mr. davis: thank you, chairman brady. mr. speaker, i appreciate you organizing this special order tonight, dealing with these critical free trade agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. i'm encouraged that the president sent the agreement to the hill earlier today and we're here to lend support to the president for these agreements and to encourage him to implement them as soon as they pass the house and senate. passage of these trade agreements is long overdue and critical not just for our national economy, but also for our national security. through the colombia agreement we signal our dedication with strategic and a faithful ally. during my service in the u.s. army, i ran u.s. army aviation operations for the multinational observers, providing direct support and serving with the colombian military in the middle east. in fact, they continue to serve in that same role. they're also serving in haiti, sierra leone and trading across the globe. u.s. leadership in our hemisphere is under threat from competitors and the

mr. brady: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i first want to thank you, chairman camp, and speaker boehner, for insisting that the white house submit the panama trade agreement along with colombia and korea to ensure that we open all three markets equally to american farmers, manufacturers, service, and technology companies. but for your work we would not be here today. this agreement is long overdue. as you know, as families know, the world has changed. it's not simply enough to buy american, we have to sell american all throughout the world. panama is a dynamic new market for america. almost 9% a year economic growth. far stronger than our own. panama's important to our manufacturers in america. it's important to our farmers. it's especially important to our service companies because so much of panama's economy matches up beautifully with america's economy. and with the expansion of the panama canal, you are going to see increased cargo at our ports, increased jobs along our coasts, and l

mr. brady rise? mr. brady: pursuant to house resolution 425, i call up the bill h.r. 3078, the united states-colombia trade promotion agreement implementation act and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment and report the motion. the clerk will report the this title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 156, h r. 3078, a bill to implement the united states-colombia trade promotion agreement. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to houseres. thrution -- resolution 425, the bill is considered read. the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, each will control 45 minutes. the chair regular nices the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brady: at this time, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro

camp, mr. brady, and mr. dreier in this regard. the international trade commission's analysis shows that the south korean agreement will increase u.s. exports to south korea by at least $9.7 billion annually. the tariff cuts alone will add $10.1 billion to the u.s. economy annually and u.s. exports to south korea will increase by 30% more than imports from south korea. the mick active resulting from this agreament will mean thousands of new jobs here at home. the commerce department has stipted thaevery $1 billion in exports crees 6,000 new jobs and in particular the south korean agreement is especially beneficial for agriculture. in the 23rd district of texas, have the privilege to represent many agricultural produresers. this would be a huge win f american farmers an ranchers by ensuring that our competitors, who are also seeking trade agreements with korea, are not at an advantage. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from -- does the gentleman yields additional time? the gentleman from michig

mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. i rise strongly in support of this bipartisan legislation to create jobs in america and to strengthen our relationship with the strong, long standing ally in our hemisphere, panama. why wouldn't we sign this sales agreement? panama is a growing market, almost a 9% growth in their economy, in a major way in our backyard. they are an economy that matches up beautifully with america. most of its services, most of its economy is service sector, like the united states, it providing brand new customers, not just for manufacturing and agriculture, but our services sector which is critical to so many communities across this country. it's time to act now because we're falling behind. while america's been off the trade agenda, other countries have moved forward very aggressively and panama, recognizing its strategic importance and its economic growth, has signed similar sales agreements with taiwan and singapore. and with europe and canada and many more in the line so every day we wait, america

chairman, and mr. brady for all the work in trade. again, ms. ellard for all your work, and also want to thank my freshman colleagues, mr. reed in ms. black. when we came out here our concern was trade and there were 67 of the freshman that said let's get rolling on this. we've hashed over all these things but one in a total thing for me was i talk to her trade office in north dakota a couple days ago and i asked of them, our manufactures, people moving agriculture parks, are they ready to start moving forward when the trade agreements pass? and the comment that he was we've been ready since 2006. and so again, i see this right now we have a 30% tariff on her act products from 40% tariff on our products going to colombia is dissolving that. my only fear is that we haven't lost too much market share by the time this gets implemented in a way that helps our american producers whether it is small business or agriculture get in his market. so again, no question, just a comment. i will yield. >> would you yield me 30 seconds? >> absolutely. >> i just

mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank congresswoman black for her leadership on this very commonsense issue, so common sense the time where it seems like democrats and republicans and the president in washington rarely agree on anything, we agree on this, on closing this loophole in the president's health care plan that really should never have been there in the first place. we got good news last week when the president rescinded another big flaw in the president's health care plan when he gave up on the class act. it was a plan for nursing home care and later care for elderly that was financed in a way that even senate democrats labeled it a ponzi scheme. thankfully that's been repealed. today we're here to repeal another loophole and really nonsincecal part of the president's health care plan that would allow couples who make more than the national average in income, $64,000 a year, today under the law they can qualify for medicaid. that's a program for the very poor in america. that's a program we don't

mr. brady: thank you for your leadership on this important important jobs and trade issue. may i inquire as to how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has approximately 18 minutes remaining. mr. brady: your next speaker is focused on jobs in arkansas and has made an impact coming in as a freshman lawmaker and understands the need to find new customers and i yield to the gentleman from arkansas, mr. griffin. mr. griffin: we will lose the opportunity to create jobs on our shores. that was president obama, president obama in january of 2010, recognizing the importance of trade agreements to creating jobs in the united states. today, the president finally submitted to congress over a year and-a-half later, finally submitted to congress three critical trade agreements for our approval, because of what these trade agreements mean for job creators, this is welcome news. the fact that these three trade agreements, one of which had been signed for a decade ago cannot go uninno

mr. brady: i ask unanimous consent to yield the balance of the time to the chairman of the committee, mr. camp, that he may control time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized and will control the time. mr. camp: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. camp: madam speaker, today is a good day. many of us have been working for years for the opportunity to approve our pending trade agreements with colombia, panama and south korea. we called on the president throughout his term to submit all three agreements to congress but opposition among some democrats led many to believe we'd have to settle for just one or two of the agreements. today we have all three pending agreements before us. approving them will resuscitate the u.s. trade agenda, create good u.s. jobs and help get our economy moving again. the u.s. international trade commission estimated that the agreements will increase e

i want to thank my good friend, the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, for his hard work on this bill. as well as fellow apec caucus co-chairs, the gentleman from new york, mr. krouly, and mr. herger as well. the future of the united states is tied to the asia-pacific region. with the hosting of the apec summit by the united states in less than a month, it's important that apec business travel card program is established. i urge my colleagues to support this bill, as well in inclusion i want to thank the leadership of this house for working with me and the gentleman from texas to get this bill scheduled for the house's consideration. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from new york -- the gentleman from new york. mr. turner: mr. speaker, i have no more speakers. if the gentlelady from california has no further speakers i'm prepared to close once the gentlelady does. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves his time.

good morning, mr. brady.since the market in july, columbia has taken a number of important additional steps under the action plan. it has requested the international labor organization, the ilo, to strengthen its presence in colombia, to implement the measures outlined in the action plan. it has made that request. the ilo has received it favorably colombia. has issued a decree about the interagency committee that reviews risk assessment for the government protection program. colombia has also completed an analysis by the prosecutor general's office of closed union homicide cases in order to extract lessons and improve the investigation process for future cases. this is a 60-page, in depth analysis of the work of that office over the last decade or so by the current director of that office. it is an in depth, critical book -- look that is very notable in its brett -- breadth and transparency. colombia has gotten rid of the backlog of risk assessment. it has completed the reassignment of new police officer inve

the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, for five minutes. mr. brady: mr. speaker, thank you. my district and the people of southeast texas know and understand of the devastating hurricanes and what they bring to our communities having survived hurricane rita and ike. this past september we dealt with a very different type of disaster in the form of major wildfires in jasper counties, tyler counties, my own county of montgomery. luckily for us we were also granted our september miracle on labor day weekend as fire crews from across texas and in fact the entire country came to magnolia to battle a three-county blaze that threatened to consume well over 10,000 homes and businesses in magnolia as well as 1,000 more -- thousands more in neighboring counties. in fact, if you look at this map, you can see the structures lost in montgomery county were a fraction percent of those saved by brave fire crews. the fire was in this area outlined here, but you can see in the red, the yellow, the green, the blue going out, all the homes, the thousands of homes and small b

mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker. as a co-sponsor and proud parent of two young boys, adopted young boys, whose family exists only because two women in two difficult situations in two different states chose life and gave us a family, i am proud to rise in strong support of the rule to allow the house to consider the protect life act led by my friend and colleague, congressman joe pitts. over a year ago, president obama in the health care plan was signed into law despite a strenuous outcry by the american people without significant and substantial prohibitions on federal funding for abortion. this funding of abortion through insurance plans, community health centers and other programs created by the new health care law could have been avoided but such language was intentionally left out. there have been restrictions on apportions and subsidies for over 30 years, begin with the hyde amendment in 1976 an i'm proud that today we are acting in that spirit. regardless of whether you are pro choice or like me, strongly pro l

mr. brady: mr. speaker, i yield myself such timed a i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. brady: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the capitol rotunda to award congressional gold medals to neil armstrong, buzz aldrin jr., michael collins and john herschel glenn jr. for being pioneers of space exploration. the bill granting the medals were sponsored by alan grayson in the 111th congress and was signed into law by president obama on august 7, 2009. it could be said that these four heroes were trail blazers but their past ensured they were not the last. they showed everyone that the impossible is possible and inspired generations to study, question and explore the world beyond our own planet. for that they have not only left their mark on history, but on the will and determination of mankind. as president john f. kennedy noted in his speech to congress on may 25, 1961, i believe that this nation should commit itself to

chairman, and mr. brady for all your work on trade. i also want to thank my freshman colleagues. when it came down here, our concern was trade, and there were 67 of the freshmen who said let's get rolling on this. we have hashed over all these things, but one anecdotal thing for me was i talk to our trade office in north dakota a couple of days ago and asked them, are many factories and people moving our egg products, are they ready to start moving forward when these trade agreements pass? the question to meet back --, and back to me was, we have been ready since 2006. we have tariffs on our products going to columbia. my only fear is that we have not lost too much market share by the time this gets implemented in a way that helps our american producers, whether small business or agriculture, get in these markets. >> i just want to say one thing to my friend from massachusetts. we have a trade surplus with countries, even in manufacturing, that we have .rade agreements with perr i think that means we should pursue more trade agreement so we can get the kinds of advantages for our

royce the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. r, the gentleman from washington, mr. reichert, the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi, the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, the gentleman from connecticut, mr. larson, the gentleman from california, mr. becerra, the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, the gentleman from new york, mr. rangel, the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers, the gentleman from new york, mr. ackerman, the gentlewoman from california, ms. loretta sanchez, the gentleman from pennsylvania, ms. schwartz and the gentlewoman from california, ms. matsui. the vice president: the president of the senate appoints the following members on the part of the senate to escort his excellencecy, president lee of the republic of korea, the senator from alaska in beg itch, the senator from virginia, mr. webb, the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnel, the senator from tennessee, mr. accident happeneder, the senator from wyoming, mr. boras smbing o the senator from south dakota, mr. une, the senator from texas, mr. cornyn

. >> mr. brady is recognize. >> thank you, mr. chairman. click on the discussion today this agreement with korea is critical from an economic standpoint. it's critical from a security standpoint with a key u.s. ally. and it also moves the united states into the growing dynamic era of asia pacific region where we need frankly to move aggressively and. this agreement was found as average negotiated, but they were legitimate concerns raised by our auto and auto lawmakers. president obama, to his credit, directed ambassador kirk to work with our chairman, mr. camp, and our ranking member, mr. levin, also american auto workers and auto companies, to negotiate with korea supplemental agreement. both countries, those parties worked together. and in our side in a bipartisan way to fashion a supplemental agreement that approves support for bipartisan support for this agreement. that's how trade ought to work. we have an opportunity today to pass a bipartisan jobs bill that is strong, that moves us into key areas and has support from both sides of th

