that's h.r. 1. h.r. 1 would be cutting down the community services block grant -- community services block grant would shut down the red rock community action agency serving boone, jasper, and rural pope county. h.r. 1, as mentioned would eliminate funding for job training programs which assisted more than 35,000 iowans in the last year. as i mentioned, it would slash pehl grants for our kids who go to all of our colleges in iowa the private nonfor profits, and our regent institutions. 2,000 low-income iowa kids that now attend head start would be cut off in iowa. and, lastly, mr. president, it's not only just the cuts and the slashes to these vital programs which will increase unemployment and send us back into another recession. there are riders in this bill. what we call legislative riders. -- riders that are pernicious. they do terrible damage to our country. for example, just one. there's a rider in the bill that says no money can be used or spent to -- to -- to continue the implementation of t

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without h.r. 1, c.m.s. would no longer be able to provide bonus to primary care and general surgery physicians for eligible services. and there are other areas, mr. president. the nature of fraud prevention, those efforts would be suspended. of course, some of the proponents who want to kill health care reform don't mind additional preventions, namely moving more toward delivery system reform and toward improving the quality of health care and also reducing costs. but i don't think the authors of h.r. 1 knew what they were doing. i think they were a little quick in writing their legislation. i don't think they realized the effect of h.r. 1 would be to deny medicare beneficiaries these payments. especially i point out that medicare beneficiaries, under medicare advantage, according to h.h.s. secretary, those payments to those persons under medicare advantage would be to have suspended. mr. president, i have a hunch that if we look more deeply into the actual provisions of h.r. 1, we would find other similar

as owner i am the h.r. department, bookkeepinging department, administration department, and still serve my customers while surviving this climate. it will be a tremendous burden both in time and dollars to send out 1099's to all my vendors, appliance vendors, other suppliers, utility companies. it is a job killer provision. we brought this h.r. 4 to the floor to get rid of a job killer provision. the other reason why it is a double-edged sword on small business is, if you want to minimize the number of 1099's that you file, you will not go to your local hardware store. you will not go to your local restaurant. you will go to the big box store, chain restaurant. and we are killing small business on this floor. so i understand the sincerity on the other side of the aisle of those -- mr. camp: i yield an additional 30 seconds. mr. lungren: of those concerned about the middle class. who do you think small business is? this is the middle class in my district and virtually every district across the country. thes

one last question with regards to h.r. 1. this is section 1746, it would fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, but it would stop epa from limiting greenhouse gas emissions. what is less clear is the impact of section 1746 on renewable fuel. i want to ask you, it is the language included and shall i use that dump truck of the bill known as h.r. 1, i could use -- it had more poison pills than bututin's medicine cabinet, here we are burdened with all of this stuff, and we have this language and h.r. 1 that stops epa posset renewable fuel standards for the remainder of the fiscal year. how you deal with the impact of the consequences of section 1746 in h.r. 1, madam minister? >> we agreed that the greenhouse gas prohibitions and others have the courage to have an impact on our ability to do this. this is based on a life cycle analysis with respect to greenhouse gases compared to traditional gasoline. this is one of the consequences as well. >> well, i had just one final comment to address. we talked a lot abou

as owner i am the h.r. department, bookkeepinging department, administration department, and still serve my customers while surviving this climate. it will be a tremendous burden both in time and dollars to send out 1099's to all my vendors, appliance vendors, other suppliers, utility companies. it is a job killer provision. we brought this h.r. 4 to the floor to get rid of a job killer provision. the other reason why it is a double-edged sword on small business is, if you want to minimize the number of 1099's that you file, you will not go to your local hardware store. you will not go to your local restaurant. you will go to the big box store, chain restaurant. and we are killing small business on this floor. so i understand the sincerity on the other side of the aisle of those -- mr. camp: i yield an additional 30 seconds. mr. lungren: of those concerned about the middle class. who do you think small business is? this is the middle class in my district and virtually every district across the country. thes

