towards abortion services under the hyde amendment. we should not be playing political games with women's lives. i urge my colleagues to oppose this dangerous resolution and to stand for women's health and above all to trust women to make the right decisions. i reserve the balance of my time. i yield -- mr. dicks: i rise in support of the gentlelady's position on planned parenthood and urge a no vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. delauro: i yield a minute to the gentleman from -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from tennessee, the principle sponsor of the bill, mrs. black. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. black: thank you, mr. speaker. as a nurse for over 40 years i've spent my entire career

protecting life. and those who need the greatest protection are those who have the least voice. that is children born and unborn. now as a member of congress i will continue to fight for the rights of the unborn through this legislation as we have here today. and today i am here as a sponsor of this resolution to ensure that no federal funds are used for either the promotion or the performance of abortions. now, there are people around who will want to lead you to believe that this bill is about republicans wanting to deny women access to preventive care. but they are using scare tactics and their lies are distracting you from the real facts. as a matter of fact, title 10 funds which fund these types of preventive care for women with will continue to fund those organizations and agencies that provide preventive care, but do not provide either the promotion

or abortion services. what my colleagues and i are here today is standing up and saying we do not want to support federal funding of any organization, any organization, that promotes or performs abortions. now, there is an urgent need to stop taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and the republican majority in the house has already made clear our commitment to ending the funding for planned parenthood which is by the way america's largest abortion provider. now the senate has dubbed this legislation and this important discussion for this legislation for too long and it's time that the senators debate this in the open as we have here in the house in h.r. 1 and take a vote to end taxpayer funding of planned parenthood. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the democratic leader.

ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her forceful leadership in promoting women's health. mr. speaker, my colleagues, when i was in high school a long time ago i participated in a debate contest. one of the contestants there, friend of mine, drew from the bowel a slip that said -- bowl a slip that said, do women think? do women think? now thanks long time ago but even then we thought that was a startling question. do women think? the young lady who drew it, she was really a girl in high school, she spoke with great grace and strength about women and won the debate which we hope to do today. i thought -- i hadn't thought of that debate for a long time but it came rushing down on me as i heard our republican colleagues put forth their cuts on women's

health, especially eliminating funding for planned parenthood. the argue mingts -- the arguments which the republicans have put forth sound like the same questions of the decade ago, do women think? it's an assault on the judgment of women. it bespeaks a lack of respect for women to determine the size and the timing of their family. it's clear that republicans do not support family planning, it's hard to understand, but it's clear that they don't. and have used debate on this bill to spread misinformation about the critical work with that planned parenthood does on behalf of america's women every day. so let us be clear, planned parenthood health centers currently provide preventive services to millions of women in need of health care, including the provision of contraception, cancer screening, breast exams and h.i.v. testing. further, this debate is not about abortion, that is because

federal funds fog -- funding for abortion is already prohibited. that is the law of the land. this debate is about women's health. every year planned parenthood helps -- health centers provide this for women's health, contraception to nearly 2 1/2 million patients, nearly one million pap tests identifying about 93,000 women at risk for developing cervical cancer, 830 breast exams, helping alert patients to possible cancers. and that is why cutting off federal funding for planned parenthood would have a devastating impact on women's health across the country. indeed, more than 90% of the health care provided by planned parenthood is preventive care. format jort of the women who use plan for the majority of the women who use -- for the majority of women who use planned parenthood, this is the

primary source. today's legislation which has no chance of passing the senate and becoming law, thank god, is just part of the republican agenda that is the most comprehensive and radical assault on women's health and reproductive freedom in our lifetime. and that's saying something. further, i point out, that today on the floor of this house this is the 100th day of the republicans having the majority. here we are again debating legislation that has nothing to do with the number one priority of the american people, creating jobs. indeed, after 100 days, the republicans have not created one job and have not offered a jobs agenda and are instead on the march against women's health and to end commeer in order to give tax breaks to bill oil and millionaires. some republicans say that we're here because we did not pass a

bill last year. shocking to hear even some members of the appropriations committee who should know better on the republican side say that. but indeed we did. it was held up by republicans in the senate. we passed it in the house without one republican vote. the omnibus bill. but it was held up by the republicans in the senate. and in that bill we cut $41 billion from the president's budget. so today when i hear our colleagues say we are cutting $78 billion, $38 billion today, $37.5 billion today, the other $41 billion, which is the larger amount, the largest amount, was cut by the democrats without one republican vote at the end of last year. today in this latest partisan maneuver, republicans are perpetrating an attack on the health of women across the

country, and i rise in strong opposition to their efforts. we must all stand strong against that agenda against women's health. we must all continue to work to create a healthier america, and that is why i urge yes to respect their decision on the size and timing of their families and no on this vote which is an attack on women's health. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield two minutes to mrs. roby. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. roby: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. roby: it's an honor to stand as one of the co-sponsors of house resolution 36.

