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Daniel Coughlin: and they all add up to a sense of direction. we move along a path in our personal lives and we set a path for this nation. guide us every step of the way, lord. representatives of the united states congress hold the hopes

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Speech By: Daniel Coughlin

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Daniel Coughlin: and perspectives as constituents and bring them to light on the floor of the house to make daily decisions. they take all this into account, and yet they are appointed to be the ones to decide what is most need for the nation.

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Daniel Coughlin: grant them prudence, patience and perseverance. we ask this calling upon your holy name now and forever. amen. the --?7 the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined of the last day's proceedings

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Daniel Coughlin: and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands a the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett. mr. garrett: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it

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stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington rise? mr. mcmorris rodgers: i send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the

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clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 277, resolved, that the following member is and is hereby elected to the following standing committee, committee on the budget, mr. latta. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the motion is agreed to and -- and is laid

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Loretta Sanchez: on the time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: withou objection, the gentlelady is recognized. ms. sanchez: mr. speaker, the president has sent his budget proposal to the congress, and for the next few weeks we will debate it. but let's keep to the facts in debating it.

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Speech By: Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: there have been partisan attacks that claim that president obama's budget will raise taxes on small businesss. in fact, the president's budget eliminates the capital gains tax for individuals on the sale of certain small business stock and makes the research and experimentation tax credit permanent.

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Loretta Sanchez: these proposals will spur investment and innovation to help small businesss. these are the job creating engines of our economy. and nowhere else but in califo prominently working in this economy to build those jobs we so desperately need.

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Loretta Sanchez: 97% of all small businesses will not see their taxes increase in 2010. what else is in the budget for small businesses? $28 billion in loan guarantees to expand credit availability for small businesses at a time when it is really need.

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Ted Poe: and support for the loans for homes and homebuyers. thank you, mr. speaker. i yiel the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe: mr. speaker, over the last few years, numerous

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: reporters in the united states have been suspend about their confidential sources. prosecutors hear about a story that a news reporter covers regarding scandal, corruption, crimes or cover-ups and then has them subpoenaed before the grand jury. the purpose of the grand jury investigation is to find out who gave such information to the reporter with the goal of bringing the confidential source before the grand jury to testify.

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Ted Poe: most states protect journalists from having to reveal that source. however, there is no federal law to shield the confidential sources. the protection of the source's eye departmentity is important because without such a guarantee sources will be fearful of possible reprisals will if they reveal the information. thus, the public will not know about the information. with a few exceptions,

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Ted Poe: prosecutors should not depend on reporters and their sources to root out crime. if whistleblowers and reporters are protected by a shield law, the public's right to know will be enhanced by the free flow of information. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for wh purpose does the

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Ted Poe: gentleman from missouri ri >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. carnahan: thank you, mr. sp i'm proud of the work congress and the president have accomplished in just over two

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months. expanded health care for 11 million children, assistance to families to maintain their health coverage through cobra, investments in safe and cost savings electronic health care records. some naysayers claim tt the president and congress are doing too much too soon. but we cannot fix our economy without fixing our broken health care system. and that's why i'm here today

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to mark cover the uninsured week and the call to action, action to achieve comprehensive health care reform, not next year, not in four years but this year. we have over 45 million individuals who lack health insurance in this country. $56 billion in unpaid bills are driving up the cost of insurance for everyone.

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this bl will help businesses create jobs and put our country on a sound financial footing. now is the tim comprehensive health care reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. garrett: to address the house r one minute. the speaker pro tempore:

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without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. garrett: during the last campaign, hillary clinton said she had a million good ideas. she probably never thought she would be outbid by this new administration that has a million bad ideas that will cost taxpayers literally trillions of dollars. this current budget spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. it spends too much and it's coming up to be $2.3 trillion more than the white house even

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estimated a short time ago. every hardworking household will see their energy prices go . it borrows too much because it's going to increase the debt on taxpayers across this country. right now it stands around $35,000 per capita. it's going to double in eight years to around $70,000. you know, americans were voti

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G. K. Butterfield: for a change. i think at the end they were than this. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. butterfield: i ask for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized.

