mr. mccarthy: mr. chairman, just a block away from this building, the capitol, stands the supreme court. like many other courthouses across this country, it bears the image of the goddess of justice. many of you know the statue. she holds a set of scales symbolizing the fairness and equality of law. she wears a blindfold, symbolizing impartiality. unfortunately, this bill does not represent either of those issues. like so many other bill this is house democratic leadership has forced onto the floor this bill suffers from thsame taint, the provisions in this bill are the result of backroom negotiations and special deals to exempt powerful interest groups at the expense of smaller ones. but the unfortunate thing about this bill today is that rather than represent -- than respect the first amendment promise to prooect the speech of all americans, it attempts to use the firstmendment as a partisan sledge hammer to silence certain speakers in favor of others. especially unions. mr. chairman, this bill bans

mr. mccarthy. i believe that the beginning of your presentation is the most important. if this country does not get their budget squared away, we are going to crumble. all of these other issues we are discussing will be movemoot. i believe we need to get back to basics. the budget should be what the dollars available are. we should arrange our budget according to that. also, anyone who is raised in a household knows that if you have credit, the interest will kill you. we need to pay down our deficit. also, it has only been touched on once tonight. one of the ways to do that is to create and maintain jobs. if we don't have the jobs, we don't have the taxes to pay the deficit or the budget. also, that being said, in regard to jobs, i would like to know what your position is in regard to hr-173, which maintains six- state meal delivery. if you support hr-173, you will go a long way in preserving over 50,000 jobs across the nation. there is a bill before the congress from the postal committee reducing mail delivery to five days a week. there is also the bill 173 which suppo

mr. mccarthy a valued member of our committee. the speaker pro tempore: the -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccarthy: mr. chairman, just a block away from this building, the capitol, stands the sueme court. like many other courthouses across this country, it bears the image of the goddess of justice. many of you know the statue. she holds a set of scales symbolizing the fairness and equality of law. she wears a blindfold, symbolizing impartiality. unfortunately, this bill does not represent eher of those issues. like so many other bill this is house democratic leadership has forced oo the floor this bill suffers from the same taint, the provisions in this bill are the result of backroom negotiations and special deals to exempt powerful interest groups at the expense of smaller ones. but the unfortunate thing about this bill today is that rather than represent -- than respect the first amendment promise to prooect the speech of all americans, it attempts to use the first amendment as a partisan sledge hammer to silen

mr. mccarthy: mr. chairman, just a block away from this building, the capitol, stands the supreme court. like many other courthouses across this country, it bears the image of the goddess of justice. many of you know the statue. she holds a set of scales symbolizing the fairness and equality of law. she wears a blindfold, symbolizing impartiality. unfortunately, this bill does not represent either of those issues. like so many other bill this is house democratic leadership has forced onto the floor this bill suffers from the same taint, the provisions in this bill are the result of backroom negotiations and special deals to exempt powerful interest groups at the expense of smaller ones. but the unfortunate thing about this bill today is that rather than represent -- than respect the first amendment promise to prooect the speech of all americans, it attempts to use the first amendment as a partisan sledge hammer to silence certain speakers in favor of others. especially unions. mr. chairman, this bill b

mr. mccarthy: mr. chairman, just a block away from this building, the capitol, stands the supreme court. like many other courthouses across this country, it bears the image of theoddess of justice. many of you know the statue. she holds a set of scales symbolizing the fairness and equality of law she wears a bndfold, symbolizing impartiality. unfortunately, this bill does not represent either ofhose issues. like so many other bill this is house democratic leadership has forced onto the floor this bill suffers from the same taint, the provisions in this bill are the result of backroom negotiatio and special deals to exempt powerful interest groups at the expense of smaller ones. but the unfortunate thing about this bill today is that rather than represent -- than respect the first amendment promise to prooect the speech of all americans, it attempts to use the first amendment as a partisan sledge hammer to silence certain speakers in favor of others. especially unions. mr. chairmanthis bill bans corpora

