mr. mcgovern: may i inquire how many more speakers the gentleman has? mr. webster: i'm prepared to close. mr. mcgovern: may i inquire how much time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts has one minutes remaining the gentleman from florida has four minutes. mr. mcgovern: i yield myself the remaining time this bill is awful, this process is awful, i think it's beyond salvageable. i want to talk about one thing in closing. oil companies get taxpayer subsidies for ail injection, extraction drilling, manufacturing, pricing inventory, they get taxpayer subsidies while making tens of billions of dollars in record profits and taxpayers continue to get fleeced with rising gas prices. at the end of this debate, i'll try to defite the previous question. if the previous question is defeated, i will offer an amendment to eliminate one of these subsidies for the big five oil companies. the big five oil companies do not need, they do not deserve this subsidy and the american people don't deserve these rising gas prices. i ask unanimous consent to inse

mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the gentlewoman from north carolina, mi good friend, dr. foxx, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, here we go again. another day in the house of representatives and another day without a jobs bill. it's almost march and my republican colleagues who control this house still have not put a meaningful jobs bill on the floor. in fact, their best chance at passing a jobs bill could have been the highway re-authorization bill, but they screwed that up so badly that they had to yank it off the floor before an embarrassing bipartisan defeat. so what are we doing today? well, madam speaker, today we are considering a bill targeting department of education regulations defining credit hours and setting minimum requirements that all higher education institutions must meet to b

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i will agree with my colleague on the rules committee, what is before us today is a small idea. but the fact is that we have some big problems in this country. and they require big and bold solutions. like extending the payroll tax cut for middle class meshes. mark zandi, a republican economyings, worked for john mccain, said if we don't extend the payroll tax cut, it may cost as much as 500,000 jobs in this country. so it is a little bit puzzling to me, and i think to the american people who are observing this, that rather than bringing that bill to the floor or rather than bringing bills to the floor that will help enact the president's jobs program, or any kind of bill that will help put people back to work, we are dealing with this, which my friend on the other side of the aisle, said is a small thing, small idea. i think we can do better. i think the american people are expecting us to do much better. we should be having a debate on our manufacturing agenda. we need to -

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from georgia for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me begin by urging a no vote on this rule which is not open and a no vote on the underlying bill. the bill before us does nothing to improve the quality of life for any american. it doesn't create a single job, not one job is created by this bill we're talking about today. this bill is going nowhere in the united states senate. i don't believe this is a serious effort. in short, we are wasting our time. mr. speaker, i cannot stress this enough. congress must keep our focus on the most important priority facing the american people and that is jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. democrats may sound like a broken record, but that's because we know that the core issue of our time is th

mr. mcgovern: i want to thank the gentleman from florida, mr. webster, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: oh, my goodness. i don't even know where to begin, but i first would like to publicly thank the reading clerk for his patience in slogging through the reading of this terribly complicated and confusing rule. i think the mere reading of this rule says it all demonstrating how messed up this process is. madam speaker, speaker boehner used to be fond of criticizing bills by saying, they wouldn't pass the straight face test. let me tell you, i'm having trouble keeping a straight face right now. not when i look at this incredibly partisan slap dash set of bills before us. not when i look at the awful convoluted process that got us here. madam speaker, this process is an absolute travesty. the republican leadership took a 1,000-page bill, the most partis

mr. mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, congress and the american people need to hear the truth about afghanistan. it is impossible for us to make thoughtful, rational decision on policy if we don't receive straight, accurate information about the situation on the ground, and we have no right to keep our brave service men and women in harm's way day after day, week after week based on a steady diet of rosy statements that tells us everything is going well, progress is being made, conditions are improving and victory is at hand. on january 18 i had the privilege of sitting down with u.s. army lieutenant colonel daniel davis for a special briefing on his assessment of the situation on the ground in afghanistan. he had recently submitted reports in both classified and unclassified versions to superiors at the pentagon. i was joined at that briefing by my colleagues, congressman walter jones and john garamendi and we were not only impressed with lieutenant davis' character but information and analysis he shared with us

mr. mcgovern, for five minutes. without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, once again the world is standing by silent and passive while the government of sudan wages war on its own people. we have been here before when hundreds of thousands of people perished in darfur before the international community finally woke up and took action to try to protect innocent civilians from their own government's brutality. the humanitarian crisis continues in darfur. there is no peace and villagers, refugees and humanitarian personnel still work and live under constant peril of attack. president bashir has expelled many humanitarian workers from darfur, and even today threatens to shut down their life-saving operations. last may we witnessed the ruthless ethnic cleansing by the sudanese people. more than 100,000 people of the dinka indigenous population were forcibly displaced. they fled to south sudan seeking safe haven where they remain today in very, very poor conditions. when sudanese president bashir saw the world was indifferent to this brutal assault, he b

mr. mcgovern: may i in-- mr. markey: may i inquire how much time is remaining on both sides? the chair: both sides have nine and a half minutes remaining. mr. morekey: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for threeinutes. mr. garamendi: thank you mr. speaker. my good friend and colleague asked a good question, why don't we have a good american energy policy? you won't get it with this policy. this may be the worst american energy picy i've seen. oil shale? there's no way you'll see oil shale developed within the united states in any time probably in our lifetime. it didn't work in the 1980's, it's not likely to work in the next two decades. so what's this all about? by the way, if you hpen to be from colorado utah, arizona california, new mexico you'd want to go whoa, wait a minute, oil shale? that takes a lot of water. we don't have enough water and you want to use it for that? i don't think so. let's get real here. we do need a real energy policy. you're going to open up anwr? there are some very speci

mr. hyman. by the way, your complete written testimony will be made part of the record. professor mcgovern? >> thank you. thank you. chairman franken, members of the subcommittee and staff, thank you for inviting me to testify here today. my name is william mcgeve aran. i specialize on intellectual property law. i consider a model for privacy legislation i myself use social media and those recommendations heavily but the potential problems are serious, too. in one article i write that the key is to getting consent. not by mistake. if we have too many accidental disclosures, we undermine personal matters and the accuracy of the recommendations, the fact that our friend really wants us to see this movie rather than passively letting us know that he saw it and didn't like it very much. the bppa is going to emphasize that consent. first, the importance, second, that it's not able to keep up with technology and finally, the problems with hr-4271. in my view, the greatest view is the video of the enactment. unintended of music, films, websites, can constrain the capacity experiment and explore id

one of those members is democrat jim mcgovern of massachusetts who went to the house floor expressing his own skepticism about the war in afghanistan. >> mr. speaker, congress of the american people need to hear the truth about afghanistan. it is impossible for us to make thoughtful, rational decisions on policy if we do not receive straight, accurate information about the