few regions of the nation are suffering more from the recession than my san joaquin valley of california. the three biggest cities in my district, merced, stockton, and mow defendanto have some of the highest -- modesto have some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. as i said before my district has been economically ravaged at the level equal to the devastation we have seen oftentimes in the aftermath of hurricanes. now is not the time to sit back and relax but to continue to give this economy a shot in the arm that it needs in so many areas like mine. and we will get the extra stimulus we need to overcome this recession once and for all by passing this and other measures that will be coming before us. this is why congress just passed and president obama just signed the higher act to help create jobs and strengthen our economy and to bring help to our communities like the ones i represent. it funds infrastructure projects and provides tax incentives and credits for businesses to hire unemployed workers to help small businesses invest and expand. that's also why we are bringin

that was a provision to let water flow to mike constituents in the san joaquin valley of california so people could go back to work. but instead nearly every member, every democrat from california in this congress opposed that amendment. last summer we had tens of thousands of farmers and farm workers standing in food lines in the most productive ag land in the united states. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. nunes: i would like to yield an additional 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunes: so, a zero cost provision could not go under this bill. and now we have farm workers eating carrots imported from china. so all this, talk about jobs, it's all phony. the american people have had enough of this nonsense. i would like to yield three minutes to my good friend from ohio, mr. latourette. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. mr. latourette: madam speaker, i thank you very much. i have spent many times on this floor about my great admiration for the chairman of the full transport

it looking at the entire coast of california from san francisco because of the cemetery at the san joaquinort services the closest community is a truck stop not even the inc. community. cited a town hall meeting last night of she said my husband died 12 years ago i have his ashes in my closet. can i bury him a monterey because i don't want to go over. that is what i hear over and over. what i am asking is it did not go but cemetery until you fully build a one in existence of the plan is ready to go we tried to a plan the state be but california is now building cemetery's. wish they were. your home state i think has nine cemeteries but california has decided not to go back route to. it is not partisan but they have decided their priority is in the housing of soldiers in retirement homes in rest homes if they put a lot of that federal money into that issue if not to maintaining state cemeteries. we're doing a plan see. i would really appreciate it if you look at this a lot of talk is been things that occurred we would really appreciate your help. >> i will look at this burst of a very closel

. >> caller: boo-yah, jim, from the beautiful san joaquin valley. >> nice to have you on the show, partner. >> caller: good. how are you? my stock for you is universal displays, panl. the evolution of new l.e.d, 3d television screens coming soon, organic l.e.d. screens, technology feature of television and screen displays. >> interesting idea. but you know what? why don't we outthink this, my good sir. we know people reach for the stock of corning, glw, when they want to play that. so, we're not going to overdo that. what we will do is pull the trigger on glw. how about sam in georgia? sam? >> caller: big boo-yah to you. i love your show. >> thank you very much. how are you? >> caller: i'm doing great. how about yourself? >> pretty good, thank you. thank you for asking. >> caller: my question is with the big selloff today due to greece problems and the bad new housing sales number yesterday, is it a bad time to take some position in a bank of america at this level? orrer or is it a good time to get. >>? >> bank of america is finally starting to break out. we have bank of principal reductio

basin, even the san joaquin valley. in the center of the u.s.e'll be dealing with a combination of rain in spots like kansas city where we have one squall line moving through, south of lincoln, nebraska, we see some storms. beatrice, also north of salina. then along parts of 70 from hays over to kansas city you see the scattered showers driving along that area with plenty of cloud cover. on the back half of the system it is not rain but snow you'll be dealing with south of denver and the high levels of the rockies. some places could get up to a foot of snowfall. what we can anticipate in terms of temperatures will be pretty pleasant especially if you happen to be in the dallas/ft. worth area. most of the rain will be moving well to your north so you should remain relatively dry there with high temperatures in dallas going to 75 degrees. a live shot for you out of dallas at this time, it looks good for the time being. cobalt blue skies and things are moving smooth on the freeways. not a bad thing when you have these dry conditions on a day like t

that was a provision to let water flow to mike constituents in the san joaquin valley of california sole could go back to work. but instead nearly every member, every democrat from california in this congress opposed that amendment. last summer we had tens of thousands of farmers and farm workers standing in food lines in the most productive ag land in the united states. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. nunes: i would like to yield an additional 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunes: so, a zero cost provision could not go under this bill. and now we have farm workers eating carrots imported from china. so all this, talk about jobs, it's all phony. the american people have had enough of this nonsense. i would like to yield three minutes to my good friend from ohio, mr. latourette. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. mr. latourette: madam speaker, i thank you very much. i have spent many times on this floor about my great admiration for the chairman of the full transportation

