mr. ellison: will the gentleman yield? mr. akin: enough time -- mr. ellison: will the gentleman yield for a question? mr. akin: no, i don't yield -- yield. the chair: the gentleman from missouri controls the time. mr. akin: the point of the matter is that lha-7 has to go forward and what we have to make sure is that we've got the funding and as soon as the negotiations are finished between the navy and the contractor, then we can move ahead in this project. so, the $150 million is important, the exact timing of when it's going to be spent is in question but the necessity to have the money is not in doubt, that's why we oppose this amendment and mr. ellison: will the gentleman yield now? will the gentleman yield now for a question? the chair: the gentleman from missouri's time has expired. the gentleman from mississippi has 30 seconds remaining. mr. palazzo: i'd like to yield the 30 seconds to the gentleman from virginia, mr. wittman. the chair: the gentleman from virginia voiced for 30 seconds. mr. wittman: thank you, madam chairman. i just want to emp

mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 236, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, and a member opposed, will each have five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. ellison: my amendment would require the secretary of health and human services to submit to congress a report on the impact of h.r. 1213 on the possible delays and potential enrollment deductions to health benefit exchanges. republicans controlled both the house, the senate and the white house and they controlled all three of those institutions at a time when americans were literally going bankrupt because of medical debt. because of medical debt, and the fact that the republicans refused to do anything at all to try to help americans from our health care system which was dysfunctional and broken, they did nothing. they stood back and watched 60% of all bankruptcy filings be as a result of medical debt. they sat back and watched 47 million americans be uninsured as they faced nothing more than

mrs. ellison's vote wins again, there is the possibility it comes back here if we've done everything right. if it doesn't come back here, we want the improvements that we make benefiting the city in the long run and that's how we're looking at transportation. we look, for example, we have had this jefferson street realm around fisherman's wharf that we've been planning for a long time. we didn't have any money to fund it. we're going to be able to fund that for the first time. it's a pedestrian-oriented improvement right along, around the fisherman wharf's area, all of them small businesses that are going to be improved with a pedestrian-oriented transportation system that gets you very efficiently all around the whole place. a lot of landscaping. more open space around that area. we're going to be able to perform that with a combination of america's cup, funds and also

mr. ellison. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may not yield a block of time but yield time to the gentleman from minnesota who is recognized. mr. ellison: i ask members to join us in supporting this very important motion to recommit. we've seen a great victory for our country and yet we suffered a tremendous loss. 3,000 of our countrymen lost because of al qaeda and al qaedaism and their belief system. but you know what, they have reeked havoc all across this world. -- breaked havoc all across this world. they have brought murder and destruction across the globe. even in pakistan, 80 dead just recently. and so we got to make sure they are the priority, they are the focus so that we can rid the world of this pernicious, evil philosophy that has caused so much harm to so many and i yield back. mr. nadler: thank you. i now yield to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. . ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman. i rise to support this motion to recommit. as i introduced h.res. 250, 50 of yo

mr. ellison of minnesota. amendment number 64 by ms. loretta sanchez of california. amendment number 111 by ms. jackson lee of texas. amendment number 148 by mr. turner of ohio. amendment 152 by mr. can vack of minnesota. the chair will re-- mr. cravaack of minnesota. the chair will reduce to five minutes the votes. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 38 by the gentleman from florida, mr. mica, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 38 printed in house report 112-88 offered by mr. mica of florida. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote followed by 19 two-minute votes. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states hou

mr. larry ellison and team of investors. as these major projects and partnerships evolve and other developments in the future, i request the port of san francisco take a leadership role in order to gain support from all the parties involved from the creation of a public service leadership academy located at the port of santhis facility can introduction for our high- school students for the real working world cooperation required between public and private partner entities to complete entitlement and review processes successfully. these field study academies will offer students and future leaders practical experiences that can assist them in understanding the classroom studies as critical to meeting their college and career goals and how successful businesses and resources are built through shared vision and cooperation and provide healthy, constructive and creative jobs, families and communities. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i hope you are doing well and enjoying this a beautiful w

