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 ou 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 than wi 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 t 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 thatow we choose to invest our nation's resources, reflect -- resources reflect our priorities as a people d as a nation and if we truly want to grow r economy

and create jobs in an ever-increasing global economy, our priority must ben our nation's education system and ensuring that all students ceive 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 eaker 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 me the bill has

the f.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 d technology in thehite 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. e 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 taby 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 ofhe 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 reblic, 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 ending 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 annl 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 serity 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 armyorps 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 t 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 extensi 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 focuon the fact that even though the c.r. makes cuts actually authorizes appropriations over $1 trilln. 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 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 tenology, 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 prode 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 wolfor working with me in a bipartisan basis. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from kentucky is recognize mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the homeland securi 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. 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 implementinghese cuts, we are not choosing between homelansecurity and fiscal responsibility. both are serious annational security items must be dealt with immediatel that is precisely whyhis c.r. al 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, heland security is far too important to be subject to budget gimmicks and inaquate justifications. the homeland security title of this c.r. responsibly funds programs vital to our nation's security and will help get our

deral budget on track. i thank the distinguished committee chairman r yielding the time and iield 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 wl 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 ce 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 ting 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 theavel 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 this act provides a total of $22 billion. $2.4 billion or 10% reductn from fiscal year 2010 levels an 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 nulnes 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 a noaccountable to the people. they act also includes $77.7 million for school improvement in.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-inco 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 grant 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 forirect 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 at 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 repe 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 spding 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 includ 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 tenology 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 iniative 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. subcommittee chair on 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 affd to have the barracks, living quarters in which they are housed to be delayed any long. 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 me 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 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 geleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from california, m. lee, a valued member of the appropriations committee. the speaker pro tempe: 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 fah community in a 24-hour fast to highlight the enormous impact the devastating impac 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:he gentleman from kentucky has eight. and the gentleman from washington has 7 1/2inutes remainin

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, weill 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 ltural osavings. 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:he 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 tbe 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. litery 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 carrie 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 ally represents an enormous shiftn 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. dks: 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 t 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 trillns more in spending cuts that we will vote on later this ek. 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,

me 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,s 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 ntleman yields back. who seeks time? mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield 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 parier. 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, tt they shall never fail their comrades, they will never leave a fallen comrade and embarrass theirountry. 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 theoncurrent 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 gtleman'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 saker. this piece of legislation will provide for the funding of our government om 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 ssible 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 ts congress. interesting enough, he was speaker during the eighth congress, during the 10th coress 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 an of us that there is not reement in 100% of the cases or sometimes 70% or sometimes 6 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 wting 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 piecof

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 tempor 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 spear 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. is 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. at is a sea change in the debate both in congress and in the nation and it's a change in the right directn. 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 a 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. unlessou 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 undersnd that when we went home last friday after extending the government funding for a week, we wentome. 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

>> leaders meet to talk about bills in congress. john boehner is first followed by democratic leaders in the senate. in half an hour, the former chairman of the president's commission on fiscal responsibility. on federal spending. treasury secretary tim geithner is confident congress will raise the debt ceiling. >> a couple of live events to

tell you about tomorrow on our companion network. first, a joint subcommittee hearing of the house natural resources committee hears from customs and border patrol agents and the interior department about the conflict between environmental laws and border security. that is at 9:30 a.m. eastern. at 12:40 p.m. eastern, the brookings institution at the national endowment for democracy posted a discussion of our merchant democracies and human rights. there will hear from special assistant to the president summoned a whole. -- samantha powell. this weekend, on "after words", kevin williamson defines socialism and how it is work in the u.s. today. in "black gotham," lives of

african-americans in york city. a look at barbara bush, jacqueline kennedy, and eleanor roosevelt. you can get our schedules a mailed. sign up for alerts. >> next, house speaker john boehner on the spending and budget measures making their way through congress this week. he met with reporters before the house vote on this year's spending bill. >> good morning. republicans in the new majority are listening to the american people working to create a better environment for private- sector job creation. our energy initiative addresses rising gas prices by expending energy for production. we voted to repeal and exceeded

