mr. hoyer: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? moir hoyer mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 10:30 a.m. on monday next for morning hour debate. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the chair will entertain requests for one-minutes. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? >> address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. clarke: thank you very much, mr. speaker. just last week our nation celebrated thanksgiving. it was a time for families across this nation to unite and reflect on the things that we're grateful for. this thanksgiving i looked around my holiday table admiring the diversity of my family. many of whom are american-born citizens, some naturalized citizens and some jamaican immigrants. we are a blended family blessed with the realization of our own american dream. i realized that my story enjoye

mr. hoyer: madam speaker -- the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: i thank you. ladies and gentlemen of the house, we hear like to refer to ourselves as the house of the people, the people's house, as bill matcher liked to use it. we exercise what our founding fathers set up as a free democracy where the people can speak freely through elected representatives. and frankly, we are there because we have brave men and women who are willing to serve us in the armed forces of the united states. from time to time, they have an opportunity to visit with us. it is not under the rules appropriate to directly address people who are in our gallery, but it is always in order to pay honor to those who serve us. mr. hoyer: madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 32 printed in house report

mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman -- mr. cantor: i mean i yield to the gentleman. mr. hoyer: first of all, the gentleman has an inclination to state a premises that we all agree on things that we don't necessarily all agree on. clearly we want to give notice. clearly we believe we ought to give fair notice. whereas it relates to the bill that was considered today, that bill has had over three months of hearings and has been on the table for a long period of time. the gentleman is correct that the final bill, as -- and the manager's amendment did not have 72 hours but almost all the components within it have been known to everybody as proposals that were on the table either in committee or substitute committee markup for some period of time. with respect to the bill that you refer to that we passed on the six appropriation bills, we, of course, had numerous committee hearings, subcommittee markup, full committee markup, house consideration, we passed all six of those bills through this house. the gentleman is correct that there were amendments included in there and there

now majority leader mr. hoyer said, raising the debt limit is immoral. this is disastrous consequence will cripple our future prosperity and hock future generations. this policy of sorrow and spend is not only irresponsible, it is immore and it -- immoral and it must stop. we are literally mortgaging our future. this is their words. not ours. the truth of the matter is, what we are voting on today is a down payment. a $2 trillion increase in our debt. two-step, $2 trillion increase in our debt. what it means for american families is that the day nancy pelosi took the gavel to become speaker of this house, every man, woman, and child in america owed $29,000 in debt. today as a result of this vote and next year's debt limit, every person in america will owe $45,000. in public debt. three years, we have increased to $45,000 in public debt. it is responsible to pay our bills. it's irresponsible to keep going into debt and asking for more credit while we do it. it's time to stop spending. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired

mr. hoyer: i'll take a minute. ladies and gentlemen of the house, i want to first of all thank mr. minnick. mr. minnick is an extraordinarily able member of this body and represents his district and our country well as a member of the congress of the united states. this amendment i think has brought up an important discussion on the perspectives that we all have. i am one of those that believes that previous administrations had two very deep failures. one was fiscal irresponsibility . we did not pay for what we bought. even at times when we said the economy was in good shape. we continued to borrow at record rates. taking a $5.6 trillion surplus and turning it into a $10 trillion deficit. the other major failure, i think, of the previous administration was regulartory impact. it had the power, as chairman frank has just pointed out, and in 1994 bill to intervene, to try to put a check on two things. number one, on subprime lending. it did not. mr. greenspan testified just a couple years ago that he thought that was a mistake. he thought people would not take risks beyond that which

mr. hoyer: thank you, mr. speaker.i ask our colleagues and our friends in the gallery to join us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of our country. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on november 23, 2009, at 9:26 a.m. that the senate agreed to without objection amendment house concurrent resolution 214, appointment ronald reagan centennial commission. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the distinguished ma

mr. hoyer: i thank the chairman for yielding. want to thank the chairman and i want to thank congresswoman ros-lehtinen for her leadership as well. madam speaker, every member of this chamber understands the deep danger inherent in a nuclear iran. that danger includes a new nuclear arms race. as iran's regional rivals scramble to build competing arsenals, plunging the middle east into an ever greater instability and the world into a new era of proliferation. the danger includes as well a nuclear umbrella for groups like hamas and hezbollah. terrorist organizations. who may take any advantage of their state-sponsored protection to stage more brazen and deadly attacks, on israel, certainly, but on the rest of us as well. the danger includes on a more basic level a new era of fear for all those in range of iran's missiles, fear that could equal or surpass what we ourselves experienced in the first days of the cold war. those consequences, madam speaker, will be felt even if iran's miz isles remain on the launch pad or if its nuclear

