mr. pearce, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. pearce: thank you, mr. speaker. the western caucus has several members here tonight. we would like to talk about what is going on right now in the country, the administration seems to be waging a war on the western jobs and that is carried out through a whole range of activities. a couple of weeks ago, the administration, the president said that the administration is not doing enough to address the high gas prices. the president said in his speech at georgetown that he would like to cut foreign oil by 1/3 by drilling at home. we have been in the process of offering him the solution to what he said he would like to do. keep in mind that while the president is saying one thing, he's doing another. while he says we would like to drill for more oil here, understand that he has increased the moratorium on the offshore drilling. they've made it more difficult to drill in onland areas through the rocky mountains. know that they rejecked shell oil company's $4 billion nepa study because a para

mr. pearce. the chair: the gentleman is recognize. mr. pearce: i'm pleased to rise in support of h.r. 1230 to restart american jobs. the current five-year lease plan would have aloud for the sale of four leases off the coast of virginia and three in the gulf of mexico. the president and his agencies are continuing to block these sales. it's time to stop that blocking. we're talking about jobs, the nation is faced with 8% to 9% continuing unemployment. the jobs offshore are good, high-paying jobs, $400 a day, $50,000 a year. recently the president had strong rhetoric to georgetown university, saying he's going to increase oil and gas production in america, yet the administration's actions are moving us the opposite direction. tax increases kill jobs, that's an economic truth. our friends across the aisle want to kill american jobs by raising taxes at a time when unemployment is too high, when we're dependent on too much foreign oil. in a speech last month at georgetown, president obama said the fact of the matter is that for quite some time

mr. pearce, is recognized for one minute. mr. pearce: i thank the gentleman for yielding. in my district people ask, what is this vote about, this debt ceiling vote? so i've created a simple chart that says it as plainly as we can. we're spending $3.5 trillion in the country each year and we're bringing in $.2 trillion. it doesn't work for your pamly. it doesn't work for your business, and the not working for the country. in order to make up the difference we have to borrow that money, except that our bankers are saying no more, just as your bankers are saying no more. so we're printing the money to make this system work. it's a scheme that's not working. this chart in the upper right-hand corner says that the whole economy collapses about 2038. so o.m.b. and c.b.o. are saying that we must take care of the spending problem that we have in this country. that's what the debt ceiling is about. we have a law that says we can't borrow within a certain amount of money. if we just extend with know provisions with reform then we'll continue to spend this much money every year we d

mr. pearce. the chair: the gentleman from new mexico. mr. pearce: i thank the gentleman from california. mr. chairman, i rise in support of my revised amendment number 144, which will address concerns i have regarding the d.o.d. contract bundling process. the current d.o.d. process encourages wrapping together proposals for projects for proposals. this unfairly distributes d.o.d. resources and often allows outside companies to get contracts on bases where local businesses have better regional and technical knowledge to perform the service. the winning bidder then subcontracts with the local businesses, often underfunding the subcontractor and pocketing the rest. the local company in the state where the base is housed lose out on significant revenue and job opportunities. an example of this was recently in my district a man that makes radios and radio antennas called by d.o.d. asked if he could make a radio antenna that could fit in the pocket like a cigarette packet. while they were speaking on the phone he built one of these. the d.o.d. cont

mr. pearce. the chair: the gentleman is recognize. mr. pearce: i'm pleased to rise in support of h.r. 1230 to restart american jobs. the current five-year lease plan would have aloud for the sale of four leases off the coast of virginia and three in the gulf of mexico. the president and his agencies are continuing to block these sales. it's time to stop that blocking. we're talking about jobs, the nation is faced with 8% to 9% continuing unemployment. the jobs offshore are good, high-paying jobs, $400 a day, $50,000 a year. recently the president had strong rhetoric to georgetown university, saying he's going to increase oil and gas production in america, yet the administration's actions are moving us the opposite direction. tax increases kill jobs, that's an economic truth. our friends across the aisle want to kill american jobs by raising taxes at a time when unemployment is too high, when we're dependent on too much foreign oil. in a speech last month at georgetown, president obama said the fact of the matter is that for quite some time

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