-- succeeded in eliminating the unnecessary paperwork for small businesses. we have taken an aim at excess of regulations. the house will vote on the largest non-defense spending cut in our nation's history. a $315 billion over the next 10 years. these are real cuts and a signal to job creators that we're serious about stopping washington's spending binge. that is not all. the bill eliminates one of obamacare's programs and eliminates funding for the four czars. washington will spend less than what president want to spend. president obama started by calling for zero spending cuts.

now we're cutting $315 billion over the next 10 years and there is more to come. this bill is not perfect. no cause for celebration. this is one step at the next couple come tomorrow when the house votes on the budget is the path to prosperity. let's take a minute to compare the budget that house republicans will vote on as compared with what president obama has put forward. the budget spurs job creation. the president's budget locks in a job crushing spending hikes, a big tax increase, excessive regulations that are causing uncertainty for small businesses. the budget cuts six trillion dollars over the next decade and pays off our debt over time while the president would add nearly $9 trillion to the national debt. ryan budget would propospresere

medicare. the ryan budget prevents tax hikes and reforms of broken tax code. president obama called for $1.50 trillion in new taxes. the ryan budget sets the bar for the debate and president obama has not produced any kind of plan that would match it in any way. instead, he is asking us to raise the debt limit without addressing the real problem with spending cuts and reform. this will not happen. this will not pass the u.s. house. instead of joining the discussion yesterday, the president gave us more of the same period a partisan speech about the need for more spending, more taxing, and more

borrowing. we have heard a pitch again yesterday about the need for another commission. even though the president utterly ignored the last one. the american people are demanding leadership to help create new private-sector jobs and address our spending driven debt crisis. paul ryanne and other republicans are continuing to listen to the american people and addressing their concerns. >> tomorrow, trent franks will be holding hearings. do you think this is appropriate? >> there are a lot of committees, a lot of hearings, as i have made it clear from the beginning to this year, the committee process is important. i think addressing any question is legitimate.

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>> only 40 years. she hasn't changed a lot. >> when you come in to the city i would likeo have you there as a guest. >> i would like to that very much. >> when you're here i would be happy they set up. i need a couple of days notice. >> thank you very much. >> how are you doing? i'm glad to see you. thank you for coming. thank you all for doing this. >> pleasure to have you. >> hey, chris. how are you doing? great to see you. thanks for having me. >> governor. meridian, mississippi, 1982. naval air station. >> we teach you how to fly?

>> you did. >> looks like it worked. >> i miss adew birds and a fe people. >> we're not very good at that. >> i'm the manchester committee chairman. pleased to meet you. mike a i go back a long ways. >> great guy. >> good to see you here in new hampshire. >> i'm pleased with the response. i'm haley. >> i'm mark. >> glad to see you. thank you for coming. >> glad you came out. >> governor barbour pleasure to meet you. >> we t hard. >> some things have turned out. >> welcome to new hampshire. >> thanks. >> good to meet you. >> hi jason. thank you for coming. >> welme to new hampshire. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. get a picture? sure. come on.

>> if we're squinting it's because of the sun. >> i'm very vermont. >> great. had a nice visit yesterday. >> i'm haley. >> hi governor. i came tonig because i said guy always says something smart on tv. >> hopefully i'll keep up that record. >> hey. >> good to see you. >> hour doing? >> my wife betty. >> i'm haley. how are you doing? i married over my head too. >> i certainly did. >> glad you know that. >> mark of a good man. >> is barbara french? >> the barbours were huegenots and they left during the counter reformation and went through holland, probably. t my family went to scotland

and then to northern ireland. you know, the english hated the scots and hated the irish so the scots would kill each other. my great-grandfather dime the u.s. in the early 1840s from dery. >> did he settle in the south? >> actually came to pittsburgh. he had a brother, seventh of seven brothers who came to the united states. he had a brother in pittsburgh. parent didn't like that because he only stayed a year. he went to mem fwris he had another brother. he was a young man and worked and i hardware store. and then ultimately after the civil war moved to mississippi. but it's an old french huegenot name. when you go to ireland or to the midlands of the uk, people will notice that -- they refer, that's a huegenot name. for us it's not.

