House Proceeding on May 10th, 2006 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00
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Bart Stupak: author of "hostile takeover, how big money and corruption conquered our government and how to take it back." thanks for watching this edition of the "washington journal." we go live now to the floor

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Speech By: Bart Stupak

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Bart Stupak: of the house of representatives. ability to win hearts and minds. our greatest gift to mankind, the inspiration of our ideas, the greatest influence, that of moral persuasion. lord, you have allowed

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Bart Stupak: this nation the honor of being freedom's first line of defense and her last bastion of hope. grant that we might live worthy of our calling and worthy of the hope of those who have gone

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Bart Stupak: before, that we in this place might conduct ourselves with honor, courage, and integrity worthy of this great republic, worthy of the sacrifices of its citizens. amen. the speaker pro tempore:

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Bart Stupak: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of

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Bart Stupak: allegiance will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. stupak. mr. stupak: please join me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it

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Bart Stupak: stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, is recognized for one minute.

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Ted Poe: mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. ross thompson was born in scoled in 1956, and at the age of 4, his family moved to australia, where he was raised. when he was there, he became a member --

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: a christian, and in 1975, fate took his family to salisbury, rode deesha, for mission work. he worked with his father and would devote the rest of his life to saving souls. having lived the

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Ted Poe: ministry for years ross moved to the united states to study and obtain his bachelors and masters degree in theologyy. he did further postgraduate work at rice university in 1989 he married

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Ted Poe: christine, who is with us today. and moved his family to southeast texas, alice, texas, where he preached to the morning side congregation. he preached for the brooks avenue church of christ and the north

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Ted Poe: lake church of christ in atlanta, georgia. now he's currently the pulpit minister for a church in houston. christine and ross are believed with three children, josh warks savannah, and justin.

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Ted Poe: it's clear ross with his proper scottish-australian background wasn't born in texas but he got there as fast as he could. he became a u.s. citizen in 2002. one of my favorite stories about

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Ted Poe: ross was his first trip to an american grocery store. the first place he went was a southern grocery story called pigly wiggly. he didn't quite understand that concept. he's done much to preach

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Thelma D. Drake: the gospel of jesus in texas and spends time in the people business. today we welcome him here to the united states congress and worship the freedom of religion with him under the first

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Speech By: Thelma D. Drake

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Thelma D. Drake: amendment of the u.s. constitution. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain additional one-minute requests. for what purpose does the lady from virginia

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Speech By: Thelma Drake

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Thelma D. Drake: rise? mrs. drake: to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. drake: mr. speaker, i rise today to thank our local partners

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Thelma D. Drake: in helping spread the word about the new prescription drug benefit. southeastern virginia senior services, eastern shore senior services have worked very diligently to sign people up and to

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Thelma D. Drake: spread information. many of our local pharmacists, i'd like to thank them as well, have allowed people to come in, drop off their information, and return for a list of the plans that cover their

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Thelma D. Drake: drugs. remember medicare part d is a voluntary program, it is a private sector insurance plan with a reduced premium. many seniors don't need to sign up at all because their coverage is

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Peter A. DeFazio: as good or better than medicare. that would include our federal retirees, state retirees, military, and many private sector retirements. for more information, call 1-800-medicare or go

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Speech By: Peter A. DeFazio

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Speech By: Peter DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: online to www.medicare.gov or call senior services. sign up now and begin coverage in june, otherwise, you'll have to wait until january to begin this new benefit. join our over 30 million

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Peter A. DeFazio: seniors and begin saving now. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. defazio: oregon. the speaker pro tempore:

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Peter A. DeFazio: oregon. sorry. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: to address the house for one minute. he thinks everyone's from california. well, it's a big day inside the beltway

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Peter A. DeFazio: here. the long, anticipated republican tax cuts are here. the fifth of the bush presidency. you'd think with huge deficits made they'd reconsider, but no, they're plowing ahead here. and

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Peter A. DeFazio: tonight, rivers of champagne will flow in corporate boardrooms across america. under this bill we'll borrow $70 billion and immediately give $50 billion of it to wealthy investors. that's

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Peter A. DeFazio: right, we'll borrow $70 billion and give $50 billion to wealthy investors in big tax breaks for those who clip coupons off dividend-paying stocks and capital gains. a person who earns $40,000 a year,

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Sue W. Kelly: they might get a $20 break under this bill. but those who earn $5 million, $82,000 off their tax bill. it's a great country. yet, they couldn't find room in this bill for a tuition tax deduction.

