mr. takano: anyway. mr. garamendi: certainly that and a young person graduating from college, sometimes they want to get married. may have to delay that. they want to form a household. mr. takano: it certainly hurt ours economy in a that way, that we're going to delay buying homes and a home and starting a family with this debt overhanging. beyond the interest rates, i also believe we need to also focus on lowering the principle, making sure we support our public -- our institutions of higher ed, our public institutions. to make sure that the principle isn't there. but certainly i support our caucus' effort to keep interest rates from doubling. it's a very sad fact to say that doing nothing, if we don't get our way, that doing nothing is actually better than what he republicans proposed. i'm doing put up a -- mr. garamendi: i'm going to put up another chart here that speaks to what you just said. this chart talks about the -- our colleagues' proposal, that was one that we passed here. like to say that this i

mr. takano of california. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. takano: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman from washington for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today to express my strong support for the amendments submitted by the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings, known previously as h.r. 1842, the military family home protection act. as a member of the veterans affairs committee and the ranking member of the economic opportunities subcommittee, taking care of our service members and their families is one of my top priorities. this legislation does just that. it takes care of our heroes. by staying foreclosures when service members are receiving hostile fire or when they are medically discharged, by doubling the civil penalties for mortgage-related violations and by prohibiting banks from discriminating against service members, veterans or surviving spouses, the military family home protection act no long air louis our heroes and their -- no longer allows our heroes or their families to be taken advantage of. since the economic down tu

mr. takano: mr. speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to patricia newson, the first la tina to be promoted to the chief deputy in riverside county. instrumental in fostering relationships within our community, patricia has served at the riverside county sheriff's department for 24 years. patrigsa started her law enforcement career at the detention ey center. for the last two decades she's continued to serve in a variety of roles within the riverside county sheriff's department. she now moves from her current position as the commander of the robert presley detention center to become chief deputy of the riverside county sheriff's department. always active, always actively engaged in the community, chief dev deputy newson founded life path vision, a group that works with riverside county -- riverside police foundcation to mentor youth. never seizing to help those in need, -- ceasing to help those in need, she also serves on boards and committees of a number of nonprofit organizations in the community. as

mr. takano, we want to start a gay-straight alliance at this high school, but no teacher here has the time just are kind of hostile to it, even the idea of starting one on campus. it's the first time i had seen students themselves decide to take it into their hands. they were outraged at prop eight. i noticed a shift in students, just that they had taken it up, young people had taken up rights and same-sex marriages as the civil rights issue of their generation. i began to sense that hey, you know, this might even be a moment when i. hal: a generational shift right. >> it even caused me to think of seeking higher office again. hal: it certainly is inspiring when you see that happening, you see a ground swell. you are right to say that we the country, a lot of opponents to this have argued that tradition in history dictate the future regardless, that we are -- we have a definition of marriage, it's been that way for a very long time and that it's got to stay that way. my argument to them is well, we used to have permanent forms of government, we had two man arcky andmonarchyand theocracy an