h.r. 1, mr. speaker, took a meat ax to border security, to food safety, low-income heating assistance, medical research and i can go on and on and on. and thankfully, thankfully, the senate rejected that approach last week. but make no mistake, h.r. 1 is what my republican colleagues not only want but are demanding. their ideological and rigid, and rigid loyalty to h.r. 1 is what is holding up these negotiations. and the cuts in h.r. 1, mr. speaker, are not only egregious but they are reckless and they are damaging. according to former john mccain economic advisor, mark zandi, the bill had the potential to lead to 700,000 lost jobs, exactly the wrong prescription for our recovering economy. and speaking of jobs, mr. speaker, where are the republicans' jobs bills? where is the legislation to encourage investment in new technologies and infrastructure and education and in medical research? it's been 11 weeks and we have seen nothing, not a thing from the other side of the aisle on jobs. let me remi

h.r. 1 is what i was talking about. this extends h.r. 143 weeks. -- h.r. 1 for three weeks. >> all i am saying is that this is a continuing resolution. it deals with the entire government. but it is at the 2010 numbers. we did a separate defense bill which was put into h.r. 1 and we all want to see it enacted as part of the final agreement. that is where they will go. and the earmarks, the money for the year march, they will probably come out of that. >> in the defense component of h.r. 1, you have saved money by eliminating defense earmarks, is that correct? >> we cut by $3 billion. i would have to consult on the numbers. >> there may be some more there. that would help in the end game to get to a number that as a compromise number. >> there will be no earmarks in whatever we do. >> there are earmarks and what we were asked to vote on this week. we are continuing defense earmarks. >> they are not executing in the of the earmarks. >> they are delaying those. >> in this three-week continuation, we've veto are all earmark

who has said h.r. 1 would have no negligible -- harmful impact on the economy. if the chairman of the federal reserve says that, i tend to believe im -- him. i yield three minutes to the chairman of the energy and water subcommittee, mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: thank you, madam chairwoman. i rise in support of this resolution, it's rm an a thoughtful path to avoid a government shutdown. the american people have made two things perfectly clear. first they want their government to stay up and running and second, they want us to cut spending. we need to do both. i would have greatly preferred the senate act on h.r. 1, the seven-month continuing resolution that we debated for over 90 hours. that included indeed the largest spend regular ducks in the history of any congress. 0 days ago this committee in the house took the president's budget and cut it by over $100 billion. terminating dozens of government programs in the process. and in a city where president reagan once said, and i quo

. 1 and h.r. 3. they introduced a bill to put their version of gun laws on the district of columbia, although the courts have found our new gun laws to be constitutional. this morning we hear that they're coming forward yet again with more to do to the district of columbia when they -- when they say they want to erase marriage equality bill. now, they say -- after taking all of that from you, we have something for you, something you never asked for. vouchers instead of funding, public charter schools. in we know you fund the charter schools as well. you -- if you want to fund something, fund what we want, not what you want. and if you want it, bring yourself a national bill right to the floor. i can understand republicans voting against my substitute. they will argue perhaps that it adds to the deficit. but if you vote against my substitute, then i don't see how you can vote for 471, because it certain adds to the deficit too. and you will be voting for your choice, not ours. many of you have come un

>> we're going to fight for h.r. 1. if the house passes, it funds the government through september 30 that passes either house. we are going to continue to fight for everything that's in it. >> they're saying no compromise. many of them, at least some of them are saying they're unhappy with some of the actions you've taken, moving too far off from what they want. some suggests that it will be a primary challenge for you next year. who do you say to the tea partyiers. -- tea partiers? >> i say we talk to the tea party folks, we should listen to them and we should walk amongst them. i don't feel any differently about it today. anytime americans want to engage in their government and today i believe we have more americans engaged in our government than anytime in our history. we should welcome that. >> democrats and -- democrats had a statement this morning saying that republicans and democrats need to work $73 billion below the president's budget. >> there is no agreement on a set of numbers. and nothing will be agreed to

h.r. 872 fixes the problem. it exempts from the permitting process a discharge to waters involving the application of a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution or use under this, where the pesticide is used for its intended purpose and used in compliance with the pesticide label requirements. h.r. 872 was drafted very narrowly to address the sixth circuit's holding in the national cotton council case and return the state of pesticide regulation to the status quo before the court got involved. this bill unanimously out of the agriculture committee and passed the committee on a strong bipartisan vote of 46-8. many organizations representing a wide variety of public and private entities support a resolution of this issue. these organizes include the national association of counties, the national association of state departments of agriculture, national water resources association, american mosquito control association, american farm bureau association, national farmers union, crop life for america and responsib

