House Proceeding 03-18-09 on Mar 18th, 2009 :: 0:05:25 to 0:25:25
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Speech By: Jason Chaffetz

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Jason Chaffetz: forcing them to require changes in nine months is not the answer. the law underlying this guidance did not require any label changes. it was the f.d.a.'s decision to force these changes on producers. and what's the price tag? according to the documents, compliance would exceed $220

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Blaine Luetkemeyer: million, not a small amount. clearly now is not the time for our government to find ways to increase the cost to consumers. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlemafrom missouri rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute and reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks.

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Speech By: Blaine Luetkemeyer

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Blaine Luetkemeyer: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> if you listen very closely, very closely, can you hear it, the sound of tigers roaring from their den at the university of missouri columbia deep in the heart of the 9th congressional district. for those who haven't heard, the fighting tigers were unleashed

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Blaine Luetkemeyer: on the big 12 prey and earned the first league championship in 16 creers and first big 12 championship this past weekend. i want to congratulate the coach and the team for a season to remember. i recognize the best defense in the country for offering opponents 40 minutes of hell. these tigers are still hungry. and as the number three in the

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Blaine Luetkemeyer: west seed regional, they will play cornell this friday. mr. speaker, i'm not a betting

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Ginny Brown-Waite: the tigers will roar when they hit the floor knocking down the national championship door. go tigers. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the for what purpose does gentlelady from florida rise? >> address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Speech By: Ginny Brown-Waite

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Ginny Brown-Waite: . >> thank you, mr. speaker. let me quote from the editorial board of the "san francisco ronicle "ings. president obama said, under my plan of cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. that will cost money.

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Ginny Brown-Waite: they will pass that money onto consumers. well, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately the president's cap d trade plan, or as many people call it, cap and tax plan, does exactly that. there was a recent study conducted by m.i.t., massachusetts institute of

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Ginny Brown-Waite: technology, and it was able to assess the fact that a total energy bill for the average household will increase over $3,000. as a matter of fact, it will be up to $3,128 per year. according to c.b.o. testimony, those figures actually will

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Ginny Brown-Waite: relate. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there further one-minute requests? for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore

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Ginny Brown-Waite: entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. gingrey today for five minutes. ms. foxx today -- i'm sorry, ms. foxx -- once again i'm sorry, ms. foxx on march 23 for five minutes. mr. poe on march 25 for five minutes. mr. jones on march 25 for five minutes.

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Ginny Brown-Waite: mr. minutes. ms. brown-waite today for five minutes. mr. reichert today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the

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Lynn C. Woolsey: following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, california. mr. furify, connecticut, mr. defazio, oregon, mr. fal mo vega, america samoa, ms. kaptur, ohio, mr. sherman,

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Speech By: Lynn C. Woolsey

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Lynn C. Woolsey: california, mrs. taylor, mississippi. the speaker pro tempor without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members arrecognized for five minutes each. ms. woolsey of california. the gentlelady is recognized

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Lynn C. Woolsey: for five minutes. ms. woolsey: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, in two days we will mark the sixth anniversary of america's invasion and occupation of iraq. when president bush announced the start of the conflict on the night of march 20, 2003, he

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Lynn C. Woolsey: said that america must go to war agains a regime, a regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. of course, mr. speaker, we know that those weapons did not exist. and that the war should never have been fought. but today i don't want to go back and i don't wt to

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Lynn C. Woolsey: revisit all the many mistakes of the past. instead, i want to use this time to remember the literally millions of men, women and children from the united states of america, from iraq and from the many other countries whose lives have been shattered over the past six years.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: these include those who died, the woded, the veterans, the refugees, the orphans, the widoys and the many other family -- widows and the many other family members who are left to mourn and to struggle. we have a great responsibility in this house of representatives to honor and to

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Lynn C. Woolsey: give meaning to their sacrifice. and i believe the best way to do that is by committing ourselves to work for peace. so that war becomes a thing of the past. on this sixth anniversary, mr. speaker, anniversary of the occupation, we have more reason to hope for peace than on the

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Lynn C. Woolsey: previous five. that's because we have a new leader in the white house. one who has already taken some very positive steps. president obama is committed to diplomacy, not war. and the most important tool of american foreign policy. he's banned the use of torture. he is closing the notorious

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Lynn C. Woolsey: prison at guantanamo bay. and he has announced a plan to remove all combat troops from iraq. but, mr. speaker, there is much more that we need to do. the iraq withdrawal plan will leave 50,000 troops behind to continue the occupation. that is unacceptable.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: all troops and military contractors must come home by august, 2010, at the latest. if afghanistan -- in afghanistan the administration is planning to double down on our military involvement. but, mr. speaker, there is no military solution to this

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Lynn C. Woolsey: situation in afghanistan. that is why i've joined my colleagues, barbara lee and maxine waters, in asking the president to establish a timeline for the redeployment of our troops out of afghanistan. we have also called for a plan to assist the afghan people because we cannot defeat the taliban with bombs and bullets.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: we can only defeat the taliban by helping the afghan people to meet their desperate needs for schools, for roads and for economic development. but we need to do more than just solve problems as they arise. we need to be proactive. we need to have a comprehensive strategy for keeping t peace.