mr. brady, i have a comment for you. i am a foreigner. i've been in this country 15 years. pour the past 10 years i have been republican and i have been faithful. but i am really disappointed in what you guys are doing, because it appears that you oy care about your job. if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have a job, you know it's very important to support the president's proposal. everything he has proposed, these are things, republicans like to do. 95% of its proposals are helpful to small businesses. the problems we have in this country is not because of taxation. the problem is jobs. the cost of production especially the cost of labor, and average factory worker in america is $45,0. in china it is 15 and thousand dolls. that is why companies take their jobs there. if you need to stop talking about taxation. we need to increase revenue in this country. we are not going to solve this problem only by cutting funding. when you cut funding, you are cutting jobs. until you find yourself in that situation where you don't have a job, then you will not know what

mr. brady, i have a comment for you. i am a foreigner. i've been in this country 15 years. pour the past 10 years i have been republican and i have been faithful. but i am really disappointed in what you guys are doing, because it appears that you only care about your job. if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have a job, you know it's very important to support the president's proposal. everything he has proposed, these are things, republicans like to do. 95% of its proposals are helpful to small businesses. the problems we have in this country is not because of taxation. the problem is jobs. the cost of production especially the cost of labor, and average factory worker in america is $45,000. in china it is 15 and thousand dollars. that is why companies take their jobs there. if you need to stop talking about taxation. we need to increase revenue in this country. we are not going to solve this problem only by cutting funding. when you cut funding, you are cutting jobs. until you find yourself in that situation where you don't have a job, then you will not kno

mr. brady: mr. speaker, by direction of the house republican conference, i send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 420, resolved that the following named members be and are hereby elected to the following standing committees of the house of representatives. committee on foreign affairs, mr. turner of new york, committee on homeland security, mr. turner of new york. committee on the judiciary, mr. amdy, committee on veterans affairs, mr. amodei and mr. turner of new york. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. please take conversations off the floor. the chair will entertain one-minute requests. for what purpose does the gentlelady from nevada rise? ms. berkley: i rise to address t

you can do whatever you want with your men, mr. bradyin existence. if it does not collapse, no member of your union will get a job on the line. >> wow! so could this happen today? is it happening today? is it about to happen? graham and bob, bob your reaction to what we've already discuss ed? >> you know, the timing is impeccable, you know, with the people out running around. it's catching up with them, you know. that 1%, there's a new report out by the congressional budget office showing that the top 1% have increased their wealth 240 times in the last 20 years. and the middle class, 40. so this underscores the point. those who have it, have it and continue to have more of it. >> i don't know along with the tea party -- >> is that what you call it? >> they don't sleep outside. the occupy wall street did. i understand they had a rough weekend in the east. that's also an example of people that are protesting, right, graham? >> well, yeah. i mean, it's -- well, the occupy wall street is an anarchist action. and it's attracting to it as it'

they call it the brady bunch. >> mr. president?ent obama tried out the system on his birthday when volunteers held house parties in his honor all across the country. >> the past week was a frustrating week. >> reporter: obama took questions from supporters in north carolina, ohio, and nevada. battleground states where making the case for obama is increasingly tough. >> what kind of advice do you have for someone like me? >> you have to listen as much as you talk. they're being heard the what are their concerns. >> reporter: it is the personal touch that obama hopes will rekindle the energy of 2008 and help him win a second term. devon dwyer, abc news, washington. >> fascinating look at the political machine. >> got to take issue with one of the rules. never talk to the media, come on. we don't bite. we're friendly. >> we hear more from the president, on "leno" tonight. check him out there. >>> coming up, from the classroom to the farm. >> students just had to see and understand why these goats are fainting. you're watching "world n

mr. polamalu a speedy recovery so can get back out there against the patriots this weekend and really slam his skull into tom brady's model-shagging ass. next up, basketball. folks, it's week 18 of the nba lockout. i know. i know. and i am fed up. because i for one love watching a bald guy rack the nut to the hoop hole. (laughter) the players and the owners remain mile as part on how to divide the league's revenue. talks resumed yesterday but sadly neither side would agree to give the other all the money. (laughter) two weeks of the season have already been cancelled and as nbc commissioner/green guts goblin david stern and the players' union don't get it together soon the owners will be forced to cancel games on christmas day. an insult to all christians. and the memory of that holy night when god thundered on to baby jesus through mary's halo. it's got to be the sandals. now colbert superpac already weighed in on this conflict last week with a controversial ad. >> it's another sad day in america as the nba lockout grinds on. depriving millions of their favorite sport. meanwhile, the nba players will stop at nothin