"the hill" rights the bill, h.r. 1255, which will come up friday in the house, says that, quote, if the house has not received a message from the senate before april 6, 2011, stating that it has passed a measure providing for the appropriations for the departments and agencies of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year 2011, provisions of h.r. 1 as passed by the house on february 19 are hereby

that was h.r. 1. particularly the drastic cuts that would disproportionately affect low-income families and seniors. making such deep and immediate cuts to critical low-income heating assistance, weatherization and head start programs in the middle of the fiscal year would cause serious problems for those who rely on these programs. that was senator clins, a republican of maine -- collins, a republican of maine, when the bill was on the floor. let me ask the gentleman, do we have a plan to proceed so that we can, a, retreat from the uncertainty that we keep creating by these two weeks? i know he and i agree this is not the way to proceed. but does the gentleman have a plan, a, to move forward so we can fund government through september 30, complete funding for this fiscal year and turn our attention and focus on what i know the gentleman knows the appropriation committee is now focusing on, the fiscal year 2012 appropriations, and spending plan? does the gentleman have in mind when we might get to a p

because we can't agree on h.r. 1. and we shouldn't agree on h.r. 1 as passed by the house. so many riders that should have gone through legislative committees that did in fact when they were put in the bill after careful consideration and we gave them 10 minutes of debate and then -- in the wee hours of the morning and stripped that language from the authorizing legislation. that's no way to run a government. and beyond those riders there's thousands of programs that are being cut willy nilly. one such program, for example, national oceanic and atmospheric administration. they provided the early warning to people on the west coast when they knew about the sunesune. -- about the tsunami. yet we are told by noaa that the 28% cut in this bill for noaa would dismantle our early warning system. to save a few million dollars. that's just wrong. you know, there was just an article, people are beginning to realize other things that are cut in this program to save a few dollars. $285 million is not a few dolrs b consider what happens when you cut $285 million out of the program inte

that was h.r. 1. particularly the drastic cuts that would disproportionately affect low-income families and seniors. making such deep and immediate cuts to critical low-income heating assistance, weatherization and head start programs in the middle of the fiscal year would cause serious problems for those who rely on these programs. that was senator clins, a republican of maine -- collins, a republican of maine, when the bill was on the floor. let me ask the gentleman, do we have a plan to proceed so that we can, a, retreat from the uncertainty that we keep creating by these two weeks? i know he and i agree this is not the way to proceed. but does the gentleman have a plan, a, to move forward so we can fund government through september 30, complete funding for this fiscal year and turn our attention and focus on what i know the gentleman knows the appropriation committee is now focusing on, the fiscal year 2012 appropriations, and spending plan? does the gentleman have in mind when we might get to a p

and the republicans decided they wanted to get to h.r. 1, so they jump-started h.r. 1. they wanted to make sure that they let their buddies in the house know that they wanted to have a vote on h.r. 1. last thursday at 4:00, right back here in the vice president's office, there was a meeting held with me, with senator mcconnell, speaker boehner, leader pelosi, and the vice president of the united states. the purpose of the meeting was to move forward on these budget negotiations. we had a very good meeting. everyone was very kind and thoughtful and considerate to everyone. and the idea that we came up with this meeting is to move these negotiations forward is to have a vote on h.r. 1 -- a vote on h.r. 1 and a vote on our alternative. that was the agreement agreed upon by the vice president of the united states, joe biden, by the republican leader, mitch mcconnell, by the majority leader, harry reid, by the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner, and the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives, nancy pelosi yism that was the agreement we --

that's h.r. 662. first of all, i ask unanimous consent that an exchange of letters with the committee on ways and means be submitted to the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mica: thank you. i'd like to first lead off by informing the members and the speaker that this extension is a spending freeze at 2010 levels through september 30. we find ourselves in a situation where the major transportation legislation that authorizes all of the policies of various projects, all the funding levels, all of the activities that are so important to job creation, to building this nation's infrastructure, that legislation expired september 30, 2009. in the past congress and since that time we have passed a number of short-term extensions. we're now on the sixth extension of that legislation. what happens when the congress does this is we end up sending the worst message and the worst policy possible across the nation and across the land to our states and our localities that are trying to build t

