mr. hinchey: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i have an amendment that i will describe. the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in house report 112-75 offered by mr. hinchy of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 264, the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchey, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. hinchey: a military coup installed one of the cruelest dictatorship south america has ever seen. a legal -- illegal detentions, excuses of dissidents became routine. cross-country operations to capture dissidents were -- it was known as operation condor. over the years, the victims of the oppression went missing, a new tactic of the argentine security forces was revealed. it is estimated that 30,000 people disappeared in argentina between 1976 and 1985. many of these victims, known as the disappeared, from abducted, they were tore turd and then dropped far out into the ocean. during the dictatorship, hundreds of children

mr. hinchey of new york. the chair: a recorded vote's 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 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 representatives.] the chair: on this vote the ayes are 1294. the nays are 2 -- 1 the 4. the nay -- 194. the nays are 214. the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 8, printed in house report 112-75 by the gentleman from delaware, mr. carney, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8, printed in house repor

mr. hinchey, mr. welch, and mrs. capps will reduce fuel convoy deaths in iraq and afghanistan. mr. chairman, we have lost 3,000 lives trying to protect fuel convoys in those two countries. so we can actually save money and save lives with this amendment. amendment 91 co-sponsored by mr. platts of pennsylvania improves the federal acquisition institute this. legislation also introduced by our republican friend in the u.s. senate, susan collins, and has bipartisan support. making the federal government a lot more efficient and will not build a new bureaucracy or add expenses. amendment 92 co-sponsored by mr. bilbray of california will actually try to systemize and make more effective the internship programs in the federal government so that we are actually taking advantage of those opportunities and making sure they also serve a better purpose for the interns who sign up in the federal government. amendment number 90 co-sponsored by mr. kissell directs the pentagon reports to the congress the cost of expanding the homeowners assistance program. a loft our active duty military when th

mr. hinchey of new york, amendment number 8 by mr. carney of delaware, amendment number 9 by mr. reed of new york. the chair will reduce to five minutes the minimum time for elect tropic -- electronic votes after the first series of votes. the question is on the amendment 1 offered by mr. rogers of michigan, on which the -- a recorded vote was ordered and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 1 offered by mr. rogers of michigan. 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 ordereordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-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. most of the debate happened on this

mr. hinchey: i rise in opposition to h.r. 3 which has nothing to do with taxpayer funding of abortion. right or wrong federal funding for abortion hasn't been allowed for more than three decades. h.r. 3 has everything to do with infringing on the actually protected right to an abortion that has been the law of the land for 38 years. for years we have been listening to republicans call for smaller government, less regulation, fewer taxes. the but this bill represents the opposite of these values. it's more regulation on business, more regulation on health care decisions that should be left up to women and their doctors. it's more taxes on small business. more taxes on women. and it's more control by anti-choice extremists in washington. finally, this bill isn't about job creation, either. instead it's about bringing up divisive legislation that has no hope of becoming law in order to divide and distract the american people. it's been four months and still the new majority here hasn't brought a serious bill about job creation to this floor for a vote. it's time to get back to the work of