mr. broun: oy was listening to my colleague. i did a town hall meeting in thompson, georgia, just recently and a lady said $1 billion is a lot of money. we talk about that as if it isn't a lots of money. we cannot continue down this road of borrowing 40 cents on every dollar that the federal government spends. it has created uncertainty in the economic world and it -- this debt is crushing to us. cutting $10 million for a project, it might be -- i'm a physician, i have a science back ground and there are a lot of things that would be interesting to research and interesting things to do, but just like a business when it gets overextended, what does it do? it lowers the borrowing limit and tries to work out the debt. then it starts looking at every expense it has, every corner of their expenses and tries to cut expenses. besides that, they start looking at revenue. our democratic colleagues want to raise taxes and that is a tax that will drive away jobs. i have businesses that tell me that the ta

mr. broun: mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia will be postponed. the gentleman from georgia. >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. mr. connolly: it's amendment number 9. mr. blumenauer. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 9 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. connolly of virginia. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. connolly: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm offering this amendment on behalf of mr. blumenauer, mr. hinchey and mrs. capps who were unable to arange flight schedules to get back here for this consideration. mr. blumenauer's amendment would increase funding for the environmental security technologies certification program by $15 million to match the authorization of the national defense authorization act passed by the house earlier this spring. according to the department, facilit

mr. broun:: mr. chairman, i appreciate -- mr. broun: mr. chairman, i appreciate my friend mr. honda's comments. i offered eight amendments, only three were held to be in order. i'm not looking at anything specifically except for the whole bill to try to cut spending. because it's absolutely critical as we go forward that we put this country back on a good fiscal standing. i believe very firmly that we need to look at every single nook and corner, every dollar spent by the federal government and cut wherever we can. i think this is a reasonable request. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman -- and i urge adoption -- mr. broun: i urge adoption of my amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the quelt from georgia. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 5 printed in house report 112-173. for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york seek recognition? >> mr. chairman, i rise to propose an amendmen

mr. broun: thank you, mr. chairman. i will also be expeditious and comply with my friend from washington's request not delay this. this amendment simply prohibits the department of energy from spending money to implement the vehicles technologies deployment program within the energy efficiency and renewable energies clean seas program. earlier i offered an amendment to cut funding from this program and transfer it into the spending reduction account. as i mentioned before when i presented my previous amendment, it is not appropriate for the federal government to be spending dollars on programs that the private sector should be doing or that local and state government can do. this program, this deployment subprogram, is corporate well fair. i remind my friends, this is corporate welfare. and in fact i've heard over and over from my friends on the sdratic side we need to stop -- democratic side we need to stop doing corporate welfare and i hope they will support this amendment because that's what this simply is. i urge my

amendment number 81 by mr. broun of georgia. amendment 63 by mr. broun of georgia. amendment 76 by mr. landry of louisiana. first amendment by mrs. blackburn of tennessee. second amendment by mrs. blackburn of tennessee. amendment 53 by mr. hare is of maryland. an amendment by -- mr. hare is of maryland. an amendment by mr. rohrabacher of california. an amendment by mrs. adams. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment 26 printed in the congressional record by the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. cole, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 26 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. cole of oklahoma. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national capti

mr. broun: will the gentleman yield? mr. gingrey: i want to yield just briefly to the gentleman from georgia before i yield some additional time to my colleague, our co-chair of the house g.o.p. doctors' caucus, the gentleman from pennsylvania. i yield back to the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: i thank you for yielding just a moment to me because i want to add to that statistics, 15% of hospitals, nursing homes and home health care will close because medicare pays less under obamacare. that's absolutely is -- absolutely true. a lot of those hospitals are going to be in rural communities because rural communities can be hit the hardest. i'm a primary care doctor as the gentleman knows, i'm a familiar doctor. -- family doctor. done general medicine for almost 40 years now. the american academy of family physicians said right now today one in eight family docs will not accept medicare at all. only one in three doctors, according to the american medical association, -- excuse me, one in three doctors according to the america

