mr. boehner: i'd be happy to yield to the gentleman. mr. waxman: i know it's the custom of the house to give a little extra latitude, is there any outside limit to the time a leader might take? do we have historical records that might be broken tonight? or is this an attempt to try to get some people to leave on a close vote. the speaker pro tempore: the custom of the house is to listen to the leader's comments. mr. boehner: reclaiming my time. the gentleman has had his 30 years to put this bill together and the house is going to spend a whopping five hours debating the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in 100 years. and the chairman has the audacity to drop a 300-plus page amendment in the hopper at 3:09 a.m. this morning. so i would ask my colleagues, don't you think the american people expect to understand what's in this bill before we vote on it? so we get to page 34. not one year after august 8, 2005 -- wait a minute. one year later, one year after august of 2005. wasn't that three years ago? i'm just trying to u

mr. boehner: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: i move that the house now do adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: madam speaker, i demand the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will please rise. a sufficient number having the demonstrators themselves see the united states calling for regime change, a loaded term in that part of the world following the iraq war in becomes more complicated. it answers the united states into something that would complicate the demonstrators' cause. host: guest: let's go to the phones. -- host: but the to the phones. caller: i would like to talk about the history ofiran. we overthrew the government in 1973 by the cia and we install shah was a mass-murder. look at what we h

mr. boehner and mr. cantor and mr. lewis with reference to the appropriation bill that none of us like the omnibus appropriation bills. in order to pass appropriation bills individually, you have to take appropriately significant time. but if you take so much time that you can't possibly get them done, then you are left at the end of the day with an omnibus appropriation bill, which nobody likes. in discussions with mr. boehner and mr. cantor and mr. lewis, mr. obey and i have tried to come to an agreement. on time constraints. there was a discussion on the floor during the course of the rule between mr. obey and mr. lewis with respect to the time constraints and at that point in time, that was not possible. subsequent to that, there were further discussions between mr. obey and mr. lewis in which there seemed to be some progress, perhaps that was possible. as a result we proceeded with the preprinting requirement i know some people felt was an unnecessary constraint, but it is, after all, the opportunity to give notic

mr. boehner, is recognized. mr. boehner: madam speaker, republicans want to work with the president and our democrat colleagues here in the congress to make sure that every american has access to high-quality, affordable health coverage. on an issue like this we need to act, but we also need to get it right. frankly, the record of the democrats that have amassed this year so far shows us why we need to take our time. think about it. on every major issue addressed by congress and the white house this year the middle class has taken a big hit. middle-class americans are paying for a trillion dollar stimulus package that no one read. they're paying for a $400 billion omnibus appropriation bill with 9,000 earmarks in it. they're paying to bail out those who lied on their mortgage application. they're paying for the government takeover of general motors with no exit strategy. and they're paying for a budget that didn't include a tax cut that was promised for -- yes, you guessed it, the middle class in america. and if the

mr. boehner. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. boehner: mr. speaker and my colleagues, i said earlier this year that when the president does what we think is the right thing for the american people that he'll have no stronger allies than house republicans. we believe that the president has a responsible strategy in iraq and in afghanistan, and we in fact have supported him. when this troop funding bill left the house it left with a broad bipartisan majority. and as this bill is now considered after a conference with the senate there are a couple of very troubling parts of this bill. first and foremost, the addition of a $108 billion line of credit for the international monetary fund i think is unnecessary in this bill. and it's unnecessary because to ask our troops to carry money for a global bailout, frankly, i think it's unfair. this -- you know, there's only about $80 billion in this bill for our troops and here we're asking him to spend $30 billion more to carry this global bailout. i have to tell you what, we may have enough money in the

mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, the minority leader, is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: let me thank my colleague for yielding. remind my colleagues that the constitution provides that the congress of the united states shall determine spending. the constitution of the united states also empowers our citizens to send their elected representative to washington to represent them. collectively we represent the american people. if you think about where we have been this year, we had the nearly $1 trillion stimulus plan when you look at the interest that's going to be paid on it. we had over $400 billion omnibus appropriation bill that had 9,000 earmarks in it. we had a budget that came through here that has trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see. we bailed out wall street. we have bailed out the auto companies. we are spending money and racking up debt at record levels. so here we are, we are starting the annual appropriations process. 12 appropria

