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u.s. house of representatives.] ker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 415, the nays are zero. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the e suspended, the resolution is agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the

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table. any member wishing to be recognized for a one-minute speech?

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John Boccieri: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. many economic indicators show our country is in the greatest time of need since the great depression. too many americans are

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John Boccieri: unemployed and losing their homes and jobs and looking to us for help here in washington. i've become -- the speaker pro tempore: if the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. members please remove your

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Speech By: John Boccieri

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John Boccieri: conversations from the floor. the gentleman may proceed. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i've become increasingly alarmed when i hear the voice of divisive mainstream media attempting to inspire others to join them in wishing failure on our government, our elected president and our country in crisis. to wish failure upon our

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John Boccieri: elected lead sers to wish failure on our financial markets, our workers and our children. ironically, during the debate leading to the iraq war conflict, these same people said anyone holding a differing opinio uninspired and even un-american.

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John Boccieri: i put my life on the line for this country so such ill-wishers could say whatever they want. to the minority wishing that president obama fails is wishing our country fails. this is the time for a debate of ideas and solutions. in this great time of need, i reject extremism that divides

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Patrick T. McHenry: our country and we should all embrace a voice that unites us around a common thread that despite all our disagreements, we are all still americans. the speaker o tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. are there further one-minute requests. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina rise the gentleman from north

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Speech By: Patrick T. McHenry

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Patrick T. McHenry: carolina? >> to addres the house for one minute and revise remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker, my district lost a great leader when they lost three-term city councilman james l. watson who passed away this wednesday. i became -- he became a great baseball player youth and

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Patrick T. McHenry: was always known as slug. he was a great friend of mine and an early supporter of mine. he was an army veteran, president of his own small business a stalwart. citizens of west gas tonya have no greater friend and advocate than james watson. james was also an active member of his church where he was a deacon. upon his election in 2003, his

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Patrick T. McHenry: constituents in ward six, the only area of gas tonya that overlaps with my congressional district, found themselves served by a city councilman who had a passion for service and loved helping people. he showed you us all he had ran three times for city council and lost but he was also also elected three times

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Patrick T. McHenry: after that the i want to extend my condole ens to his wife of nearly 50 years, and the entire watson family, as well as the mayor and city counc of gastonia who have all lost, we've all lost a true statesman and a great leader and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time.

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Patrick T. McHenry: the chair will receive a message. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: ms. secretary. the secretary: i am directed by the president of the united states to deliver messages in

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Steve Scalise: writing. the speaker pro tempore: are there further one-minute requests? for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> to address the house for one the speake??pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. as we start to debate the budget that was submitted last week, i think a lot of americans

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Speech By: Steve Scalise

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Steve Scalise: country and a lot of people here in this chamber have some very serious concerns about the direction that this admistration seems to be taking us in. this rampant spending and tax increases are dangerous to our country and our economy at a time when we're having trouble and difficulties all across this land. e last thing we need is a $1.4 trillion tax increase, over $600 billion of which

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Steve Scalise: would fall on the backs of every small business owner in this country and over $600 billion in the form of a carbon tax, a tax on energy, that every consumer in this country would pay in higher utility rates. this is surely not the time to be raising taxes to the tune of over $1.4 trillion on the backs of small businesses and families across this country. we need to go in a better direction and we'll be

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Steve Scalise: proposing that and hopefully

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Virginia Foxx: the administration will work with us to put a better path to get our country back on track and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the the chair lays before the house the following personal the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. davis of illinois for today.

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Speech By: Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the question is granted -- the request is granted. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members maybe permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks

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Virginia Foxx: and include therein extraneous material. ms. ros-lehtinen today for five minutes. mr. poe, march 11, for five minutes. mr. jones, march 11, for five minutes. mr. flake, today, for five minutes. mr. duncan, today, for five minutes. mr. chaffetz today for five minutes.

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Virginia Foxx: ms. foxx for tomorrow, the 5th, for five minutes. and mr. gohmert for today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business

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Virginia Foxx: and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be

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permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks, and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, california, ms. berkley, nevada, mr. defazio, oregon, ms. kaptur, ohio, mr. holt, new jersey. the speaker pro tempore:

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Ted Poe: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the gentleman is recognized for

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. i should inform you that the red coats are coming. the red coats are coming. the united states capitol once again has been invaded by the red cotes. i'm not talking about prime minister gordon brown that spoke to this assembly this morning. i'm at that not talking about the fact that the british came and burned this building in 1814.

