House proceeding 07-17-08 00 :: 0:00:00 to 0:20:00 of 2:13:10

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$s$s$s's gut "s t d6ap the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 244. the nays are 173. 2/3 not being in the affirmative, the rules are not suspended and the bill is not passed. for what

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purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. butterfield: i ask unanimous consent that my name be removed from twoills, h.r. 2125, h.r. 1650. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

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the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> mr. speaker i ask unanimous consent to remove my name from a bill, h.r. 2488. the speaker pro tempore:

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without objection. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? mr. blunt: to address the house for one minute and ask about

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next week's schedule. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. blunt: i thank the gentleman. i would ask my friend, the majority leader, an update on what he plans to bring to the floor

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next week. and i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the republican whip for yielding. on monday the house will meet in pro forma session at 12:30 p.m. on tuesday 12:30 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00

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p.m. for legislative. on wednesday and thursday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. on friday the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. we will consider several bills under suspension of the rules.

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in addition, we will consider h.r. 3999, the national highway bridge reconstruction and inspection act, h.r. 5501, the tom lantos and henry j. hyde global leadership against hiv-aids,

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tuberculosis and malaria re-authorization act of 2008. and we'll address the housing crisis, and finally, we may also consider additional energy-related legislation. and i thank the gentleman

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for yielding. mr. blunt: i thank you. mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the house will be in order. mr. blunt: on the topic of additional energy legislation, i know we just had a

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bill on the floor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentleman deserves to be heard. members will please take their conversations off the

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floor. the gentleman may proceed. mr. blunt: i know we just had a bill on the floor for energy. it was a heated debate. it didn't pass. i wonder if that bill might com e back next week with a

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rule, and i'll yield. mr. hoyer: we have not discussed that. we will have discussions about what the next steps will be. i'm not prepared to announce what that will be, mainly because i'm

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not sure what they'll be at this point in time. but we are still very interested in the proposition, as you know, that that legislation spoke to and that is providing an accelerated exploration

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and discovery and exploitation of our energy here in the united states, drilling in the national petroleum reserve in alaska, building a line to get that -- not only the oil but the natural

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gas down to the lower 48 and to ensure that companies aren't inventorying property on which either themselves or others might be producing america for america. so we believe that provisions

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of that bill are important, and i would think that we are going to be looking at ways in which we may move forward on that. but that has not been decided. mr. blunt: i thank the gentleman for

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that. as you mentioned, there's a lot of interest in the debate. i think it's great that we were able to extend debate on a suspension bill. we need to discuss it. i hope to see more energy legislation

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on the floor and would have to have it under a rule if that's at all possible. on appropriations, last week i mentioned that the chairman -- the appropriations commarme had appeared to have

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announced -- chairman had appeared to have announced there was no appropriations on the floor. that was not a decision that you and the other leaders have made yet. today, the speaker announced

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that the house would consider the defense bill before october , and i'm wondering if you have any idea when that might happen and if there's a chance that the five -- the five other bills

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that are out of committee could also get to the floor before october and what could happen with the interior bill, which would obviously be the most important bills that relates to this topic of energy

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that we just discussed, and i'd yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i agree with the speaker that it is our in tention to move the defense bill. we think that's critically

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important to do. we think it's critically important to move the other bills as well. i was having a discussion with the chairman of the appropriations committee during the last vote. he -- i

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asked him about his discussions with mr. lewis to try to facilitate the consideration of appropriation bills. my belief is they haven't made as much progress as he hoped to have made. but with relation

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to the other bills, i'd just reiterate what i just said, i continue to talk to mr. obey about finding a way to move appropriation bills to the floor, if that's possible, but we have not gotten

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any scheduled at this point. we do intend to move the, certainly the defense bill. the speaker was accurate on that. mr. blunt: i thank the gentleman for that. and the defense bill certainly

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critical, as all these bills are. and obviously i share the sense that it's a primary responsibility to the federal government to defend the country, but the homeland security bill, the military

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construction and veterans bill, also particularly components of that very element of what we do . and other bills that are out, like the financial services bill, all the discussion we're having

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and will have about housing over the next few days, another bill where if we knew that the regulators were funded and how they were funded and other things that happened, that's a helpful

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thing to know. i think that's all the questions i have for today and i'd yield back. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. hoyer:

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mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the business in order under ss calendar wednesday rule be dispensed with on wednesday next. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer:

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mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i ask that he can unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it meet at 12:30 p.m. on monday next and when the house adjourns on that it adjourns to meet at

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12:30 p.m. on tuesday, july 22, for morning hour debate. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the chair will entertain one-minute requests. the gentleman from -- for what purpose

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does the gentleman from georgia rise? mr. gingrey: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is

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recognized for one minute. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, thank you. on monday, the third infantry division at for the -- fort stewart, georgia, made a change of command. i rise today to thank major

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general rick lynch on a job well done as he moves on to fort hood, texas, and to congratulate major general tony kukalo as he takes command of the third i.d. this is important to the united states

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army. the third i.d. has one of the most successful combat records of any united states army division. it was the first conventional u.s. unit to enter baghdad in 2003 and the first division toe

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actually serve three tours in iraq. -- to actually serve three tours in iraq. commander lynch commanded the most recent tour in iraq during which we saw undeniable success. commander kukalo

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is the best man for the job. having served from 1999 to 2001, he's returning to familiar turf. he was at the pentagon where he served as army's chief of public affairs for the past two years.