but i don't know why they never changed the spelling like everybody else. how goes it? >> it goes well. good luck to you in your legislativsession. i know there are challenges. >> we got finished. >> up >> are. >> i had to go hom for a couple of days and then -- but we got it straightened out and a couple of days later they passed the budget and closed the doors. >> okay. very early. >> state day of prayer that they've gone home. >> very good. >> we actually finished the first week in april. that's our statutory -- >> you meet every year, annual session? >> annual session. next year wel have a new legislation. this is our election year. that session lasts 125 days because they allow home to have me to organize. the other three years is 90-day sessions, first tuesday in january and it end the first sunday in april.

you know, generally. >> have a little time. good luck. >> i was over at your legislature today. >> it's a different cat, kettle of fish. >> somebody was nice enough to sh me that beautiful house chamber but i said it would be the third largest theater in mississippi. i can't imagine. we have 122 which seems to me in the hours seems to be mighty big but 400? >> wonderful. >> good luck to you buddy. >> good luck. we'll listen to your remarks. >> if you run count on me. >> betty greatto see you. i have a piece of advice for your husband don't let them take your picture without her. >> try to get her into every picture. >> somebody gave me that advice and it's helped me with more than anything.

marshall would beat me by 20 points. >> whoever replaces you will have to fill a big pair of shoes. >> thank you very much. >> i'm haley. >> >> thank you very much for saying that. we're trying to do the right thin. >>hat is chris coming in the door. >> oh. i was always impressed with how you managed the rnc. you did a great job in 1994.

>> i met jason. what do you do? >> i kind of run a department. >> good, good. y'all make resistors? like wire resistors? sorry. do you know howard industries? they make transformers? >> i have heard of them. >> do you work together? >> we are tiny compared to them. >> thank you for coming. >> i met you in louisiana.

i came here to hear your accent. have a question for you. are you going to take them la r later? >> yeah. >> john claiborne. >> how are you? nice to meet you. thank you for comg out tonight. >> my mother was born in your area, down in jackson. >> how did you get here? >> my father s in the army. >> pretty part of the world. >> it is. >> pretty today. thank you for ming. i want to be sure i have spoken to everybody. >> kathy is my wife. >> when you said kale -- thank

you. she's great. >> she is. >> i'm virginia. thank you for coming. >> i'm tickled to be here. >> i saw your beautiful chamber today. 400 people. wow. >> third largest in the world. >> i told them that it would be the third largest theater in mississippi. i'm tick toled to see you. i'm doing great, how are you doing s doing? beats the alternative right? >> there was a "new york times" columnist who wrote a book where he said that the first thing i do every morning is to see if my name is in the obituaries because if it is i toedon't havo read the "new york times."

can we get everybody to sit down? >> come on in, take a st. don't be bashful. come on in. come on in, folks. there are more seats up front. don't be a frfraid.

thank you, mr. chairman. come on down. absolutely. come on in. don't be bashful. good evening, everyone. on behalf of the entire family, some of which are with us this evening, welcome to our company. we are pleased and honored to have you. we are honored to welcome to our state the governor. this is my third month here. i dabbed in politics for about ten years. had the great privilege of working with sonunu.

the number one question i get asked is what does krl do? and my reply is we make resistors. and the follow up question is what's a resistor. sit a two terminal passenger component which implements electrical elements. our product goes into satellites orbitting the earth. one example my father loves to tell is the wire material we use

here is so fine that we could burn a hole in your hair and pass the wire right through. that's amazing. we are a family owned and operated company. in 1992, my father purchased krl from my grandfather. now i'm here, no pressure at all. i have big shoes to fill and a great business to grow into. krl has clearly had their fair share throughout the year. from the white house to the state house, political leaders have toured our factory, discussed what is on the minds of employees and shared values

with small businesses here. the first political leader i recall was a man by the name of steve meryl. there are two individuals here who have toured krl. and the other individual who toured our company in 1996 before i turn the microphone over, i wanted to say thank you again for coming. we invite you all back for our tour of our family owned and operated company. thank you and at this time i will turn things over to kathy. thank you very much. >> on behalf of the greater manchester fed rated republican women and our guests, i would

like to welcome you to our meet and greet event. i am the current president of the greater manchester women. for those of you who don't know who we are we are a local group of republican women and men promoting principles of freedom, equality and justice. we are comprised of women and men from diverse backgrounds including veteran legislators, military, women who helps shape the course of our nation's history and women who support our grass roots efforts.

