homes do we really need and nor to get a sense for that i look at this data series from the united states census bureau and this is house of information and if you are young couple getting a first house or an individual who's you know, living in school and getling their first detriment ask a forms the horizontal line going through there is the average from 1961 to 2,000 and leaves out the last deck a i did ask so it says how many newer homes do we really need here and it's one and a quarter million and so may be between one and a quart million and one and-a-half million is where we aught to be and so now i'm going to backup and go to the previous slide and if this was penciled in here it would be a horizontal line through this graph and we would find that we were building way too much at the height of the bubble and so where are we going from here we are going back to one and a quarter or one and-a-half million or so overt course of next five years and considering we have been at 600,000 or so, if we go to one .2 million that is a double in the pace of reconstruction activity the and twice as many fram

in 2013, a study by the united states census bureau in columbus, ohio, women are paid 81 cents for every dollar paid to men. this amounts to a yearly gap of $9,261 between men and women who work full-time. equal work, it's simple, deserves equal pay. i'm proud that the first piece of legislation that president obama signed into law during his first term was the lilly ledbetter act. i rise for all the lilly ledbetters in hope that the wage workers in this country will be equal regardless of sex or gender and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker very much and i ask unanimous consent that members may have five days to submit statements into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. so ordered. ms. jackson lee: thank you so very much for the opportunity to discuss with my colleagues a pending action in the united states congress and a plea for

the changing racial demographics of the united states, the ideas as the census bureau has predicted,hat whites will lose their majority by about 2043. of course at the very same time, in the fall of 2008 action we saw the collapse of the economy beginning, of course, with the subprime crisis, so that really added fuel to the fire, made people angry, afraid, concerned, feeling like the country they lived in was not the country they grew up in, and so on. i think those are the two main things. the debate that began about gun control i think clearly has raised the temperature even more. sirchlts we just spent the last half hour talking about the fabric of american society being woven even tighter in times of tragedy, but can't forget about the fact that there are certain pockets about deep dissatisfaction. >> we're on two tracks in this country. if you go back to when i was a kid or a young man, we're in a much better place now racially than we were back then. on the other hand you have a proliferation of these groups. because of the changing demographics, and that sort of thing. one of