>>hank you, mr. spker.iite understand why m honorae friend wants to raise this iss it's desperate sad what's happenedo the building societ obviously, the gernmentill stand rey to dol it can to retrain people who have lost theijobs. and take sure tha theget thery best oortunity a to makeure we go on having a ro financial service sector. this is not as the ilding societreminds us. is is not just about theity of london. it about tt that mins of people in our untrrk in fincial services, providing a go serve, a we need to he th. >> one of e pros that stands to be affec by th decisionf the government to put 600 millionnds worth of hoing investment o hold is the housing elements, the redevelopment of theg bridge site in my constituency, ich is iornt not just that area but to the ecom coverya ole. give t fact thahat proct liberal democrat coalition that ru the cy uncil,ill the prime minister tl me what prioty he wittach to the regenerativeffects ohousin projects like is? >> look, everyone wants to see regeneration

thoujection. >> thank you, mr. spker. sales are suffering, the economy remains stagnant, and millions of hardworking americans are looking orwork. mr. boozman arkansans believe therecent obama-peli alth ca bl, cap andrade, a other job-kill tax increases will hurt not help our struggng economy. we shotake action to help busisses get on their feet by fosingn j creati as posed to some of the milaced prries new taxes and health care maates a haring smaller rms and nesses. the so-called stimulus bilis t creating long-tm bs but is increasing the budget deficit an sendinghe bill plus interest to tomorrow's taxpayers. congress must stop growi the tax burden and cting b-killing policies tax relief a incentivesor small bunessesould help all americans, eecy the ddle class and gt o econy back on trac key to this wll be fisl discipline. now is the time to put acap on washingt spendingand focus on the economic issues that matter id of further ating e nationalt. withhat i yield bk. the speaker prmpore: the gentman's tias expir. for whurp

mr. speaker. the spker o teore: what purpose ds the gentlela from wionn ris? ms. baldw: i unaniou conse to claim the time the speaker prtempore: without objection, the ntlelady ecognized for five minutes. ms. baldn: thank you, mr. speake i rise today tbring e voices of my conitnts in ffersonounty, wconsin, to floor of theeople' house. in 208omes alg e northern shore of the lakend t sunding community were absolute devasted by a recordetting flood. this was a 500-year flood evt, the same one that ravaged much of the upper midwe and in icular wisconsin d iowa. durinthat storm, i knew that thdama would be devastating community would beyd repair. but wt i didn't knowas that most two yearser the flood, e agencies upon h ey relied would be ing the hardworking erans bend arfe itituted what it llimmediate needs funding. basically, theyre fing already-approved funds to folks in wisconsid otr disaster areas across the country. aoup of weekends ago, i d the chance to visit wi the property owners afcted from t districthat i have the privilege of rreseing. the are svivors of th

woolsey: mr. spker, i can iv legislative days durng which members mavise and exend aninsert extraneous terial o hes.322 into the ecord. the saker pro tempore: without jectio so orred. ms. wosey: with that i yld myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore:he gentlelady is recognized. ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i rise today in rogniti of e imor role of science, technoly, enginring and math, known as sem, educators in our scs and in our untry. the alert einstein distinguished educato felwship program recognizes kindergarten through th gde teachers acritical voices in he national convsation o education policy. the program acknowledges excellence in teaching and the value of a teacher's service to the community. this program brin out outstandingeachers to the washinond.c., ar so they n be i measuresed in and hlp shape -- immersed innd he shaplow policy anthey combine their eerience for the betrment students across the country. this ycommemorates the 20th anniversary t einstein fellowship pro

woolsey: mr. spker, a week ago sunday at approximately 10:06 a.m.after the house had adjourned for recess and americs were joying their holiday weekend, the nation reached a trudy disturbi mestone at aboutthat moment, accordin to the nional priorities prect, the combined amount of taxpayer money spent on the wars in iraq and afghanista reached a staggering $1 trillion. that trillion, with a t. th's a breathtaking amount of money to spend. even osomething th works but that kind of money on two bloody wars that have taken thousands of arican lives, abilized other parts of the worland done nothing to achieve nationalecurity goals,ell it's positively shameful. and that tllion dollars doesn't even ilude som bills at haven't yet come due. like future medical costs for returning iraq and afghanistan veterans. commitment we absolutely must keep. nor does it include interest our grandchildren will pay on the debte are --e have racked to finance these wars. but i can't help thinking, mr. speaker, -- what i n't he

the spker pro tempore: without objection. mr. weiner: wean mr. speaker, and my colleague, in the overnight hours of may 31, about 10 days ago, news broke that we now have become very familiarwork the previous spker referred to it, several of my colleagues have come to the floor this evening to talk about it, where a flotilla coming from tuey was intercepted as part of the effort of the state of israel to defend a blockade that was set up. i want to spend the next hour talking a little bit about that boat and how to progressed, where it came from and why and perhaps importantly drill into a little bit the idea of what the blockade is all aut and what the history was. it is impossible to fully understand this issue only looking at it from the point of israeli naval officers climbing onboard a ship and saying, ok, i think i understand the story because i see that picture. that would no more be the truth than to watch the closing scene of "can is a blanka" sand say, ok, i understand what happened in this movie. any time there's loss of life, any time

mr. mica: yield my colleague from florida 30 sends of our time. the spker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. boyd: i thank mr. mica. for yielding. madam speaker, we must begin planning now for this possibility of a hurricane hitting the gulf coast and what effect the oil spill -- what damage that -- additional damage that will cause. must ensure te current cleanup and containment efforts underway are able to cntinue unabated. dam speaker, i urge pport of s. 3473 and i yld back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemayields back the bance of his time. the gentleman fromrida. mr. mica: thank you, madam speaker. i guess as we conclude the extend time of debate on this measure to again revise some of the prosions of the emergency portion,150 millio emergency fund within the $1.6 billion oil liabity trust fund. i understand that tre has been identified a minor technical glitch in the legislation as it came from the other body. as a great american, former united states senator, bob dole, who ed to say his body, the u

the spker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. inslee: mr. speaker, we have a resolution before us that deals with a problem of extraordinary dimensions having to do with the health of our oceans. i want to thank chairman rahall, chairwoman bordallo, majority leader hoyer, subcommittee chair brian bair with their help in getting a resolution to the floor to deal wh this extraordinary threat. we know how much americans today are feeling heart sick about the damage to our gulf and perhaps the atlantic ocean as a result of the oil spill we are now suffering. so wt our resolution attempts to do is to focus on another perhaps worse threat to the oceans today associated with the burning of fuels -- fossil fuels, and that is the sad, unambiguous, scientifically certain fact that our oceans are coming more acidic, substantially more acidic as a result of carbon-based pollution from our burning of oil and coal and other fossil fuels. -- because what we have learned in our research, and we have ha a number of hearings on this, is the scientific communi

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mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. spker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requted. thse in suort of the request for a recorded vote will rise and bented. a sufficientber having aris, a recordedis orred. members will record their votes by electronic . pursut to clause 8 and clau 9 of rule 20, the 15-minute vote on thmotion to recommit will followed by five-nute tes on passa of h.r. 5486, ordered, and suspension of the rul witregard thse resolution322. this wilbe a 1minute v [captiing made possible by the natial captig institut i.,n cooperio with thuned statehousof reesentives. coverage of the hoe ion oceedings for political or commcial purposes is exesslprohibited by the u.s. hous representatives.]