i would like to take a moment to extend a personal thank you to the manchester republican coittee on the front row. it is now my distungt pleasure and honor to present our guest, governor haley baley barber of mississippi. >> thank you for letting us be here.

i did a radio show this morning. he finished our interview by asking me what he said was a weird question. you know, you are the second person that i know who is from yazu city, mississippi. and he was pausing to see and immediately i said of course, jer jerry moses, catcher for the red sox and he howled into the line, laughing. you're right. that is exactly who i know from yazu city, mississippi. that's why i have heard of your hometown. that reminded me, it would be great if i could get my old high school friend, we played on two state baseball championship

teams together. i pitched and he caught. mostly he hit. hard. but i got him on the phone. so jerry, thank you for coming, buddy. [ applause ] i had to prove when i got here why was i a red sox fan. the truth is i was not a red sox fan because he signed in 1964. he signed with the red sox because of my mother who was a red sox fan, and when it all came down for him to make a decision, he didn't have any choice. he had to sign with the red sox.

so we -- i'm glad you're here. great to see you, old friend. jerry and i have in common that we both married over our heads. i would like to talk a little bit but mostly save time and answer questions. i want to talk to you very directly about the stakes in the 2012 election. and what i think is the path to victory for republicans. i've been around politics for a long time. hey stuff or more. i will tell you that. i was chairman of our party from 1993 to 1997. i have been governor in my

eighth year. i can tell you i have heard repeatedly, often daily something in the last year and a half or two years that i never heard during the depths of water gate, during the height of the vietnam war, during the jimmy carter malaise. people say to me that i'm afraid my children and grandchildren will not inherit the same country that i did. i hear that from executives and professionals. but i hear it from nurses and firemen and schoolteachers. particularly from small business people and employees of small business people. they understand that the country can't continue on a course that we followed for the last two years. primarily they see that through the lens of spending.

when the government spends $3.8 trillion as president obama's budget is for this coming year, $3 trillion and the government is only going to take in $2.2 trillion, a 1.6 trillion $deficit? people understand, if you did that in your business, pretty soon you could write a book about it. it would start at chapter 11. the american people get it. they also understand it is not just a matter of this enormous spending driving up the deficit. make no mistake. that is what drives up the deficit.

when the government sucks out of the private economy, how does the private sector grow? how does the government create more jobs when the president says yesterday he wants to put a trillion dollars of new taxes on the american economy? did you see how he framed it? he said that the republicans wanted to spend a trillion dolls on tax cuts for the rich. as if this is the government's money. as if it's not your money, but it's the government's money that you're going to spend by letting the people who work and earn the money keep it. that's about as fundamental a statement of the difference between i believe is right for america and what this administration belves. because they obviously believe

that all money belongs to the government if the government is willing to spend our money by not taking it from us in taxes. the fact of the matter is the government doesn't have any money except what it takes from the private citizens and businesses of this country. the more it takes, the less we are able to grow the economy. our first priority should be to have economic growth and job creation. if you want to deal with the deficit, let's grow the economy at a much faster percentage and let revenue go up that way. i can remember when the left would snicker at our notion of growing our way out of the

deficit. i can tell you this, we can't spend our way out. in my state, the first four years i was governor, state income went up 40% without raising anybody's taxes. we did it by economic growth and having more taxpayers with more taxable income. that's the private sector that did that. it wasn't the government that did that. the president's government growth programs are ner going be a substitute forreal economic growth. i understand that bigger government means a smaller economy. this is a state that has been

based on that. i remember when governor taxes would say that low taxes are a result of low spending. there's an idea. it was all about growth and job creation. it was about spending, taxes, energy, health care. regulations. the american people agreed with the republicans. that's why we won 60% of independents. not just republicans but 60% of independents because we made the cam pap about the issues. >> when you repeatedly say tha spending on entitlements is unsustainable and propose to do

nothing about it. you can understand like the american people said. spending on entitlements is unsustainable. here is something, do something about it. anybody who stands in front of you and talks about getting control of spending or getting the balanced budgets by reducing spending and doesn't take into account what we're going to do about entitlements is just pulling your leg. i was pleased. some people can disagree with me.

