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ms. kaptur of ohio. insert increase by $10 million. ms. kaptur: i ask that the amendment be considered as read. the chair: is there objection? the gentleman from new jersey. >> point of order. we want to know which amendment they are talking about. the clerk: after the dollar amount insert reduced by $10 million. page 32, line 3, insert reduced by $10 million. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman from's amendment. the chair: a point of order is reserved and the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: yes. madam chair, i made a statement a little bit earlier regarding this amendment which aims to help restore energy security, economic security and environmental security of our nation by focusing on the future, and it essentially shifts a very modest amount of funds, $10 million, from the administrative costs within the department of energy to help restore funds to solar energy research and development within the energy efficiency and renewable energy program. sadly, the bill overall moves
ms. kaptur of ohio. insert increase by $10 million. ms. kaptur: i ask that the amendment be considered as read. the chair: is there objection? the gentleman from new jersey. >> point of order. we want to know which amendment they are talking about. the clerk: after the dollar amount insert reduced by $10 million. page 32, line 3, insert reduced by $10 million. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman from's amendment. the chair: a point of order is reserved and the...
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ms. kaptur of ohio. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, the amount otherwise provided by this act are revised by reducing the amount made available for department of energy, energy programs, departmental administration and by increasing the amount made available for department of energy, energy programs, energy efficiency, and renewable energy except for program direction by $10 million. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of today, the gentlewoman from ohio and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from ohio. ms. kaptur: yes, mr. chairman, i offer this amendment to help promote a dynamic energy market in america through continued development of our budding solar industry. my amendment, conservatively, would cut, actually transfer, $10 million from administrative costs within the department of energy and shift those to solar energy research and development within the energy efficiency and renewable energy
ms. kaptur of ohio. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, the amount otherwise provided by this act are revised by reducing the amount made available for department of energy, energy programs, departmental administration and by increasing the amount made available for department of energy, energy programs, energy efficiency, and renewable energy except for program direction by $10 million. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of today, the...
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ms. kaptur of ohio. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: the yeas are 212. the nays are 210. the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for recorded vote on the first amendment offered by the gentleman from arizona, mr. flake, on which further proceedings were postponed on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignates the amendment. the clerk: first amendment offered by mr. flake of arizona. the chair: recorded vote has been requested. those in support of a request for recorde
ms. kaptur of ohio. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for...
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ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: yes, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, too often congress and washington deals with symptoms, not underlying causes, and that's what's going on with this current debate about the debt limit. it's kind of like you have an ill patient that has a fever and you say, well, you know, they're sick. throw some water on the patient and their fever will go down, but you never deal with the underlying infection, the underlying cause that is tripping the fever in the first place. let me put a little math on the table here this morning as we look at the current economic challenge. when you have 14 million americans out of work and up to 24 million who are working part time or they've completely dropped out of the work force, they're not earning a check. money's not being taken out of that check to pay for their social insurance for social security. it's not going to pay the regular taxes so the go
ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: yes, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, too often congress and washington deals with symptoms, not underlying causes, and that's what's going on with this current debate about the debt limit. it's kind of like you have an ill patient that has a fever and you say, well, you know, they're sick. throw some water on the patient and their fever will...
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ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, you know, almost no one in washington is talking about jobs. for two months now, both chambers of the congress have been locked down talking about the debt ceiling. meanwhile, if you look back at the bush years, america lost over eight million jobs in the largest recession since the great depression and we've only gotten back about two million. two million. creating jobs at about 120,000 per month that is far from where we need to head. but rather than this congress engaging in intelligent dialogue on how to create jobs, we keep going down these side roads to nowhere. to no with. -- to nowhere. meanwhile, unemployment went up another 10,000 jobs. every member in both chambers will be judged on not doing the work the people want us to do. and that is to focus on how to use the power of the federal government to create squobs. if you take a look at what the republican majority in the house wants to do, they want to cut unemployment benefits. that's not even understandable to an
ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, you know, almost no one in washington is talking about jobs. for two months now, both chambers of the congress have been locked down talking about the debt ceiling. meanwhile, if you look back at the bush years, america lost over eight million jobs in the largest recession since the great depression and we've only gotten back about two million. two million. creating jobs at about 120,000 per month that is far from where we need to head. but...
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ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you. madam speaker, america's so-called spending problem directly relates to unemployment. revenues just aren't growing fast enough because of unemployment. yet washington, d.c., is tied in knots over raising the debt limit. how much more america has to borrow because our economy isn't growing fast enough to put millions of americans back to work? but you can't balance a budget unless people are working. because unemployment equals loss of revenues and deficits. people know this. when they are out of work, they have deficits in their own family. they have to cut become. our local cool school systems have to cut back because we know revenues aren't there. and certainly our nation has to cut back when the revenues aren't coming in. but many inside washington, d.c., have their eye on the effect not on the cause of our predicament. the principle cause of deficits is unemployment. triggered by what? triggered first by wall street corruption and greed? triggered by growing trade deficits which i
ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you. madam speaker, america's so-called spending problem directly relates to unemployment. revenues just aren't growing fast enough because of unemployment. yet washington, d.c., is tied in knots over raising the debt limit. how much more america has to borrow because our economy isn't growing fast enough to put millions of americans back to work? but you can't balance a budget unless people are working. because unemployment equals loss of...
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ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you, mr. speaker. the republican majority has once again proven its complete irresponsibility by putting our economy at risk and handling our nation's finances. a little over a decade ago there were projected surpluses as far as the eye could see. and the nation was on firm financial footing. that was before the george w. bush administration and the republicans took us on a spending spree, paying out trillions in huge tax cuts, skewed to, guess who? the top 2%, the wealthy. and they killed jobs. the last month that gorge bush was in -- george bush was in office we lost 700,000 jobs just in that month. they plunged the nation during that decades into two wars they refused to pay for. . history tells the story. then came the big collapse that included a loss in federal revenues that followed the largest economic downturn since the great depression due to george bush's capitulation to wall street abuse. now, republicans claim to care about the federal deficit. yes, revenues have shrunk by about $400 billi
ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you, mr. speaker. the republican majority has once again proven its complete irresponsibility by putting our economy at risk and handling our nation's finances. a little over a decade ago there were projected surpluses as far as the eye could see. and the nation was on firm financial footing. that was before the george w. bush administration and the republicans took us on a spending spree, paying out trillions in huge tax cuts, skewed to, guess...
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ms. kaptur: i rise against this rule and the underlying bill as inartful dodges. when a patient is weak, do you pull out their feeding tubes or let them get stronger? when they have trouble breathing, do you shut off their oxygen machines? this economy is hampered by two wars and tax cuts to the rich who didn't create jobs with it. what does the majority do to the patient? they pull out the tubes and they now shove them down the elevator chute. no political party has tried to hurt america when she is recovering by edging toward default. it's already caused hundreds of billions of losses in the stock market, pension funds, annuities, social security and medicare checks are threatened and jobs are stalled because of the uncertainty in the market. america needs a congress and president that focuses on economic recovery and job creation. to the lewd oneself otherwise is to take one's self down a proverbial back hole. these amendment trucely dodge the real question which is full economic recovery for the people this country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the g
ms. kaptur: i rise against this rule and the underlying bill as inartful dodges. when a patient is weak, do you pull out their feeding tubes or let them get stronger? when they have trouble breathing, do you shut off their oxygen machines? this economy is hampered by two wars and tax cuts to the rich who didn't create jobs with it. what does the majority do to the patient? they pull out the tubes and they now shove them down the elevator chute. no political party has tried to hurt america when...