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Speech By: Sue W. Kelly

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Speech By: Sue Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: they had to bump that out. these are tough times. people have to sacrifice. not the people in the boardrooms, not the wealthy investors. the middle class in america want their kids to get an

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Sue W. Kelly: education. couldn't fit it in the bill. they're discriminating against wages and salary earners, those in favor favoring investors with lower tax rates, they're borrowing the money, handing the

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Sue W. Kelly: bill to people who work for wages and salaries. i don't think they really hate wage and salary earners, they just favor the wealthy who fund their campaigns. the speaker pro tempore: for

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Sue W. Kelly: what purpose does the lady from new york rise? mrs. kelly: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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Sue W. Kelly: mrs. kelly: mr. speaker, the high gas prices and energy costs we're experiencing now demonstrate now more than ever we have to increase the urgency of achieving u.s. oil independence from

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Earl Blumenauer: foreign sources of oil. congress needs to work faster to develop new fuel choices and achieve fuel savings. i'm a co-sponsor of the fuel choices for american security act. our legislation initiates

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Speech By: Earl Blumenauer

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Earl Blumenauer: a plan to achieve u.s. oil savings of 2.5 million barrels per day by 2015. that's the amount we currently import from the mideast every day. our plan is committed to developing alternative energy

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Earl Blumenauer: sources and renewable fuels. it would create better market incentives to use the resources and technology already available here in america to develop new fuel choices and bring them to consumers

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Earl Blumenauer: faster. as long as the u.s. dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, gas prices will continue to increase as well. looking backward and using high gas prices to launch political attacks

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Earl Blumenauer: gives us no solution to the nation's energy problems. political maneuvers are not an energy policy. looking forward, by passing this bipartisan legislation, it is the correct approach to implementing

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Earl Blumenauer: the initiatives we need to tackle the nation's energy problems. let's commit ourselves to the american consumer and not to politics. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for

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Earl Blumenauer: what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? without objection. mr. blumenauer: mr. speaker, nothing spells out the political cynicism and misplaced republican priorities better than the

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Earl Blumenauer: tax bill we're about to vote upon. more assistance to the people in the top 1 slrk 10 of a percent. the over million dollar crowd will get an -- $40,000 a year for the next 10 years. but the republican

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Joe Wilson: leadership and the bush administration is playing russia roulette with the alternative minimum tax and 15.3 million families whose only sin is to pay taxes, pay their mortgage and raise their

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: families. every year more of them fall into a trap and each year the republican leadership fails to make a long-term fix a priority. they'd rather play politics with a favored few. this misguided

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Joe Wilson: priority is shameful as medicare and medicaid deficits widen and the national debt increases. the alternative minimum tax, the a.m.t., has become a a.t.m. to finance more tax cuts for

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Joe Wilson: people who need it least and put at risk 33 million american families who will fall into the a.m.t. tax trap by 2010, when the house of cards comes crashing down. the speaker pro tempore:

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Joe Wilson: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute, revise and

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James P. Moran: extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, earlier this week, the associated press reported from baghdad that recently discovered al qaeda and iraq

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Speech By: James P. Moran

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James P. Moran: documents demonstrate the terrorists are concerned about disorganization within their cells in the capital area. with one extremist describing them as simply a daily annoyance to the iraqi government, and

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James P. Moran: one document a terrorist complains the americans and the iraqi government forces were able to absorb our painful blows, raise new recruits, and take control of baghdad as well as other areas,

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James P. Moran: one after the other. another terrorist also complained that the strength of the brothers in baghdad is based mostly on car bombs and groups of assassins, lacking any organized military capabilities.

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James P. Moran: these documents demonstrate that courageous american troops and iraqi security forces are breaking the will of the terrorists in iraq to protect american families. in conclusion, god bless

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James P. Moran: our troops, and we will never forget september 11. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: i ask unanimous consent to address the house

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Ric Keller: for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. moran: mr. speaker, today's record gas prices are the direct result of five years of failed policies by the bush administration

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Speech By: Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: and this republican congress who seem to be more interested in giving still more tax breaks to oil executives than providing real relief to american consumers. and rather than proposing

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Ric Keller: policies that would aggressively confront our energy challenges, republicans are once again pushing to drill in the alaskan national wildlife refuge. they neglect to say drilling in anwr would not

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Ric Keller: be possible for another decade and would only provide about six months' of oil for the american consumer. house republicans are also suggesting waiving environmental laws to encourage new

