mr. grayson. the speaker pro tempore: mr. grayson is recognized for four minutes. mr. grayson: madam speaker, i have good news. the good news is this, we won the war in afghanistan. now, it happened a while ago, so i may be the only person who actually remembers this. but after the 9/11 attack, within three months we had expelled, expelled the taliban government and we do so with the use of only 1,000 u.s. special forces troops. within four months we had expelled al qaeda from the afghanistan. and if you don't believe that you can listen to general petraeus who said a year ago that al qaeda isn't in afghanistan anymore. i have more good news about iraq. the news is we won. we won the war in iraq years and years ago facing the fourth largest army in the entire world. we swept through iraq and we got the sdamsdam out. we won and now -- saddam hussein out. we won and now we can go home. we should have left a long time ago. what's happening in afghanistan and iraq is not a war. it's a foreign occupation. you can read the constitution from beginning to end and you find nothi

mr. grayson. mr. grayson: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in support of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. spratt: for purposes of a unanimous consent request i queeled to the gentleman from georgia, mr. bishop. mr. bishop: i request unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in support of this historic health care reform bill. introip without objection. mr. spratt: could you tell me how much time is remaining on my side? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 1 1/4 minutes -- 2 1/4 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: how much time? mr. spratt: i want to leave a minute for the speaker. other than that, the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the house will be in order the gentleman will withhold. >> our friends on the other side of the aisle have asked frequently tonight, what kind of country are we? they asked exactly the right question. tomorrow when a person is denied a job because she has breast cancer or charged

mr. grayson of florida for five minutes, ms. jackson lee of texas for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, under a previoused orer of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each, starting with mr. poe of texas. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. flake: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman may proceed. mr. flake: just minutes ago, i introduced a privileges resolution that would require the house committee on standards of official conduct to make public information gathered for its probe into the relation between earmarks and campaign contributions. in a report released earl -- earlier this month, the committee concluded it could find no evidence of quid pro quo between the donations and earmarks. they released its own summary of findings. according to one media source, the committee report was five pages long, included no documentation of any evidence