the gentleman from michigan, mr. kemp, is recognize. >> i continue to reserve. >> mr. levin is recognized. >> i yield to the ranking member of the ways and means committee. >> the gentleman from oregon is recognized for a minute and a half. >> thank you, mr. speaker. there is no more important agenda item currently facing congress and injuring america pays its bills and honors its obligations. the cumulative choices of congresses and administration's past and present have created the debt and the need to honor the obligations. like an unfunded war in iraq that is going to cost trillions of dollars or and on funded medicare prescription drug program from our republican friends. we're not going to default on our debt. with over 100 of my colleagues, i called for a clean extension and offered to work with the republican leadership said they would not be held hostage to the most extreme members of their party in order to push through draconian proposals that have no chance of being passed, which would unsettle the markets and