i represent the delta of california, the sacramento-san joaquin delta. this is an enormous environmental problem. fish are declining, invase iver species, we know that contamination from various sources is a problem. maybe we can get one of those centers of excellence in california also. what's at stake here is the knowledge necessary to solve our environmental problems and simultaneously from that knowledge will come the new technologies and jobs which will be useful not only for chesapeake bay or the san joaquin delta, but we can export that. >> we're in a terrific place now where we have the opportunity to not just do the right thing for the environment, but at the same time to create a tremendous number of jobs and economic opportunity -- opportunitiers in work force-out there it's a wonderful alignment, it's one that we need to take advantage of with smart legislation. i will yield back to you at this time. mr. garamendi: i was just thinking about the legislation that passed before i arrived here, the effort, it was called climate change legislation

numbers, the federal government has spent a whooping $900,000 to save or create one job in the san joaquinvalley. despite spending $900,000 per job, there are still communities in the valley that suffer from 20% to 40% unemployment. in fact in the wake of the stimulus we saw three million additional americans lose their jobs rather than the 3.7 million jobs that are now being promised by the obama administration. sadly, a record 16 million americans are now unemployed because the stimulus promises were empty and unaffordable. is it any wonder why the american people continue to ask, where are the jobs? it appears that the stimulus was not very stimulating outside of washington. so here we are back again with yet another multibillion dollar plan slapped together by the democrats that will probably once again fail. madam speaker, the soviet union experienced that just because you're going to grow a billion bushels of potatoes does not mean that there will be potatoes on the shelves. similarly, just because the democrats have continued to message this as a jobs bill does not mean that it will

nowhere is this bill more necessary than in the san joaquin valley. we needed help last week.we needed it a year ago. we needed it a year ago. economic relief they but those claims are patently false. just look at the most glaring example. the bill counts for 10 year tax increases amounting to $1 million and cutting medicare costs to half trillion dollars, but it only counts for six years of spending. so what is the real cost of this bill? what do you do when you compare 10 years spending with 10 years of taxes and medicare costs? $2.3 trillion. that's nowhere near budget neutral and will drive the deficit up much higher than it is. let's defeat this bill. madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered, the gentlelady is recognized. ms. speier: you know, it's time for us to stop talking in generalalitys and jibberish. it's time to start talking about real people and their real experiences. one thing all of us can agree

nowhere is this bill more necessary than in the san joaquin valley. we needed help last week.ar ago. we needed it a year ago. economic relief they but those claims are patently false. just look at the most glaring example. the bill counts for 10 year tax increases amounting to $1 million and cutting medicare costs to half trillion dollars, but it only counts for six years of spending. so what is the real cost of this bill? what do you do when you compare 10 years spending with 10 years of taxes and medicare costs? $2.3 trillion. that's nowhere near budget neutral and will drive the deficit up much higher than it is. let's defeat this bill. madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered, the gentlelady is recognized. ms. speier: you know, it's time for us to stop talking in generalalitys and jibberish. it's time to start talking about real people and their real experiences. one thing all of us can agree on is that we tr

. >> reporter: when you're driving through the san joaquin valley here in california, it's beautiful.there's rolling hills. but just a few feet off this busy highway something else that grabs your attention. the largest toxic waste dump west of the mississippi. last year 400,000 tons of hazardous waste including lead and cancer-linked pcbs found in plastics was dumped here. less than four miles away is kettleman city, a small, poor community with no grocery store, no high school and few sidewalks. the town of 1500 is also plagued with poor air quality, unsafe drinking water and exposure to pesticides. it also has a startling number of birth defects that some residents believe could be linked to this toxic dump. in the past three years ten babies have been born with birth defects. three of those children have died. small town, troubling numbers. troubling for mothers like maria salcedo and darya hernandez. darya's son joel was born with a cleft palate. >> when you look at these pictures, as a mom, how does it make you feel? >> translator: it makes me sad because i look at them, and i r