mr. boehner when the energy bill does come out on the floor, whether it's tomorrow, will your side do what 2 can to slow it down and keep it on the floor for as long as possible? >> well, i don't know what action we're going to take. there's a lot of time between now and then for us to do everything we can to try to protect the american people' wallet from these colleagues of mine who want to raise taxes, spend more money and increase the debt. everything i came here to fight against. >> what do you think about shaq going to the cavaliers? [laughter] >> samuelson of environment and energy daily with us on the phone. what's the latest on whether house democrats are ready to pass a climate change bill on friday? >> well, they're not saying yet when the floor debate will begin on friday morning. the expectations are it will start friday morning. but they still trying to wrap up those last couple of votes. the question is will nancy pelosi gamble if she's short of the two, three, four, five, dozen votes that she's going to need and try to win them on the floor, or will they just go full steam

mr. boehner. they talked to mr. lewis, who's here on the floor. and they said, we would like to work out an agreement on these bills, how we can proceed. and they were rebuffed. and so we started out and we found that there was -- in the first bill, a huge number of amendments, going to be a long-term delay of getting the work done. and so we had no choice but to go to the rules committee and get a structured rule. and i would have preferred we had an open rule. but i support what our leadership has done. and i think until the leadership gets together and works out a different way, we will be doing it this way. and it takes both sides here to cooperate and to realize that we have to limit the number of amendments, either by an agreement or by a structured rule. now, this is a very good bill. i hope that the dispute about procedure doesn't get in the way of the fact that this is one of the best -- maybe the greatest interior appropriations bill that has ever been enacted. mr. polis: i yield an additional minute to the the gentleman from washington.

mr. boehner to speak or if the speaker and the majority leader are going to speak later and not in this part of the debate. mr. waxman: we're ready to conclude the general debate. we will then move onto the amendment. and in the course of the discussion of the amendment in the nature of a substitute, our leadership plans to speak. and they will close the debate for our side as we vote -- as we move to the passage on that, to vote on that amendment and then passage on the bill. mr. barton: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 5 1/4 minutes. mr. barton: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. barton: i want to compliment you on your speakership of this debate. as always you have been gracious, fair and wish you the very best in your new position at the department of state. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. mr. barton: as the country western song goes, i've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. so i will go through the major issu

boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995

mr. blunt has done an excellent job of the solutions group and leader boehner has been personally involved in making sure that when the time comes we'll have an alternative both legislatively at each of the committees and jurisdiction an hopefully if the democrats mean what they say we'll have a bipartisan solution. we have no problem with president obama's principles. the big difference is we believe in a market private sector approach. we have a food safety markup going on right now in the energy and commerce committee so i'm going to excuse myself to go petition participate in that markup. >> when leader boehner and whip cantor asked roy blunt to pull this working solutions group together, we agreed to build on works and fix what's broken. we said the serious health care reform plan needs to let americans who like their health care coverage keep it. and we need to protect americans from being forced into a new government-run health care plan that will eliminate health coverage that 120 million americans currently receive through their job. this is a major contrast with the democrat plan

mr. blunt has done an excellent job of this and leader boehner has been personally involved in hopefullyf the democrats mean what they say we will have a bipartisan solution. we have no problem with president obama's general principles. we have taken them and the big difference is we believe in a market and private sector approach as owe potatoesed to government approach. we have a mark-up now so i will go participate in that mark-up. >> when leader bane are and whip cantor asked roy blunt to pull this group together we agreed to build on what works and fix what is broken. we said that serious healthcare reform plan needs to let americans who like their health care coverage keep it. we need to protect americans from being forced into a new government run healthcare plan that will eliminate health coverage that 120 million americans currently receive through their job. this is a major contrast with the democratic plan which c.b.o. tells us will shift millions of americans out of there existing often employer sponsored healthcare. by and large our employer based healthcare system is a succ

mr. rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of thank you for joining us. >> @ noon, the u.s. house devils in four legislative business. on the agenda, a bill that provides federal rebates for purchases of fuel-efficient vehicles. we spoke yesterday with the capital and reporter for the view of today's debate. >> joining us on the telephone is just aoshj. cash for clunkers, how would it work? >> it would offer americans up to $4.5000 to trade in a gas guzzler for new vehicle. there is a discrepancy on the threshold. the house proposal, which came out of the energy and commerce committee, was issued, the threshold for older vehicles would be 15 miles a gallon. to qualify for the credit, i think it is " 0.5 mile an hour for cars. one or two miles a gallon for trucks, depending on the size. >> the house is set to consider a bill on tuesday. will it to get two-thirds support require