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Speech By: G. K. Butterfield

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G. K. Butterfield: mr. butterfield: mr. speaker, the recession is real. in my home state of north carolina we have 100 counties all of them experienced an increase in unemployment during the month of january. 72 of the 100 counties had a 10% or higher rate of unemployment. across my district, 23 counties, we now have an average unemployment rate of 11.2%, the highest county is 15.6%. that is unacceptable. these numbers are staggering

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G. K. Butterfield: and people are hurting. weust remember, mr. speaker, that we have met these challenges before and we will meet this challenge now. north carolina will benefit from about $6 billion as part of the stimulus package, which will create or save 105,000 much-needed jobs. i'm further encouraged by the president's effort to ease the

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G. K. Butterfield: credit squeeze afflicting small businesses by buying up to $15 billion of securities that are linked to small business. this speaker, in encouraging lenders

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Joseph R. Pitts: to make money more available to entrepreneurs and small businesss. i encouraged the president to continue with his economic recovery. i yield back. gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. pitts: i ask permission to address the house r one minute. the speaker pro without objection, the

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: gentleman is recognized. mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. as you can see here in this graph what the president called gyrations of the stock market, in february of 2008, a year ago, the dow jones industrial average sat at just 13,000 points just before congress passed the so-called rebate check package worth $168 billion of borrowed money. speaker pelosi said, quote, this package gets money into the hands of americans struggling to make ends meet

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Joseph R. Pitts: and stimulates our slowing economy, end quote. yet, since then the mart has lost nearly half its value. that's trillions of dollars in wealth wiped up in one year from retirement accounts and savings of hardworking families across america. the rebate package a year ago was the first in many attempts to borrow and spend our way out

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Joseph R. Pitts: of the situation. here we have the $300 billion housing bailout. $200 billion in freddie and fannie -- fannie and freddie mac. $700 billion in tarp funds.

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Ed Perlmutter: look at the drop after that. $14 billion auto bailout. $787 billion. our actions have consequences. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. perlmutter: to address the house the speaker pro tempore:

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Speech By: Ed Perlmutter

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Ed Perlmutter: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. perlmutter: i listen to my friends on the other side of the aisle. they forget in their kind of revising history. it's the republican president and republican congress that drove this country into the ditch financially and economically. and what we've got to do is change the course of this nation. that's what the president is

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Ed Perlmutter: undertaking to do by providing small business with tax credits with assistance as to funding of their particular projects because that's where the real engine of our economy is is in small businesss. so last week the president announced various initiatives to assist small business, to make credit available to them for their various proje purchase their loans so that

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Ed Perlmutter: they can go forward, so small banks can make loans to small businesss. this president is making available to 95% of us tax credits so for 95% of the american public they will see their taxes go down. so my friends on the other side of the aisle forget the history

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Ed Perlmutter: that brought us here. the republican administration by giving tax cuts to the wealthiest while prosecuting a war put us in a very difficult position, but we will get it of this nation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the mr. kirk: to address the house for one minute and to revise

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Ed Perlmutter: and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. kirk: mr. speaker, political liberty is founded on economic liberty, and history teaches that liberties are attacked during a crisis. the white house chief of staff

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has said never pass up an opportunity inside a crisis. secretary geithner wants congress to give the executive branch authority to seize any financial institution in america. it is an awesome power that will be quickly abused. after just one federal reserve board vote among all presidential appointees. no judge would rule, no vote of

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the congress would happen. this is a historic lunge for power. americans remember that it was government agencies, fannie mae and freddie mac, that caused this crisis. i am from chicago so i know about government abuse and corruption. we should reject geithner's

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John Yarmuth: tuneistic thrust for control or rue is congress when it gave only one branch of this government such corruptal economic authority. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the mr. yarmuth: request permission to address the house for one nute. the speaker pro tempore:

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Speech By: John Yarmuth

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John Yarmuth: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, we are in very serious economic times, unprecedented challenges confront this country. it is a time when we need all hands unfortunately, all we've heard from the other side of the aisle is hyperbole. we're spending too muc we're not doing this, we're not doing that. we need ideas, the best in

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John Yarmuth: america has always come because of a conflict of ideas, because of ideas converging and taking the best and assimilating them into policies that benefit all americans. we're not getting the help we need from our republican colleagues. again, we need all hands on deck. just this sunday one of the republican members was on a national talk show and said,

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John Yarmuth: our faith in god is going to get us through this. well, maybe it will, but faith in god, as important as it is, is not an economic policy. we need the best that america has to offer from al america. i invite my republican

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Dennis R. Rehberg: colleagues to participate in this debate and help us get us out of this economic challenge. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does th gentleman from montana rise? mr. rehberg: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro teore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. rehberg: mr. speaker, each year there are two things that

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Speech By: Dennis R. Rehberg

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Dennis R. Rehberg: can get in the way of thousands of visitors seeking the picturesque vistas of montana and all that it has to offer. high energy pr the trip too expensive and a blanket of smoke from out-of-control wildfires. i've introduced legislation that brings some montana common sense to those problems by literally harnessing the forest fire to generate electricity.