very constructive. >> thank you, chairman. >> thank you vice chair brady and, senator sanders. >> thank you, mrrman, as you know, there are people demonstrating against wall street in new york city and other cities around the country and i think the perception on the part of these demonstrators and millions of other americans is that as a result of the greed, the recklessness and the illegal behavior on wall street, we were plunged into this horrendous recession we're currently in. you agree with that assessment? did wall street's greed and recklessness cause this recess -- recession that led to so many people losing their jobs? >> excessive risk taking on wall street had a lot to do with it and so did the failure on the part of regulators. >> do you believe that we have made any significant progress since the collapse of wall street to suggest that we will not yield in the short-term or in the longer term once again see a collapse on wall street and the necessity of a bailout? >> senator, yes, we're making substantial progress although i would point out that many of the rules implementing, as

colleague, the chairman of the joint economic committee of the trade subcommittee, chairman kevin brady of texas. >> mr chairman, thank you. next on the mark five years. they are still not enforced. s a great cost in job-creating exporters though we are forced to wait for to long and very pleased president obama submitted these and look forward to begin benefiting from the jobs they will create. we know from experience that these three still american agreements will yield benefits. between 2002 to attend, our sales to the countries which we have trade agreements increased 50% more rabbit pt isakson proved flexible more than doubled in the passage of the u.s. the trade agreement. the game talk has been ticking while the united states delete major other economies whose workers and exporters compete with hours and have moved aggressively to sign and implement trade with colombia, panama and south korea to read these agreements have undermined our competitive edge. the agreements are implemented, the workers and job creating exporters will continue to fall behind losing export market share that took years

mr. davis: i i want to thank chairman camp and chairman brady for moving the three free trade agreements that are long overdue for our consideration. i urge my cloogs to support passage of all three free trade agreements. pass the -- passing the colombian agreement would signal our dedication to a faithful and strategic ally. in my service in the u.s. army, i ran operations serving jointly with the colombian military. watching the changes that have taken place, colombian troops are still serving in peacekeeping roles and serving internationally in counterinsurgency and countermarkets roles arneds the globe. they have gone through an economic and social change. their region -- they're in a region that includes increasingly anti-american government, especially venezuela, let's strengthen our ties by ratifying the colombia free trade agreament. i urge my colleagues to support the colombian free trade agreement. thank you, chairman camp. i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the distinguished member from

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mr. chairman, you give them a mentally incompetent person, they've been defined as that, you give them the right to be exempt from the brady law's registration. come on. we can do a better job than that in this body. i reserve the plans of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. miller: we reserve our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. filner: we have no more speakerers. mr. miller: have you concluded your speakers? mr. filner: there are some good provisions in this bill. the hastings provision is especially proper but we all -- we owe the american people better than just ideological legislating because i made this promise and this is constitutional right. i believe in the second amendment. but we can regulate the conditions of that amendment. and this is an especially egregious one. the v.a. has said that someone cannot manage their own affairs. and yet we write in a provision that says, go buy a gun anyway, until a judge says not to. let's have the judge's decision first then if they are judged mentally sound, they can buy a gun. that would be their constitutional

mr. chairman. all like to follow on what vice- chairman ready was talking about on the europeans a jerk -- is chairman brady was talking about on the european situation. one of the frustrations is that we do not have any control over europe past decisions relative to their current problems and crises, but that can affect us here. to what extent with a default in greece or in some of the other countries, or that sovereign debt has lost, is our financial system sufficiently protected from that, that that defaults increase or another country over there would not impact our financial system at least? >> well, first, it would depend on the conditions of the fall. it was done in a way -- all the defaults. if it was done in an orderly and controlled way, that would be one thing if it was disorderly, on plan, and disruptive, that would be a very different matter. as i said the congressman brady, the direct exposure of our banks to greece are minimal. but if there was a disorderly default, which led to for example, runs or defaults of other sovereigns, or stresses on european banks, it would create a huge amount of