mr. speaker, that's all our minority leader, the gentleman from ohio, john boehner, the respected leader of the republican house conference, that's all he said that should be done. let's get to the bottom of this thing, put it to rest and tell the truth. the truth will always serve you well and the truth is not painful. so -- mr. carter: reclaiming my time. i don't want to keep belaboring this issue, but someone ought to think about this before they light the first firecracker on the 4th of july. and a country said they are back at war with us, and going to fire a missle at one of our 50 states and going to do it on the 4th of july. let's assume we will get intelligence on that. let's start off with them saying, doesn't carry a war head . and the man is going to have to make the decision is the president of the united states. this isn't a decision you do by committee. that's why we have an executive branch. he will collect that data. and the question is do we shoot it down. pretty sure it doesn't carry a nuclear missile. but he says, wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. they lied

mr. rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans, especially those who, through no fault of their own, are out there with no health insurance coverage. host: congressman phil gingrey, thank you very much for joining us. joining us in just a few minutes, senator bernie sanders, independent from the state of vermont. we will also turn our attention to foreign policy, the situation in the middle east, the elections in lebanon, and also shibley telhami will join us from the year sever city of maryland -- from the university of maryland. it is tuesday morning. "washington journal" continues in just a moment. >> harvard law professor elizabeth warren heads to the congressional oversight panel which monitors the spending of the $700 billion troubled asset relief program. she will testify this morning before the joint economic committee on the recent bank stress tests. we w

mr. rangel and obviously speaker pelosi and will listen to our leader john boehner, the doctors caucus, the 15 of us of the republic and doctors caucus, the republican task force has worked diligently over the past months to come of with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans especially those few to no fault of their own air out there with no health insurance coverage. >> congressman mr. gingrey of virginia, thank you. >> we continue our discussion on health care system, vermonts center bernie sanders launched, join us on "washington journal" for 30 minutes. >> host: i want to introduce bernie sanders, thank you for being with us. your single payer plan, how what were? >> guest: it begins to do the major problems that exist in our current health care system and i think understands that the current system is disintegrating with 46 million without any health insurance, more who are underinsured and at the end of the day off we end up spending despite those results far more money per capita almost twice as much as any other country and our health care outcomes

mr. obama, senator mccain also supported the tarp program as did the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the house republican leader, john boehner. the bush administration was the one who came up with the tarp program. it was supported strongly by the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke and bipartisan leadership. the rank and file never liked the program much. to the caller's other point, with the federal reserve -- one of the interesting questions is just how powerful the fed is. it has been very aggressively getting the financial system stabilized. most people think they have done a good job, but will have a difficult time removing programs to return to more normal operations. there are a lot of questions on the separation between the fed and treasury. mr. bernanke is asked that a lot when he testifies. he responds that it must be independent but during a serious financial crisis id must work with the treasury and government in power to keep the economy stabilized. host: our guest is with market news international ,john shaw has joined us to give us insights and answer your questions. florida, scott on our independen

mr. bachus. >> i appreciate all of my drinking member comments, and i appreciate the leadership of being here. yesterday i met with leader boehner and several representatives from different groups to outline some of this program, and when i think there was a pretty unanimous agreement this was a comprehensive and a sound approach. at this time i want to take questions. this plan is not a plan of talking points. it is actually a plan several pages long single spaced typewritten. a lot of questions you probably ask now you probably have answered just by reading this plan. but at this time, we will take questions. >> [inaudible] -- what kind of response in the proposal? >> i will take those in reverse order. [laughter] for chairman frank called twice today asking for a copy of the plan, and we have just sent him a copy simultaneously with this conference so i have not heard from him. we have all along this process we wanted to put out a plan what we consider the solutions, what we consider our blueprint for preventing what happened last year, and for protecting as i said, consumers, protectors, and taxpayers. and we want very much

