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sometimes, and i do hope that you liked the conditions here. we are glad to see you here in russia and in st. petersburg. the more the better. thank you very far. -- thank you very much. the speaker

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the chaplain. chaplain coughlin: eternal god and father of all, source of life and health, keep us fit and able to accomplish

Loretta Sanchez

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Speech By: Loretta Sanchez

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: your holy will and all the trafficking of a busy day. no secret is hidden from you for every human soul is open to you. you are attentive to every prayer and know the beat of every wish that

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: springs from a sincere heart. lord, grant congress good judgment and the president divine guidance that peace and reconciliation may flourish upon the earth. we ask this calling upon your holy

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: name both now and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge will be led by the gentlewoman from california, ms. sanchez. ms. sanchez: please join me in the pledge. i pledge allegiance to the flag

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: request for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? mrs. kelly: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized.

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: mrs. kelly: thank you. mr. speaker, last year in the wake of the supreme court's kelo vs. new london decision house republicans drafted and passed legislation to better protect private property

Sue W. Kelly

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Speech By: Sue W. Kelly

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: owners why eminent domain. today i rise seeking support to stop the abuse brought forth by last year's energy bill. permit holders now have the ability to petition u.s. district court for authority

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: to use eminent domain to construct power lines. this gives eminent domain power not to an accountable government agency but rather to private companies. in my hudson valley district a company

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: has a disruptive and damaging plan to place a power line from central new york all the way to new windsor. this in spite of objections from numerous municipalities in its path. eminent

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: domain is a tool that will likely be sought to advance this widely opposed plan. to end this threat i'm introducing today this bill, it's called the protecting communities from power line

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: abuse act. let's value our constituents' rights to personal property, co-sponsor my bill and prevent efforts to abuse eminent domain and undermine our local communities. the speaker pro tempore: for

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. kucinich: permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one

Sue W. Kelly

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Sue W. Kelly: minute. mr. kucinich: we make war with such certainty yet are befuddled how to create peace. this paradox requires reflection if we are to survive, making and endorsing war requires a secret

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: love of death of fearful desire to embrace annihilation, creating peace requires compassion, putting ourselves in the other place and all their suffering and all their hopes and act from

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Speech By: Dennis J. Kucinich

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: our heart's capacity for love not fear. the fight against terrorism in the 21st century is beginning to have the feel of the fight against communism in the 20th century. conjuring of enemies, and

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: wanton destruction. our war on terror has become a war ofer roar. we blame the exercise of our capacity for war making and because we have not begun to explore our capacity for peacemaking, we

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: reduced to voyeurism. being aghast at war. we are the most powerful nation but we do not have the power to reserve for ourself or to grant to our allies an exemption from the laws of cause and

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: effect. the fate of the world hangs in the balance. and until we consciously choose peace over war, life over death, the balance is tipping towards mutually assured destruction. the speaker

Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from michigan rise? mrs. miller: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. miller: mr. speaker, house republicans have demonstrated their commitment to immigration reform by passing a very strong border security bill that focuses

Candice S. Miller

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Speech By: Candice S. Miller

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: on strengthening our border, and enforcing our law. and i think that the house republican bill does reflect the majority of americans. unfortunately, democrats have decided to go a different

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: way. the reed-kennedy -- reid-kennedy immigration bill would allow more than 60 million more immigrants, two, mexico would have to be consulted regarding construction of a barrier on our border.

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: and three, guaranteed social security benefits would be provided for illegal immigrants for the time that they were in the country illegally. so if an american citizen broke our social security

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: laws, he or she would face jail time. if an illegal immigrant broke the laws to get here and then broke our social security laws, we are going to reward them. mr. speaker, house republicans

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: are doing the right thing by taking this issue to the nation. we are holding hearings around the country to gain input from our citizens, and already a common theme we are hearing is

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: that people would rather have no bill than a bad bill. so in the interim as congress remains in a stalemate with the democratic senate bill, how about this as a concept? enforce the current immigration

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: laws. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? ms. sanchez: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro

Candice S. Miller

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Candice S. Miller: tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. sanchez: mr. speaker, we are more than halfway through the year and the republican do-nothing congress has yet to pass any meaningful

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: legislation that will benefit america's middle class. for too long president bush and his friends here in the congress have worked exclusively on behalf of the c.e.o.'s and the most privileged

Loretta Sanchez

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Speech By: Loretta Sanchez

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: in our nation. but democrats believe that it's time to take our nation in a new direction. one where america works for all americans. thanks to the misplaced priorities of washington republicans,

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: middle class americans are working for less today than they were when the recovery began in november of 2001. while wages are stagnant, monthly bills have gone through the roof. college costs,

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: 40% more. health care costs, 75% more. and gas prices have doubled. these dramatic increases have forced millions of hard-working americans to take on debt and yet washington republicans continue

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: to tap the economy. they really are out of touch. and i think they have been spending way too much time at the country club. it's time that the voices of all americans are heard and that will

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: only happen with the democratic congress. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house

Loretta Sanchez

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Loretta Sanchez: for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, with the continuity of a congressional session, there is a normal

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: shuffling of staff positions. today is -- it is with mixed emotions i announce the departure of emily layer more. for the past year and a half she has 4el8d one of the most difficult jobs on capitol

Joe Wilson

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: hill, serving as the communications director in the office of the secretary congressional district of south carolina. she has handled her position with professionalism, grace, and integrity.

