mr. barton: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas continues to reserve his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. dingell: we would be delighted to receive extra time. at this time, i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from new jersey, chairman of the subcommittee on health, committee on energy and commerce, one of the original sponsors, 1 1/2 minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, chairman dingell and all the work you have done on this bill and so many other bills. there shouldn't be any more time for delay. every time we have a food safety crisis, eggs, spinach or pepper, we shake our heads and say we don't have the tools to protect it. each year 76 million americans are sickened from consuming contaminated food and 5,000 people die. as the bill we are going to vote on today perfect? certainly not. the food safety act would give the f.d.a., the ability and the authority to protect consumers from contaminated foods. f.d.a. will ensure food safety through more frequent inspection, the

mr. barton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. barton: i thank the gentleman from california for his courtesy. i would ask the chair how much time i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 15 minutes remaining. mr. barton: may i ask how much time my friends on the majority have? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california, mr. stark, has 13 minutes remaining. the speaker pro tempore: thank you, mr. speaker. -- mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: the republicans do rise in support of this one-year fix for the reimbursement rate for physicians. having said that, i think i was able to listen to some of what my distinguished subcommittee chairman of the energy and commerce committee, mr. pallone, was saying as i was waiting for the tram to come over here, it is time, mr. speaker, for members on b

mr. barton: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas continues to reserve his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. dingell: we would be delighted to receive extra time. at this time, i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from new jersey, chairman of the subcommittee on health, committee on energy and commerce, one of the original sponsors, 1 1/2 minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, chairman dingell and all the work you have done on this bill and so many other bills. there shouldn't be any more time for delay. every time we have a food safety crisis, eggs, spinach or pepper, we shake our heads and say we don't have the tools to protect it. each year 76 million americans are sickened from consuming contaminated food and 5,000 people die. as the bill we are going to vote on today perfect? certainly not. the food safety act would give the f.d.a., the ability and the authority to protect consumers from contaminated foods. f.d.a. will ensure food safety through more frequent inspection, the

mr. barton and mr. engel and the energy and commerce committee have been working on since the 109th congress. in fact, back in april of this year the house passed our version, h.r. 1258. the legislation protects consumers by prohibiting the deceptive practice of manipulating caller i.d. information and practice known as caller i.d. spoofing. everyone is now familiar with the caller i.d. product that provides to a consumer the name and number of who is placing an incoming call. madam speaker, unfortunately caller i.d. spoofing is yet another tool available to criminals to hydrogen -- hijack the identity of consumers. as with other scams, the internet is making caller i.d. spoofing even easier today. there are websites that offer subscribers for a nominal fee a simple web interface to caller i.d. spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from any number they so choose. some of these web services have boasted that they do not maintain logs and fail to provide any contact information. some even of

mr. barton: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas continues to reserve his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. dingell: we would be delighted to receive extra time. at this time, i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from new jersey, chairman of the subcommittee on health, committee on energy and commerce, one of the original sponsors, 1 1/2 minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, chairman dingell and all the work you have done on this bill and so many other bills. there shouldn't be any more time for delay. every time we have a food safety crisis, eggs, spinach or pepper, we shake our heads and say we don't have the tools to protect it. each year 76 million americans are sickened from consuming contaminated food and 5,000 people die. as the bill we are going to vote on today perfect? certainly not. the food safety act would give the f.d.a., the ability and the authority to protect consumers from contaminated foods. f.d.a. will ensure food safety through more frequent inspection, the

mr. barton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. barton: i thank the gentleman from california for his courtesy. i would ask the chair how much time i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 15 minutes remaining. mr. barton: may i ask how much time my friends on the majority have? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california, mr. stark, has 13 minutes remaining. the speaker pro tempore: thank you, mr. speaker. -- mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempe: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: the republicans do rise in support of this one-year fix for the reimbursement rate for physicians. having said that, i think i was able to listen to some of what my distinguished subcommittee chairman of the ergy and commerce committee, mr. pallone, was saying as i was waiting for the tram to come over here, it is time, mr. speaker, for members on both

mr. barton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for a minute and a half to address the house. mr. barton: i thank the distinguished chairman to be of the rules committee, mr. dreier of california, my good friend. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. barton: mr. speaker, this is not a bad compromise that's before us. but it is also not the best compromise. it's not a bad deal but it's not the best deal. . the gentleman from california who spoke on the democratic side just a few minutes ago i think said it the best when he said, in january our republican friends will be at the table. we are making a compromise today on the republican side, in my opinion, that we don't have to make. i think the tax cuts should be permanent, not temporary. i think the additional spending should be paid for now, not just added to the deficit. a funny thing happened in november, we elected over 80 ne

mr. barton each will control 10 minutes. the house will be in order. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on the pending legislation. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the house will be in order. members please take their conversations off the floor. i hope that the congress is not too offended to recognize that yes, we must deal with long-term budget deficits. if this country is to grow for everybody, we also need to confront our investment deficits in jobs, in education, in infrastructure and science and technology. that is the context in which this resolution -- which this bill to keep the government functioning for a year is being considered. this bill frees the discretionary appropriations at the 2010 level for the rest of the fiscal year, spending $46 billion less than the president asked for this year. it adjusts last year's priorities in three main ways. it funds the current shortfall in pell grants for college