there is not enough spending in the non-defense discretionary category that they made all the cuts out of to really be a big deal in the budget. that single got us not just to first base or got us headed in the right direction. it changed theirection of government spending regardless of how many billions of dollars. but the real issues are going to come up on debt ceiling. when we have multiple as much leverage and on the budget for 2012. that's when the real -- the real spending will be in play. and we will see if the

president's speech yesterday in which he talked about saving $2 trillion on spending, he talked about saving a trillion dollars on lower interest rates. tens of thousands of more small businesses across the united states. afterall the people in the highest individual income tax bracket are about 80% small busine businesses. at least two-thirds, probably higher than that. how are they going to hire more people or grow their business if we stick them with their share of a trillion dollar tax increase? well, our plan is not to go that way. to make the savings inpending

not to raise taxes. that's obama care. i have been around health care reform debates for a long time. when i was chairman of the party, clinton care was on the front burner. i never heard anybodysay is that they want to make the cost go up but that's what obama's plan does. makes health insurance premiums go up. that's why republicans, among other reasons, want to repeal it. the house has voted to repeal it and we need to repeal it. but another big element of this, how do we expect to hire more

people. whether it is tax policy, spending polic health care policy, in every case they all impede what should be our first goal, economic growth and job creation. that is before you ever talk about energy. as you watch gasoline blow past $4 a gallon to lord knows where, you know, i would just remind you that in one sentence is to increase the price so americans will use less of it. therefore in their mind, less pollution. that's not energy policy, that's environmental policy. if you think i'm -- if you think i'm pulling your leg here, let me just say go back and read the speech that steven chu, the secretary of energy made in california in 2008in which he said, and i paraphrase is we

need to get the price of gas in the united states to where it is in europe. 8 or $9 a gallon ishere it is in europe. they may need that in berkley but we don't need that in biloxi. i can tell you that right now. that's where we're going and it's not an accident. when they shut down the gulfof mexico. when you have got enormous proven reserves in alaska. when it's harder to get a permit to mine coal than it is to get a het transplant it's pretty easy to see that this is not only their policy, this is the one policy they got that's working. the cost of energy is going up. i believe we need exactly the opposite energy policy.

our energy policy should be more american energy. when the british landed in jams town they looked over the rail and they saw abundant american energy in the form oftimber and wood. we need more oil. we need more natural gas. we need to make sure that liberal opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the new technology that has increased our natural gas supplies so tremendously by making gas available that we didn't know we would be able to produce economically. we need to make sure that that doesn'tlow down.

we have commercial scale carbon capture see question ration. we need to learn to burn it cleaner but at the same time we are the saudi arabia of goal and on our way to come that of natural gas. there is no reason for us to be so energy dependent. the president's policy is less american energy and more expensive american energy as a way to reduce imports. i want to share more about who haley barber is. if we make the 2012 election

about policy and show the clear differences between what obama has done and tried to do and what we believe in and would do and what our house is working towards, then we will win this elecon. the democrats will try to make it about anything but policy. they will try to say the republicans don't care about poor people. republicans don't care about children. republicans don't care about sick people. republicans are bought off by big business, small business, agriculture, whatever. this is an administration that has a habit of politicizing every subject and we saw that in spades yesterday. he said we're un-american

because in his mind, not having a trillion dollars in new taxes on the american people was un-american. we can have honest disagreements and we do and if we will make the campaign about those, we will win because the american people know we're right. can't take anything for granted and we got to start here. if i run for president, i will make a decision by the end of the month. if i run for president, then i have to compete for new hampshire. that's fe. this is going toe a critical state in the november election of 2012. i think new hampshire could be one of a small handfuls of states that decides whether we have a new republican president

or whether barack obama gets four more years. whether i win the primary or not i'm going to try to win w hampshire in november 2012. any republican candidate needs to do the same thing. this state is very important in that regard. if i end up running, kathy, you will see me back. i am very grateful to you and ur family and to krl for letting be here. anwith that i'm going to stop and shut up and be glad to take questions. thank y'all. [ applause ] >> we have something in common. i'm from southern new hampshire, y'all. i won't even need an interpreter. i'm going to ask a question from the other side.

