champion of sound money and an honest dollar, and i would like to invite jimmy kemp, who heads up the jack kempw words about his father's ideals. jimmy? [applause] >> thank you, judy. after the success of kemp ross in in the 8 1, monetary policy and addressing the soundness of the dollar was the next task on his list. it never got finished in his time, but as the head of the jack kemp foundation, whose goal is to develop and engage exceptional leaders, one of the rules of engagement is on critical issues. our monetary policy seasoned soundness of the dollar is certainly one of the key sthause may dad cared about deeply and believed was the foundation not to just live within our means, which i agree, people want our government to live within our means and dad appreciated that and what dad got and each of us understand is we don't just want to live within our means, we want to grow into greater means and you can't do that without a sound dollar. i got sick and tired of hearing my dad talk about a dollar is as good as gold. nobody else would listen to him. he would talk to me because i was the onl

my dear friend billy jack kemp who sent is here, jack probably would have sought made before i got off the room to adopt the gold standard here and now. despite press reports to the contrary, i have not done that do not intend to do so today, but i am here to say it robert zelig recently encouraged that we rethink international currency system, and i agree. >> the time has come to have the debate over the currency in the proper role is to pay and our nation's monetary affairs. -- the time has come to have the debate over the currency and the proper role it is to play in our nation's monetary affairs. i want to commend atlas and freedom works for talking about things that are foundational in our society. i have been a washington, d.c. for 10 years, and too often it seems that the event horizon that washington, d.c., considers is the next headline is the next week, the next quarter, and next year. what we should be thinking about is the next generation. we should be thinking about how we should once again build american prosperity on the foundation upon which it was originally built. th

remember jack kemp, who said, i don't worship at that shrine, i'm for tax cuts, because i think it's going to stimulate the economy. >> but after this election, boy, is it hard? >> right, and this is welcome to mitch mcconnell's world and john boehner's world. because they're going to have that problem. >> and just to show you where the fault lines are right now, yesterday in the key test vote, 37 republicans voted for this, only 5 republicans voted no and stood with mitt romney and sarah palin and the tea party. >> so the taxes still trump deficit reduction for now. but cornell, the biggest challenge is going to come january, when republicans will have to prove it when it comes to spending cuts. and the question is, how far will the president go with them. >> what the president has to do and congressional democrats have to do is two different things. the president is showing where he's going to go on this bipartisanship. and the polling is really interesting, because you put this bipartisan tax cut proposal out there in a big form and all americans are clamoring for it, yes, biparti

introduce the man who is here to help remind us of the views of an individual could in this guide, jack kemp, an american statesman, and economic conservative, a champion of sound money and an honest dollar. i like to invite jimmy kemp who heads up that jack kemp

they all blinded jack kemp said is there should be a safety net and not a hammock.e want to make sure that we don't encourage the cycle of dependence. i got a call last night from a constituent that runs an employment agency who was pleading with me not to extend unemployment benefits under any circumstance whatsoever. this is a small businesswoman who struggles to make ends meet. she sees the problems that exist with the dramatic extension. we have said we want to ensure that even though there are some people who are receiving benefits and are not looking for work, we don't want anyone out there day in and day out struggling to find a job opportunity to go hungry. that is the reason we have said that we would like to have it paid for but we support the notion of insuring that people who are hurting and we know there are people guarding and we acknowledge that, have their needs met. mr. chairman, let me say that i would like to inquire that when we have here is, one of the things i am most proud that will happen with the new majority is that we will have tub -- tele

speaker, jack kemp was reveered by democrats and republicans alike and he understood very clearly that if you increase that tax burden on job creators, you undermine the ability for people who are trying to get on to that first running of the economic ladder a chance to do that -- rung of the economic ladder a chance to do that. i don't like this bill. i don't know anyone who says they like this bill but i like even less the prospect of increasing taxes on every american who pays income taxes today. so that's why i believe we should move ahead as expeditiously as possible so come january, we can have this laser-like focus in our quest to grow our economy by reducing the size and scope and reach of government so we can increase opportunity for all americans and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: in a moment, i will be offering an amendment to the rule and i want to take this opportunity to briefly describe the amendment. the amendment shifts initial considerati