mr. barton had an understanding with mr. waxman, at that point, it was under different understandings for the funding of the bill, the science of the bill, and the labor provisions. these things have since changed. as you know if it was the same bill it would come back under a house bill number. but it's coming back as a senate bill that's introduced by barbara boxer. so this is not, as you would realize, is not the same bill. otherwise what mr. barton agreed upon with mr. waxman, that would be the bill we would be voting on. as you know this is not the bill. this is a different bill. and so i urge my colleagues with that to vote against the bill and i yield back the balance of my time. so we can move on to other important bills. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. doyle: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. doyle: i would say to my friend that this bill is identical to the bill that we h

mr. barton. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pits: i reserve the balance of my time -- mr. pitts: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro, the chairman of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee and very much interested in the matter before us. she's worked on it a long time. ms. delauro for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized for five minutes. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this bill as a good and necessary first step in reforming our food safety system. and better protecting our families from food-borne illness. i want to congratulate some of the long-time champions of food safety in this institution. such as chairman henry waxman, chairman john dingell, subcommittee chair mr. frank pallone, mr. bart

mr. barton each will control 10 minutes. the house will be in order. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on the pending legislation. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the house will be in order. members please take their conversations off the floor. 80% has gone to the luckiest 10%. families are hurting. what has been the response? it is to spend $80 billion to give super says tax cuts to millionaires. and of the 24 billion to give families a pass to paying taxes. washington politicians are singing pious songs about the need for deficit reduction provoke. i hope congress is not to offended to recognize that we must deal with long-term budget deficit but we also need to confront our investment deficit in jobs comment education, and infrastructure. that is the context that the bill is being considered. spending $46 billion less than the president asks for this id funds the current shortfall in grants for students. maked

mr. barton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: i thank the gentleman from utah. i want to thank the leadership on both sides for allowing and supporting this resolution. i'm happy in the house to be the primary sponsor. i also want to commend both speaker pelosi and minority leader boehner for scheduling this so timely. i was told yesterday it would be on the floor at 2:45, and i walked on the floor at 2:43 and it was on the floor at 2:45. it shows that the house can work in a bipartisan efficient manner when it so desires. mr. speaker, i was a white house fellow in the class of 1981 and 1982 under president ronald reagan. i was one of 14 fellows that year. i worked for the secretary of energy, the honorable james edwards of south carolina, the former governor of south carolina. the deputy secretary was kent anderson, and my director of report was jay hunter child iii, the director of policy planning and analysis. in my class in 1981 and 1982 we had mike alleman, who is now the c.e.o. of jcpenney. and the senior official at

mr. barton: thank you for yieldi. when i -- mr. bartlett: thank yofor yielding. when i camto the congress 18 years ago i was assigned to the armed services committee. the subcommittees are determined by seniority and member preferences. we all get together in the room and we select our committees and as the more popular committees are filled, less and less opportunities are available to junior members. for reasons that i'm not sure, i fully understand the personnel subcommittee's the last to fill up. and since i was the lowest ranking person on the republican side, i ended up on the personnel subcommittee. ike skelton was then senior enough on the democrat side that he chaired that personnel subcommittee, and those were tough times for the military. we really didn't hav enough money. and i remember that ike was really stressed. he was stressed to the point that he was actually emotional that we didn't have enough money to meet the needs of our service people. i saw then a congressman who was deeply concerned about the military. i remember how all of us on the sub

mr chapman. artist tom barton a correspondent reporting there meantime fresh spy scandal is making waves right now to moscow claiming the aspin are gelug ations against one of its diplomats who was expelled from london are baseless russia's foreign ministry says it's regrettable that this quote unfriendly move is happening while both countries work on patching up their strained relations artie's more on that has more from the british capital. william hague the foreign secretary wrote a letter to the house of commons explaining what had happened he said that britain had indeed expelled a diplomat from the russian embassy in london they requested that diplomats expulsion on december the tense after what hague is calling clear evidence of russian intelligence service activities acting against british interests here in london then we are also hearing of course from the other end that there was a tit for tat expulsion from the bush embassy in moscow and in response to that expulsion from moscow william hague said that britain rejects any basis for that particular action despite the fact that of course

mr. barton: thank you for yielding. when i -- mr. bartlett: thank you for yielding. when i came to the congress 18 years ago i was assigned to the armed services committee. the subcommittees are determined by seniority and member preferences. we all get together in the room and we select our committees and as the more popular committees are filled, less and less opportunities are available to junior members. for reasons that i'm not sure, i fully understand the personnel subcommittee's the last to fill up. and since i was the lowest ranking person on the republican side, i ended up on the personnel subcommittee. ike skelton was then senior enough on the democrat side that he chaired that personnel subcommittee, and those were tough times for the military. we really didn't have enough money. and i remember that ike was really stressed. he was stressed to the point that he was actually emotional that we didn't have enough money to meet the needs of our service people. i saw then a congressman who was deeply concerned about the military. i remember how all of us on the