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i hope you join me and all of our colleagues in honoring these two fine soldiers to their service to our nation. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

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from arkansas rise? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized

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for one minute. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the life of jay fred paton, a gracious person in the third district of arkansas, who passed away earlier this week.

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for more than 101 years, mr. paton showed passion for arkansas through his compassion for neighborhoods, community service and education. he provided for future arkansans. he authored the history

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of fort smith, now in its seventh edition, and taught sunday school for more than six decades. throughout his life, mr. paton received numerous professional, civic and humanitarian awards,

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including being selected as 10 outstanding citizens in 1999. i had the privilege to meet and get to know fred through the years, and he truly was an amazing person who wanted the best

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for his community. mr. speaker, mr. paton certainly will be missed. however, his legacy will live on for generations to come. i thank my colleagues for the opportunity to hor and celebratece the

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life of this wonderful man, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the

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house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the ntleman is recognized for one minute. mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. i wanted to

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come down on the floor at the end of this week to say, if we really want to be sincere about bringing down the price of energy, we need to have an all of the above strategy. that's opening

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up the outer continental shelf which we legislatively limited 25ears ago, that's bringing on wind and solar, we can use the revenues from using the o.c.s. to build wind and solar operations,

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we can use our vast resource os of coal, 20 years' worth of supply, turning into liquid fuel, creating american jobs and we can continue to expand the use of biofuels. the great thing about the republican

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proposal, it's all of the above. we're willing to say no to anything, we want everything to come on board to bring on more supply to lower the cost either of liquid fuel or the cost of

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eelect strissity and we want these fuels and commodities to compete and in the competition, then we will have lower cost fuel and energy so we can have a manufacturing base left in

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this country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what reason does the gentleman from individual

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rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> earlier, we've seen pictures of the president of the united states with foreign dignitaries.

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today we see the speaker of the house with foreign dignitaries. we do not put forward pictures to put forward conspiracy theories about why you're feeling pain at the pump. we need more production

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and no amount of political cant or hot air is going to do anything except keep your prices at the pump to the point where your family budget shrinks. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

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does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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>> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to thank a special group of people, the volunteers of the special olympics. next summer, it turns 40 years old and we're extremely grateful to the opportunities

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they provide for the intellectually disabled members of our community. the goal of the special olympics is simple to express and monumental to achieve, for people to become fit and productive members

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of the community. they've made a serious impact in countless lives. ironically, their extraordinary results e like due to their focus thoin games, and not t winners. this is apparent from their oath,

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which is, let me win, and if i cannot win, let me be brave in the atmpt. a message from which we can owl learn. it's a privilege to congratulate the special olympics on their 40th anniversary

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and wish them continued success. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend

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my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i come to the floor to h address the energy situation as well. this chart that i have,

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the inside circle is all of the b.t.u.'s of energy that are consumed in the united states annually. 72 qua drillon b.t.u.'s. the outside circle is all the different -- this is a production chart on

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the inside, the outside circle is the consumption chart. we're producing only 72% of the overall energy we're consuming. we need to grow the entire size of the energy pie. but if you take out

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of it all the things environmentalists don't want us to do, it leaves only a little bit of solar and wind angie yo thermal. that's only .74% of our energy production. they want to grow

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it into 100% of our energy production. that cannot be done. we've got to grow all sources, not the tiny little sliver of three quarters of one percent the environmentalists would let us do

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i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: are there further one-minute requests? the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leeves

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of absence requested for ms. brown-waite of florida after 2:00 p.m. today, mr. doolittle of california for today, mr. herger of california for today mr. mcnulty of new york for today after

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1:35 p.m. and mr. ruppersberger of maryland for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: mr. speaker,

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i ask unanimous consent that today th following legislative business and any special orders here turnover entered into, the following -- here turnover entered into, the follow -- theer to for entered

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into, the ed following members may be permitted to address the house for one minute and revise and extend mare remarks. myself, mr. poe for july 23 for five minutes, mr. mccotter, today, five

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minutes, mr. mchenry, july 2223, 24 for five minutes each and mr. pryce for -- mr. price for today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlelady

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from california rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any ferble orders heretofore entered intothe following members may be allowed to

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address the house for five minutes, revise and extend their remarks. ms. woolsey of california, mr. defazio of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does

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the gentlewoman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: wok, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> today we

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address an enormously important issue, and that is how to get relief on soaring energy prices, small businesses, teachers, bus drivers, others who are trying to get to work. we owe them