mr. hoyer: i thank the chairman for yielding. i want to thank the chairman and i want to thank congresswoman ros-lehtinen for her leadership as well. madam speaker, every member of this chamber understands the deep danger inherent in a nuclear iran. that danger includes a new nuclear arms race. as iran's regional rivals scramble to build competing arsenals, plunging the middle east into an ever greater instability and the world into a new era of proliferation. the danger includes as well a nuclear umbrella for groups like hamas and hezbollah. terrorist organizations. who may take any advantage of their state-sponsored protection to stage more brazen and deadly attacks, on israel, certainly, but on the rest of us as well. the danger includes on a more basic level a new era of fear for all those in range of iran's missiles, fear that could equal or surpass what we ourselves experienced in the first days of the cold war. those consequences, madam speaker, will be felt even if iran's miz isles remain on the launch pad or if its nucle

others who have been supported, -- supportive, and particularly chairman frank for his leadership and mr. hoyer. it's time for us to have a system so the american people can tell in realtime how their tax dollars are being ewed. i would add i also believe it would build confidence in the system, hopefully confidence that's being managed in an appropriate way. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. campbell: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. campbell: i rise to support this bipartisan bill offered by the gentlelady from new york and the gentleman from new york, mr. king. you know, this bill is really pretty simple and it's really just about transparency, disclosure, and sunshine. $700 billion of taxpayer money was made available last year in order to provide a rescue plan for the financial system, which was troubled at that time. we all know that much of this money has gone out, but what we don't really know is what it has gone to do, what it is being used for, where it is be

with the white house, with colleagues in the house because, remember, the majority leader there, mr. hoyer, is a strong supporter of the commission approach. and i think there is a growing recognition in the house and the senate and the white house that we confront something here that is going to require a special process. >> thank you. senator carper. >> i am almost reluctant to ask . i want to say thank you so much day-to-day in the budget committee and all the time that you and senator gregg put into this idea. i know it's extraordinary. and to your staffs. just thank you for standing up and saying, all right, this is where we draw the line. i also want to thank you for showing a fair amount of flexibility in taking input and suggestions to modify the original proposal that you started off -- that you started off with. i'm not going to ask a question. i just want to say yesterday in the same room i hosted a charity hearing of another nature. when i was in the house, we sponsored a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. not one that mandated a balanced budget every year but manda

administrative co-chair for the blue dogs 3i want to thank my colleagues with the blue dogs coalition, mr. hoyer for their hard work not only throughout this year, but for many years in support of fiscal responsibility and the important tool of enacting statutory paygo and putting that on the books. we are hearing a lot about debt and deficit these days. our constituents are worried about it. we hear from the president, other administration officials as they prepare for next year's budget, their concern. even republican colleagues seemed concerned about it now even though we didn't hear a peep out of them over the years this debt accumulated on the republican administrative watch. it is imperative that we pass statutory paygo in the must pass legislation that is going to move through both chambers before the end of the month. our strategy has been time and again, and with the support of the administration in this congress to ensure working with the majority leader and with the speaker a unified blue dog coalition in support of the democratic colleagues who helped us pass statutory paygo out of t

i also want to say something nice about the majority leader, mr. hoyer. he took up the mantel and said we are going to solve this problem. as a result the five pages that are here in the bill indicate that those aggrieved dealers now have the opportunity to binding arbitration and the facts need to be brought forward and hopefully fairness will be -- prevail, but that wouldn't happen without something good and bipartisan happening in the united states congress. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. who seeks recognition at this time? the gentleman from iowa. mr. latham: mr. speaker, it is my honor to yield one minute to the minority leader of the house, the gentleman from ohio, mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the minority leader is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: we're broke. we're broke. america's broke. all year long our friends across the aisle have been on this massive spending spree that our nation can't afford. we have a trillion stimulus bill that was supposed to create jobs immediately and yet unemp

