mr. duncan of tennessee. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 573, the gentleman from tennessee, mr. duncan, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. duncan: thank you, madam chairman. madam chairman, former congressman suny callahan, a very respected former subcommittee chairman on the appropriations committee, told me that we have done all we needed to do on airplane security when we secured the cockpit doors. whether you agree with him or not that very inexpensive action took away the ability to hijack and use planes the way they were used on 9/11. now we are about to appropriate $860 million for the federal air marshal service, and i believe this money could be much better spent in any one of hundreds of other ways. however, my amendment does not eliminate this agency even though i do believe it is a needless, useless agency and my amendment does not even cut its funding. all it does is freeze this agency in the current level of funding $819 million. air marshals arrest a little over four people each year. even af

mr. duncan: mr. speaker, i request permission to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may proceed. mr. duncan: mr. speaker, we have now spent approximately $200 billion, $200 billion on the war in afghanistan against a foe that has almost no money and equipment especially in comparison to ours. now we are about to take up a supplemental appropriations bill later today that will provide many billions more. all this in a place where even general petraeus says we should remember that this has been the graveyard of empires. this comes on top of approximately $800 billion on the war in iraq and hundreds of billions more in indirect costs for these two cars. then in the supplemental bill that we will take up later today we have $5 billion for the international monetary fund, and in this bill there is a guarantee for $100 billion in loans made by the i.m.f., loans being made to other countries. all this money will have to be borrowed because we are so

mr. duncan of tennessee. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those if support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is oddered -- ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. fthfd [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 representatives.] the chair: the yeas are 134. the nays are 294. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in part b of house report 111-183, offered by the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, on which further proceedings were postponed and which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: art b, amendment number 7, printed in house report number 111-183,

mr. duncan: mr. speaker, thank you very much. and, mr. speaker, three or four years ago, as i had told people that we would be facing this year a budget of $3 trillion and facing a deficit of $1.8 billion, people would have thought that i was crazy. but that is what we're facing and because of the terrible financial condition of the federal government, all of our expenditures are related, even though they may sound at first like they're unrelated. but -- and so i want to speak tonight briefly on two issues of national significance, even though they may sound unrelated at first. president reagan used to say frequently in speeches that government was not the solution, government was the problem. and certainly there also is an expression called the tyranny of good intentions and that cannot be seen more clearly in anything than in the federal student loan program. when i go to speak at the university of tennessee or other colleges and i tell them that my first year at the university of tennessee cost $90 a quarter and then $105 and then $120

mr. duncan for today. mr. franks for today. mr. garrett for today. and mr. mccotter for june 23. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. . ms. kaptur: i ask that any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes revise and extend their remarks and include ex train material. ms. woolsey, mr. schiff, ms. kaptur all for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009 and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each, ms. woolsey from california. ms. kaptur: i ask to use ms. woolsey time. last sunday, treasury secretary geithner and the president's economic adviser, larry summers, both wall street men, wrote an editorial, laying out their case for financial regulatory reform or at least that's what they called it. it fell far short of the mark. they stated the basis of their proposal is the theory, and i quote, the financial system failed to perform its function as a reducer and distributor of ri

mr. duncan: i request permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: madam speaker, i have noticed that most environmental radicals come from very wealthy or very upperer income families. perhaps they do not realize how much they have hurt the poor and lower income and working people by destroying jobs and driving up prices. now those who seem to be the loudest saying they are for the little guy are about to pass a bill that's going to hurt the little guy most of all. this cap and trade bill is going to drive up prices for gas, for utilities, and especially cost for small businesses and farms. businesses in china and india will probably jump for joy because this is going to give them even greater advantages. and college graduates all over this country wonder why they keep having -- they cannot find good jobs and have to keep working as waiters and waitresses because this bill will drive even more jobs to other countries. i hope everyone who is undecided

mr. duncan: i thank the ranking member from california. i will yield back and respectfully oppose this amendment as a united states marine, as a united states congressman and representing all of our men and women in uniform fighting for all of us. let's win and get the job done and then we can come home. thank you. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: mr. chairman, i yield myself the balance of the time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. chairman. i think mr. hunter stated it very clearly. the exit strategy should be to win and then bring our forces home. it was stated earlier that general petraeus made a statement that afghanistan has been known over the years as a graveyard of empires. we cannot take that history lightly. that was part of the speech that he made. i'd like to say some other things that he mention approximated in that same speech. we have a hugely important interest in ensuring that afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational terrori