amendment number 48 by mr. broun of georgia. an amendment by mr. shimkus of illinois. an amendment number 47 by mr. broun of georgia. the chair will reduce to two minutes after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment offered by the gentleman from utah, mr. matheson, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by a voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. matheson of utah. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is 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 the u.s. house of representat

mr. broun: thank you, mr. chairman. my amendment cuts $26.51 million from the vehicle technologies deployment subprogram in the energy efficientsy and renewable energies clean cities program. and transfers those funds to the spending reduction account. the house committee on science, space and technology has identified many concerns with this program which is shared with the department of energy. this program filters over $25 million to about 90 coalitions to buy electric charging stations, e-85 pumps, alternative fuel vehicles and other infrastructure. beyond concerns with how this program is run and how the dollars are being spent, this program should not be funded or run by the federal government. this program -- type of program is best served by the private sector or local and state governments. despite the management concerns, the department of energy has recently announced its intention to broaden the scope of the vehicle technologies deployment subprogram to also include the national clean fleets program. one mis

the clerk: amendment number 21, printed in the congressional record offered by mr. broun of georgia. amendment number 22 printed in the congressional record, offered by mr. broun of georgia. the chair: is there objection? without objection, the request for recorded votes are withdrawn on amendments number 21 and number 22. the unfinished business before the committee is the request for a rodded vote on the amendments offered by the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch, on which further proceedings were postponed and which the nays prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the america. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. welch of vermont. the chair: those in request of the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. snoor [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 politi

amendment number 6 by mr. broun of georgia. amendment number 8 by mr. stutzman of indiana. amendment number 15 by mr. thompson of pennsylvania. amendment number 12 by mr. holt of new jersey. amendment number 9 by mr. moran of virginia. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in house report 112-173, by the gentleman from north carolina. mr. watt, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the chair: amendment number 2, printed in house report number 112-173, offered by mr. watt of north carolina. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, -- a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the nationa

mr. broun: request a recorded vote, please. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia will be postponed. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 101, line 22, facilities capitol, $124,750,000. national gallery of arts, salaries and expenses, $112,185,000. repair restoration d repair, restoration and renovation of buildings, $13,938,000. john f. kennedy center for the performing arts, operations and maintenance, $22,45,000. capitol repair and rest -- $22,455,000. capitol repair and restoration, woodrow wilson international center for scholars, salaries and expenses, $10 million to remain available until september 30, 2013. national foundation on the arts and the humanities, national endowment for arts, grants and administration, $135 million. the chair: the clerk will suspend. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? >> mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered

mr. broun: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 18 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. broun of georgia. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. broun: thank you, mr. speaker. my amendment would reduce the state and private forestry funding by a modest 10% and transfer more than $20 million to the spending reduction account. the state and private forestry funding sets aside money for international forestry,, urban and community forestry and supports more than 500 million acres of nonfederal forested lands. we are more than $14.3 trillion in debt and we need to be cutting areas of our budget wherever possible. it is more than reasonable to request a reduction in this program. because the federal government has no business giving out a handout to private forestry land owners in the first place. this funding will be better managed by states and local levels of government. we're broke, mr. speaker. as a nation. and we need

mr. broun: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. broun: mr. speaker, we have overspent. we have overextended, and now we have to get out of debt. the last 0 years we have been increase -- 20 years we have been increasing the debt ceiling and allowing washington to spend more and more of the taxpayers' money. this method of madness hasn't worked, and today our economy is suffering because of it. yesterday i introduced a unique bill that would lower the debt ceiling to $13 trillion. this proposal would force washington to make the spending cuts that we so desperately need to pay down the debt. state and local governments, businesses and families understand that when you've maxed out your credit card you can't just give yourself a credit increase. instead, you have to cut spending and pay down your bills. the federal government is the only entity th