i talked about my stance on abortion and the need to defund planned parenthood and i'm part to be the lead on this important issue today. mr. speaker, i am unapologetically pro-life and will continue to do what is necessary to protect the lives of the unborn. every two minutes a life is lost because of an abortion. that adds up to 3,300 lives a day or 1.2 million a year. i believe i have an obligation to do everything i can to fight for the unborn and to prevent taxpayer money from funding abortions. therefore, i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the piece of legislation in front of us today. it would prevent federal funds to go to planned parenthood, an organization that provides more abortions than any other organization in the united states. about one of every four u.s. abortions is performed at planned parenthood locations or one of their affiliates. data shows that since 1970, planned parenthood performed at least 5.3 million abortions and

that includes over 332,000 abortions in 2009 alone. planned parenthood has made centrality of abortion to its mission, mandating that every affiliate have at least one clinic performing abortions within the next two years. my colleagues opposed to this piece of legislation claim that the money is not used for abortions. i disagree. money is fungible. by taking away federal funds from planned parenthood, they have to spend more of their private money on basic services and overhead costs rather than diverting those services towards abortions. from 2000 to 2009, planned parenthood saw an 80% increase in taxpayer funding that resulted in a 69% increase in the number of abortions and a 61% increase in the number of aborpgs referrals. i vote yes for defunding planned parenthood mother fiscal year 2011.

i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. lowey: to block funding for planned parenthood has now evolved into procedural games instead of a renewed focus on creating jobs. federal law prohibits federal dollars for abortion, and family planning saves taxpayers nearly $4 for every $1 spent. if republicans were serious about deficit reduction, they would increase these investments instead of demonizing those who provide affordable access to pap tests, breast exams, gynecological examines, smoking cessation services, and other services that planned parenthood

provides. vote no on this assault on women's health. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from indiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i think that ending an unborn life is morally. wrong. i think it's morally wrong to take the taxpayers of pro-life americans to subsidize the largest abortion provider in america. today, congress will vote to do something about that. planned parenthood is the largest abortion provider in america. as this chart shows in 2009, planned parenthood made 977 adoption referrals, had 7,021

prenatal counseling sessions and prevent -- and performed 332,278 abortions. planned parenthood received $1 million a day and performed about 1,000 abortions a day. h.con.res 36 will only put an end to taxpayer subsidy of planned parenthood despite the hyper bolic rhetoric of the left. this will not cut one penny from title 10 women's health services. it merely defunds the largest abortion provider in the land. i want to thank speaker boehner. i want to urge my colleagues to stand with all of us, to stand for life. let's end public funding of the largest abortion provider in america once and for all. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from colorado, ms. degette. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute.

ms. degette: mr. speaker, i don't know how many times this republican leadership is going to make the house take the same vote again and again to deny women the basic health care they need. but refeeling -- repeating these votes shows the extreme agenda that the american people didn't ask for. continuing to debate defunding health care clinics like planned parenthood is getting more offensive every day. and the american public won't stand for this extreme agenda. not one federal dollar goes to fund abortions. not by planned parenthood, not by anybody. the last speaker was just plain wrong when he said this resolution would not reduce money for women's health. it would cut millions of dollars from women's health. let me tell you about a young woman from my district in denver, colorado. she hasn't ever had health insurance but she took responsibility for her own health care and she had her first annual exam and pap smear at planned parenthood when she

was 18 years old. now, she's pregnant and she depends on planned parenthood for her prenatal care so she and her baby can be healthy. and planned parenthood is her only health care provider that she's ever had. vote no on this extreme resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the the gentlelady has expired. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: thank you very much for yielding. mr. speaker, it is slick tv ads and p.r. blitz, the multibillion dollar a year giant planned parenthood appears to be hiding something. could it be that they're hiding the fact that just one organization, planned parenthood, performs over 25% of all abortions in america? no other chain of abortion mills even comes close or is it the fact that 97% of all the so-called services rendered to a woman with child ends in an

