mr. nunes: i wish mr. costa was the speaker, not the current leadership because it's the current leadership destroying the economy of the valley, not mr. costa and mr. cardoza, who are trying to deal with this problem and bring attention to the problem. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by mr. nunes. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. the chair: the amendment is agreed to. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment from california will be postponed. a recorded vote has been requested. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> the issue which my colleagues from california hav brought up is extraordinarily important. i would like at this time if i could to yield to the gentleman from california. mr. nunes: i thank the gentleman from texas for giving more time to this amendment. as you know, this amendment was -- we had to go to the rules committee last night to

speaker, at this time, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from kilovis, california, mr. nunes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. new necessary: i rise in opposition to -- mr. nunes: i rise in opposition to the rule. when our government can't ensure water to the people that live in this country, the government has failed. i want my colleagues to know that this government is previding over a man-made drought in california, thanks to this, my district's at 20% unemployment. some communities are at 50% unemployment. and despite this crisis, today, the obama administration announced a new biological opinion that will end water deliveries in california. laying waste to billions of dollars worth of infrastructure and starving the state of water. we must not allow this to happen and this body must act. i'd like to conclude by addressing my friends in the democratic leadership in this country. i want to express my congratulations for dealing with this crisis. you've managed to make the crisis worse. madam speaker we need to stop the spending, stop the bailouts,

speaker, to -- mr. nunes: i have a question for the gentleman. and i know you're from california and we have talked a lot about this issue with the water issue in california, mr. lewis. and because this bill is going to go to the president and become law. this is one of the last opportunities to actually make law and get pumping levels back up to historic levels so we can provide water not only to san joaquin valley but los angeles and san diego. could we amend this bill and get something changed here so it could go to obama's desk? mr. lewis: the gentleman is asking a very important question and i will try to be straightforward. this is a conference report which both the senate and the house have come together. but there isn't any question that the gentleman has raised his concerns about water in central california at a level that has gotten the entire country's attention. if there was anyway i could amend this package, the desperate need to get the pumps going and get water to our crops and farmlands in the central valley, i would do so. but i'm

mr. nunes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. nunes: 636 days and counting, this is the number of days that have past since i asked the democrats to take direct action and avoid destruction of the san joaquin valley. instead, 636 days of inaction. 636 days of a manmade drought, a california dust bowl. last week, there was a close vote. apparently, took for the democrat -- too close for the democrat leadership. it would have stopped the obama administration from taking additional measures to starve the people of the san joaquin valley of water. we will not risk the possibility of defeat again. no mistakes this time. no vote will be allowed on the vote this week on my amendment to the interior bill. the hypocrisy of this situation is that the democrat majority champions working families. but in reality, it's just backing the radical environmental element in this country. for the san joaquin valley, the democrats in this house have chosen thre

mr. nunes: don't be deceived by the comments of the democrat party. this bill is a tax increase. this bill is the largest tax increase in american history. i ask my democratic friends, is this what you've come to? do you want to throw away the economic prosperity for nothing, because that's what this bill does. and for what? to satisfy the twisted desires of radical environmentalists. i would ask my colleagues one important question, how will you force china and india to accept this economic suicide pact? the dirty secret is you can't. i remind my colleagues that the state of california is out of water. they have communities with 40% unemployment. in the meantime, democrats bring up fairy tale legislation to the floor, phantom green jobs legislation. however, we agree on one thing. we should try to reduce our carbon emissions. republicans have a plan, an all-the-above plan, we drill for oil in america. we take the revenue and we put it into solar, wind, nuclear technologies. that's the real plan, madam speaker. this bill is a scam. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time ha

we have republicans like david nunes and others, mr. broun who just spoke, mr. rogers, mr. calvert, others who want to have a chance to stand up and guess what, madam speaker, they unfortunately are denied that in this process. justice felix frankfurter in 1943 made the following statement. he said the history of liberty is largely due to the history of procedural safeguards. now, madam speaker, i believe that the federal government is too big and spends too much as our leader boehner regularly says. i believe we should have a right to bring about those reductions so we can get our economy back on track to ensure that americans aren't going to lose their jobs, their businesses, and their homes. and we are denied that chance today. but, i want to say to my democratic colleagues and my republican colleagues, madam speaker, we have an opportunity , and it is before us right now. all we need to do is vote no on the previous question and what will happen? we'll be continuing the 220-year tradition of appropriations under an open amendment process. if we can defeat the previous q

mr. heinrich: i believe that's the case. what we've seen is that in the midst of this recession, the good nunes our horizon has been the quality high tech jobs in the renewable energy sector. mr. polis: earlier on, as we were walking the floor, we were talking about american ingenuity and innovation and what's possible with solar cars, i thought you could share with us the story of what's possible. the strength of america has been innovation and ingenuity. i think this is playing to our strength as a country in terms of what's possible. mr. heinrich: as someone who got my degree in mechanical engineering back in the mid 1990's, i actually participated in a solar car team, just a group of college students that got together in the early 1990's, built a carbon fiber, lightweight solar powered vehicle we raced across the united states gerns teams from stanford and michigan and other colleges around the country. i always thought to myself, if we could do that in 1993, 15 years ago, a bunch of college students who didn't even have our degrees yet, then you the, to think of the potential that we have today with the technology and the

amendment 63 by mr. nunes of california, amendment number 111 by mrs. blackburn of tennessee, amendment number 71 by mr. burton of indiana, amendment number 97 by mr. price of georgia, amendment number 100 by mr. jordan of ohio, amendment number 114 by mr. reichert of washington, amendment number 59 by mr. broun of georgia, amendment number 79 by mr. hensarling of texas, amendment number 76 by mr. hensarling of texas, amendment number 105 by mr. campbell of california, amendment number 104 by mr. campbell of california, amendment number 107 by mr. campbell of california, amendment number 87 by mr. flake of arizona, amendment number 86 by mr. flake of arizona, amendment number 85 by mr. flake of arizona, amendment number 91 of mr. flake of arizona and amendment number 84 by mr. flake of arizona. es us as the bailout nation. second of all, i believe, as do many economists, that the federal reserve ought to be concentrated on military policy, tied to inflation -- on monetary policy, tied to inflation targeting. what the administration does instead is diffu