mr. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from the great state of michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentman is recognized. mr. dingell: madam speaker, if you listen to the republicans today, they're telling us, don't bothethem with the facts, their minds are made up. they are unaware of the fact that the congressional budget office says that this is going to create four million jobs in the health care legislation. they don't tell us that the same congressional budget office says that passage of h.r. 2 is going to increase the deficit by $140 billion. and they also are telling us, the american people want this repeal. they don't. they understand what this means. it means that no longer are people going to get the protections that the health insurance bill gives. no more protections that the republicans get their way against pre-existing conditions and recisions, dying

mr. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from the great state of michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. dingell: madam speaker, if you listen to the republicans today, they're telling us, don't bother them with the facts, their minds are made up. they are unaware of the fact that the congressional budget office says that this is going to create four million jobs in the health care legislation. they don't tell us that the same congressional budget office says that passage of h.r. 2 is going to increase the deficit by $140 billion. and they also are telling us, the american people want this repeal. they don't. they understand what this means. it means that no longer are people going to get the protections that the health insurance bill gives. no more protections that the republicans get their way against pre-existing conditions and recisions, d

mr. dingell.empore: the gentleman from the great state of michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. dingell: madam speaker, if you listen to the republicans today, they're telling us, don't bother them with the facts, their minds are made up. they are unaware of the fact that the congressional budget office says that this is going to create four million jobs in the health care legislation. they don't tell us that the same congressional budget office says that passage of h.r. 2 is going to increase the deficit by $140 billion. and they also are telling us, the american people want this repeal. they don't. they understand what this means. it means that no longer are people going to get the protections that the health insurance bill gives. no more protections that the republicans get their way against pre-existing conditions and recisions, denying people heal

mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration.the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 4, resolved, that the clerk be instructed to inform the president of the united states that the house of representatives has elected john a. boehner, a representative from the state of ohio, as speaker and karen l. haas a citizen of the state of maryland as clerk for the house of representatives for the 112th congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, the majority leader, mr. cantor. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: t clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 5, resolved, that the rules of the house of representatives of the 111th congress, including applicable provisions -- mr. cantor: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be consi

mr. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dingell: well, so much for openness and transparency. we're going to do all this without any hearings, without knowing what's going on. but i'm going to tell you a little bit on my republican side of the aisle here about what this is really going to do. insurance companies will be able to deny 292,000 individuals in my district including 33,000 children an opportunity to have health insurance. and pre-existing -- and this will be because of pre-existing conditions. they're going to increase the number of uninsured in my district to -- by 20,000. they will increase the cost of hospitals for providing uncompensated care in the 15th district alone by $182 million. they're going to cost each american $1,000 more because they're not going to -- because the uninsured are going to go in and get health care anyhow. i will tell you what's going to happen to one young lad

mr. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from the great state of michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. dingell: madam speaker, if you listen to the republicans today, they're telling us, don't bother them with the facts, their minds are made up. they are unaware of the fact that the congressional budget office says that this is going to create four million jobs in the health care legislation. they don't tell us that the same congressional budget office says that passage of h.r. 2 is going to increase the deficit by $140 billion. and they also are telling us, the american people want this repeal. they don't. they understand what this means. it means that no longer are people going to get the protections that the health insurance bill gives. no more protections that the republicans get their way against pre-existing conditions and recisions, d

mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration.the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 4, resolved, that the clerk be instructed to inform the president of the united states that the house of representatives has elected john a. boehner, a representative from the state of ohio, as speaker and karen l. haas a citizen of the state of maryland as clerk for the house of representatives for the 112th congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, the majority leader, mr. cantor. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 5, resolved, that the rules of the house of representatives of the 111th congress, including applicable provisions -- mr. cantor: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be con

mr. dingell and the members of the energy and commerce committee. >> mr. chair i thank you for your consideration. he is one of those who is very active in the authoring of the legislation. as you know mr. chairman i am one who has worked on this for a long time. i am one of the authors of the legislation as was my dad. i found the discussions before this committee to be most interesting and useful. is my hope that they would the replicated on the floor and perhaps replicated in hearings which we could have so that, so that the committees would have a chance to bring their respective expertise and responsibilities under the jurisdiction to bear on the legislation so that we can have a better product. i would note that the committee on commerce and others have had as many as 79 bipartisan hearings on the legislation which is being repealed by h.r. 2 and testimonies have bettered 181 witnesses and hours and hours and hours of hearings. in contrast i know h.r. 2 was written in the dark of the night without a single committee hearing and without going through

mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dingell: i thank my dear friend for yielding me this time and i rise along with my colleagues for -- with sincere condolences to those who lost loved ones last saturday. the victims aamongst them were a young student, a number of congressional staff members, one of our dear friends and colleagues who has served with distinction and remarkable ability and grace, and an outstanding federal judge. i've witnessed horrific events, like other members, i find the current state of affairs is somewhat new to me. one of my colleagues as we were going to the memorial service that he had as a judge sent large members of people off to jail but never concerned about his own personal safety and that of his family. our founding fatthers wanted our system of government to be a vigorous one, full of enthusiastic and vibrant debate but they didn't want to see the kind of debate and discussion that we are seeing both in this place and other places of public

mr. dingell. and i also want to acknowledge speaker foley who has been with us as well. . >> if the distinguished the gentlewoman from california will please raise her right happened. do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will faithfully and well discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? ÷ . ?7????? [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> you can tell me if i'm right or wrong. i was not in the state legislature. i didn't work in the state legislature but i found that legislatures that come to washington to come to the house of representatives find a much different legislative body than the one they came from. and they h

mr. dingle. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> i am now ready to take the oath of office. i ask the hon. john dingell of michigan to administer the oath of office. >> will the gentleman of georgia please raise his right hand? do you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. that you will bear true faith and allegiance? that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion. that you will faithfully discharge the duties of the office about which you are about to enter. >> i do. >> congratulations. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> according to the president, the chair will swear in all members. the members of the state of alabama will also be sworn in brit if the members will rise, the chair will administer the oath of office. please all of you raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. that you will bear true faith and allegiance. that you take this obligation freely without many -- any ment