mr. olver: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include tabular and extraneous material on the conference report to accompany h.r. 3288. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. olver: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. olver: it is my privilege and pleasure to present the consolidated appropriations act for fiscal year 2010 to the house. this conference report is the product of many hours of hearings and briefings across six subcommittees, always with bipartisan input, and excellent member participation. and culminated by extensionive negotiation with our senate colleagues. i especially would like to recognize the important contributions of our ranking member, tom latham of iowa, in putting together the transportation and housing portions of this bill. while we may not always agree, i always appreciate his partnership and i

mr. olver: why are we spending so much money there if we can't find a way of extend -- expending more of those things i mentioned, the housing, the transportation, the health services and education? why can't we spend some of that here? so, yes, our ex pendsture has been up -- our ex pendsture has been up but -- expenditure has been up but we make no apology for that kind of expenditure given for the reason why it has occurred. and so i think -- i leave it at that. we make no apology for increasing discretionary expenditure on our own people and the needs of our own people and that should continue, in fact. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from iowa, for what purpose do you rise? mr. latham: mr. speaker, first of all i want to thank the gentleman for recognizing the fact that we were fiscally responsible before and that -- to catch up in two years spending 85% more, increasing spending by 85%, is truly more than catching up, i would say. i w

mr. olver, will each control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa. mr. latham: i thank the speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, this is a very basic motion to instruct on what could be very complicated bill. this motion simply instructs the conferees to refrain from adding any extraneous materials like other appropriation bills and any other issues outside the provisions included in either the house or senate passed transportation, h.u.d. bill. this motion also provides any conference report will be available for no less than 72 hours before the conference report will be brought up for final passage in the house. madam speaker, the bill like every appropriations bill this year was slammed through the house in july under an unprecedented closed and restrictive rule. all the name of completing these bills, and i quote, regular order. the senate even with all of its scheduling issues managed to pass a regular bill in an open process with amendments

olver, pastor, ms. kaptur, mr. price of north carolina, ms. roybal-allard, mr. berry, ms. kilpatrick of michigan, mrs. lowey, messrs. obey, latham, wolf, tiahrt, wamp, and lewis of california. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? >> good afternoon, mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 3951. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 395 1, a bill to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 2000 louisiana avenue in new orleans, louisiana, as the roy rondeno, sr. post office building. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch, and the gentleman from louisiana, mr. cow, -- cao, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks even add any extraneous materials. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lynch: i yie