mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: thank you, madam chairwoman. i rise in support of this resolution, it's rm an a thoughtful path to avoid a government shutdown. the american people have made two things perfectly clear. first they want their government to stay up and running and second, they want us to cut spending. we need to do both. i would have greatly preferred the senate act on h.r. 1, the seven-month continuing resolution that we debated for over 90 hours. that included indeed the largest spend regular ducks in the history of any congress. 0 days ago this committee in the house took the president's budget and cut it by over $100 billion. terminating dozens of government programs in the process. and in a city where president reagan once said, and i quote a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life that we'll ever see on this life, end quote, that's quite an accomplishment. mr. speaker, the resolution we have before us today is a simple stopgap measure to provide more time for negotiati

mr. frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: thank you, madam chairwoman. i rise in support of this resolution, it's rm an a thoughtful path to avoid a government shutdown. the american people have made two things perfectly clear. first they want their government to stay up and running and second, they want us to cut spending. we need to do both. i would have greatly preferred the senate act on h.r. 1, the seven-month continuing resolution that we debated for over 90 hours. that included indeed the largest spend regular ducks in the history of any congress. 0 days ago this committee in the house took the president's budget and cut it by over $100 billion. terminating dozens of government programs in the process. and in a city where president reagan once said, and i quote a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life that we'll ever see on this life, end quote, that's quite an accomplishment. mr. speaker, the resolution we have before us today is a simple stopgap measure to provide more time for negotiati

mr. frelinghuysen of nnl for today and the balance of the week, and mr. rangel of new york for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from texas, mr. carter, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. well, we just -- once again i want to talk about the fact that the regulators are kind of like the fox watching the hen house. they just overreach everywhere. and we just heard an example that have actually, mr. austin was just up here talking about what was going won this pesticide. we'll talk about that a little bit today. i've been trying for the last, i don't know, six or eight, i guess it's months now, to talk about some of the regulations that are being opposed by people and you see these regulations and you see had how onerous they are on both the large and small businesses and then we sit around and wonder why we're teetering around 9% unemployment in this country. it's because not only do folks have to wonder a