mrs. bachmann: thank you, mr. speaker.e need to know what the people who advise the president of the united states think and believe about health care reform, mr. speaker. listening to the president's advisors' actual words is very enlightening. this morning i read a column written by betsy mci could and i'd like to quote from it extensively now. this is from a column dated july 24, 2009. mrs. mccoy wrote the following, she said the health bills that are coming out of congress would put the decisions about our care in the hands of presidential appointees. government will decide, not the people, not their doctors, what our plan will cover, how much leeway our doctor will have and what senior citizen will finally get under medicare. but what's even more important, mr. speaker, are the actual words of the president's advisors on health care. here's the words from one of the president's first advisors, the brother of the white house chief of staff, he's already been appointed to two key positions. one is health policy advisor

mrs. bachmann: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative -- the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. bachmann: i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. mr. clay: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? mr. clay: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 373. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 383, resolution expressing support for designation of the month of september as national hydrocephalus awareness month. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from missouri, mr. clay, and the gentlewoman from minnesota, mrs. bachmann: each will contr

mrs. bachmann: talk about what rationing is. mr. hoekstra: the other thing i used to be in the private sector and i used to be in the marketing world. we all know that these forecasts , these aren't actual numbers, they are predictions. one of the things we have learned from these predictions is that what does government forecast conservatively? meaning if everything goes bad we are going to be $800 billion short. no, the government forecasts optimistically. i think it's safe to say if you take a look at the assumptions and predictions that the deficit or the amount that this program will add to the deficit over this period of time is probably at least double. mr. broun: tell me it's not so. mr. hoekstra: the other thing that it is based on, it is based on reimbursements to the states. to get people in. so states to buy off on medicaid reimbursements, what they do is they bump them up in the first three, four years of this program. and then they cut them dramatically. and we all know that those cuts will never take place in future y

mrs. bachmann of minnesota. for what purpose does do you rise? mrs. bachmann: i ask permission to speak out of order for five minutes and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. bachmann: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, all jobs are needed now in the united states. we need jobs here and we need jobs now. unemployment stands at a 26-year high at 9.5% and what is the response of washington, d.c.? government is increasing the costs on job creators. by the end of this week, madam speaker, government will have mandated that the price of the minimum wage will increase another 70 cents per hour. this comes when teenager unemployment stands at nearly 25%, nearly another record. employers expect to be cutting more minimum wage jobs as a result of this action, not adding more jobs. teenagers in my district are going from day to day to day, many of whom have gibbon up now that it's the end of july, looking for work. unemployment stands at a high for teenagers. they're competing with 40-year-olds for jobs

mrs. bachmann. mrs. bachmann: i thank the gentleman from iowa for this moment to speak about what's happening here in washington, d.c. i don't think anyone has seen anything like what we've seen in recent months. we can trace it back to last fall when the democrat congress could not wait to get past the tarp funding bill. that's together with the former bush administration. they were in a hurry. just like the gentleman from iowa has stated, we're seeing this is a congress that's in a hurry. in a hurry because they've got an agenda. they're on a steam roller path a blitzkrieg path and they've got to get everything done yesterday. we can't have time to read bills. we can't take time to truly count the cost. we're in a hurry, there's an agenda to be performed. we heard the president of the united states tell the democratic caucus, we can't miss this opportunity for reform, we've got to do it now, we've got to do everything now. that's what we were told last fall. we were told that we would see economic ample

mrs. bachmann: i thank the speaker. raising a question of the privileges of the house, whereas the gentlewoman from minnesota, mrs. bachmann, submitted an amendment to the committee of rules to h.r. 3288, transportation, housing and urban development and related agencies appropriations act, 2010. where the amendment would have protected american taxpayers by prohibiting funds made available in the act from being used to fund any organization that has been indicted for violations of state or federal election laws or that employed people who have , such as the association of community organizations for reform now or acorn, whereas a similar provision was adopted by the house in 2008 during consideration of h.r. 3221, the housing and economic recovery act of 2008 and became law on june 30, 2008, does not currently apply to all programs funded in the underlying bill. whereas the gentlewoman's amendment complied with all applicable rules of the house to amendments to appropriations measures and would have been in order under

mrs. bachmann for today. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. woolsey: madam 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 for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, california. mr. mcmahon, new york. ms. kaptur, ohio. mr. defazio, oregon. mr. spratt, south carolina. mr. delahunt, massachusetts. mr. brady, pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. ms. woolsey, california. ms. woolsey: madam speaker, president obama has said that our nation's policy in afghanistan rests on a three-legged stool. the three legs are, one, security, which means more troops. two, economic development. and, three,

mrs. bachmann: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. bachmann: in congress, this is considered contraband. this is very controversial. even though this represents the democrats' health care plan, we are not as members of congress, allow to put -- allowed to put this chart up on the websites or allowed to send this out to our constituents. what are they worried about? because this is the latest board game in the united states? that the american health care consumer stands on this side of 31 bureaucracies and they have to figure out how to get through 31 bureaucracies before they get to their doctor? or could it be, mr. speaker, because this will cost five million jobs, or cowl it be, mr. speaker, because this will cost $2 trillion in additional deficit. i can understand why the democrats wouldn't want the american people to see this. but i don't understand how you can make the claim that this is the most transparent congress in the history of the country if you won't let the american peopl

mrs. bachmann: thank you, mr. speaker. where are the jobs? as a senator, president obama supported the $700 billion bailout nation strategy that today we're learning will cost the american people potentially $24 trillion. but where are the jobs? president obama pushed the $1 trillion stimulus that cost our economy two million in jobs losses. no jobs. president obama took over g.m. and chrysler and he gave pink slips to 3,400 car dealerships that cost 150,000 jobs. no jobs. president obama's national energy tax will double our electric bills in minnesota and will cost 2.5 million job losses every year. now his economic advisor tells us that the government takeover of our private health care insurance will cost us five million jobs. no jobs. this may be called the china-india stimulus plan, but the president isn't doing so well for the american people. mr. speaker, let's have real change so the american people can have real jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman fr