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Ted Poe: no, not at all. but the nation's capitol is simply being taken away from the american people. the new capitol visitor center, the c.v.c. as they call themselves, opened its doors in december, 2008, and since that day, many new bureaucratic rules have been decreed. these new regulations infringe on the american people's right to visit this capitol. it is their building.

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Ted Poe: it doesn't belong to us or to the red coats. mr. speaker, there once was a time when a family would come from my district, they'd show up at my office and ask to see myself or a staffer would bring them over to the capitol, take them through these mighty halls by showing them the statues of the two famous people from

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Ted Poe: texas, steven f. austin and sam houston, giving them a peak at the old -- peek at at the old supreme court chamber and they could spend as much time in this building as they wanted to but no more. apparently the good old times have have beenep c.v.c. staff, the red coats. now before a staff member can even help on a tour of this

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Ted Poe: capitol, that person must attend a six to two-day long propaganda school given by the c.v.c. red coats. the actual tour that everybody must see before they come into this building starts with an opening video given by video the red coats. it's a controlled and sensored video and it control -- and a

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Ted Poe: controlled and sensored trip throh this building. the theme open it's in the video by saying that the national model of the united states is according to the video, out of many one. well, mr. speaker, i must have missed something. i thought that the united states motto was directly above

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Ted Poe: your head, wch says, in god we trust. but not according to the red coats. they just changed the national motto on their own. there is in fact no mention of those words or religious history of our country in the entire c.v.c. complex. this includes their exhibit halls, which are supposed to chronicle the real history of america.

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Ted Poe: but the red coats have rewritten history of the united states and omit religion or any reference to god. once citizens watch the video, they're allowed into this building to give their tour as long as they do it on time and they're not late.

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Ted Poe: you can't want wander around and get away from the red coat tour guide like the old days. they get to spend a few minutes in the rotunda. a few minutes in stat wear hall and a couple of minutes in the crypt but that's it. there's no looking around at the paintings in the hallways and if your state statute isn't on the controlled tour, yore out of luck, you don't get to see it. unfortunately, now one of texas' statues is off the

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Ted Poe: approved route. i get my constituents will just have to become a member of congress before they'll ever get to see it. mr. speaker, i believe that we should make visiting our capitol a safe and pleasurable experience for all and all americans everywhere. and these politically correct positions by the red coats is not the way to do it. i recently signed a letter that's being sponsoredably kirk

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Ted Poe: and mr. loebsack that outlined just a few of these rediculous regulations. this letter, bipartisan of course, goes to mr. ers, the acting architect of the capitol, who is the chief red coat. member offices have little control over scheduling tours. once in a while somebody will just show up in my office and they want to go see this building. it's their first and only trip to washington.

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Ted Poe: you can't do that anymore. you've got to get on a list and you got to make that request a month ahead of time at least before you can come into this building. those days are over, unfortunately. because the red coat police are in charge. and if they walk through the building and they get off the tour, the red coat police dress them down. late groups are often turned

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Ted Poe: away. if a family misses their tour by a few minutes or the security lines are too long, they don't get there on time, they might not even get in this building. they're sent home and come back another time. . unless they're trained by the c.v.c., congressional staff members are no longer allowed to even give tours. and don't forget those

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Ted Poe: re-education sessions last between six hours and two days. according to a letter i just received from the c.e.o. of the visitor center, things are going pretty good according to them. they say thousands of people are reserving reservations. well apparently that's true because my staff assistant is having an impossible time booking tours for our constituents during the first week of april. spring break. when most of them are coming up

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Ted Poe: here. and the capitol, unfortunately, is not friendly anymore. mr. speaker, the united states capitol belongs to the american people. it doesn't belong to us. it doesn't belong to the red coats. it belongs to the american people. and i'm disappointed in the new regulations from the c.v.c., the disease respect that has been -- disrespect that has been shown to the american

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Lynn C. Woolsey: people and congress. they're stealing america's capitol away from america. that ought not to beut that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: ms. woolsey, the gentlelady from california is recognized for five minutes. ms. woolsey: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the iraqi

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Speech By: Lynn C. Woolsey

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Lynn C. Woolsey: government is re-opening the infamous be a great britain prison. it's been renovated to include computers, recreational areas, a library and a barber shop for the prisoners. the iraqis promised to treat the prisoners humanely and in accordance with international standards. some degree -- some disagree

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Lynn C. Woolsey: with this decision to re-open abu ghraib. they say it should have been turned into a museum to document the crimes that took place there. others say it should have been simply knocked down. but the iraqi government says it must keep the facility because it actually needs the space. the renovations are designed to remove any reminders of the

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Lynn C. Woolsey: terrible violations of human rights that took place in abu ghraib when it was under u.s. control. those violations did a great deal of damage, mr. speaker, to america's reputation. even worse, they t a terrible signal -- sent a terrible signal to the world. the u.n. has reported that nondemocratic countries have used u.s. actions in places

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Lynn C. Woolsey: like abu ghraib to justify their own abuses. mr. speaker, the people of the world expect america to offer a better example than that. they expect us to work for peace and to treat people with dignity and compassion. the obama administration has already taken important steps

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Lynn C. Woolsey: in that direction. the president has renounced rture, he has ordered the closing of guantanamo bay, his administration has also released documents which show how the previous administration violated the constitutional rights of the american people right here at home. president obama has also

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Lynn C. Woolsey: pledged to use diplomacy instead of war as the first tool of american foreign policy. he has signaled his willingness to talk to iran and syria, two nations that we must engage to create stability in the middle east. he's trying, mr. speaker, to

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Lynn C. Woolsey: defuse tensions with russia and secretary of state clinton has pledged a vigorous effort to kickstart the stalled peace process between israel and the palestinians. but there's still a lot more than we just have to do. we must remove all of our troops and military contrtors out of iraq by august, 2010,

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Lynn C. Woolsey: leaving 50,000 residual troops is unacceptable. the iraqi people will view it as an enduring occupation force. . speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is correct. the house is not in order. members are advised to please take their conversations off the floor.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: ms. woolsey: thank you, mr. speaker. as i said, we must remove all of our troops and military contractors out of iraq by 2010. leaving 50,000 residual troops is actually absolutely unacceptable. the iri people will view it as an enduring occupation force.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: and it will delay the reconciliation and the unification the iraqi people need. they need that to build stability and democracy in their country. we must also redeploy our troops out of afghanistan. and use humanitarian assistance instead of military force to achieve our goals there.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: every expert on afghanistan knows that foreign military intervention never succeeds in that part of the world. helping the afghan people to build schools and roads will work a lot better than sending in more troops. i've also called for a worldwide ceasefire or time-out

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Lynn C. Woolsey: to give diplomacy, to give humanitarian assistance and conflict resolution a chance to work. by intensifying our efforts in these areas, our efforts of soft power or smart power and reducing the size of our

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Lynn C. Woolsey: military, we can move toward a conflict-free world. mr. speaker, president obama has said, and i quote him, we have a significant stake in ensuring that those who live in fear and want today can live with dignity and opportunity tomorrow, unquote. the president is right. instead of bombs, instead of bullets, let's give the people

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Lynn C. Woolsey: of the world dignity and opportunity. that's the way to defeat

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Dan Burton: terrorism. that's the w to keep america safe. and that's the way to ensure peace around the globe. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, is

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Speech By: Dan Burton

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Dan Burton: recognized. mr. jones: mr. speaker, the president of the united states stood here in the well the other night and one of the thing he is said that was met with a great deal of applause was that there wasn't going to be one dime of new taxes on anybody ma year, any family making under $250,000 a year.

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Dan Burton: and yet, what was omitted from his talk was the cost to every single person because of a tax increase that's kind of hidden, it's called the cap and trade tax increase. it's going to cost about $65 billion a year. it deals with cardon -- carbon dioxide emissions. every time we use coal or gas

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Dan Burton: or any substance to create energy in this country, it emits carbon idockside. so $65 billion are going to be levied on businesses that will be passed on to consumers in electricity, gasoline, oil, food, and almost anything they buy because anything they buy

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Dan Burton: is made from energy. and the energy in this country is going to be taxed up to $65 billion a year with this cap and trade tax that the president's got in his budget. the american people simply don't realize that. there was an interview that was on -- it was on fox the other