because we can't agree on h.r. 1. and we shouldn't agree on h.r. 1 as passed by the house. so many riders that should have gone through legislative committees that did in fact when they were put in the bill after careful consideration and we gave them 10 minutes of debate and then -- in the wee hours of the morning and stripped that language from the authorizing legislation. that's no way to run a government. and beyond those riders there's thousands of programs that are being cut willy nilly. one such program, for example, national oceanic and atmospheric administration. they provided the early warning to people on the west coast when they knew about the sunesune. -- about the tsunami. yet we are told by noaa that the 28% cut in this bill for noaa would dismantle our early warning system. to save a few million dollars. that's just wrong. you know, there was just an article, people are beginning to realize other things that are cut in this program to save a few dollars. $285 million is not a few dollars but consider what happens when you cut $285 million out of the program

bill that was passed, h.r. 915 and h.r. 1586, that passed this congress with bipartisan support. we strongly support the gentleman and ask our colleagues to support it as well. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. lob beyondow: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time has expired. question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. for what purpose does -- it is now in order to consider amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-46. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? gator gator i have an amendment. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-46 offered by mr. garrett of new jersey. the chair: pursuant that house resolution 189, the gentleman from new jersey and a member opposed eac

h.r. 1 cannot be looked as an a serious budget document. now, it's not about the cuts, $61 billion, $70 billion, we can come to a number that we can agree and by the way you can't come to a serious number without making sure that defense is also on the table. but what we have with h.r. 1 is a bill that loads up every piece of the far right social agenda in one bill. from restricting a woman's right to choose to preventing government from protecting the air we breathe and the water we drink. so if we want to have a discussion about a serious budget document and serious cuts, that's one thing. if we want to have a far right, that's another. i yield four minutes to the gentleman from washington, the ranking member of the appropriations committee, mr. dicks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. dicks: mr. speaker, the c.r. disproportionately cuts education, especially literacy efforts. david brooks, not known as a left wing journalist, writes in "the new york times" column today, if you look across the count

that was h.r. 1. particularly the drastic cuts that would disproportionately affect low-income families and seniors. making such deep and immediate cuts to critical low-income heating assistance, weatherization and head start programs in the middle of the fiscal year would cause seriou problems for those who rely on these programs. that was senator clins, a republican ofaine -- collins, a republican of maine, when the bill was on the floor. let me ask the gentleman, do we have a plan to proceed so that we can, a, retreat from the uncertainty that we keep creating by these two weeks? i know he and i agree this is not the way to proceed. but does the gentleman have a plan, a, to move forward so we can fund government through september 30, complete funding for this fiscal year and turn our attention and focus on what i know the gentleman knows the appropriation committee is now focusing on, the fiscal year 2012 appropriatio, and spending plan? does the gentleman have in mind when we might get to a plan t

president, h.r. 1, i don't know how many pages -- madam clerk, how many pages in h.r. 1? mr. president, could you tell me how many pages in h.r. 1? the presiding officer: 382 pages. mr. reid: 382 pages. well, mr. president, i have only talked about enough to take up a couple three pages, but it is full of the same kind of stuff that i've talked about here today, stuff that is not fair and mean-spirited. we all want to cut. i represent the state of nevada. we're in a deep economic problem. we know, though, we have to cut things here. the presiding officer from the state of connecticut, we are -- we are both members of the democratic party. we have supported these programs because it's the right thing to do. we recognize there is going to have to be cuts made, but we have to do them with a scalpel, not a meat cleaver. and to have someone say well, i didn't know it was in the bill. eliminating, cutting drastically a program for people who have challenges, emotional, mental, physical challenges, i didn't know it was in the bill, well, there are a lot of that same kind of stuff in

. 1 and they want h.r. 1, h.r. 1, h.r. 1. pay back all the big polluters in the country who supported them. now, it doesn't make sense on any level, mr. president. doesn't make sense in jobs, doesn't make sense in terms of the health of our people and it's politically unpopular. let's take a look at a recent poll that was done all across the country by a republican polling firm and a democratic polling firm, and i'm going to show you what it came out with. 69% say the e.p.a. clean air act standards should be updated with stricter air pollution limits. people want cleaner air. they see their kids gasping. i said the other day, if you, mr. president, go into any school in your state and asked the children, how many of you have asthma? probably about a quarter of them will raise their hands. and if you say, how many of you know a child with asthma? it's about 50% of the crowd. and asthma's a very difficult condition. i listened -- listen to senator lautenberg all the time talk about how it is with his -- he has a grandson with b

