mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? mr. perlmutter: i will not. i will close. we are here because this is one of our most important responsibilities and that is to protect this country from terrorist attacks, foreign and domestic and to ensure our borders are secure. that's the purpose of the homeland security appropriations bill. the bill, at $42.6 billion is slightly above last year's level, but it helps with coast guard work border violence work maritime safety, environmental protection, assistance for the t.s.a. as people come and go through our airports, as well as cybersecurity. there are funds in the bill for fema, for flood map modernization and for rebuilding of the gulf coast. this is a sensible investment. this is a sensible rule. and i would ask, madam speaker, that because this bill invests in a stronger domestic security both at our borders, throughout our transportations, -- our transportation systems and our communities, i'd urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the -- and on the rule. i yield back the balance of my time and i move the

mr. dreier: i think it's safe to say there are no other speakers. mr. arcuri: no other speakers. mr. dreier: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, this has been a fascinating debate that has taken place. it began with some very thoughtful comments with my friend from utica talking about funding for our troops and i laud him for referring to the fact that that is the priority of this measure. we then listened to on our side the distinguished new ranking member of the committee on armed services, my friend from california, mr. mckeon, talk about the priority of funding for our troops. and then we listened to speeches made by our colleagues, and there was barely a mention of the issue of troop funding. we issues heard our colleague talk about firefighters. hey, i'm from southern california where we have fires and we have horrible fires, loss of life and property is something that regularly takes place there. it's a very, very important issue. it's an issue that should be considered under the

mr. dreier: mr. speaker, you know what, since he's the new ranking member of the committee on armed services i think he deserves an additional minute, i yield three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank my good friend from california, mr. dreier, for yielding the time. as ranking member on armed services, i rise in opposition to this rule and to the war supplemental conference report for one simple reason -- it will endanger our troops in harm's way. compared with a clean troop funding bill that passed the house with bipartisan support in may, this package cuts $4.7 billion from defense we passed at that time to create room for $105 billion global bailout loan program. what should be a clean military funding bill has become a means for the president's promise to provide more foreign aid to the international monetary fund. those funds will eventually make their way to countries that are less

mr. dreier: reclaiming my time. having participated in this process in the past, dwrements are worked out, as mr. king said, between the two leaderships -- agreements are worked out, as mr. king said, between the two leaderships. and as we begin work on an appropriations bill and members are in fact offering dilltory amendments, there's an effort made at the leadership level to bring about an agreement at that time. the notion of trying to impose that constraint before the process has even begun is wrong and it is unprecedented and it has been part of what has killed deliberative democracy under the leadership of this majority. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to point out that i have been told that when he was ranking member mr. obey would never agree to a time agreement before a consideration of a bill. now, mr. speaker, we're nearing the end of the time for debate on this rule. i think we've had some very i

mr. dreier began asking his question, the rules committee chairwoman did not allow mr. dreier from going forward with the question. the rules committee chairwoman explained the ruling by saying, the hearing on the underlying legislation was complete and the committee was now considering the supplemental funding bill. a bill that is an appropriations bill, just like the underlying legislation. and yet, the chairwoman found that asking the appropriations chairman about the upcoming appropriations process during a hearing on an appropriations bill was inappropriate. i think that was unfortunate. please let me quote chairwoman slaughter's report from 2004. restrictive rules block dual-elected members of congress the opportunity to shape legislation in a manner that they believe is in the best interests of their constituents and the nation as a whole. they also blocked and i continue quoting, the full and fair airing of conflicting opinions. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the relevant parts of the chairwoman's report into the record the speaker pro tempore: wi

mr. dreier of california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. dreier: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dreier: it is absolutely true, we could move move the appropriations process through the house of representatives much more easily if the minority party didn't exist. if we weren't here, creating what my friend from fort lauderdale has called shenanigans, using terms like that, we could move this process along very easily. unfortunately, the minority party, the group that represents almost half the american people, is being treated as if they don't exist. and this rule is a perfect example of just that, mr. speaker. i know that people are saying that yesterday was a history-making day because there were more recorded votes on the floor of the house than have ever been held in modern history. but the real history that was made yesterday was the fact that we saw the volume that was put forward in the 108th congress by the now chair of the committee on rules, ms. slaughter, des

