ms. moore: mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. hartzler, for five minutes. mrs. hartzler: thank you, mr. speaker. only in washington can you hear people say that it's irresponsible to balance a budget. i actually heard democratic leaders on tv this weekend complaining that it would require a supermajority vote to raise taxes on american people but only a majority to cut spending. maybe some people have been in washington too long to realize it, but the american people want to tie washington's hands and make it easier to cut spending than raise taxes. they want to cap the growth of government. they want to require a balanced budget. for decades we have heard excuses for why washington's special and shouldn't be forced to balance its budget. it's time to tell those people that their scare tactics are over. this is a new day. in america the people are solve ers and today the people demand accountability. they demand a responsible constrained

ms. moore: mr. speaker, i had breakfast this morning. i had granola and yogurt, a little fruit, egg and bacon sandwich, and i'm feeling irritable because i didn't have my coffee. and i'm looking forward to a delicious lunch that i planned at about noontime. but in the meantime, on the horn of africa, 11 million people are facing starvation and not because they're lazy people or unworthy people but because they're suffering from the biggest drought that they have seen in 60 years, because they're experiencing flooding, because there are people who stepped away from the loving care that we usually extend to other of our brothers and sisters, others who are human beings on this planet. tens of thousands of people will die. there is an official famine that's been called by the united nations. for those of you who know what a famine is, it's not when you don't have a particular thing like me. i didn't have my particular coffee this morning. famine exists when at least 20% of the population has extremely limited access to food. global acute ma

ms. moore. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. i am a little bit interested, mr.holtz-eakin in the mere call you -- miracle. i do agree with you there's an unfunded liability, and how you might reconcile this. you stipulate health care costs in general, not just in medicare must grow more slowly which is something i've been harping on continue sly. it's not gist medicare, but the larger health care costs that must grow, but you say that the ipab is dangerous, that it stifles innovation, and, you know, so i guess your suggestion is that we shouldn't limit the cost in the growth of innovation that that would be, and, you know, we do need innovation, and this -- the ipab targets that, and many of us allege that, yes, this huge gap between the cost of innovation and all of that will be born by seniors, it's trillions of dollars if you support, for example, the republican plan for medicare with targets to seniors. i'm asking you to respond to how you see us limiting the cost of health care and also maintaining innovation. a little bit more interested in the miracle. >>

holt, the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore. we are being very moderate here. we are not saying don't give the pentagon any more money. this amendment reduces by 50% the increase for the pentagon. we are accepting $8.5 billion. by the way, this does not affect the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it just occurred to me, maybe this was said earlier, the budget for afghanistan, which we refuse to cut reluctantly, regret plea, was voted out of the committee before the president announced a 10,000 troop reduction. i think the president was kidding he would bring down 10,000 troops, we funded 10,000 troops that won't be there next year. that's a problem. we're saying to the pentagon, you find it. don't cut military personnel, don't cut health but perhaps some of the bases we maintain overseas, some of the subsidies we give to nato, lip services paid here to an alliance in which the budget is based. unfortunately, mr. chairman, i have to say it's trivial. the obama administration and members of the appropriations committee, the armed services committee, they are the ena

i'd like to yield now to the gentlelady from west virginia, ms. moore capito. mrs. capito: thank you. i'd like to thank my colleagues here today for the opportunity to talk about something that is extremely important to every woman in america, every person in america. it's really not a man or a woman thing or a child or a grandparent thing, it's all of us. and so i look at things a lot of times, i think like a lot of people. i kind of try to put my own life filter over what's going on here. and i have elderly parents who are having some bumpy roads with their health and i just today for the very first time had my only and most beautiful granddaughter with me today on the house floor. and i realized, she has $45,000 worth of national debt on her head and then i think about my parents trying to manage their health care, manage their finances in their senior years, have they prepared enough, did they make the right choices? and i think about all of that in between generation of which i am and i know that we want to make the right choices for ourselves, too so, that whe

ms. borden said, i found it to be more family-oriented and a nice dining space. could look for your -- good luck with your new home. >> on the motion to approve -- commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner borden: aye. president olague: aye. >> the motion passes 6-0. which places to under the following matters. president olague: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president miguel: i move adoption of the draft minutes of the regular meeting. >> second. >> on a motion to approve -- commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. president olague: aye. . >> that motion passes unanimously. president olague commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: there was a really good article in the sunday's "examiner," and it analyzes why many families are leaving san francisco. you think gabriels when it was the largest school west of the mississippi. and what we found were people with families are not far away in the san mateo county and marin county. the pacific has a lot of previous residence for the sunset. what is interesting is he talks about many of these same issues we talk about here all the time -- difficulty with cond

ms but he's really swallowing dope. >> it gets smaller every year, which shows we're doing a really good job over here. >> most of the drugs getting into corcoran arrive through visitation. but for inmates like de moore hill conjugal visits are what keep him out of trouble in the first place. >> my wife come on fridays, you got to be 90 days clean. i would lose my friday visit and six months clean to get another family visit and depending on the circumstances, dealing with drugs, a sticking or something like that, you can go a year or two without a family visit. so a lot i can lose. i would never want to lose my wife and kids and here over some nonsense. i try to do everything i can in a positive way to stay out of the way. >> today, hill's good behavior has earned him another conjugal visit with his wife. >> i go spend time with my wife for a couple days. it's hard to get that privilege, be a lot of stuff going on. fights every day or something. if i have family visits i wouldn't be as careful as i am today. it feels like you're free for a couple days. you're sitting in that two-bedroom apartment it's like you're at your own house. just can't go outside, like a junior high school kid on punishment.