abortion or the fact that since 1977 planned parenthood has deliberately caused the brutal death of well over 5.4 million babies, a staggering loss of child life? and in 2009 alone, 332,278 babies were killed in planned parenthood clinics. there is no organization in america, mr. speaker, perhaps even on earth, that stabs, dismembers, decapitates or chemically poisons more unborn children to death than planned parenthood. and that's a reality of what abortion does to a child. for the innocent and perhaps inconvenient child in the womb a planned parenthood clinic is a house of horrors, a place where abortion is brutally destroyed children and deceived and hurt their mothers. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. mr. ryan: i thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, this is about prevention. this is about women's health, and this is about making sure that we reduce the need for abortion in the united states of america. and how we got so illlogical to think that if we could give birth control that would somehow increase abortion rates in the united states is beyond me. and we see our friends time and time again talk about respecting life, and i see many instances on the other side of the aisle that ends once the baby is actually born. respecting life means early childhood health care. it means affordable health care for families. those are life issues. early childhood education, head start, pell grants, those are about making sure that citizens in the united states of america

can have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. in this bill, if we pass and defund this organization, we will have more problems on our hands, more breast cancer, more cervical cancer, and it's going to be more expensive and all the folks on the other side that want to run government like a business and make good investments, you can't make better investments than preventative health care like this organization provides and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield the balance of my time -- reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. nunnelee: wrong word. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. ms. lee: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong opposition to the republican war on women and this is what this is. they have already banned the

district of columbia from using its own money for abortions. shameful. now they want to go after america's most trusted provider of health care services for women. shameful. in many underserved communities, planned parenthood is the principal source of basic primary health services for poor and low-income women. last year millions of women received breast and cervical cancer screenings, testing, treatment for sexually transmitted infections, h.i.v. and aids and family planning and contraceptive through planned parenthood. planned parenthood saves lives. this is not about abortions. only 3% of the services they provide involve abortions and the law already prohibits federal funding for abortion. though, this law should be repealed. this does not reduce the deficit nor create jobs. family planning programs actually save taxpayers $4 for every $1 we invest in them. this is really about pandering to the extreme right wing that want to take us back to the

days of back alley abortions. they want to deny family planning and basic health care services for women. this is a war on women. type the time of the the gentlelady has expired. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from alabama, mr. aderholt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for one minute. mr. aderholt: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in strong support of the resolution. while i respect my colleagues who are against this resolution, let me say that i believe federal funds should be cut off from planned parenthood. as previously stated on the floor by my colleagues, the resolution does not reduce funding for women's health services. it simply ensures that funds are directed to other organizations. not a dime of women's health or family planning funding is reduced by this resolution. we simply want to ensure that federal funds are being used in a way that protects the will of our constituents, not to help subsidize planned parenthood. planned parenthood is the largest abortion provider in

the nation, providing over 300,000 abortions for 2009. over the years planned parenthood has increased their abortion in numbers every year while adoption and parental care remains way too low. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: if i might inquire, mr. speaker, how much time is left on both sides. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has three minutes. and the gentleman from mississippi has one minute left. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, ms. roybal-allard. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. roybal-allard: mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this concurrent resolution. planned parenthood is a safety net that helps americans stay healthy by providing primary care services such as breast cancer screenings, immunizations and annual exams. women also receive preventative

care that helps lower cancer deaths, heart attacks and cases of undiagnosed and untreated s.t.d.'s. as the largest provider of family planning, it helps women and men become parents when it makes the most sense for them. the attacks on planned parenthood are underhanded tactics using inaccurate statements and statistics. a perfect example is the recent claim that abortions make up 90% of their services. this gross misstatement has been refuted by hard numbers which show these services were less than 3% of the care provided in 2009. at the expense of critical health care for millions of americans, these attacks are another irresponsible diversion from the fact that republicans have failed to take one action to create jobs. i urge my colleagues to oppose this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield 30 seconds to

the lady from ohio, mrs. schmidt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. mrs. schmidt: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, times are tough, including in congress. we have to find wise ways to spend our taxpayer dollars. for every 33 pregnant women that walk into a planned parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion. planned parenthood does over 1,000 abortions a day and they receive $1 million a day from taxpayers. the time has come to stop funding planned parenthood. we have better ways to spend our taxpayer dollars. let's put it back to the treasury and reduce the deficit. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, mrs. capps. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. capps: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong opposition to this mean-spirited resolution. yet another attempt by the republicans to play politics with women's health care. part of their broader priority