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Lynn C. Woolsey: let me suggest two ways to achieve that goal. first, i believe this is a good time to renew congressman kucinich's call for the establishment of a cabinet-level department of peace. so that we can work full time to analyze international

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Lynn C. Woolsey: president on strategies to prevent war and to peacefully resolve conflicts around the world. the president of the united states has never had the advantage of such advice and i believe it is high time that he did. second, i believe that this is a good time to renew our

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Lynn C. Woolsey: proposal for a smart national security plan. smart is based on a simple idea. war is an outdated concept. that's why my smart plan keeps americans safe through strong global alliances and better intelligence. as opposed to preemptive military strikes. smart also calls for the united

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Lynn C. Woolsey: states to support nuclear nonproliferation and it includes an ambitious humanitarian development agenda to end the hopelessness and oppression that lead to war and terrorism in the first place. mr. speaker, after these many years of violence, one thing is clear, the american people have

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Lynn C. Woolsey: had enough war. they are seeking a better way to make the world safe for their children and grandchildren. so let us resolve in the honor of those who suffer because of a mistaken occupation six years

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Walter B. Jones: ago to do everything we can to avoid the mistakes of the past and lay the foundation for a peaceful future. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. poe of texas. without objection, the gentleman is recognized for

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Speech By: Walter B. Jones

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Walter B. Jones: five minutes. >> thank you. mr. speaker, i want to thank my colleagues in the house from both parties for joing me as co-sponsors of h.r. 24, legislation to redesignate the department of the navy to be the department of navy and marine corps. as of today, this legislation has 100 co-sponsors.

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Walter B. Jones: mr. speaker, this is the right thing for the congress to do. for the past seven years the language of this bill has been part of the house version of the national defense authorization act and this year i'm grateful to have the support of senator pat roberts, a former marine, who introduced

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Walter B. Jones: the same bill in the senate, s. 504. with his help i'm hopeful tha this will be the year the senate supports the house position and we can bring proper respect to the fighting team of the navy and the marine corps. it is important to remember the national security act of 1947 defines the marine corps, army, navy and air force as the four

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Walter B. Jones: services. it clearly indicates that the marine corps is legally -- is a legally distinct military service within the department of the navy. the navy and marine corps have operated as e entity for more than two centuries and h.r. 24 would enable the name of their department to illustrate this fact.

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Walter B. Jones: mr. speaker, i'd like to share part of a 2006 editorial published by the "chicago tribune" which describes what this legislation is really all about. and i quote the editorial. no service branch shows more respect for tradition than the united states marine corps does. which makes it all the more

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Walter B. Jones: ironic that tradition denies the corps an important show of respect. equal billing with the other service branches. there were the words in the editorial. but sometime it's it's -- sometimes it's good to break with tradition. the war department, for example, became the department of defense after world war ii.

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Walter B. Jones: the army air corps was elevated in 1941 to the army air force and in 1947 to the autonomous air force. the marine corps has not asked for complete autonomy. nothing structurally needs to change in their relations with the navy which serve both branches well.

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Walter B. Jones: the corps only asks for recognition having served their nation proudly an courageously since colonial days. they've earned a promotion. mr. speaker, the marines who are fighting today serve -- deserve this recognition. in closing, before i would like to show what this change could mean to the family of a fallen

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Walter B. Jones: marine. mr. speaker, i have on this poster is an enlargement of a copy of a letter that the secretary of navy sent to a marine corps family. nation, serving in iraq and i read from the letter from the secretary of navy and i will point out that the head of the letter says the secretary of

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Walter B. Jones: the navy, washington, d.c., with a zip code, november 18, 2008. dear marine corps family, on behalf of the department of navy, please accept my very sincere condolences on the loss of your loved one. mr. speaker, if this becomes reality this year, should this

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Walter B. Jones: be a requirementf any more of our marines are killed in afghanistan and iraq, the letterhead would say, the secretary of the navy and marine corps, washington, d.c. dear mar behalf of the department of the navy and marine corps. and, mr. speaker, that's what it's all about. this is one fighting team and