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. broun, for five minutes. mr. broun: thank you, madam speaker. this debt ceiling is starting to feel like deja vu. if you think back to 1990, president george herbert walker bush agreed to $2 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes. he agreed to this with the congressional democrats, but that's not what ended up happening. all of the democrats' tax hikes went into effect, but the promised spending cuts never materialized. we cannot fall for this trick again, and that's the same trick that we see from the people on the other side, my democratic colleagues and the president. high taxes do not lead to more government revenue. we've seen proof of this in years past. instead of raising taxes, let's leave money in the hands of small businesses, job creators so they can create jobs. more jobs means more revenue and less deficit. . higher taxes means more people out of work an higher debt. in fact president obama admitted in 2009 that, quote, the last thing that you want to do in the middle of a

mr. broun: mr. speaker, in the midst of all the talk about raising the debt ceiling, i don't hear anyone talking about the most important factor in this equation. our unsustainable national debt. everyone is focused on raising the debt ceiling. but if we truly want to get our economy back on its feet, we need to begin paying off the debt that president obama and his predecessors have created. it's obvious that our democratic leaders in the white house and the senate care more about making campaign speeches than about the livelihood of the american people. liberals want to raise taxes, but of course not until after the elections. and they want to sham us with talks about future cuts that we will never see materialize. it's like one big ponzi scheme and they're trying to get the american people to buy into it. we need spending cuts we need spending cuts now and pay down the outrageous debt. i urge both my colleagues and the american people not to fall for the accounting tricks. i yield back. the speak

mr. broun: i rise in support of h.r. 1938. i thank my friend, lee terry from nebraska, for taking the lead on this issue. the keystone x.l. pipeline is vital to ensure that the united states is able to meet its demand for oil. canada is already the single largest source of oil imports for the united states. this pipeline is expected to bring between $-- 830,000 to more than one million barrels of crude to american refineries each and every day, helping to reduce our dependence of imported oil from unfriendly nations. at a time when unemployment is hovering nearly 10%, this is supposed to add nearly 13,000 new american jobs. it maximizes our domestic sources of oil, we will have to rely upon imports. canada is among our strongest allies and a stable democracy. canada serves as an example of how we should be exploring and developing our own domestic resources. again, i thank my friend from nebraska for working so diligently on this issue. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 1938. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time ha

mr. chairman, i am offering this amendment on behalf of and in cooperation with representative paul broun of georgia who couldn't be here tonight and what this amendment does is it would zero out all of the land acquisition programs within the interior, environment and related agencies appropriations bill, thus placing more than $50 million in the spending reduction account in order to reduce our national debt. the federal government already owes more than $650 million -- owns more than 650 million acres of land or 30% of the total land area of the united states. now we can't even take good care of the lands that the federal government already owns and example of this is that the park service has a current backlog of several billions of dollars of repairs and maintenance in our beautiful national parks. at a time when we are facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis, the federal government needs to focus its energy on taking better care of the land it already has rather than purchasing additional acres. our federal agencies have enough on their plate and if we zero out these land acquisition

republicans, michele bachmann, paul brown of georgia, -- broun of georgia, here is what michele bachmann said in her statement of why she voted against it. "mrspeaker, i rise in opposition to the motion, while i embrace the principles of cut, cap, and balance, it does not go far enough and fundamentally restructuring the way washington spends taxpayer dollars." next call on the british phone hacking scandal comes from memphis. james and are independent line. you are on c-span. caller: i listened to the trial yesterday, what ever you want to call it, and when they turn to all of these people, as it did not seem right to me. i think he should take responsibility. it did not slam right to me for someone to come up and all the sudden have like they do not know anything that is going on, when i have heard several times that he knows everything going on in his company. and to pay out this kind of money and he does not know what is going on? it does not seem right to me. host: thanks for calling in this morning. one of the lines of questioning that came up with the murdochs is it was hacking into the phones of the 9/11 victims. here is a response.