mr. roskam: if the gentleman will yield? mr. levin: i'll be glad to yield. mr. roskam: so you make a fair point in that perm nancy is something -- permanency is something we need to strive for. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan's time has expired. mr. levin: i'll yield myself another 30 seconds -- another minute. mr. roskam: so i take your point that it's a good thing and you and i are -- mr. levin: i said long term. my point is you, six months ago, helped produce a package that eliminated this provision and now you come here and you say you want it permanent. this is acrobatics. this is congressional acrobatics. you are just spinning in an opposite direction. and you're making this place a circus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. levin: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. kind. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. mr. kind: i thank my friend from michigan for yielding me this time. mr. speaker, this place is riddled with ironies from week to we

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mr. roskam: if the gentleman will yield? mr. levin: i'll be glad to yield. mr. skam: so you make a fair point in that perm nancy is something -- permanency is something we need to strive for. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan's time has expired. mr. levin: i'll yield myself another 30 seconds -- another minute. mr. roskam: so i take your point that it's a good thing and you and i are -- mr. levin: i said long term. my point is you, six months ago, helped produce a package that eliminated this provision and now you come here and you say you want it permanent. this is acrobatics. this is congressional acrobatics. you are just spinning in an opposite direction. and you're making this place a circus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. levin: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. kind. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. mr. kind: i thank my friend from michigan for yielding me this time. mr. speaker, this place is riddled with ironies from week to week

mr. roskam: if the gentleman will yield? mr. levin: i'll be glad to yield. mr. roskam: so you make a fair point in that perm nancy is something -- permanency is something we need to strive for. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan's time has expired. mr. levin: i'll yield myself another 30 seconds -- another minute. mr. roskam: so i take your point that it's a good thing and you and i are -- mr. levin: i said long term. my point is you, six months ago, helped produce a package that eliminated this provision and now you come here and you say you want it permanent. this is acrobatics. this is congressional acrobatics. you are just spinning in an opposite direction. and you're making this place a circus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. levin: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. kind. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. mr. kind: i thank my friend from michigan for yielding me this time. mr. speaker, this place is riddled with ironies from week to we

mr. roskam of illinois, an amendment by ms. moore of wisconsin, an amendment by ms. waters of california. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote in the series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment offered by the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. jackson lee of texas. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of

mr. roskam here, 18-month member of this institution. came, i wager, not to make a point, but to make a difference. and has been doing that every day he's been in this chamber. i'm happy to yield to this gentleman. mr. roskam: i thank the gentleman for organizing this very inform -- mr. rothfus: i thank the gentleman for organizing this very informative special order tonight. i came here to be part of a team that will relight america. relight the job market. relight opportunity. relight the american dreamful because people are hungry for it. they see this town that's out of control. they look at this town. and if they visit this town they marvel at the growth that's happening in washington, d.c. i challenge everybody who visits washington to count the construction cranes they see and the explosive growth and he high end shops that open here and the concentration of wealth and power in this town. it's a scandal to the rest of the country. i see construction cranes here on pennsylvania avenue, i'd like to see those construction cranes back

mr. roskam. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for two minutes. mr. roskam: i thank the chairman for yielding. i'm happen to see $20 million included in this appropriation bill for reimbursement for uranium cleanup and i want to highlight the language in the bill that directs the department of energy to provide sufficient resources in future budgets to eliminate the reimbursement backlog which stands at $54 million and return to a more normal reimbursement schedule to ensure a backlog doesn't occur again. the current backlog of $54 million grows year by year with sites in illinois, colorado, wyoming, washington, south dakota, and new mexico, and the way this works out in my constituency is the community of west chicago illinois that had an adverse situation years and years ago. there was a situation with thorium that was spread throughout the community. they have done a tremendous job in cleanup, but the cleanup, madam speaker, needs to continue. so i commend the chairman for his commitment. and look forward to being part of this solution for the full

mr. garamendi: thank you. representative roskam, it's been great working with you this evening, we'll call this a beginning, working on an issue that affects everyone on both sides of the aisle and across america. we can deal with alzheimer's, we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and push forward with programs we know are successful. i, too, am happy to be a co-sponsor of today's piece -- of these piece of legislation. so much for tonight on this issue. we'll come back to it in a few weeks and see what progress has been made, in the mentime, we have had our discussion this evening on this important illness. i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. garamendi: i have a motion. the speaker pro tempore: if the gentleman would suspend. mr. garamendi: i will gather up my things and stay by for a motion if necessary. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the qu

mr. roskam. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker, and thank you, mr. chairman, for yielding. i am pleased to rise today, in support of this whole package but in particular the conservation easement tax incentive. this worthy provision incentivizes property donations to groups who maintain the property for conservation purpose, encouraging good stewardship and our environment. prk, the area in illinois that you and i represent, suburban chicago and areas outlying, are incredibly significant, and there's beautiful places in the five counties that i represent and the many counties that you represent, mr. speaker, and this is an opportunity for the tax code to work in favor of land preservation and open space and to do it in a way that is thoughtful, to do it in a way that is inclusive and to do it in a way that ultimately saves and preserves these precious natural resources and uses them not just for our generation but for the generations to come. i i want -- i want to thank the chairman for his leadership

mr. roskam of illinois. page , page 10, line , insert reduced by $10 million. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 661. the member from illinois and a member om owesed will control five minutes. roskrombing i yield myself such time as i may consume. we had opportunity of the ifert r.s. and hours and hours and hours of testimony in the ways and ways pe committee. and the i.r.s. is combrossly over stepped its grounds filing -exempt status. knew think about thisics mr. chairman. the first amendment to the constitution has as its first supreme, our freedom of religion this country and what have we seen. the internal revenue service has reached its long arm and what is to what is happening to prayers. this is a document, a additional document, department of the treasury to the coalition for life of life of iowa. on page , mr. chairman, of this official document from the internal revenue service, the i.r.s. asked this in writing, please plain the activities at this prayer meetings and provide the percentage of your time with organizations spent on prayer groups as