mr. duncan, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and let me first say i think the work you're doing is very important, and i hope that it doesn't just gather dust, and i'm very pleased our former colleague, congressman shays, is on the panel because always thought chairman shays was one of the finest members of this committee ever had. >> can you pull the microphone a little closer? thank you. >> i have been tremendously concerned about the horrendous waste that's been going on in the defense department especially after a year, a year and a half ago when the gao can now with the report that said we have $295 billion in cost overruns in just the 72 largest systems and it seems to me anybody who considers himself or herself to be fiscally conservative should have been extremely upset or horrified by that, get it didn't seem that many people were, and it looks as though both parties are trying to prove how patriotic they are or are concerned somebody one might feel they are not patriotic if they don't just give the defense dep

mr. duncan of tennessee. amendment number 7 printed in part b by mr. poe of texas. amendment number 4 printed in part b by mr. king of iowa. amendment number 6 printed in part b by mr. neugebauer of texas. amendment number 7 printed in part c by mr. flake of arizona. amendment number 5 plinted in part c by mr. flake of arizona. amendment number 2 printed in part c by mr. flake of arizona. amendment number 1 printed in part c by mr. flake of arizona. amendment number 1 print the in part d by mr. flake of arizona. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first

mr. duncan and i and all the committees on both sides have been working on a new program, not just for the next two months. not just for the end of this fiscal year. not just for filling the hole in the trust fund. but for six years to create 6 million jobs. and we've had no outrage from the administration, no participation, no discussion. and i am personally offended by that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it goes without saying that you have, i think i can speak for the entire committee, you have the support of the entire committee on not only your efforts, and as we have said many times there is no doubt where we need to go. i think it's important to make that clear. i also want to commend the german from maine because i think he brought up a very, very important point. i don't want to be the one who throws a bucket of cold water. even though that's pretty evident on not the first. but with the exception of the money spending on the stimulus money on transportation, the stimulus has been a flop. don't take my word for it. look around you. just look around you. on employment rate, can point

mr. rooney, duncan hunter a member of the freshman class from california quit his job after 9/11 to serve in the marine corps. he has served three combat tours, including two in iraq and one in afghanistan. and along with mr. rooney and mr. kauffman of colorado who took unpaid leave from the colorado state house to serve in the first gulf war and gave up being colorado state treasurer for a 2004 of -- tour of duty in iraq. i was -- i was the state treasurer at the same time he was, and at the time when lynn jenkins was state treasurer in kansas. we were proud of our colleague, mr. kauffman, for leaving his job as colorado state treasurer to do a tour of duty in iraq. the experience of our service men and women in this congress is invaluable. i applaud them and appreciate their efforts. i want to call on mr. rooney one more time to discuss specific issue that prevents all of us being here tonight, that being the fact that an amendment has been placed on a military funding bill that is not germane. would you care to elaborate further? then i'd like to yield to mr. thompson. mr. rooney: the

duncan. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. any articles have described the actions taken by the fed and regard to the bank of america and merrill lynch dealing and other dealings of that time as being falling too big to fail policies. would you describe your activities in that time period it that way and do you think their needs to be more control or clothes or oversight by the fed and other federal regulators of the biggest banks and financial firms? >> yes i do to the last part. too big to fail isn't a policy, it is a major problem we were faced on numerous occasions in the last year with large firms whose failure like lehman brothers what significantly disrupt the financial system and world economy. we had no good options to deal with those companies. it's extraordinarily important as i said for some time as congress reforms the regulatory system that we develop a resolution regime for resolving failed in system ackley critical firms we increase oversight and take steps to make sure to big to fail will not be a problem in t

mr. alexander: on the republican side. thank you, madam president. i've just finished reading an excellent address by secretary of education arne duncan. secretary duncan made this to the national governors' association and he said this. "i'm continually struck by the profound wisdom underlying the american political system. the genius of our system is that much of our power that shapes our future was wisely distributed to the states instead of being confined in washington." continuing he says, "our best ideas have always come from state and local governments which are the real hot houses of innovation in america." secretary duncan says, "on so many issues, energy efficiency, economic development, and education, it is the states that are often leading the way, sometimes with federal help and sometimes without." that is indeed the american way. that's my comment. that american way was recognized by president lincoln, who honored the importance of states. he argued for a limited federal government. he used the limited federal government to confer opportunities through the transcontinent railway, the land-grant colleges, the homestead act

duncan. along with shannon henry who is still sitting over there had as well. all of you were fantastic and it's just a historic achievement and we thank you all so much for everything. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i also want to add our appreciation to matt weiner, our staff assistance on this legislation. i feel empowered because i only asked for one minu and i've talked far more than one minute. but i guess that's become a new tradition in the house. but i don't want to abuse it and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? >> mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on appropriations, i present a privileged report for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk had report the title. the clerk: report to accompany h.r. 3081, a bill making appropriations for military construction, the department of veterans affairs and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. report to accompany h.r. 3082. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the union calendar and ordered printed. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 21, all points of order are reserved. fo