mr. dreier: ski unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, i want to congratulate mr. schiff for his thoughtful remarks and i want to say he and i share a commitment to nasa and the important programs that take place at the gentleman propummings laboratory. that's a point. there more -- there are many important items in this bill which continue to be priorities. i'd like to say to my friend from utica, who again is working very hard, he's very fortunate, mr. speaker. he's never had to serve in the united states house of representatives as a member of the minority. my dream is that one day he might be able to serve as a member of the minority. and who knows how that will come out, it's always up to the voters to make that determination. but i would say that those 127 amendments about which my friend referred and then i referred when i was in the well, are amendments that i had to encourage our colleagues to file. why? first, there were only two days, two legislative days that this bill was out there, and if we'd had an open amendment process there would not be -- i can

mr. dreier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for his superb management. american people are hurting. we know that very well. we hear it daily. jobs are being lost. people are losing their businesses. people are losing their homes. they don't want to see another tax burden imposed on them which is what this bill is going to do. everyone recognizes there is going to be an increase in the burden on the american people. unfortunately, unfortunately as we pre-pursue green -- as we pursue green technology, we have not been given an opportunity to do that. my friend from ohio has been very thoughtful on this issue. he had several ideas i offered before the committee. one of the things i believe that we should do, madam speaker, is allow for the free flow of green technology globally. i'm working with my friend from ohio in a bipartisan way on that. i would be happy to yield to him. mr. kucinich: are insufficient. we can take market based approaches that protect the planet, respect nature through incentivizing t

mr. dreier: madam speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. alalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala

mr. dreier: on that i ask for the yeas and nays, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-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 the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 222, the nays are 202, the resolution is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. pursuant, the unfin,ished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the

dreier and the rules committee. many of them democratic amendments. we spent a number of days on this. and at the end of the day, both mr. dingell, the former chairman, and joe barton, the then chairman of the energy and commerce committee, were able to vote for a bill because in fact it was bipartisan. yesterday more than 200 amendments were filed up at the rules committee. many of them republican. many of them bipartisan. mr. hill, democrat from indiana, myself offered a bipartisan amendment on nuclear. nuclear is one issue that is absent from this bill. don't ask me why. there's no greenhouse gas emission was nuclear. it really is a jobs bill. i got two nuclear plants in my congressional district. when they were both brought on line, 85% of the components were made in america. today a new nuclear plant 85% will come from someplace else because we turned the light from green to red on nuclear the last 20, 25 years. yet no amendment on nuclear in this bill n. this rule. -- bill, in this rule. i woke up this morning i saw my friend and colleague, mr. inslee, speaking on c-span. this bill was going to cost only a postage

mr. dreier: mr. speaker, it seems like a long time ago but i'd like to begin by congratulating my friend from miami for his very thoughtful and passionate opening statement. it's very important, mr. speaker, that we get this bill right because it clearly has an impact on every bilateral, regional and multilateral relationship that we have in the world. i hope very much at the end of the day we can get it right. i would like to take my time to talk about just one of those very important bilateral relationships that we have. and that is the relationship with what colin powell described as the most misunderstood country in the world. i'm talking, mr. speaker, about the fourth most populous country in the world, the largest muslim population in the world and, of course, by virtue of that, the largest muslim democcy in the world. that being indonesia. now, as we look at the changes that have taken place over the past 11 years in indonesia it is absolutely remarkable and extraordinarily impressive. the 32-

mr. dreier: i'm going to begin by doing something i don't think i've ever done when managing a rule. traditionally when mr. boehner gets up or mr. diaz-balart or ms. foxx would stand up here, we rise to make the case for members of the minority. we're republicans we make the republican case about how important it is for us to ensure the rights of the minority, something james madison talked about very eloquently 220 years ago. today, i rise in behalf of all of my colleagues, madam speaker, all of my colleagues, and i rise especially today for democrats because it's unprecedented that we would be in the circumstance that we are today. now i've seen an awful lot in this institution in the years i've been privileged to serve here. i have observed the way this house is run. in most instances, under both democrats and republican, i've been proud of the work product that has emerged. but in many of those instances, i have been less than proud of the way the greatest deliberative body known to man, or what has been described as by people like the distinguished chair of the committee on appro

mr. dreier: reclaiming my time. let me say that i totally agree with the statement of my friend. here is a demonstration of bipartisanship. it's not often that i and mr. kucinich work together on the exact same issue. we believe that the free flow of tremendous, tremendous green technology around the world will in fact dramatically improve our economy and the standard of living and quality of life for the american people and for the rest of the world. defeat this rule so that we can bring back some of the 224 brilliant ideas that were offered but totally denied by this majority. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from california. . ms. matsui: has the gentleman yielded back all his time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has yielded babbling all his time. the gentlewoman is recognized for 4 1/2 minutes. ms. matsui: madam speaker, i yield myself the remainder of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for 4 1/2 minutes. ms. matsui: the rule before us today is a fair rule that allows us to highlight our current en