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in my view h.r. 1 cents aut i message but it is not the righte message. the message it sends is that we in fact are not willing to look at serious deficit reduction at this point.at the first story of cuts that ine wanted to talk about that are contained in h.r. 1 that will severely impact our nation for years to calm and have an effece on how many jobs we can actually create, that is the area of science and energy innovation. last december, this congress passed the reauthorization of what we call the america competes act, and i was very privileged to work reticular lead with my colleague from tennessee, senator alexander, on helping get that legislation enacted. its purpose was to authorize funding for the department of energy's office of science for the national scienceci foundati, and for the national institutes of standards and technology for the next three years so that by fiscal year 2016, we would have completed a 10 year doubling of the funding for those agencies. i would like to note that this effort was first started during the bush administrati

i rise in support of h.r. 1076. as a broadcaster shes i understand the -- i understand the freedom to express yourself but to do it on your own merit. i brought an idea to the marketplace to develop a radio news network. started with four stations and within four years was able to grow that with 50 stations serving five states. i did not ask for one single dime from the federal government. i think the freedom to succeed in this country needs to exist also with the freedom to fail. we have an open marketplace. we have an opportunity to sell advertising around the ideas that which express on the radio. i'm a success story in using the open marketplace with freedom to succeed. it also comes with the freedom to fail. earlier in the year or last year, rather, i started a radio station. a small venture. i populated that to staff with folks that were on unemployment. so i know what it means to create jobs. and certainly this is not about further burdening our taxpayer with support of an industry that is perfectly capable o

zeroed out in h.r. 1, the house republican budget. title 10 provides contraceptives services for 4.7 million women nationwide. it helps prevent almost a million unintended pregnancies. we're all saying let us make sure that we cut down on the number of abortions? what is one proven way to do it? contraception. they would prevent almost a million -- almost a million people from getting that kind of service. now, in my state planned parenthood operates 800 health care centers nationwide. i know my colleague is very well aware of health care centers. they provide 720,000 breast exams nationwide, 730,000 pap tests. what does this mean? mr. president, hundreds of thousands of women, just in california, and millions nation wide, -- nationwide, go to planned parenthood to make sure that they don't have breast cancer, that they don't have cervical cancer, that they don't have an s.t.d., that they don't have aids, and if, god forbid, it turns out they have any of these things, they can get cured. without this, they're in deep trouble. everyone

speaker, h.r. 1. the single continuing resolution that's had more openness in the process than any other continuing resolution that this house has ever considered. and it led to the best process and it led to the best outcome. and that is the bill that sits in the united states senate aid -- today that could be acted on today that would fund the gft and provide the certainty -- fund the government and provide the certainty we need today for the end of the fiscal year on september 30. so when we are talking about certainty, and i absolutely believe that our economy needs certainty, and it's the government creating the uncertainty, we are creating the uncertainty, we have historically created the uncertainty, we have the opportunity with h.r. 1 to eliminate that uncertainty for the rest of the fiscal year, to get back to doing what this house always should have been doing, which is considering appropriations bills under regular order and i hope my friends on the democratic side of the aisle are throwing

i rise in support of h.r. 1076. as a broadcaster shes i understand the -- i understand the freedom to express yourself but to do it on your own merit. i brought an idea to the marketplace to develop a radio news network. started with four stations and within four years was able to grow that with 50 stations serving five states. i did not ask for one single dime from the federal government. i think the freedom to succeed in this country needs to exist also with the freedom to fail. we have an open marketplace. we have an opportunity to sell advertising around the ideas that which express on the radio. i'm a success story in using the open marketplace with freedom to succeed. it also comes with the freedom to fail. earlier in the year or last year, rather, i started a radio station. a small venture. i populated that to staff with folks that were on unemployment. so i know what it means to create jobs. and certainly this is not about further burdening our taxpayer with support of an industry that is perfectly capable o

