mr. inslee, two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. inslee: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. inslee: we should oppose this dirty air act because it would suggest we're a nation in a deep and dangerous sleep, dozing in the face of disastrous pollution, slummering while our children are riddled with asthma. it's time for america to get up, get out of our comfortable beds of denial and start building a new, clean economy. the chinese are not sleeping while they build five times more wind turbines than us, thiermans are not sleeping, who are build sogelar panels. it is time to wake up. nobody in human history has ever won a race while asleep. that's why it's time for a national awakening by rejecting this bill. the time to put engineers to work on clean energy, it's a time to grow miss, it's a time to help students learn new technologies. it's an irony, but it's true, you can only dream while you're asleep but you can only real ides the dream while you're awake. we should believe in

mr. inslee: mr. speaker, we will all breathe easier if we are able to reach a bipartisan consensus about this budget impasse that we now have. but we will not all breathe easier if the republicans succeed in essentially eliminating the ability of uncle sam to enforce the clean air act. now i know it seems pretty shocking but the fact of the matter is tonight as these discussions are going on the republicans want to put a writer, one of these noxious viruses on the bill, a writer that would make it illegal for the environmental protection agency to protect our children's health against asthma in enforcing the clean air act. now this is pretty amazing, it cannot stand. we're encouraged that the majority leader has said they won't allow these writers. let's get a compromise to deal with this deficit, not make it harder for our kids to breathe, not make it easier for asthma to ravage our kids and let's preserve a bipartisan success in the clean air act. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the

mr. inslee: mr. speaker, we will not allow the republicans to terminate medicare with extreme prejudice. we will not allow them to turn a guaranteed for seniors into a voucher program for the insurance industry. we will not allow them to turn medicare into medigone. we will not allow them to give us 6,000 reasons to vote against their hair brained scheme because they want to put $6,000 more costs on our senior citizens. this is a normal obligation. it should not be shredded. we should reduce medical inflation, not put this burden on senior citizens. preserve medicare and reject the republican scheme. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the white house has presented its equal budget plan for america but this equal looks strangely like the prequel. heavy on new

mr. inslee: our republican colleagues are so willing and able and apparently eager to shut down the government. this bill fundamentally shuts down the government. it shuts down the ability of the environmental protection agency to help lead us into a clean energy future. why shut down an agency that can help develop these biofuels that we were just talking about? why do they want to shut down the engine of innovation and why do they want to shut down our effort to find solutions for energy-intensive industries, the aluminum industry, steel industry, paper and pulp industry, they need solutions to this. we offered one, and yet the republicans have no solutions. shutting down government is not a solution. shutting the e.p.a. is not a solution. shutting down american innovation is not a solution. this is an amendment that makes a statement that we ought to study science and economics and come up with a solution in a bipartisan way. . >> this doesn't shut down the clean air act at all. by the way, if we're looking at a government shutdown, it's not because we haven't tried on this side. it's becau

mr. inslee: thank you, mr. speaker. it is deeply disappointing that instead of being here seeking a bipartisan consensus to avoid a government shutdown, we again are brought to this floor in an effort to engage in this ideological effort to in fact shut down government. yesterday, my republican friends wanted to shut down the ability of uncle sam to protect the freedom of americans to breathe clean air. today, they are attempting to shut down the ability of uncle sam to protect the freedom of americans to get access to the internet. . tomorrow they are attempting to shut down the government so they won't be allowed to protect the freedom of women to get health. we should not be shutting down american's access to an open internet. we should be opening up americans' access and uncle sam's ability to guarantee americans access to the internet. here's what is at stake. you know, our access to freeways, and freeways are great, just like the internet is great, but it is not so great if powerful economic forces can shut down t