they tried to turn it into something ugly. i want to know how you will handle it when they try to turn it into something ugly again. >> i was asked about my childhood, raised by my brother. she never remarried. i had great friends who could catch and hit. i wouldn't give anything for it. does that mean everything was perfect in the south? of course not. we have made real changes that have been a big plus. we like to show those off.

they want somebody. they are tired of happy talk. they want somebody who would trust the public enough to tell the truth. let's talk about what we will do about the problem rather than entitlement spending is unsustainable, let's talk about something else. >> my name is wayne. rr i want to thank you for embracing diversity. i think it speaks volumes about the kind of man that you are, the kind of person that you are and that inner self and i want

to say thank you. >> thank you very much. let me say we runtate government of mississippi to try to put the best people in the best place. it happens that the colonel isr reason he is there is because he is the best person. you are very nice to say that. and the other thing about him is he is a pretty good tight end. >> the thing about the bp oil spill, it was a huge calamity fo us economically because, no offense, but 24 hour cable

television, at least once an hour every day 24 hours a day, seven days a week for about four months showedhe worst scenes from louisiana and gave the ameran people the impression that t whole gu of mexico is ankle deep in oil. the fact of the matter is it wasn't. we had a good defense plan for mississippi. my 80 mile coastline we closed one three mile stretch of beach one time overnight. we were catching a lot of it while it was still in the oil. every other part we cleaned up that day. and didn't have to -- we had to move people around on the beaches sometimes. and bp paid for all of that, as they should have, by the way.

we would enjoy themsees and not safe for the families. i think now that the public has the realization that the beaches are clean, the water is clear, the fish something great, we have never had one seafood sample since the oil spill. not one seafood sample that failed testing. and i tell people we got fish that are bruised from being sampled so often. we are doing more sampling than we have ever dreamed of many the past. i say that. i want to give you one caveat. that's the facts as they exist today. we don't know over the next year or two or three what might be discovered down in the gulf that is not apparent today. so we have got big teams of the finest scientists of all of the gull states and people from the other places in the country that

are studying this constantly. the biggest thing for us has been the economic disaster of crushing our toust season. a ttle different for louisiana. they were closer to e well. the oil that got to them was wet, brown oil. by the time it got to us it had deteriorated that it was tar balls. little kind of feel like tar. you just pick them up. you got close the border, control the border. there will not be anything done until that happens. there are a whole lot of people that no matter how they feel about guest worker programs or this or that, they're not going to do anything until the borders

are close d the t obama administration has not closed the border for that reason. they think they have got a big political issue. they are not goingo give up a political issue by doing what needs to be done. i should note about 40% in the united states illegally actually came here legally. and the second thing that i think we should do that no administration has done republican or democrat, when somebody comes here on a temporary visa, wehould have a system to keep up with them. you can swipe your card through the bank or swipe it through ny, many other places and that can be used i you are set up the way to do it to say where you are. i mean, it has to be set up that

way. if you're here on a temporary visa, you got to check in. no big labor requirement. we don't have to hire a bunch of people. if you are supposed to be working in boston and for two weeks you are in seattle, maybe we should see if you are on vacation or doing something different. those two things are just -- without them, i don't think anything is going to happen. once we get the border controlled, then we need to think about what are we going to do about 12 or 14 million people here illegally and what are we going to do about the need for labor that w have in a lot of places in the united states.

we a not immune to what is happening in europe. we will have a labor shortage in the united states down the road. you know, i may not still it's not going to happen. ma'am?