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refinery construction, but all of the major oil companies have already testified that environmental laws are not what is preventing them from building more refineries. it's more personally profitable

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Mike Pence: to pay out lower tax dividends than invest retained earnings in refineries. so along with a silly $100 rebate, this is another proposal from house republicans that will do nothing to reduce

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Speech By: Mike Pence

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Mike Pence: prices at the pump today. but the american consumer is beginning to realize it's time to try something new. it's time for a change in leadership. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does

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Mike Pence: the gentleman from florida rise? mr. keller: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. keller: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last week's street

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Mike Pence: protests revealed a lot about the hypocrisy of mexico. with a great deal of bluster and self-righteousness, the protesters objected to the house-approved border security bill. they said it was

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Mike Pence: too harsh, they said it was draconian, they said we shouldn't criminalize 11 million illegal immigrants, they said instead we should give them amnesty and citizenship. they waved their mexican

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Mike Pence: flags with great pride. well, a new study just released by the law library of congress reveals that, in fact, mexico itself is far harsher on illegal immigrants than the united states.

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Mike Pence: for example, in mexico, it's a felony, punishable by two years in prison merely to be an illegal immigrant. in contrast to giving them citizenship, mexico actually deported 250,000 illegal

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Mike Pence: immigrants last year. mexico even put their military soldiers on their southern border to stop illegals from coming into mexico from guatemala. hypocrisy has crossed the border. it makes you

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Mike Pence: wonder, were they protesting the wrong country last week? i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? mr. stupak:

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Mike Pence: to address the house for within minute disturb one minute and i ask unanimous consent -- one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. stupak:

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Loretta Sanchez: last week i held town halls and i put on over 400 miles as i traveled from small town to small town to meet with my constituents. the number one concern of my constituents was was the extremely

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Speech By: Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: high price of gasoline. my constituents can't afford to drive the distances necessary to go to and from work. my constituents know and cannot afford the $50 to fill their gas tank. my constituents

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Loretta Sanchez: know that my pump legislation, prevent unfair manipulating of price, would end the speculation in the pricing of a barrel of oil. my constituents know the legislation would reduce the

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Loretta Sanchez: cost of a barrel of oil by $20. and would lower the cost of the gas at the pump by 1/3. we could do that today. my constituents also know that president bush and the rubber stamm republican

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Loretta Sanchez: controlled congress will not allow -- rubber stamp republican controlled congress will not allow a vote on my legislation. let's lower gas prices today. let's lower it by bringing down

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Loretta Sanchez: the pump legislation for a vote in this who is and do the people's work instead of the oil company's work. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana

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Joseph R. Pitts: rise? mr. pence: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: mr. speaker, this weekend

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Speech By: Joseph R. Pitts

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Joseph R. Pitts: i had the privilege of leading a delegation of republicans and democrats to operation iraqi freedom. despite what you see on television, there's a lot of good news in iraq thanks to american

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Joseph R. Pitts: coalition forces and the good people of iraq. we were in mosul, the ancient site of the city of niniva, and mostle was a year ago a flame of violence, today it's secure thanks to the 101st

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Joseph R. Pitts: airborne but also thanks to a local iraqi police chief who is leading 1,500 police into the streets daily to capture insurgents. we also met with the new prime minister who told us of his plans

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Joseph R. Pitts: to appoint a cabinet maybe as soon as this week. a clear agenda for stabilizing his country. he greeted us with the words, welcome to a new iraq. it will be our hope and our prayer that the american

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Jim McDermott: people will stand with the good people of iraq to see freedom's fruition in that ancient land. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the lady from california rise?

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Speech By: Jim McDermott

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Jim McDermott: ms. sanchez: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. sanchez: thank you, mr. speaker. our country's facing an increasing nursing shortage and currently

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Jim McDermott: in california we are one of the 30 states that faces significant shortages in full-time registered nurses. but by the year 2020, 44 states are expected to have significant nurse shortages. we

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Jim McDermott: are going to need more than 400,000 new nurses nationwide. we need to take immediate action to recruit and retain nurses for our nation's medical facilities, and address this critical shortage.

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Tom Price: today i'm introducing the nurse loan forgiveness act of 2006. this bill will help recruit and retain more nurses by providing financial incentives for students to enroll in and complete nursing

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Speech By: Tom Price

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Tom Price: programs. it would forgive up to $17,000 in federal loans over a five-year period for people who have been working for at least a year as a full-time registered furs. -- nurse. it's time for