jack kemp and i served on the committee, but i don't think supply side as worked -- supply side has worked. it has the proposition if you do less, you get more. nothing i have done in life instructs me if i do less, i get more. and because of that, because of the concept if you simply cut taxes on those who are wealthiest in our society, somehow, magically, the deficit will be eliminated. not one year did that happen. it happened, frankly, when we said the upper 1% were going to pay just a little more in 1993 and all of you opposed it. all of you, to a person. you said it would destroy the economy. your leader at that point in time, dick armey, said that this would tank the economy. he was 180 degrees wrong. in fact, we experienced the best economy we've seen in this country in my lifetime. 22 million new jobs in eight years. 216,000 jobs per month. in the private sector. but unfortunately, under the economic program that we adopted in 2001, we saw the worst econom the worst job production since herbert hoover. now i'm going to vote for this bill. i think it does help the economy. we are p

jack kemp and i served on the committee, but i don't think supply side as worked -- supply side has worked. it has the proposition if you do less, you get more. nothing i have done in life instructs me if i do less, i get more. and because of that, because of the concept if you simply cut taxes on those who are wealthiest in our society, somehow, magically, the deficit will be eliminated. not one year did that happen. it happened, frankly, when we said the upper 1% were going to pay just a little more in 1993 and all of you opposed it. all of you, to a person. you said it would destroy the economy. your leader at that point in time, dick armey, said that this would tank the economy. he was 180 degrees wrong. in fact, we experienced the best economy we've seen in this country in my lifetime. 22 million new jobs in eight years. 216,000 jobs per month. in the private sector. but unfortunately, under the economic program that we adopted in 2001, we saw the worst economy, the worst job production since herbert hoover. now i'm going to vote for this bill. i think it does help the economy. we are

he and jack kemp got congress to fund a new grant program to cities to clean up.program alive. today, over $335 million has gone through this program to clean of rental homes in 59 communities across this country. [applause] and thousands of children and families have bright futures because of what he did. dr. hooks, though, was not one to sit on his laurels. i think he was about 80 when he turned to me one day and said, olivia, when we take care of this lead problem we have got to get to work on aids. we celebrated his 80th birthday in washington, an evening that none of us will ever forget. thank you, melanie. congratulations and while wishing poured in from senators and congressmen. the letters and notes coming this past week have been sater in tone, but fall of the same ad -- have been sadder in tone, but full of the same admiration. every member of the c h s staff has a memory of an adventure with him, a dinner spent with the dr. and mrs. stokes and an impromptu changing -- and this hooks and an impromptu life changing experience. i remember traveling once an

we had a young staffer at empower america who came to work with jack kemp and me in the 1990's. we thought he was very talented and capable. he will be -- he will become the budget committee chairman in january. that is where the action will be. attacking the deficit has got to be done. starting tomorrow, a 10,000 baby boomers today will hit age 65. we go the demands on medicare. if we do not get things under control it will be 20 cents on the dollar. do we want to be increased or one of these basket case countries? no. that will be a focus. the other will be to focus on obama care. this is one of the reasons republicans did so well in november. it is something that motivates a lot of people. it brought a lot of people here. public opinion is hardening against it. i do not think you will see it repealed because as i keep reminding people, though i was pleased with the november results, there are three branches of government and republicans have control of one branch out. host: you pointed out the bill clinton and george w. bush are among those hitting age 65. you are talking abo

it is very colder here thermometer says 38 degrees gloves you need that and i think jack kemp but there are a lot of people said was they who do not have that. i'm by the guadalupe river where cars drive by they don't see this there's a huge population under the road and under the freeway. some homeless people there so what they did last night some religious leaders came out along with their followers they went out passing out blankets to the homeless. some of them don't want to go to the armories to go get warm they feel they can find moore's piece on the streets which is very dangerous during this time so leaders went out here to try and help them out. reportedly the police department will go through here this stretch of guadalupe river park to try to sweep out some of the homeless. i'm going to give them a call to see if that is true and if that happens where do they want the homeless population to go after that. expansion is cold temperatures continues and the armories get filled up. this is obviously a developing story. >> we have seen several shelters open early due to this cold s

jack -- dies like jack kemp who either came to admire who thought about enterprise zones that are creatingas all across the world. no political party has a monopoly on great ideas. this nation can only go as far as we are willing to take each other. there is no democratic destiny or republican destiny. there is an american destiny. [applause] we know from all our traditions , christian, muslim, jewish -- the ideal of community. people love their favorite three word phrase, a hallmark of this nation -- e. pluibus unum. we have a choice to make. we can answer the call of our country. we can claim the truth of our nation. if we can realize that america is a nation, but is also a destination. we as a nation must be willing to make the sacrifice. democracy cannot be a spectator sport. you cannot get joy after sitting at home on our couch looking at msnbc or fox. if we do not get off of that callous every make our nation -- this is the test we have before us. we must realize that we as a people in this nation drank deeply from the wells of freedom. we have an obligation to make a choice to accep