>> i saw 60 minutes on sunday and they talked about liberty mississippi. do you know who i am talking abou i guess i will change my question. lewis -- i will make it related to that. lewisllen is a black man who wakilled in the 60s in mississippi and it seemed like in mississippi they were not doing as much as they could to solve that problem. i wanted to get your feed back and ask you to respond. >> i am totally ignorant of it. as you may know, in the last 15 years or so, there has been an effort made by prosecutors, state prosecutors and federal to re-open old cases you know, buy ron was convicted in one of those cases but i don't know who lewis allen is.

>> what about the rel flag in your state flag? >> my state voted to keep the flag. voters voted on it and that's that. >> did you see that and comment onthat? >> i didn't see that particular quarter. i seen several reports. >> is that a real cut.

>> probably can reprogram. once you take it off, it's gone. they can't -- they can't wool around spending it for some other purpose. they can't reprogram it. as i said earlier, it's $38 billion, $28 billion or $68 billion it's not really the point. those numbers are such a tiny tiny part. remember that all of -- all of non-defense discretionary spend chg is all this bill dealt with, that all of that is about 15% of the federal budget give or take. the real money is elsewhere. and of course the republicans and i think rightly put $5 billion extra in this spending bill to be sure that the military would get paid between now and the end of the year.

that's something i would favor. the defense department budget should get smaller. about cutting other spending. quoted as saying they have been giving so much money they have forgotten how to budget. they overpaid one contractor $200 million and didn't find it until the dit. and this is a department that the general accounting office said under republican and democrat congresses has become unauditable. i was real proud.

they cut dod 1978. that doesn't mean we have to give the pentagon a a blank check. . >> we don't have to do the ability. step up to the plate. you can save money over there and do justas well. >> they don't think it's possible politically. what do you think about a balanced budget amendment.

>> we will. >> deterrent for big deficits. and it does. i was elected, our budget was 20% out of balance. we spent 20% more in recurring expense expenses. the constitute constitution for the bujts shortfall. to us two years to get out

from under it but we did it without raising taxes. the fact that there was a balanced budget law was helpful in keeping it from getting worse. so, i don't think we ought to let people think it's the end all be all. ma'am? >> as president what would you do about the abysmal state of education in this country? >> slip that up under there. we need to judge them by the results of our children.

some of the ones who spendthe most produce the least, have the lowest scores. some things we need to do about education. we need to -- because there are a lot of kids who are smart kids. we need to get them. i called three car dealers in

jackson, mississippi. $70 thousand the year. which is more th double the average private sector worker in mississippi. now just suppose reeves, who is mine and -- marsha and i have been married 40 years. imagine if when he was 18 he decided to go holmes community college and study to be an auto mechanic. what would they have said there? marsha, what's wrong with him? because we have sigmatized skilled and careers in skills. to expose kids to careers other th going to college. something i would have never

believed. they are bored or they don't see what it's got to do with them. now for the university headed students, we need to make it harder. we needore advanced placement, tougher standards, higher standards. we're in a global battle for talent in the world. we're in a global battle for talent. see it right here. i mean, the biggest thing and i think i have done econy for mississippi is to work to improve the quality of our work force. we doubled what we spend on it and given it more emphasis. we have tried to destigmatize work force frtraining we have got to get our kids back where we are not on the bottom.

it is about so much more than money. you asked me about immigrion? somebody did over here. for highly trained, high skilled professionals, really. we run out after about three months every year. we need to have about five times more visas. when a kid from india goes to mississippi state university and gets a phd in engineering, most likely he is going to go home. he will start a business in mumbai that employs 1,000 people. you know why? we won't let him stay. we ought to staple a green card to his diploma and every other phd in science and engineering. let them go memphis and start a business that employs 1,000

people. we forget we're in a global war for talent. we should never forget that. thank you. >> if i may take another moment of your time. i would like to thank you all for comingnd participating and giving a traditional new hampshire welcome to governor haley barber. i would like to thank the media for their coverage of the event and helping us keep the public informed. i would like to thank all of our volunteers and donors and those of you watching. governor barber, if you could come up, i have a special thank you that comes with the message. >> just knock that bottle of