mrs. bachmann. the gentleman from washington, mr. mcdermott. without objection, so ordered. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, health care reform may be the single most important issue members will vote on during their entire legislative career. the issue effects every american. health care effects our economy at home and our ability to compete internationally. for the first time in almost 20 years we have a real opportunity to solve america's health care crisis, and the american people have spoken clearly, overwhelmingly, that they want congress to produce a solution that puts the american people's interest ahead of special interests. to say there is urgency in what we need to do is an understatement. for the last several months the three committees in the house have been working separately and collaboratively on health care legislation. two of the committees, including the ways and means where i serve, reported bills out of committee to the floor. i want to explain why the ways and means committee bill is the best bill and is vital to the success of health care reform. let's start wi

mrs. bachmann: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. bachmann: this weekend, i had the occasion to speak with a businessman in minnesota who employs 110 people in this business he told me, michelle, right now, health care is the most expensive part of my business. under president obama's plan it will cost me an additional $12,000 a month, i don't have that money. we know the president's own figure says 5,000 jobs will be lost in this country if his bill goes through. there are so many small businesses, mr. speaker, who would love to offer health care, but it's the congress that has made it so expensive for small businesses to offer health care. jobs will be created, but this is where they're going to be created. in government bureaucracy. this is the picture of the bureaucracy that the democrats will create if we get government takeover of health care and remember, the american consumer stands on this side of the bureaucracy. the doctor stands on this side. this

mrs. bachmann of minnesota. mr. forbes of virginia. for what purpose does -- mr. paul of texas. mr. olson of texas. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from missouri, mr. akin, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. akin: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate your recognizing us on a very interesting and important topic, something that i believe that anybody who pays much attention to what's happening in washington, d.c., is quite aware of. that's the subject of health care, something that impacts every single american in our country, affects our budget and affects our family members and something of great interest. i would like to start tonight by just backing up, though, about four weeks or so to this very chamber that we're meeting in, that we're talking in today. it was here during a day that we were debating a bill, it was called cap and tax, and it was the largest tax increase in the history of our country. now, what happened right before that was of interest, because at 3:00 in the morning a 300-page amendmen

mrs. bachmann of minnesota. ms. ros-lehtinen. without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of the people of honduras. i rise in support of honduran democratic institutions and legal authorities who refuse to be coerced and to ignoring their constitution and the rule of law and who refuse to have their future as a democratic nation and democratic society hydrogened -- hijacked. for months prior to june 28, man well had engaged in a systematic campaign to subvert the honduran constitution in order to strengthen and extend his own rule. last november he tried to postpone the primaries for the upcoming presidential elections. this january he tried to stuff the honduran supreme court with his personal buddies. then this march he issued an executive decree calling for a referendum that would ultimately allow for the extension of his presidential rule, all in direct contravention of the constitution. the honduran supreme court, the administrative courts, the attorney general, the commissioner for human rights, the supreme electoral tribunal, and honduran

mrs. bachmann. the gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the gentleman from virginia, mr. wolf. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. wolf: mr. speaker, earlier today i sent a letter to attorney general eric holder, which i submit for the record, imploring him to refile the voter intimidation case against the new black panther party that he dismissed in may. this case was brought in january by career attorneys in the department's civil rights division against the party, and several of its members for deploying uniformed men to a polling station in philadelphia on election day last november to harass, intimidate voters. the public can view the video of the incident as well as other examples of intimidation in a january, 2009, national geographic documentary that posted on the web, www.electionjournal.org. one of the witnesses of the election day incident, a veteran civil rights activist, who served as bobby kennedy's new york campaign manager in 1968, has publicly called this, quote, the most blatant form of voter intimidation he has seen. he also reminded us, quote,

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mr. marshall of georgia, and ms. bachmann of minnesota. we simply requested we strike the word federal from the bill saying no funds shall be made veilable to provide for abortions. that rule -- that amendment was not made in order by the rule. mr. flake of arizona has tried to substitute one of his amendments that were made in order for this amendment so that we could have a clean up or down vote. so the whole purpose of the motion to recommit that i intend to offer will be to get a clean up or down vote on this issue. now, currently the bill allows for public funds to be spent on abortions. it does limit federal funds, but all this money goes into the same bank account. it is a bookkeeping exercise to try to sort it out. it is impossible to sort it all out. what it means is there will be no prohibitions on abortions in the district of columbia in this bill. in fact, tax dollars will be providing abortions in the bill. regardless of whether it's federal or local funds, they will occur. now, we know this has happened in the past. in 1996 t

mr. chairman, if i may just -- i wanted to clarify what the witness said in answer to my question versus congresswoman bachmann and i want to make sure i have the correct understanding -- >> sir, we got another meeting scheduled for this room at 5:30. i'll deny the gentleman's -- >> well, parliamentary inquiry. >> you have a right to submit written questions and they'll be answered in 30 days. >> parliamentary inquiry. >> yes. >> what point will a transcript of this meeting be available? >> i don't know that we have a transcript of this meeting. >> yeah, there'll be one. if the gentleman would yield to me. >> certainly. we got a pretty hard-working staff here. but i would say this, rather than wait for a whole transcript, if there's a particular piece that the gentleman is concerned about, we could have the stenographers prepare that piece for him. >> thank you. >> a whole transcript may take a while. but a particular piece we could break it out so if you would designate to the staff what you want to look at so you could formulate your question based on that, you could get it tomorrow. >> thank you, mr. chairm