i rise in support of h.r. 1076. as a broadcaster shes i understand the -- i understand the freedom to express yourself but to do it on your own merit. i brought an idea to the marketplace to develop a rao news network. started with four stations and within four years was able to grow that with 50 stations serving five states. i did not ask for one single dime from the federal government. i think the freedom to succeed in this country needs to exist also with the freedom to fail. we have an open marketplace. we have an opportunity to sell advertising around the ideas that which express on the radio. i'm a success story in using the open marketplace with frdom to succeed. it also comes with the freedom to fail. earlier in the year or last year, rather, i started a radio station. a small venture. i populated that to staff with folks that were on unemployment. so i know what it means to create jobs. and certainly this is not about further burdening our taxpayer with support of an industry that is perfectly capable of su

i rise in support of h.r. 1076. as a broadcaster shes i understand the -- i understand the freedom to express yourself but to do it on your own merit. i brought an idea to the marketplace to develop a radio news network. started with four stations and within four years was able to grow that with 50 stations serving five states. i did not ask for one single dime from the federal government. i think the freedom to succeed in this country needs to exist also with the freedom to fail. we have an open marketplace. we have an opportunity to sell advertising around the ideas that which express on the radio. i'm a success story in using the open marketplace with freedom to succeed. it also comes with the freedom to fail. earlier in the year or last year, rather, i started a radio station. a small venture. i populated that to staff with folks that were on unemployment. so i know what it means to create jobs. and certainly this is not about further burdening our taxpayer with support of an industry that is perfectly capable o

. 861 and h.r. 839. this rule allows the amendments submitted to the rules committee to be made in order as long as they were not subject to a point of order and were germane to the underlying text of h.r. 861 and h.r. 839. this rule provides for debate and amendment opportunities for members of the minority and the majority to change the legislative text of the underlying bill. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this rule and the two underlying bills. the first piece of legislation, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act was introduced by my friend from california, gary miller, on march 1, 2011, and went through committee markup in the financial services committee last week on march 9. the second bill, h.r. 839, the home affordable mortgage protection -- program termination act was introduced by my dear friend from north carolina, the gentleman, mr. mchenry, on february 28, and marked up last week as well. both of these bills went through regular order which allowed members from bot

i'm going to reluctantly support h.r. 1. it reduces government spending by about $61 billion below last year's levels. the reason i'm reluctantly supporting it is because i don't think it goes far enough. we've heard the other side rail that the cuts are too large, but let me just -- a few quotes here. this is from admiral mike mullen, who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. just going to read the yellow portion here. he said that, "i believe that our debt is the greatest threat to our national security." well, we know that our national debt is over $14 trillion now thi.this year we're spending in excess of what we take in over $1 -- $almost $1.6 trillion. and all we're talking about in that house bill that got sent over here is reducing that amount by $61 billion, a very paltry amount. a few other quotes that i want to talk about here. this is from treasury secretary tim geithner. he said, february 17, "it is an excessively high interest burden," talking about our debt. he said, "it's unsustainable. with the presi

h.r. 658, the f.a.a. re-authorization reform act of 2008 is a four-year re-authorization that would reduce the f.a.a.'s annual funding to approximately 2008 appropriation levels. $14.9 billion. for the remainder of 2011 and then each year through fiscal year 2014. h.r. 658 would effectively cut roughly $1 billion annually and almost $4 billion total below current funding levels from the f.a.a. budget over the next four years. these proposed cuts will have dire consequences on our nation's infrastructure, jobs and the economy. mr. speaker, in february the house aviation subcommittee held a hearing for industry stakeholders to testify about f.a.a. re-authorization. in response to a question that i posed, witnesses representing the aerospace industry, general aviation manufacturers, general aviation pilots, airports, air traffic controllers and f.a.a. managers all testified that congress could not cut $1 billion annually from the f.a.a.'s budget without harming safety sensitive programs or hampering the indu

i am against h.r. 830 and h.r. 836. it doesn't make sense when we have hundreds of thousands of individuals who are in need of this program. i will venture to say that if a program needs fix -- if we ever heard of fix it, don't end it -- of course it's always good to do due diligence and have oversight over these praments, but i would think that the financial services -- programs, but i would think that the financial services committee could make the f.h.a. work better, if that is the case. but the nonsensible plan of eliminating it, not helping the under water mortgagers, the mortgagees, the individuals that have these mortgages with mortgages that are worth mohr than the homes -- and we know there are many communities like this and my colleagues mentioned some but let me cite three states again because it's so enormous. florida, two million. california, two million. nevada, 390,000. they are still in distress, and everyone knows that the housing market has a lot to do with this economy, and even without the help of my