to reopen the culture wars. but the lies that have been tossed around in this debate are an insult to the three million americans who use planned parenthood services this year. merely 2/3 of those who visit planned parenthood consider it to be their main source of health care. their main stay. their life line. in my own district planned parenthood of santa barbara served over 31,000 patients a year. i must ask the supporters of this mean-spirited resolution, where should these 31,000 people go? they have no answer. just inaccurate talking points and a demonizing we know best attitude. instead of taking away women's access to health care, let's turn to working on what they really need, a stronger economy and meaningful job opportunities. so please join me in voting no on this mean-spirited resolution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: just an inquiry about the amount of time left. the speaker pro tempore: you

have one minute. ms. delauro: i thank the gentleman. my republican colleagues were prepared to shut down the federal government over women's health. if you can imagine that. turn this country into chaos because of women's health issues. today they continue to treat women as second class citizens, they would treat women with a lack of respect, denigrate them and undervalue women in our society today. that is what this debate is all about. they would deny women basic health care and because we in this house of representatives have health care, they don't

care much about what's happening to those whose primary care is at this facility. for cancer screenings, i'm a survivor of ovarian cancer, i know what it means to be screened, to be diagnosed and to be told i have a serious illness and that i have the opportunity to get well. trust the women of this nation. trust them. vote against this misguided resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. the house has before today an important question but with it's not a new question. it's a question of old. this day i put before you the choice of life or death. today we choose life. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. all time for debate has expired. pursuant to house resolution 218 the concurrent resolution is considered read and the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of the current resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.

the ayes have it. mr. nunnelee: mr. speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: asks for the yeas and nays. the yeas and nays have been requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. 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. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. votes will be taken in the following order, house concurrent resolution 35 and house concurrent resolution 36. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. the remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a five-minute vote. the unfinished business is the

vote on the adoption of the house concurrent resolution 35 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 35, concurrent resolution directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of h.r. 1473. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on adoption of the concurrent resolution. members will record their votes

extraneous material on h.con.res. 4. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. pursuant to house reis -- house rule 218, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of house concurrent resolution 34, the chair appoints the gentleman from nebraska, mr. terry, to preside over the committee of the whole.

the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of house concurrent resolution 34 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: concurrent resolution establishing the budget for the united states government for fiscal year 2012 and setting forth appropriate budget levels for fiscal years 2013 through 2021. the chair: pursuant to the rule the concurrent resolution is considered read. the first -- is considered read the first time. general debate shall not exceed four hours with three hours confined to the congressional budget equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member on the committee on the budget and one hour on the subject of economic goals and policy equally divided and controlled by the gentleman from texas, mr. brady and the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchey, or their

designees. the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, each will control 90 minutes of debate on the congressional budget. the chair recognizes the gentleman, mr. ryan, from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i yield myself five minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. ryan: mr. speaker, earlier today we passed a continuing resolution that will ultimately save billions of dollars of taxpayer money. today, we are converting and switching to debate to now safing trillions of dollars. mr. speaker, let me just begin to say this. the spending spree is over. we cannot keep spending money we don't have. the american people deserve the truth, they deserve an honest, fact-based conversation about this budget. we've got to get on to the days

of no more budget gimmicks, timing shifts, accounting tricks, and we've got to get on to fixing our country's fiscal problems while we still can and while they're still within our control. mr. speaker, specifically what our budget does is it cuts $.2 trillion in spending from the president's budget. it brings the government's spending as a share of our economy back down to where it historically has been. contrary to where the president is taking it. mr. speaker, we do not have a revenue problem in washington. the problem here today is not that people don't pay enough taxes, the problem is, washington borrows aened spends too much money. this shows you where washington is headed. where the president's budget go the path we are on. i'm 41 years old my wife and i

have three beautiful kids who are 6, 7, and 9 years ole. by the time our children are my age, the government will be twice the size tomorrow as it is today. when they're my age, double the government, double the taxes, just to keep this current government afloat. what we're really trying to do, mr. speaker, at the end of the day, is fulfill the legacy that we've been given by our parents, by our predecessors in congress. we're going to have a vigorous debate about how to do this, we're going to have a vigorous debate about priorities and processes and it's going to be emotional. at the end of the day, this is what we're trying to do. we know, according to every fiscal expert out there, that we're giving the next generation a mountain of debt. generation a mountain of debt. so we have a choice of