mr. mccarthy: mr. chairman, just a block away from this building, the capitol, stands the supreme court. like many other courthouses across this country, it bears the image of the goddess of justice. many of you know the statue. she holds a set of scales symbolizing the fairness and equality of law. she wears a blindfold, symbolizing impartiality. unfortunately, this bill does not represent either of those issues. like so many other bill this is house democratic leadership has forced onto the floor this bill suffers from the same taint, the provisions in this bill are the result of backroom negotiations and special deals to exempt erest groups at the expense of smaller ones. but the unfortunate thing about this bill today is that rather than represent -- than respect the first amendment promise to prooect the speech of all americans, it attempts to use the first amendment as a partisan sledge hammer to silence certain speakers in favor of others. especially unions. mr. chairman, this bill bans corporat

mr. mccarthy. i believe that the beginning of your presentation is the most important. if this country does not get their budget squared away, we are going to crumble. all of these other issues we are discussing will be moot. i believe we need to get back to basics. the budget should be what the dollars available are. we should arrange our budget according to that. also, anyone who is raised in a household knows that if you have credit, the interest will kill you. we need to pay down our deficit. also, it has only been touched on once tonight. one of the ways to do that is to create and maintain jobs. if we don't have the jobs, we don't have the taxes to pay the deficit or the budget. also, that being said, in regard to jobs, i would like to know what your position is in regard to hr-173, which maintains six-state meal delivery. if you support hr-173, you will go a long way in preserving over 50,000 jobs across the nation. there is a bill before the congress from the postal committee reducing mail delivery to five days a week. there is also the bill 173 which supports m

mr. mccarthy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mrs. mccarthy: i thank the -- >> i rise in opposition to this conference report. at a time when california has 12.4% unemployment and my district has 16.5, my home county, my constituents are being -- asking what is being done to create jobs. this is another example of washington not listening. instead of policies that promote private sector job growth, this bill creates more government and create a new bureau with sweeping authority and a budget to create new government jobs in washington, d.c. and creates the new office of financial research, empowered to collect personal information about all of our financial transactions. this office can actually issue subpoenas to get the information these unelected bureaucrats want to have about us. aside from the personal concerns we may have about this, what is being done to help create a private sector job? this is not job creations for families in my district but part of the majority's continuation of overreach and expansion of government. first,

mr. mccarthy. i believe that the beginning of your presentation is the most important. if this country does not get their budget squared away, we are going to crumble. all of these other issues we are discussing will be moot. i believe we need to get back to basics. the budget should be what the dollars available are. we should arrange our budget according to that. also, anyone who is raised in a household knows that if you have credit, the interest ll kill you. we need to pay down our deficit. also, it has only been touched on once tonight. one of the ways to do that is to create and maintain jobs. if we don't have the jobs, we don't have the taxes to pay the deficit or the budget. also, that being said, in regard to jobs, i would like to know what your position is in regard to hr-173, which maintains six-state meal delivery. if you suprt hr-173, you will go a long way in preserving over 50,000 jobs across the nation. there is a bill before the congress from the postal commtee reducing mail delivery to five days a week. there is also the bill 173 which supports maintai

mrs. mccarthy: where all the humanitarian aid would be delivered to gaza. it's trike trying -- striking how quick the world looked to blame israel for this incident. but as the details have emerged, it has become clear that israel military attempted to resolve the situation peacefully and in accordance withnternational law. i fully support israel and their right to keep its people safe. it's my sincere hope that this incident will not deter our country and the international community from the need to continue to -- for thneed to continue to support israel, recognize its right to exist and take the steps required to advance the peace process. israel is our longstanding ally and friend of the united states. and we should continue to do whatever we can to support israel and ensure that international challenges to security are revolved quickly and peacefully. these israel service members were beaten and stabbed for just trying to escort the sthoip port. those onboard the ship were trying to help a recognized terrorist group, hamas, and iran has offered to escor

mr. kingston: thank you, madam speaker. i'm who are to speak about a program called america speaking out. you can put that into google, america speaking out and go to youtube and kevin mccarthy explains it in more detail. but the idea behind it is to ask the american people what would they like on their agenda? what do we need to be doing in washington? because one of the big complaints i get back home is you folks are up there and you seem to be in a bubble. you ignore what we want to do. you attach things to bills that don't belong there and force through legislation and it's out of touch with the american people. idea of america speaking out is to give the grassroots voters back home a little bit of an opportunity, more of an opportunity than they are getting now, to be heard. and you can weigh in on the webpage and say i want you to work on education. i want you to bring the budget in under -- cut spending, top priority. i want you to finish up in afghanistan and iraq. whatever it is, we seek the input of the american people so this is the republican party. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kingston: i yield back the balance of my time. the s