mr. stearns for five minutes. >> thank you madam chairwoman. mr. secretary, i come from this a little perhaps differently than you. you talked about an energy plan. the energy plan that i think you and the administration supports is based upon using solar panels, wind panels, thermal, solar thermal devices and things like that. so it seems to me if we're talking about, where are the jobs, if we use our natural resources in this country, fracking of gas, oil and shale, burning clean coal, offshore drilling, anwr, the keystone pipe. that would create a plethora of new jobs. that's where we come from a different perspective here. i read in a quote in the "l.a. times" recently that you support the reauthorization of the export/import bank. is that true? i think that's in your statement here that you are asking for congress to reauthorize it. that's true? >> yes, it is true. >> one of the things i have with that, when i looked at their 7 annual report, they gave $10 million loan guarantees to solyndra. and i share the oversight investigation committee o

mr. stearns. and then pleased to recognize mr. mckinley for five minutes for his questions. >> thank you, madam chairman. briefly, i think you and i had a little conversation beforehand we began, and we were concerned about privacy. i still would -- i'd like you to expand a little bit about that. what to me from an engineering from a small business perspective, i'm a littl concerned about -- very concerned about the privacy. but i know and i think you would recognize that if there were a national registry of all the prescription drug use in america, the pharmacies could be held responsible to check that registry and find out that they just got oxycontin just one day earlier for three months' supply, and they would be able to say no. isn't there something, some form -- i know we don't want to have -- because as we've had other hearing here of somebody being able to hack into that information. >> right. >> there are penalties that are related to that. but we all know if we had a list, if someone had a list, we could go -- hold those

mr. stearns. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized forhree minutes. mr. stearns: i thank my distinguished collgue. let me just say to the gentleman from california who just getting ready to leave the for, when he mentioned that republicans are going to prevent tobacco prevention of our youth today, he and i both know there's a separate program in c.d.c. just for tobacco prevention. and in fact in this so-called pphf which all of us have called the slush fund which is the prevention of public health fund, there is right now $191.685 million for this spending for tobacco prevention. and after this amendment passed there would be $109 million still remaing in this for that smoking and health component of cdc. i say to the gentleman from massachusetts and mr. hoyer from maryland, i mean you're yelling fire and there's no fire. i could go through all these things to show you that your arguments are wrong. the fact that see we'llous -- sebeus, the head of the health and human services said publicly, she in fact pointed out that this so-called slush fund is not g

mr. stearns who will then yield accordingly. >> thank you, madam chair. this is the third hearing we have had on this subcommittee on jobs, and it's, of course, concern for all of us. and what we're also concerned about is a high tax rate in america. i think just simply low the corporate tax code in prioritizing the need for a skilled workforce would help. other factors like the high cost of health care costs are going to impact this country. and rising energy prices. so we need to have a full energy program. and furthermore, we know that legitimate u.s. companies are losing jobs as they are forced to compete with offshore companies that steal american technologies. having the ftc, the federal trade commission, use its narrow, section 5 authority to bring targeted cases against these offshore companies will simply demonstrate that access to u.s. markets will not be permitted to companies whose business mod cell based on theft. these are things we can all work together on to strengthen our economy and i look forward to our hearing. with that, i recognize d

mr. stearns: good morning, mr. speaker.t week, april 17 was tax day, when all hardworking americans must file their taxes with the internal revenue service. ironically enough, april 17 was also tax freedom day, a day when americans earned just about enough earned income to pay off the tax bill for all federal, state, and local taxes. the first 111 days of the year, everything you and i and all americans earn went to fund the united states federal government. in 1900 americans paid about 5.9% of their income in taxes and tax freedom day came about 22 days into the year. it is a far cry, my colleagues, from what we have to endure in taxes today. you now, if you think 111 days to reach tax freedom day is excessive, just wait until next year. we are on the cusp of a tax armageddon or i'd like to call it a taxmageddon, scheduled to hit january 1, 2013. the largest tax increase in memory, possibly ever, $490 billion tax increase in one year. so when we talk about taxes, we usually project the increase or decrease in revenue over

mr. stearns. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for three minutes. mr. stearns: i thank my distinguished colleague. let me just say to the gentleman from california who just getting ready to leave the floor, when he mentioned that republicans are going to prevent tobacco prevention of our youth today, he and i both know there's a separate program in c.d.c. just for tobacco prevention. and in fact in this so-called pphf which all of us have called the slush fund which is the prevention of public health fund, there is right now $191.685 million for this spending for tobacco prevention. and after this amendment passed there would be $109 million still remaining in this for that smoking and health component of cdc. i say to the gentleman from massachusetts and mr. hoyer from maryland, i mean you're yelling fire and there's no fire. i could go through all these things to show you that your arguments are wrong. the fact that see we'llous -- sebelius, the head of the health and human services said publicly, she in fact pointed out that this so-called slush fund

mr. stearns: and dramatically for new individual enrollments. in fiscal year 2013, the administration proposes additional fees and cost-sharing increases, a new annual enrollment fee for tricare for life, increases in pharmacy co-payments and a catastrophic cap of $3,000 per family. mr. speaker when our president promised our service members change, i'm sure they didn't expect it would be shortchanged. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from hawaii seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. many of us who are back in our districts for two weeks, i had town halls like i'm sure many of my colleagues did. and i'm sure they probably heard what i heard. we call them [speaking foreign language] in hawaii. that means elderly. they're concerned about their medicare. they're concerned about their socials, their safety net, which we provide. and the reason why is because they've done everything, everything on their part, to