mr. latourette. and now through the distinguished gentleman from ohio, i yield to the distinguished minority leader, my friend, mr. hoyer, two minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. maybe he has another minute that we could get to, if possible, but i want to thank the gentleman from michigan, but certainly also my friend from ohio, but of whom i have served here for a long period of time and love this institution and know how critical the functions are of the parliamentarian. i want to thank them both. mr. dingell has had the privilege serving alongside all four men who have been the parliamentarians of this house. when the framers of the constitution wrote article 1, section 5, clause 2, they probably had little idea of the volume of precedents that would accumulate in the 224 years since the house convened and adopted its first rules. today the job of parliamentarian is probably one of the most difficult in washington. a thorough understanding of the rules and precedents is a prereq

mr. latourette: i understand that mr. cooper's unanimous consent request yielded me 7 1/2 minutes and gave me authority to yield time, is that correct? the chair: that's correct. mr. latourette: i want to begin by saying something nice about paul ryan. he has the hardest job in the country. and i yield myself a minute and a half to put together the budget he has. as mr. cooper indicated, his budget is a republican budget. mr. van hollen's is a republican budget. recently, there is a organization called political fact that checks out what public figures say. pants on fire was awarded as the biggest lie in 2011 and got the distinction of being pants on fire for all of 2011. as mr. cooper indicated, we have been viciously atact from the left and the right and that's what is happening here today. i want to give some pants on fire to some of the claims that are being made. the claim that this creates a path to medicare premium support. this slashes been fits. this is a $2 trillion, false, your pants are on fire. repealing the