ning. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cantor: thank you and i yield to the majority leader. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want the members to understand the context in which we find ourselves. i have indicated, and i've had discussions with both mr. boehner and mr. cantor and mr. lewis with reference to the appropriation bill that none of us like the omnibus appropriation bills. in order to pass appropriation bills individually, you have to take appropriately significant time. but if you take so much time that you can't possibly get them done, then you are left at the end of the day with an omnibus appropriation bill, which nobody likes. in discussions with mr. boehner and mr. cantor and mr. lewis, mr. obey and i have tried to come to an agreement. on time constraints. there was a discussion on the floor during the course of the rule between mr. obey and mr. lewis with respect to the time constraints and at that point in time, that was not possible. subsequent to that, there were further discussions bet

six nings, one run on four hits.alks and the orioles only made him pa for one of those, as he walked the lead-off man in the first, second and thel face luke scott salazar and matt witr he in the orioles 7th. >>im p.: don't you think he's pitching the way he's pitched all june? >> rob: even going back farther, when he started to really step up as the acof the staff, there was a couple ogames where he was getting 3 and 4 double plays in the game. sometimes he'd stay out there and give up his first win of the season, he gave up six runs early. stayed out there for six, seven innings and we ended up coming back when the offense s clicking and he got his first win. i truly feel a lot of people talk about, your job as a starter is to try to win the ballgame for your team. forget about your stats or anything. go as long and as hard as youly >> jim p.: yeah, you beat the guy that you're pitching against. after watching you last couple of years pitched well against the nationals, play win. >> bob: high drive, right ce

looking at it and seeing the other branches aren't working, this issue is thet ning to destroy the country and i'm going to solve it. i'm the only one who can, and he more or less took it upon himself to leave the court into a resolution of those issues that were dividing the country and in a broadway that really had no basis in a proper reading of the constitution, and in a decision that could have been resolved either way on much narrower grounds, which would have preserved the court above the fray. i mean, i don't think it could have avoideded the civil war. i'm not suggesting that. i'm suggesting that the court as an ip stiewtion could have played a more effective goal in the crisis if it hasn't suffered this self-inflicted wound. i think when you look at marbury for the message you can draw about the necessity of one, developing a broad degree of consensus office court speaking as a court, approaching the case in narrow grounds, rather than heaping right away to the broad ones. avoiding politicization. i mean, you have to remember that democratic republicans and jeffersonians were jus

skelton in that as this ning goes to conference or as it works its way through the other body. i thank you, i thank chairman skelton. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from south carolina, my friend, my colleague, gentleman who is the chairman of the committee on the budget, mr. spratt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for three minutes. mr. spratt: madam chair, i commend the gentleman for bringing this bill to the floor and rise in strong support of the disabled military retirement relief act of 2009. this bill accomplishes several important things. it enhances the benefits of federal civil certificate have i retirees. it extends the bonuses available to our military recruiters to ensure they have the tools needed for recruitment and retention. most importantly this bill restores the benefits earned by a group of veterans who are particularly deserving