mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. today, so very late, represents the first real house debate on afghanistan since president obama announced that the path to peace could only be found through wider war. i continueally challenge that policy. but because our security, i believe, will not be found in either of the false choice of more troops in or all out now, i cannot support the resolution as i do not support our current strategy in afghanistan. this deast escalation announcement -- december escalation announcement by the president was counterproductive and somewhat misleading. he tried to have it both ways. he pledged to begin withdrawing troops in july, 2011, but his plan continues sinding troops through near the end of this year. defense secretary gates was more candid. he says any withdrawal next year will, quote, be a handful, that there is no real afghanistan exit strategy and that a larger military presence is planned there for, quote, a very long time. with our unceasing commitment to america

mr. doggett recorded? mr. doggett, no. >> are there additional member who's wish to be recorded or change their votes? if not, the clerk will announce the vote. >> mr. chairman on that vote the aye, 14; no, 21. >> it being 14ayes and 21 noes, the notion is not agrees to. chair recognized mr. boyd for 6:30 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your consideration in allowing me to offer this motion which will recommend to the rules. this reflects the student loan reform proposal that will preserve jobs and infrastructure throughout the country that are currently involved in the origination of student loans. as, you know, mr. chairman, since the education and labor committee was required to report last year, i have expressed my concern to the complimentation of this switch to direct lending could prove detrimental to thousands of employee that is serve in the current student loan industry throughout the country. i'll have to confess that about 700 of those are in the district that i happen to represent

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. doggett: i thank the gentleman from georgia and the gentleman from louisiana for their important comments. the recent suicide attack in my hometown of austin, texas, on the i.r.s. building was a horrible tragedy. i authored this resolution to honor those who were victims, to recognize the courage displayed by so many that day, and to condemn such cowardly acts of violence. seeing that building aflame after this premeditated suicide attack, which was in the words of our austin mayor . armando valdez junior and debra fleming yelled to other employees, follow my voice as they guided them away from the gaping holes in the floor. andrew jay sobson and morgan johnson bloke a window and allowed people to climb out to robin dehaven's ladder. even as work continued at the scene after this deadly assault, a facebook page was create ated that lauded the killer. this response to violence was deplorable. intense debate as we have here on the floor about our tax code is appropriate. that's what we d

mr. doggett: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, is recognized. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, is recognized. mr. camp: i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. leffy, is recognized. mr. levin: thank you. i now yield a minute and a half to the very distinguished gentleman from new jersey, mr. pascrell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for how long? mr. levin: a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: a minute and a half. mr. pascrell: thank you for yielding, mr. chairman. no more loopholes, no nor sheltered tax havens. no more privileged class perks, period. that's how we are paying for this bill. mr. chairman, mr. speaker, once again the day after significant legislation has been passed we are back at our greatest priority, putting people back to work. there are many sections of this bill that do that. i want to highlight just one of them. the sustainable water infrastructure investment act. i ho

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: for eight years our republican colleagues told us that we could borrow our way to greatness. they told us that our -- that their tax cuts would pay for themselves. and then after they drove our country into an economic ditch, some of their own economic experts indicated that in fact none of those tax cuts had paid for themselves. they'd only driven us deeper into debt. and then as the gentleman from california, mr. cardoza, has ablely explained, we came forward with a number of proposals that were designed to try to get our economy moving again and they have worked. but we've also came forward with a commitment to fiscal responsibility that we would pay as we go. and that is precisely what we have just done this past sunday with the approval of the health care legislation. not only paid for it but adopted a proposal that would actually result in many billions of dollars, over $1 trillion in the second decade of deficit reduction as a result of our plan. that brings us to today

mr. doggett, i think you are next, distinguished the gentleman from texas, for one minute. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: so very fearful of being held accountable, giant insurance monopoly has spent millions spewing out anger and fear. we have not seen such outlandish arguments since the forces that tried to block president johnson. for republicans, our bill is too long or it's too short. it's too thick or it's too thin. it's never just right, because their true answer to health insurance reform is never, never, never. our determined efforts should not be derided as a four-letter word, but you could certainly sum up our many, many pages with four words, you got health care. with this reform, every insured american gets valuable consumer protections. and every uninsured american can become insured. 32 million americans protected from the risk of bankruptcy from health care. the bill restrains insurance premiums, reduces deficits. it has, but many americans -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will remind all membe

mr. doggett, i think you are next, distinguished the gentleman from texas, for one minute. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: so very fearful of being held accountable, giant insurance monopoly has spent millions spewing out anger and fear. we have not seen such outlandish arguments since the forces that tried to block president johnson. for republicans, our bill is too long or it's too short. it's too thick or it's too thin. it's never just right, because their true answer to health insurance reform is never, never, never. our determined efforts should not be derided as a four-letter word, but you could certainly sum up our many, many pages with four words, you got health care. with this reform, every insured american gets valuable consumer protections. and every uninsured american can become insured. 32 million americans protected from the risk of bankruptcy from health care. the bill restrains insurance premiums, reduces deficits. it has, but many americans -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will remind all membe

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. elady. i oppose neither the rule nor the transportation funding in this bill, but i do oppose the so-called jobs tax credit. i only have one big problem with it, that it does so little to create jobs while adding at the our -- to our very big debt. in deciding whether to waste more resources on such legislation that will not accomplish its purpose, i think it's important that we look at one of the last jobs bills that this congress considered. we were told that the only way to extend unemployment benefits to families in need through christmas was to simultaneously approve a measure that sent $33 billion to corporations with no requirement that they use the cash windfall to create or preserve jobs. the so-called loss carryback condition simply directed the treasury to begin writing checks, $33 billion in checks this year to corporations. one corporation, a bankrupt financial services company, washington mutual, got $2.6 billion in checks this year from the treasury, and that just happen