ms. delauro: i thank the speaker and, mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. delauro: i, too, want to compliment my colleague and friend and ranking member, mr. kingston. i think we have worked together on a bipartisan basis with regard to this piece of legislation and i think we both feel that we've had a lot of sufficient input and we have come through this with identifying the needs that this agriculture

ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. ms. delauro: i appreciate the gentleman yielding time and i rise in support of this rule. i think it's clear from the debate and the discussion that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would rather put their support with banks, maintain banks as the middle men in this effort, and banks making money hand over fist and enormous profits and cast their lot with banks versus casting their lot with students and their families. education is the cornerstone of our republic. it is only by offering and delivering quality education for all of our citizens from the earliest years to college years that we can live up to our most noble democratic principles and ensure freedom and equality. that we make opportunity real for each and every america and that we continue to lead the world to economic security and lasting prosperity. as president obama said last week and i quote, countries that outeducate us today will out compete us tomorrow. . but today, as we struggle from a debalance tating reces

ms. delauro: i thank the gentleman. i would just with the remaining few comments, because i think we have had a conversation, discussion about this, i'll focus my attention on this particular piece of legislation and i understand the gentleman is talking about other areas, but i think that this is particularly, and maybe unique in the sense of the kind of efforts that have gone in to make this a very open process, a process where people are knowledgeable about what they're doing, and how they're doing it, and what kinds of inputs have gone in and again, there are not too many folks around here, whether they're from north, south, east, or west, there are folks from the northeast who care about animal and plant disease, there are folks on the west coast, east coast, that care about dairy. there are people who have expressed their views who are on the committee, off the committee, with regard to our settling the issue of the chinese poultry. i think everyone has had a very adequate amount of time to look at this and to be