mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i would like to yield to paul kanjorski of pennsylvania for a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kanjorski: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record at this point a statement on the bill and i rise in support of h.r. 4626. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i would recognize the distinguished member who allowed us to testify in his subcommittee on universal single payer legislation, rob andrews of new jersey, and i yield him two minutes. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. yeards: i ask unanimous consent to -- mr. andrews: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. andrews: i'd like to thank mr. pierriello for his leadership. the members of the house has an option this afternoon. if you believe that the two members of

mr. conyers: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 1109, i take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 3961 with the senate amendments thereto and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill and report the senate amendments. the clerk: h.r. 3961, an act to amend title 18 of the social security act to reform the medicare s.g.r. payment system for physicians and to reinstitute and update the pay-as-you-go of budget neutrality on new tax and spending legislation enforced by the threat of annual automatic sequestration. senate amendments. mr. conyers: mr. speaker -- the clerk: the house concur in the senate amendments to h.r. 3961. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution, the debate shall be controlled for one hour. mr. conyers and mr. smith each will control 30 minutes. mr. conyers: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks, insert extraneous material in this matter and fur

mr. conyers, and the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, will each control 60 minutes.cognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks, insert extraneous material on h.r. 4626 and i further yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, will the gentleman suspend? the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: madam speaker and my colleagues, the bill before us will allow for the first time competition to take hold in the health insurance marketplace, an important and vital step in the road to fixing our broken health insurance system and containing costs. i want to commend in particular my colleagues tom perriello of virginia and betsy markey of colorado for working with our committee on this important effort. now experience has shown that congress, and we hate to admit having made mistakes in the past, but that we did make an error in 1945 in adding an antitrust exemption into the mckaren-f

mr. conyers: i yield to the gentleman from ohio, dennis kucinich. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kucinich: i rise in opposition. three provisions being extended today include the roving wiretaps which allow the foreign intelligence surveillance court to wiretap any target without having to specify the target or the device. this extension also includes the long wolf surveillance provision which allows intelligence agencies to conduct investigations of non-u.s. individuals not connected to a foreign power or terrorist group, a provision that the administration has never had to use. finally, this legislation would extend section 215, powers of the patriot act, which allows the government to order any entity to turn over any tangible things as long as it specifies the foreign authorized investigation. section 215 and orders -- constitutes a serious violation of first and fourth amendment rights, to deny access to records, also associated with the exercise of first amendment rights such as library records. to use a documentation

mr. conyers from michigan. for what purpose does gentlelady from californiaize? ms.o speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlelady from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. woolsey: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as secretary of state hillary clinton announced a new women's action plan for afghanistan last week, i want to praise secretary clinton for this critically important initiative because i believe improving women's rights is one of the important ketion to peace in afghanistan and as matter of fact, many other parts of the world as well. the action plan includes the following initiatives. improve security for women in afghanistan, provide girls and women with better education, expand women's access to judicial institutions, improve women's health care, expand economic development opportunities for women and increase women's participation in the political process in every level of government. mr. speaker, there's a great need for these initiatives because women's rights have been ignored or destroyed in afghanista

mr. speaker, unanimous consent to insert at this point in the record an exchange of letters between house judiciary committee chairman john conyersittee chairman ike skelton. i'm privileged to serve on both of these very important committees. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. without objection, so ordered. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. i urge my colleagues to support this important resolution, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: i support house resolution 1022. this resolution honors the life and sacrifice of medgar evers and also it congratulates the united states navy for naming a supply ship after mr. evers in 2009. known today for his struggles in the civil rights movement in mississippi and his untimely death at the hands of an assassin, medgar evers left behind an impressive record of achievement. he was born in 1925 in decatur, mississippi, and entered the united states army in 1943 and served in normandy in world war