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Walter B. Jones: the name should carry equal. navy and marine corps. with that, mr. speaker, before i close, i will ask god to continue to bless our men and women in uniform. i ask god to please in his loving arms to hold the families who have given a child dying for freedom in

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Chris Murphy: afghanistan and iraq and i close by asking god to continue to bless america. thank you, mr. speaker yield back. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. muffer of connecticut -- mr. murphy of connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. as we begin a potentially transformational debate about health care this year, i think

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Speech By: Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy: it's critical that we start making policy based on facts and empirical data rather than anecdotes. currently our nation's conference about the future of health care is a little sloppy when it comes to backing up interesting stories with actual data. the result is that dozens of myths, both about our own health care system and about that of other countries with systems of universal care have become so dangerously privilege

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Chris Murphy: leapt as to risk becoming accepted truth. so i thought it might be useful for the next few months to try to come down to this floor and spell some of those myths and to put hard, cold facts back on the table. as we begin to move forward with a better way of providing health care for this country. so let's start with this one. over and over i've heard the

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Chris Murphy: heal tell stories about people that they know or that they've heard of living in canada or living in england, waiting for care. had to wait weeks or months or even years to see a doctor or have a procedure done. and every time i hear these stories i think to myself, well, they're right. that one person probably encounter that type of resistance from the systemment but then i also think to

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Chris Murphy: myself, it doesn't matter because in this place, we need to make policy not on anecdote, with he need to make policy based on true, real aggregated data. and so i think it's time we started talking about this idea, often promulgated by menacing stories of people waiting in other countries for a necessary surgery. that a health care system run

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Chris Murphy: or overseen by a public entity comes with unreasonabley long wait times for care. the fact is, not only is that idea a myth, but the very idea that our own health care system delivers the speediest care in the world might be an even bigger myth. so here are the facts. mr. speaker, a commonwealth fund study of six industrialized nations showed that the u.s. actually ranks

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Chris Murphy: fifth out of sixth in patients reporting they could receive a same day or next day appointment for an immediate medical problem. we were behind new zealand, great britain, germany and australia. just in front of canada. in fact, the difference between and england was astonishing, especially because many of the stories that you hear about wait times come from the british system.

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Chris Murphy: . 71% in england receive a next day appointment. in the united states, that number is 47%. more than half of americans when they believe they have to see a doctor have to wait at least 48 hours to see that physician. here's another fact, a study and

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Chris Murphy: cited by a recent speech by a medical director of a large u.s. insurer showed that americans are waiting nearly 70 days to see a health care provider, that same medicalirector noted that people diagnosed with cancer are waiting for months to get in to see a doctor.

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Chris Murphy: compared to canada, most cited for having wait times. they are reporting that their citizens are waiting three weeks for elective surgery, less than what people are waiting for cancer treatment. in canada, there are no wait times for emgency surgery. as was pointed out, canadians do

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Chris Murphy: wait longer for nonelective surgeries. for instance, in one case, the facts back up the claim that hip and knee replacement surgeries happen more quickly in the united states and people are traveling from canada to get the procedures done. do you know who pays and schedules those procedures here in the united states? you guessed it. the government.

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Chris Murphy: as it turns out, in america's vernment-run health care system, medicare, which pays for those hip and knee replacement surgeries, wait times aren't that much of a problem. there is ample evidence to dispel the myth that americans don't wait for health care and those in government-run systems do. and we need to remember this, in

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Chris Murphy: canada, they are spending half as much money per captaina as the united states. and the bottom line, stories about people waiting in lines for health care inther countries are just that, stories. the facts on the other hand

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Jerry Moran: dispels that myth. we wait for health care, too. health care reform is our chance to fix that. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. defazio from oregon. >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to assume the time of the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. moran: mr. speaker, i rise

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Speech By: Jerry Moran

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Jerry Moran: this evening, late here this afternoon in the house in strong opposition to a.i.g.'s recent payment to employees in bonuses. i can't believe that this conversation is even necessary. the handling of these bonus payments by a.i.g.'s management is an insult to the people who are ultimately paying for them, the american taxpayer.

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Jerry Moran: i believe that good business bevior and superior professional performance should be rewarded. that's the way the market system works and should work. people that are good at their jobs should be recognized. the compensation bonuses awarded to certain a.i.g. employees do not fall into this category of recognition. the american people own 80% of

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Jerry Moran: this company, yet 73 individuals employed by a.i.g. received a bonus of at least $1 million each. the c.e. a.i.g. called the bonuses distasteful. the people of kansas have a much more colorful description. they are outraged and it stems