want to congratulate all the members of congress who are present here for -- and i will acknowledge mr. hoyerr. clyburn, our whip, who counts the numbers, mr. larsen, i don't know if he's joined us, mr. van hollen, mr. becerra, mr. miller, ms. delauro, ms. slaughter, i don't know if she's joined us yet. but they were important about bringing about this important, important end of session for us. i want to say when we began this year, it's very important to note, when we began this year, the first month of the year, this economy lost 740,000 jobs. because of our recovery package and other actions of congress and the leadership of president barack obama, in this last month, the economy lost 11,000 jobs. 740,000 a year ago. 11,000 last month. we don't want to lose any jobs. now we're going on a path of creating a net gain of many more jobs. but it's important to note that . in that same period, the stock market went up over 3,000 points. from the day president obama took office, where the market was about 7,000, now over 10,000. a will the of that change relates to our recovery package and other

with the white house, with colleagues in the house because, remember, the majority leader there, mr. hoyer supporter of the commission approach. and i think there is a growing recognition in the house and the senate and the white house that we confront something here that is going to require a special process. >> thank you. senator carper. >> i am almost reluctant to ask . i want to say thank you so much day-to-day in the budget committee and all the time that you and senator gregg put into this idea. i know it's extraordinary. and to your staffs. just thank you for standing up and saying, all right, this is where we draw the line. i also want to thank you for showing a fair amount of flexibility in taking input and suggestions to modify the original proposal that you started off -- that you started off with. i'm not going to ask a question. i just want to say yesterday in the same room i hosted a charity hearing of another nature. when i was in the house, we sponsored a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. not one that mandated a balanced budget every year but mandated a proposa

mr. steny hoyer is a strong supporter of the commission approach.that is going to require a special process. >> thank you. senator carper. >> i am almost reluctant to ask . i want to say thank you so much day-to-day in the budget committee and all the time that you and senator gregg put into this idea. i know it's extraordinary. and to your staffs. just thank you for standing up and saying, all right, this is where we draw the line. i also want to thank you for showing a fair amount of flexibility in taking input and suggestions to modify the original proposal that you started off -- that you started off with. i'm not going to ask a question. i just want to say yesterday in the same room i hosted a charity hearing of another nature. when i was in the house, we sponsored a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. not one that mandated a balanced budget every year but mandated a proposal to the budget balanced and had the congress to unbalance the budget with a 3/5 vote, allow the congress to raise the debt ceiling by a 3/5 vote. but it put emph

mr. chairman, i want to thank the speaker, leader hoyer, chairman rangel for bringing this bill to the flooroday. the purpose of this bill is very straightforward. establish clarity and certainty in the tax road for the estate tax while exempting 99.7% of the estates in this country from this estate tax altogether. the estate tax has changed 10 times in the last 11 years. now, this has been a bonanza for the attorneys, the accountants, the planners, but it has been very unfortunate for the american people trying to make reasonable plans for their estates. the next two years become completely absurd when it comes to the estate tax thanks to a law passed by congress in 2001. estate tax repeal in 2010. replaced with a new capital gains tax that will impact many more farmers. in fact, for the 6,000 estates estimated to benefit from the tax change next year, 71,000 will find themselves with new tax obligations, this capital gains tax. additionally, come 2011 the repeal goes away. in this tax code they repeal the repeal. and we are back at $1 million level for estates, $2 million joint. 55% rate.

i want to congratulate all of the present members of congress, and steny hoyer for his leadership. we count the numbers of mrwson. mr. miller, slaughtered, i do not know that she has joined us. but the other members were part of bringing together this important end of the session. i just want to say that when we began this year, it is important to say that when we began this year, the first month of the year, the economy lost 740,000 jobs. because of the recovery package and the leadership of obama, in the last month, the economy lost 11,000 jobs. 741 year ago, 11,000 last month. we do not want to lose any of them. but now we are on the path of a gain. it is important to say that during that same time, the stock market went up over 3000 points. from the day obama took office, where the market was about 7000, and now this is over 10,000. the economists say that much of these changes come from the recovery package and the actions of congress. it is important to know what has happened to the gdp. we have stimulated the economy to grow. in the first quarter of this year, as a result of the failed economic polici