. 861 and h.r. 839. this rule allows the amendments submitted to the rules committee to be made in order as long as they were not subject to a point of order and were germane to the underlying text of h.r. 861 and h.r. 839. this rule provides for debate and amendment opportunities for members of the minority and the majority to change the legislative text of the underlying bill. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this rule and the two underlying bills. the first piece of legislation, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act was introduced by my friend from california, gary miller, on march 1, 2011, and went through committee markup in the financial services committee last week on march 9. the second bill, h.r. 839, the home affordable mortgage protection -- program termination act was introduced by my dear friend from north carolina, the gentleman, mr. mchenry, on february 28, and marked up last week as well. both of these bills went through regular order which allowed members from bot

h.r. 525.a bill to amend the public health service act to enhance and increase the number of veterinarians trained in veterinary public health. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. burgess, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, again, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 525, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. burgess: and i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, h.r. -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: h.r. 525 would take important steps to increase the number of public health veterinarians. veterinarians have a vital role in our public health and experts have informed us that there is in fact a shortage. this could affect our n

congress to fix the economy and what they've been doing they did h.r. three south dakota georgia what is south dakota south dakota was so that you could in premeditated murder doctors and nurses what was tortured it was actually true. that was if a woman couldn't prove she had a natural miscarriage that she was going to be accused of having a felony theoretically she could face the death penalty and now in this state in texas we have this one what on earth is going on here there you see this is you know you never see because life is that state you know women though these people as well as you know this is just perfect reason why we need more women in elected office in this country were eighteen little men if i were like i would i would still hear how these baby sticks in the world the number of women elected office right and us congress has only seventeen barely seventeen percent it reminds me of the health care debate where we had a man stood up and said that pregnancy was a preexisting condition we need more women and lots of doctors so this is your w

h.r. 4 very simply put, mr. speaker, is about protecting small business owners, job creators in new hampshire and across our nation, from onerous paperwork burdens. simple as that. nothing more, nothing less. currently this piece of legislation component of the health care legislation requires those small business owners to comply with the federal government every time they spend $600 with an individual vendor over the course of a calendar year. i have taugeed to -- talked to many small business owners in my home state of new hampshire who have told me specifically how this would hurt their small business. we should be here to encourage small business owners to innovate, to expand, to make sure that we give them the predictibility of this house and public policy that will allow them to create jobs. the heart of new hampshire's economy is the small business owner. 80% of our economy is reliant on the small business owner. i ask that my colleagues join me in repealing the 1099 provision. i yield back the balance o

it was h.r. 3765 in the last congress. we started with a simple premise, for major rules, rules that have an economic impact of $100 million or more qume la tyly, once the of-day comment period is over, instead of being enforced as they are today with very little interaction with industry and very little heeding of industry in the comment areas or communities, with this -- what this would do, things like that stormwater bill, things like no child left behind, things like net flew neu centrality, things like doing card check by regulation, frankly, versus going against the will of the people's elected representatives, what that would force is force that rule back up to capitol hill under a joint resolution. it's constitutional. it would have to pass in the house, pass in the senate and then go to the president's desk for signature. what that would do is be able to give people back in the united states, washington, d.c. was at one time described as 10 miles by 10 miles square surrounded by reality, back in the real world, wh

house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h.r. 658 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: bill to amend title 49, united states code, to authorize appropriations for the federal aviation administration for fiscal years 2011 through 2014 to streamline programs, create efficiencies, reduce waste and approve aviation safety and capacity, to provide stable funding for the national aviation system and for other purposes. the chair: when the committee of the whole rose earlier today amendment number 18 printed in house report 112-46 offered by the gentleman from georgia, mr. gingrey, had been disposed of. the committee will be in order. it is now in order to consider amendment number 19 printed in 112-46. for what purpose does the