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: her dedication and work ethic will be difficult to replace. emily began her career in washington as a staff member of congressman charlie norwood. she left the halls of congress last friday to

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: become assistant press secretary for president george w. bush. i am confident that emily will be a welcomed addition to the president's press office. as a graduate of clemson university,

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: she's one of two children of marshal and cindy laramore of columbus, georgia. she's a credit to the people of south carolina and georgia and i wish her godspeed. in conclusion, god bless our troops.

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: we will never forget september 11. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new york rise? >> mr. speaker n. this age of electronic transactions, we are all highly vulnerable

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: to having our identity stolen and our credit ruined. americans deserve every tool available to help protect their identities and their credit. and yet a data protection bill that passed out

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Speech By: Carolyn B. Maloney

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: of the financial services committee and that is moving to this floor for a vote strips away the ability that consumers and 18 states have to control access to their credit reports at

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: all times. it would allow consumers to freeze their files only after they are victims of identity theft. and that would absolutely do no good. file freeze works because it actually stops the

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: granting of new credit without the consumer's expressed permission. i urge my colleagues to help protect consumers' credit and identities. i urge them to co-sponsor h.r. 5482 and join me in fighting

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: for consumers to have the ability to freeze their own credit information. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. keller: to address the house

Carolyn B. Maloney

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Carolyn B. Maloney: for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. keller: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today i rise to give the american people an update regarding

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: what the house has done to implement the small business bill of rights. small businesses create 70% of all new jobs. in april of 2005, the house passed the small business bill of rights which

Ric Keller

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Speech By: Ric Keller

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: provided a blueprint for congress to help small businesses create new jobs. as the author of this legislation, i'm pleased to report that the house has done its job in 2005. in april, the

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: house passed legislation repealing the death tax to allow family-owned small businesses to survive. in july, the house passed association health plans to help small business was the skyrocketing cost

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: of health insurance. also in july the house passed four osha reform bills to help small businesses with red tape relief. in october, the house cracked down on frivolous lawsuits by passing the lawsuit

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: abuse reduction act and the personal responsibility and food consumption act which i authored. currently, all of these bills are stuck in the senate and time is running out. i urge the senate

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: to act now to help small businesses by passing these legislative initiatives. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady

Ric Keller

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Ric Keller: from california rise? ms. watson: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. watson: house republicans bringing up hot button

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: issues that have no chance of ever becoming law. this week house republicans will use pledge protection and gay marriage as a means to distract and divide our nation. are these really the

Diane E. Watson

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Speech By: Diane E. Watson

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: priorities of the republican majority when we have a hot spot virtually spinning out of control in the middle east? the truth is this is not but an attempt to turn attention away from their

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: failures over the last year on the issues that are the most important to the majority of the american people. republicans have failed to join us in increasing the minimum wage. they

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: have yet to provide any relief to the american consumer at the gas pump. they continue to stall negotiations on comprehensive border security and immigration reform. and they have allowed

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: the issue of lobbying reform to fall off the legislative agenda after all the lobbying corruption we witnessed over the last year from the other side of the aisle. thank you, mr. speaker.

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: 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: the gentleman is recognized for one

Diane E. Watson

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Diane E. Watson: minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, our president was caught on camera on microphone and off the cuff yesterday. he said, what they need to do is get syria to get hezbollah to stop doing this nonsense

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: and it's over. he told tony blair he felt like telling the u.n. secretary, general kofi annan, to get on the phone with syria's president and make something happen. after all, that's his

Ted Poe

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Speech By: Ted Poe

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: job. what he said was the truth. i'm glad we got to hear his candor, straight talk, his no nonsense, analyzing the problem. syria can stop this border war. he stated, hezbollah is housed and encouraged

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: by syria and finance the by iran. our president left out the politically correct niceties and cut to the chase. mr. president, preach on, preach on. the blunt blazing truth without any fluff

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: is what needs to be said. we know who is behind the attacks against israel and we know who can stop it. it's time all people of the world hold the aggressive hezbollah terrorist thugs accountable

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: for starting this border war. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute.