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Dennis R. Rehberg: you see, nature wants the fires to burn in order to preserve a healthy forest while man tes to continue to put them out. when we interfere with nature we wind up with an overgrown forest that burn hotter and longer, wasting a potential renewable energy source. my bill restores these forests to a more healthy and natural density while using the excess

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Dennis R. Rehberg: wood to create biomass energy.

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Chris Murphy: joining me in cosponsoring h.r. 11 to reduce the cost of wildfires and the cost of energy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does th gentleman from connecticut >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. another health care myth.

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Speech By: Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy: if we reform our health care systems, patients will lose choice. again, this is simply not true. first, it begs the question, what choice do patients have today? in america we have choice but too often it lies not with a doctor or fashte but with the insurance company. patients are denied physician-prescribed treatment, doctors are denied reimbursement for necessary care.

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Chris Murphy: and increasingly restrictive networks of coverage means restricted choice for patients. and a survey shows that no one's talking about limiting patient choice. in fact, a publicly sponsored plan with a potential network of m likely have one of the most robust nworks and providers in a system since they would want and need to have access to a large pool of patients.

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Chris Murphy: and it allows families to decide whether they want to continue with their private

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Erik Paulsen: insurance plan or move to a publicly sponsored plan that might provide better coverage due to lower administrative costs. limiting patient choice is just another myth about our health care system. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. petersen: we will not recover from this recession unless small business leads the

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Speech By: Erik Paulsen

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Erik Paulsen: way by growing jobs. a small business owner from my district, paul robinson of sterling critical product, was in washington last week. the message he has for congress is we need to provide incentives and access to capital for small business, and we need to make sure no job killing tax increases are added to burden. the $1.4 trillion tax increase

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Erik Paulsen: on the table in the current budget proposal would drive a stake into the heart of our nation's job creators. the proposal to raise taxes on asset creation by up to 33% would drive badly needed capital and keep them from creating jobs. my c within their means and they are cutting expenses. they expect washington to do the same. but this budget spends too much,

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Erik Paulsen: it taxes too much, and it boros too much. in these difficult times, we smand -- demand solution that is pupeople back to work. let's reject these job killing

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Jim Costa: tax increases and grow jobs now by supporting small business owners like paul. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: witho objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. costa: mr. speaker, i rise today to call upon the congress to reform our health care system. it's important. 46 million americans currently have no health care insurance,

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Speech By: Jim Costa

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Jim Costa: yet health care costs have risen dramatically in years. insurance premiums in california have rose at a rate more than twice the rate of inflation. eating up larger and larger percentage of household incomes. with recent economic downturn, far too many families are losing their employer-based coverage and unable to afford the care of health care on their own.

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Jim Costa: like it or not, we taxpayers are paying for the health care in some of the most expensive ways possible through the emergency room for those who are uninsured. last year, hospitals in my district provided nearly $200 million in uncompensated care. clin nics our central valley alone have provided care for over 600,000 who have little insurance or none at all. this system cannot and should

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Jim Costa: not continue. the bottom line is we are paying for the uninsured today, the 46 million americans who do not ha insurance. we ought to do it in a better way.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: our citizens health and nation's fiscal health depend on meaningful reform. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house f minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. lungren: thank you very much, mr. speaker. yesterday the alma mater, notre dame, father jenkins explained his decision to give president obama an hon

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Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: rarery degree in spite of his opposition to the culture of life expressed by tt university and the catholic church. he explained it as an invitation to dialogue with the president. let us hope so. let us hope there is a dialogue on the president's support for partial-birth abortion. on his opposition to the born alive baby legislation. on his reversal of the mexico city polcy.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: on his support of federal funding for embryonic stem cells when announcing it he gave the back of the hand to the catholic moral teaching. and evitiating the federal regulations guaranteeing the conscience clause aimed at catholic hospitals, doctors, and nurses. will this be an invitation to dialogue? will the commencement address be

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Diane E. Watson: an opportunity for the president to question his prior god only knows. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? ms. watson: to address the house for one minute. the spea objection. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. watson: mr. speaker, this is cover the uninsured week, march

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Speech By: Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: 22 to the 29th. and i call for enactment of comprehensive health care reform this year. reforming the nation's care system to lower costs, improve quality, increase coverage, and preserve choice is a top priority for congress and the president. our nation's health care system