the san joaquin valley as no service support -- has no support services. it is essentially a truck stop. i did at town hall meeting last night and one of the questions was, my husband died 12 years ago. i have his ashes in my closet. i am just wondering if i can bury him in monterey california -- monterey, california. that is what i hear over and over again. we cannot build a national cemetery there until you have fully filled the one in existence. that will take a long time. this property is ready to go. we have an estate auction, but california is not building cemeteries. -- we have a state option, but california is not building cemeteries, regardless of who the governor is. it is not a partisan issue. they have decided there parties are in housing soldiers, and retirement homes -- their priorities are in housing soldiers and retirement homes. we have a pliancy, to try to raise the money locally for the state -- a plan c, which is to try to raise the money locally for this day, but that is not working because the economy is so flat. there is a lot of tal

host: our guest represents the san joaquin and fresno area of california.next is steve from berkeley, california, on the independent line. caller: hello. steve, and congressman, it's a pleasure talking with you. how are you guys today? guest: doing well. it's early in berkeley. caller: it's beautiful out here in california and we're not too far from fresno. but basically, you know, the thing about it is like the congressman, i'm -- i'm republican registration although i vote independent most of the time. but one of the things about -- and also happen to be catholic. and the thing about it, what i find lacking in the republican party right now is that a society shows it greatness by how it takes care of the least of us. guest: and that's why the republicans do have plans. the plan that i talked about earlier that paul ryan and senators byrd and coburn offer we offer access to coverage but we do it by decentralizing the government. letting the power rest with the individual, not with the politicians and the bureaucrats here in washington. we know where that's

our unemployment rate is not quite as high as the gentleman faces in the san joaquin valley, but part of the area i represent, in suburban los angeles has a 14.2% unemployment rate system of very serious issue. we need to work together in a bipartisan way and i consistently stood in this well saying that what we should be doing in a bipartisan way is utilizing the john f. kennedy, a great democratic president, and ronald reagan model to get our economy back on track. we know what it will take. it's not a dramatic increase in federal spending, it is encouraging through incentives, private sector job creation and economic growth. this procedure is virtually unprecedented at this early point in the congress. and i will say, madam speaker, that last week, last week, i would have thought that the majority would have learned its lesson as it imposed martial law rule at the end of last week and then had to come back and my friend was in fact managing in what was a very unfortunate circumstance for the institution the idea of pulling back on the mcdermott amendment that was considered, that c

clean drinking water for their constituents but could care less about providing clean water to the san joaquin valley. so i really enjoy people coming down here crying about how they have contaminated drinking water. and i can say one thing that's worse than contaminated drinking water and that's having no water. and so what's happened here is the radical left and the radical environmental group has taken over the entire democratic party. so much so that they won't even allow free and fair and open debate on not only easy california water bill because they're afraid to have to actually consider any amendments but they're also doing the same thing on the government takeover of health care bill to where they're going to try to deem a bill passed mysteriously. so this is a terrible abuse of power. it's a terrible facade that's being put up saying people need clean drinking water when i don't have a problem with having people having clean drinking water. i think this is a noble bill, a noble cause, but you should not choose some constituents in california over an entire valley in california that h

that was a provision to let water flow to mike constituents in the san joaquin valley of california so people could go back to work. but instead nearly every member, every democrat from california in this congress opposed that amendment. last summer we had tens of thousands of farmers and farm workers standing in food lines in the most productive ag land in the united states. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. nunes: i would like to yield an additional 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nunes: so, a zero cost provision could not go under this bill. and now we have farm workers eating carrots imported from china. so all this, talk about jobs, it's all phony. the american people have had enough of this nonsense. i would like to yield three minutes to my good friend from ohio, mr. latourette. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. mr. latourette: madam speaker, i thank you very much. i have spent many times on this floor about my great admiration for the chairman of the full transport

the san walking district in the california has some of the most polluted air in the nation -- the san joaquins some of the worst polluted air in the nation. it exacerbates health problems of certain people, and children are especially vulnerable. has anything changed on the pollution levels in these areas? >> the pollution in those areas is certainly a predatorypriorit. yes, you are right in noting that this budget does not propose to continue the earmarks. >> but there are earmarks for other areas. for example, a alaskan native villages. map for the the conversation and write to you about this? we are worried. there are certain areas that are not named. this area because it is a valley is really hit hard. i want to ask you about the superfund. we're going for 22, 25 cleanups. i am a little bit concerned that we are not aggressive enough. can you explain why it is the case that we're only going from 22 up to 25 cleanups? >> the additional money provided both it in the recovery act, the stimulus funding, as well as the straight line funding and the proposed budget does not allow for a huge inc