h.r. 836, the emergency mortgage relief program termination act, and h.r. 830, the f.h.a. refinance program termination act. h.r. 836 would terminate the emergency mortgage relief program and rescind any unobligated balances remaining under the program. the emergency mortgage relief program created by the dodd-frank act establishes a $1 billion fund to provide loans or credited answers to borrowsers who can can't pay their mortgages because of unemployment or reduction in income. to date no funds have been provided to homeowners under this program and serious questions remained about its cost, effectiveness and benefits. the c.b.o. estimates the program will have a 98% subsidy rate meaning that for every dollar loaned thunderstorm program, 98 cents -- under this program, 98 cents is not expected to be repaid. gibbon the country's current fiscal situation -- given the country's current fiscal situation, no program warrants funding when benefits are speculative at best and substantial taxpayer losses are certain. . the other bill approved, h.r. 830, which will be addressed b

it has now been just two weeks since the house passed h.r. 1, a bill that makes much needed spending cuts and keeps the government running through the end of the fiscal year. unfortunately, the democrats who run the senate have not allowed the vote on this bill or any other bill that would cut spending and keep government running long term. you may have heard president obama say that we need to make sure we're living within our means. he is right about that. unfortunately, his budget does not match his words. it continues out of control spending. it adds to our $14 trillion debt. it adds to the uncertainty that makes it harder to create jobs. maintaining the status quo and refusing to offer a credible plan to cut spending is just unacceptable and inexcusable. we cannot sit here to sit on our hands. the american people want us to keep the government running on cutting costs. with your support, republicans spearheaded the passage of a short-term measure that cuts by $4 billion. that is money that would have gone for earmarks and other wasteful programs. it is a start. it is not nearly

h.r. 836, the emergency mortgage relief program termination act, and h.r. 830, the f.h.a. refinance program termination act. h.r. 836 would terminate the emergency mortgage relief program and rescind any unobligated balances remaining under the program. the emergency mortgage relief program created by the dodd-frank act establishes a $1 billion fund to provide loans or credited answers to borrowsers who can can't pay their mortgages because of unemployment or reduction in income. to date no funds have been provided to homeowners under this program and serious questions remained about its cost, effectiveness and benefits. the c.b.o. estimates the program will have a 98% subsidy rate meaning that for every dollar loaned thunderstorm program, 98 cents -- under this program, 98 cents is not expected to be repaid. gibbon the country's current fiscal situation -- given the country's current fiscal situation, no program warrants funding when benefits are speculative at best and substantial taxpayer losses are certain. . the other bill approved, h.r. 830, which will be addressed b

h.r. 836, the emergency mortgage relief program termination act, and h.r. 830, the f.h.a. refinance pgram termination act. h.r. 836 would terminate the emergency mortgage relief program and rescind any unobligated balances remaining under the program. the emergency mortgage relief program created by the dodd-frank act establishes a $1 billion fund to provide loans or credited answers to borrowsers who can can't pay their mortgages because of unemployment or reduction in income. to date no funds have been provided to meowners under this program and serious questions remained about its cost, effectiveness and benefits. the c.b.o. estimates the program will have a 98% subsidy rate meaning that for every dollar loaned thunderstorm program, 98 cents -- under this program, 98 cents is not expected to be repaid. gibbon the country's current fiscal situation -- given the country's current fiscal situation, no program warrants funding when benefits are speculative at best and substantial taxpayer losses are certain. . the other bill approved, h.r. 830, which will be addressed by th

speaker, i urge my colleagues to support struggling homeowners and vote against h.r. 830 and h.r. 836. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas. for what purpose does he seek recognition? mr. poe: permission to address the house for one minute. mr. speaker, on december 14, border patrol agent brian terry was murdered in arizona by bandits crogging into the united states. border agents approached the armed invaders and the armed invaders were carrying ak-47's. a shootout occurred where terry was shot and killed. now there is evidence that terry and possibly other agents fired first to defend themselves by firing bean bags at the outlaws before using live ammo. documents indicate that the agents were required to fire first with nonlethal bean bags before using live ammo. allegations also show the ak-47 used by the bandits to kiltery was a gun the a.t.f. had allowed a smuggler to buy in an apparent sting operation and take into mexico. the idea that when armed bandits invade the united states our border agents must fire bean bags is nonsense a