mr. broun: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognnzes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for 60 minutes. mr. king: thank you, madam speaker. it's an honor to be -- have the opportunity to address you here on the floor of the house of representatives. and pick up where my colleagues left off. they have given, i think, a good presentation over the last 60 minutes that covered a lot of important territory with regard to the budget and the spending. i think they made the point that since the rules of the house required a budget resolution this house has never before failed to pass a budget. and there are political reasons for that. i happen to see a quote over on the wall that i hadn't picked up before. it didn't occur to me. i'm sure it wasn't a republican, maaam speaker. it was a quote that generally speaking was this, until the deficit reduction commission would meet and produce a decision, we couldn't possibly pass a budget here in the h

mr. broun: i like this cartoon that you just put up because this shows what's going on here not only with our debt and health care reform, i call it tax and trade. the president said it was about raising more revenues for the federal government. it's not about the environment at all. what the president has said, he admitted it's not about the environment, revenue, bigger government, central planning from washington, d.c. and then the war tax. they are adding tax after tax and expecting the the chinese to buy our debt. in other words, we are spending our children and grandchildren's future and credit cards being held by the chinese and something that is totally unsustainable and what it's going to do long-term our children and grandchildren are going to live at a lower standard than they live today. mr. akin: i think you are an optimist. i'm not so sure that our children and grandchildren will live at a lower standard. i'm not sure that this is going to create a more catastrophic kind of crash w

mr. broun: it has. mr. akin: t charts you chose actually have a relationship to each other which you alluded to the mechanics of what that connection is. that is, when the government creates a job by hiring somebody, it does create a job. the problem is, it kills two other jobs in the private sector. so you think to yourself, hey if we have unemployment, let's, for the temporary sense, get the government to spend some money, hire a bunch of people, that will take care of the problem in the short-term, maybe the economy will rebound an maybe the government will shrink and more private sector jobs come along. no so. what happens is this when the government creates jobs it spends more money, takes money away from tremendous the private sector and drives the number of private jobs down. what you've shown is an illustration and an example of failed economic policy. it's a failed economic policy which we should have known from henry morgenthau that it wasn't any good and one going to work he said, look, we've tri

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mr. broun: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman requests the yeas and nays. the yeas and nays are ordered. the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring the yeas and nays will please rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-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 he u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 23. the nays are 379. the motion is not agreed to. the plem pledge will be led by the gentlewoman from texas, congresswoman johnson. ms. johnson: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisibl