mr. parker and his team of the visionary architects, larry funk who is sitting over there. he is a hero. [applause] larrym, from the beginning you had a dream of what the new laguna honda should look like, and you stuck with the passion and dedication to make that dream a reality. the city hall family, the laguna honda staff, the department of health, the commission, the department of public works, the art commission, john thomas from the department of public works. i could go on forever. but the individuals who all made this the possibility are on the laguna honda honor roll. but i truly believe that the greatest degree of thanks and goes to the people of san francisco, who from the start, from our early beginning of history, have said yes. we want a laguna honda. other communities across this country and even in the world do not have a public hospital devoted to rehabilitation and skilled nursing care. we do. and when we talk about putting that bond issue, that great big bond issue -- there were people who said i do not think we can do it. but i always knew we could. and

representative parker griffith, mr. speaker, our colleague from alabama, had an amendment. he said, look, this -- we need deficit neutrality in this bill, and that was one thing that we did vote on, that amendment, and it failed along party lines 30-15, even though the majority party keeps saying, you know, we honor pay-go except when we don't honor it. so, you know, again, i -- my colleague from california is a most respected member of the committee and this house and is a friend of mine and she's trying. just as representative lipinski was trying with his bill, but let's get the job done by lowering corporate tax rates and taking the burden, the regulatory burden off our manufacturers and go ahead and pass these free trade agreements with colombia, south korea and panama. they have been negotiated to -- negotiated fairly. we need to explain to the american people why we don't do that. that's how we continue to grow american jobs and not just kick the can down the road and study it and study it and study when unemployment rate of 10% and 15 million people, in fact, two mil