mr. woodall: mr., -- mr. mica: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on transportation and ways and means be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 2279 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2279, a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the airport and airway trust fund, to amend title 49, united states code, to extend the airport improvement program and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to consideration of the bill? without objection, the bill is engrossed, read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? mr. petri: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill just passed, h.r. 2279. the speaker

mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i have no more requests for time and i want to ask my colleague if he's prepared to close. mr. woodall: we're prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you. i urge a no vote on the rule. remind us the last time we had such a weighty debate we devoted 26 hours to it and 263 members, more than half the house of representatives, spoke. i agree with what has just been said about ms. lee, it's much too late. it comes at a very strange time, and it says this is a political move which i regret, because, as she pointed out, and those others who have been here before, voting to go to war is the most solemn experience that we face here. so let me urge a no vote on the rule and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from georgia

mr. woodall, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. woodall: this is a serious topic we are talking about today, the homeland security appropriations bill. you know, when you pass a responsible budget as we did here in the house, you have to make tough choices. i learned here as a freshman we do these 10-year budget plans but only one year matters because the next congress does year two, year three and year four. the serious decisions we are making in this budget is what happens in year one and that's the homeland security appropriations bill that's before us here today. how are we going to fund homeland security for year one? and we're down here talking about all these ancillary issues, and i tell you, this one's important. this one's important. this one's happening. this isn't smoke and mirrors 10 years down the road. this happens today. and the appropriations committee have worked long and hard to craft the delicate balance they could. 42 cents for

mr. woodall: reclaiming my time. that's what tubbles me as a freshman because i know, mr. speaker -- troubles me as a freshman because i know, mr. speaker, that the distinguished member knows that had the committee reported this bill out the way the manager's amendment crafts its bill, there would be no cut-go violation whatsoever. hear that. had the committee reported this bill out with the way we are bringing this bill to the floor, there would have been no cut-go violation whatsoever. yet we are raising this issue on the floor of the house as if there's some big backroom deal going on. that's frustrating to me as a freshman member, mr. speaker, because there is no backroom deal. this is the most open house of representatives that i have seen in my lifetime. this is the most open rules committee that i have seen in my lifetime. this is the most open process in the people's house that i have seen in my lifetime. and yet for reasons that i cannot suppose, mr. speaker, folks make this case as if there are in fairous things going on in the background. i just say to my collea

mr. woodall, for five minutes. mr. woodall: i thank you, mr. speaker, and i am pleased to rise today after the former chairman of the ways and means committee. i want to talk about taxes today, but i want to associate myself with the previous speaker's comments about how we make different decisions when we have skin in the game. because that is absolutely something that we are losing in this country. we are losing what used to be that common value that we rise and we fall together. i see my colleague from the rules committee, mr. mcgovern, sitting in the chamber today and he tells the committee on a regular basis, we need to pay for those things that we do. we are involved in wars and we need to pay, we need to have a people that believes in what we are doing in such a way they are willing to sacrifice not just their time but their treasure to support those measures. and when we don't have folks who have skin in the game, we make different decisions. when a minority of the folks get the benefit, or minority of the folks are bearing the burden,

mr. woodall: agriculture and manufacturing has been the foundations of our economy. the things that we need to get our committee back on track or access to capital and regulatory certainty. mr. scott: when you make changes that's this drastic on the floor through an amendment process instead of going through the committee process where it should be done, then you hinder those two things. farmers lose confidence and their lenders lose confidence in federal policy and that does away with stability and the predict ifblet that some of these i shall -- predictability that some of these are designed. it may be harder to come by if we start to make amendments like this and allow amendments like this on the floor. i simply -- i simply rise to say this -- agriculture has been strong. it's been one of the bright spots in america and it will continue to be one of the bright spots in america because of the work ethic of the people involved in the agricultural industry. i'd ask my colleagues to oppose this amendment and allow us to deal with this in the agriculture committee, in t