mr. ellison of minnesota. the chair: recorded vote has been requested. those in favor of taking this vote by recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-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 representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 176, the nays are 2141, the amendment is not agreed to -- 241. the amendment is not agreed to. amendment number 64 printed in house report 112-88 by the gentlewoman from california, ms. sanchez, in which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 64 printeded in house report 112-88 by ms. sanchez of sal -- california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in sup

mr. ellison of minnesota for today, mr. frelinghuysen of new jersey for today, mr. hastings of washington for today and the balance of the week, mr. hinojosa of texas for today, ms. mccollum of minnesota for today and mr. markey of massachusetts for today, mrs. napolitano of california for today, mrs. pastor from florida for today and tuesday, may 24, and mr. sutton of ohio for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentlewoman from the sixth district -- i'm sorry, from vermont -- from the virgin islands, mrs. christensen, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee for the minority leader. mrs. christensen: thank you, mr. speaker. and i'm pleased to lead the congressional black caucus in this hour to talk about jobs and the need for job creation in communities across this country. and before i begin i'd like to skrks mr. speaker, unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materi

mr. ellison: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, we have been here for about five months so far. it's easing up on june. won't be long until summertime. yet, mr. speaker, the republican majority has not brought a single bill to create a single job. i was very pleased to hear the gentlelady from north carolina say that they are marking up a bill on jobs. it would be the first one if it ever gets here. that's a shame because i think when people voted last november, they were thinking, we got to do something about some jobs. yet the republican majority has dilled away and done everything but work on jobs. you take away health care from people who need it. they have tried to do a whole lot of things, push a social agenda. they have done all these things. they have yet to focus on the one thing that americans need most which is a job. and if you want to reduce the deficit, you got to have people making some money. and that means getting some jobs. people pay taxes, people would love to pay taxes, but they would do it if they had work. but they don't have work because the republican ma

mr. ellison: mr. chair, i move to strike the last word and to rise in opposition to this underlying bill. as the senate votes this week on the republican's scheme to end medicare, i'm standing up to protect health care for our seniors. our seniors, they've blazed a trail for all of us. they fought the wars. they've earned the money. they've come and made america a great place and we ought to inherit what we have done. we've inherited what our senior citizens have made for us, and now we see our republican colleagues want to end medicare for these same seniors, to end -- to spend nearly a trillion dollars on handouts to millionaires, not only harms america's seniors but threatens our economic future. medicare guarantees a healthy and secure retirement for americans who pay into it their whole lives, mr. chairman. it represent a basic american value of fairness, decency and respect for our seniors that all americans should cherish. last month our republican colleagues voted to end medicare as we know it

ellison? >> thank you, mr. speaker. later this month the leader of the conservative leader for nearly 20 years moves on to be the chief of staff to be mayor of london. will the prime minister join me in paying tribute for his leadership in delivering the u.k.'s lowest average council tax with top-rated front line services and urge more councils to follow suit? >> well, i thank the honorable lady and it gives me the opportunity to praise edward lister who has done a fantastic job and to pay tribute to simon milton who was occupying that position who i know is admired on all sides of the house with the work he did at westminster and the mayor's office. what has shown over many years is that it is possible to combine low taxes with good services if all the time you are trying to improve efficiencies. that is councils should have up and down the country when we have to make spending reductions. >> and with the commitments and the national which will help froevenz of first time buyers. what does the prime minister doing to h

mr. obama has been called the post-american president. during his tenure, american exception ellison been called into question. -- american exceptionalism has been called into question. we have flinched from positions of responsibility as the global order trumbull's -- trembles with the forces of hope and change. i use that as it exists on the tongues and in the hearts of the press. the people of the middle east are standing up in defiance of tierney. they are filled with hope that their nation can change. since our founding, america has been a beacon of light for these movements. our military, the torchbearer. the new england minutemen defied a monarch. union soldiers freed the enslaved south. gis liberated europe from the fascist tyrant and kept watch over western european democracies while staring down the soviet empire. we are again at a time when democracy squares off against tyranny. the battleground is too familiar to us -- the middle east. with our military engaged in three different theaters of combat in this perilous region, it is monumentally important that our nation rema