but thank you for what you do, ma'am. >> hi, mr. pitts. how are you doing? i'm an instructional school coach and we're a nationwide organization that's creating schools to help our kids who are overaged, unacontracted, aspire to college careers and community service. if our kids could have the opportunity to hear you speak to them words of your wisdom considering that you've been this child of trial and now a man of triumph of, what advice would you give them to be resilient in these times? cliek cliek if you work pray and treat people right good things will happen. being respectful of all things -- i think it was yogi berra who said dance with the ones that are good to you. nothing beats working hard. nothing beats working hard. the it's the only straight line of success that i know. pray hard is what i was raised to do and treat people right. 'cause what i found is -- if you're just holding on, doing what you're supposed to go going forward, the people who come in to your life. for half of my professional life, you're always told in the professional world

mr. pitts: the president's budget released on monday is a blueprint for failure. it projects a $1.6 trillion budget deficit for this year alone. and its entire 10-year window the annual deficit never falls below $700 billion. the much vaunted spending freeze only covers some 13% of the budget and only accomplishes this goal by moving certain programs from discretionary to mandatory spending. once the freeze is picked at by the free spending leadership of the house and senate, it will be reduced to a luke warm puddle of even more deficit spending. to take the tough decisions about balancing our budget, the administration looks to create a nonbinding commission. the president doesn't need a toothless commission when he already has the power to direct his office of management and budget to create a blueprint for solvency. we need leadership. we need the buck to stop with the president not with the commission of un-elected economists, academics, or bureaucrats. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> ask permission to addres

the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. pitts of pennsylvania for today. e speaker pro tempore: without objection. request is granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following persons may be permitted to address this house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material, myself, mr. poe, for march 3, mr. jones, march 3. mr. murphy from pennsylvania today, mr. young from florida, today. mr. lewis from california, today. mr. kingston, today. mr. thompson, today. mr. shuster today, mr. moran for today and mr. fleeling frelinghuysen for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house to revise and stepped their remarks