mr. bachus. >> thank you, and i appreciate all my ranking member comments. i appreciate the leadership of being here. yesterday, i met with leader boehner and several representatives from different groups to outline some of those programs, and we -- i think there was a pretty unanimous agreement that this was a comprehensive and sound approach. at this time i want to take questions. now, we're going to pass out -- this plan is not a plan of talking points. it is actually a substantive plan several pages long, single-spaced type written. a lot of it -- the questions you'll probably ask now, you would probably have answered just by reading he0by this plan. but at this time, we will -- we'll take questions. >> when are you planning to introduce the legislation and what kind of response are you getting from the chairman on the proposal? >> i'll take those in reverse order. [laughter] >> chairman frank has called twice today asking for a copy of the plan. and we -- we have just sent him a copy simultaneous with this press conference so i have not heard from him. we have all along in this process, we wanted to put out a plan what we consider

boehner, republican leader. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? mr. obey: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 2346 making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2009, and for other purposes. with the senate amendment thereto and agree to the conference asked for by the senate. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2346, an act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2009, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. lewis of california moves that the managers on the part of the house at the conference on disagreeing votes of the two houses on the senate amendment to the bilh.r. 2346 be instructed as follows. one, to agree within the scope of conference the funding levels that wil

mr. latourette: people had been coming up to the barricades and said i've been invited by senator feinstein, speaker pelosi, majority leader hoyer and minority leader boehner to attend the inaugurations. so what do you mean i can't get in? of course, these are not invitations. i ask the gentlelady to look at the joint subcommittee on inaugural ceremonies and perhaps we can do better and have a peaceful inauguration in 2013. i thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, madam speaker. at this time i yield three minutes to my colleague and friend, the gentleman from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for three minutes. mr. hastings: thank you, madam chair. i thank my friend, good friend from florida, especially. and my capacity as co-chairman of the commission on security and cooperation in europe, i'd like to engage in a colloquy with you, ms. wasserman schultz, regarding chronic problem faced bythe commission and that's access to appropriate space for public hearings, briefings and other events. ms. wasserman schultz: i'm ve

mr. carter: reclaiming my time for a moment. i think most everybody understands that these bills that come before this congress have sometimes thousands -- well you saw the one john boehner dropped on the floor, it's about that thick. i mean, they got thousands of pages of things in them. so how you vote on a bill doesn't necessarily tell you what's in the weeds like a couple million dollars for missile defense or a couple of billion dollars for missile defense. it doesn't tell that you and if it's not discussed you don't know. and there's not any way we can tell you. that's why the openness of this house is so important. but its open rule, it's so important. mr. king i yield to you -- mr. king, i yield to you. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas and i'm watching the clock tick down here but -- i'll just conclude in a couple of minutes, but as i said, i just came from the rules committee and there's really not room in there for a tripod and camera and not really room for the press to operate the way they need to and not room for staff to come and make sure they're there to run the err ands we need and i know the gentleman from georgia knows this very well, he serv

mr. boehner: i move to reconsider the vote. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to reconsider. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. boehner: mr. speaker, on that i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 177, the nays are 241, the motion is not agreed to. the clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote is demanded. the clerk: amendment number 19 printed in th

mr. boehner gets up or mr. diaz-balart or ms. foxx would stand up here, we rise to make the case for members of the minority. we're republicans we make the republican case about how important it is for us to ensure the rights of the minority, something james madison talked about very eloquently 220 years ago. today, i rise in behalf of all of my colleagues, madam speaker, all of my colleagues, and i rise especially today for democrats because it's unprecedented that we would be in the circumstance that we are today. now i've seen an awful lot in this institution in the years i've been privileged to serve here. i have observed the way this house is run. in most instances, under both democrats and republican, i've been proud of the work product that has emerged. but in many of those instances, i have been less than proud of the way the greatest deliberative body known to man, or what has been described as by people like the distinguished chair of the committee on appropriations, mr. obey, is no longer the greatest deliberative body

mr. boehner with respect to any option available to him available for time constraints. mr. obey had a colloquy with mr. lewis on the floor on the rule that was essentially an open rule. and the colloquy essentially asked by mr. obey, can we reach time agreements, and mr. lewis responded, i'm afraid my conference might very well have a revolution on its hands and you might have a new ranking member in which he indicated that time constraints were not possible. therefore, i say to my friend from california that we are considering a rule which will do as i said allow us to consider amendments on substance but allow us to do so in a time frame that may well be shorter than has been the case in the past. let me say to you that when we last considered the commerce, justice, science bill in 2006 when your side was in charge, you got a unanimous agreement from obey on time constraints. those time constraints provided for consideration of approximately 17 hours on the bill. in 2007 we got not time constraints but about the same amount of time. now, unfortunately, after we thought in