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. neal: yesterday, mr. speaker, the house passed h.r. 4376, the springfield armory national historic site, massachusetts

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: act of 2005. this legislation authorizes the national park service to enter into a cooperative agreement with the commonwealth of massachusetts on behalf of the superb springfield technical

Richard E. Neal

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Speech By: Richard E. Neal

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: community college. the springfield armory museum is home to long fellow's famous gun rack which inspired the arsenal at springfield. home to the springfield rifle, the site of shea's rebellion,

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: and located on the knox trail which he used and traversed as he moved to boston for those fateful days of the american revolution. this legislation seeks to recognize and update the partnership

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: between the park service by authorizing the park service to enter into a cooperative agreement with the commonwealth to provide financial assistance to the college for the purpose of maintaining,

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: preserving, and renovating, and rehabilitating many of the historic structures within the springfield national historic site. this is a very important piece of legislation, mr. speaker, and it

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: actually will allow a cooperative agreement to take place that will transform the complexion of what is also the site of the famous olmstead papers. i'm grateful for the recognition the

Richard E. Neal

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Richard E. Neal: house offered yesterday on behalf of these two individual sites. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: permission to address the

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house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to share good news with the american people. republicans'

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pro-growth economic agenda combined with spending restraint is driving the deficit down while pushing revenues up. in fact, if we continue along this padges of fiscal restraint, we will

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-- this path of fiscal restraint, we will cut the deficit in half by 2008. in addition to decreasing the deficit, the economy has created two million new jobs in the past year. in fact over

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the past three years, america has created more new jobs than japan and all 25 members of the european union combined. mr. speaker, tax cuts are working. our economy is strong and the deficit is

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down. republicans have been working tirelessly and successfully to push our economy in the right direction. democrats, on the other hand, continue to push their tax-and-spend policies, a

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: plan which is neither good for the family checkbook nor the american economy. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california

Hilda L. Solis

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Speech By: Hilda L. Solis

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: rise? ms. solis: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. solis: good morning, mr. speaker

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: and members. today i rise to celebrate the congressional hispanic caucus regional health forum that was held on july 7 in los angeles, california. the hispanic caucus and congress member john conyers

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: from the black caucus came together with over 200 community activists to find a new correction to battle health care disparities in disadvantaged communities. the new direction that we've adopted

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: ensures quality health care that's accessible, affordable, and culturally and linguistically appropriate. a sensitive health care system is critical to addressing conditions that disproportionately

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: impact communities of color, for example diabetes, obesity, h.i.v. and aids. the new direction developed at the forum is one where community members, providers and members at the local,

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: state, and forgetful level come together to collaborate to end health care disparities and we plan for solutions in the next upcoming congressional session. we came together with the hispanic

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: caucus at this forum in los angeles and we'll continue to take the show on the road throughout the country to ensure all americans have a healthier system of health care. i yield back. the

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. boehlert: to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one

Hilda L. Solis

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Hilda L. Solis: minute. mr. boehlert: mr. speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived, it is long overdue. the national minimum wage has not been increased in nine years. by

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert: year's end, 21 states across america will have a minimum wage exceding the federal minimum wage. isn't it about time that we in washington recognized the need to act, to level the playing

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert: field? of course it is. the way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take the hours labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job, then if you're like most

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert: people and you want to go back home after you work, it's going to take another day's hours wages. two hours just for transportation for the minimum wage worker. what's left for the other essentials

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert: of life? to put a roof over your head and food on your table? not very much. mr. speaker, my colleagues, we need to act now to increase the national minimum wage. the speaker pro tempore:

Sherwood Boehlert

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Sherwood Boehlert: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. emanuel: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: for one minute. mr. emanuel: here are some of today's headlines, toll climbs as fighting in middle east rages on, scores killed in attack near shiite shrine. taliban captured two afghan towns,

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: wholesale oil prices climb half a percent in june, heat wave zrains electric systems nationwide. the republican congress' response? banning gay marriage. it's an obvious connection. on this day

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: nearly 2,000 years ago emperor nearo played his fiddle while rome burned to the ground. with all the challenges facing our nation here at home, the republican leadership is is trying to

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: distract the american people by playing the same old tunes, writing discrimination into the united states constitution. to govern is to choose and the republican congress has made its priorities

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: clear. it's time for a new direction. it's time for a change. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee rise? mrs. blackburn: to address the house for

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, for several generations now

Marsha Blackburn

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Marsha Blackburn: we've watched middle-eastern borne terrorism intimidate, kill and maim americans and our allies around the free world. the images coming out of lebanon and israel today are a sad, ugly

Marsha Blackburn

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Speech By: Marsha Blackburn

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