House Proceeding 06-17-08 on Jun 17th, 2008 :: 0:01:50 to 0:16:05
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Speech By: Leonard L. Boswell

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Leonard L. Boswell: pro tempore: without objection. mr. boswell: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. today i come to share with you that iowans are in long trouble. we have extensive

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Leonard L. Boswell: flooding we have seen in our part of the country. it's devastating. since i last saw you last, i spent hours and hours with the united way, red cross, civic leaders from the cities, counties,

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Leonard L. Boswell: state and emergency operators. it's really tough. we've experienced that before in this nation. and in our pledge we said indivisible. and we are. and this country will stand behind us, we know that

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Leonard L. Boswell: and we look forward to that possibility. i flied in on an airplane. i spent saturday afternoon with one of my staff flying over various cities and a lot of them were tough. when i flew down over cedar

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Leonard L. Boswell: rapids and looked down the homes and businesses and the devastation, roads out, bridges, etc., over iowa city university with a lot of flooded buildings and so on and then back up the des moines

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Leonard L. Boswell: river, it looked liker, a big lake. a lot of cropland is ruined. we are maybe 17% or more and will not produce this year. so we need to the help of the country, we need the help from this congress.

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Leonard L. Boswell: i salute the people of iowa for coming together. t they've come together with determination. i asked one lady in emerging operation -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

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Leonard L. Boswell: mr. boswell: i said, how are you doing? she said, we're look family. we pull together. we are going to do this but we are going to have to have some help. i would hope that, madam speaker --

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Leonard L. Boswell: mr. speaker, today we will be ready to help iowa and other states out there that are in dire need of help at this time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired.

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Leonard L. Boswell: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? -- the gentlewoman from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Virginia Foxx: objection. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to a pillar of the ashe county community, jane cadell. most of the fifth district of north carolina is a rural landscape and beautiful,

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Speech By: Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: mountainous ashe county is no exception. as people who live in rural america well know, local radio stations are often the lifeblood of vital community life. wxss is such a radio station.

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Virginia Foxx: and audience -- it has the most loyal local audience in their hometown than any station in north carolina. they will celebrate the 50-year mark of service to the people of ashe county. the

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Virginia Foxx: fact that 50% of listeners tune in to wxsk seven times than the next closest station is a true testament. wksk radio is a real community fixture and i rish the radio station 50 more years

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Virginia Foxx: of sterling service to the high country. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> to address the

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Russ Carnahan: house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. carnahan: i rise to express concern of a $35 billion contract to a florida consortia who received

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Speech By: Russ Carnahan

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Russ Carnahan: $5 billion in subsidies. the air force defying its own ranking system which offered the boeing system 50 cissimilar nators. yet the tanker contract wet to eeds. they had a positive survivor

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Russ Carnahan: rating. the tanker contract went to eedes. they manufactured over ,000 tankers with advanced five by five wires, eedes zero. the coster will be billions and billions more than that of the

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Russ Carnahan: boeing aircraft, yet the tanker contract went to eedes. we continue to face record fuel prices and it's critical that the meter exceed their a requirements to be efficient as possible. an independent

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Russ Carnahan: study said that the boeing 767 fleet burns 24% less fuel than the eedes a-330's. for the sake of the american workers, the american economy and our national security, it's time to revisit

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Russ Carnahan: this contract. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> wish to address the house for one minute and to revise

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Russ Carnahan: and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. herger: today marks the 78th anniversary of perhaps the most disastrous economic legislation our -- in our nation's history, the smoot

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Wally Herger: holly tariff asket 1928. it set off a chain reaction of tariffs that caused a sharp decline in global trade, modern economists largely agreeing -- agreed that it deepened the great depression.

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Speech By: Wally Herger

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Wally Herger: this lesson seemed to go largely unnoticed. judging by the isolation, the democrat h ouse leadership is currently embracing. expanded trade is critical to job creation. and economic growth. it levels

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Wally Herger: the playing field for u.s. workers and is crucial to keeping our nation as the world's number one economic trading powerhouse. mr. speaker, the united states must reject the rising tide of

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Wally Herger: economic isolationism and lead the world toward open markets. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purposeoes the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson:

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Wally Herger: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, as co-chair of the

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Wally Herger: bulgarian caucus, i rise today to welcome the prime minister of the republic of bulgaria to washington. since the defeat of communism in eastern europe, bulgaria has emerged as a dynamic democracy.

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Joe Wilson: the country became part of nato in 2004, and the european union in 2007. recently, the world bank classified bulgaria as one of the top 10 nations to have undertaken important economic reforms

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Speech By: Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: to attract business investment. bulgaria is the only e.u. nation to be listed in the top 10. since my first visit as an election observer in june, 1990, i have seen firsthand the people of bulgaria

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Joe Wilson: emerge to be one of the world's most vibrant nations as a free market democracy. the able ambassador from bulgaria has been vital in developing bulgaria-united states relationships. i

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Joe Wilson: wish to thank them for their continued support in the global war on terrorism. i have visited bulgarian troops in afghanistan, and my son, allen, served with bulgarians in iraq. our nation

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Joe Wilson: in the world is more safer and prosperous by defeating terrorism overseas. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's

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Joe Wilson: time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. poe:

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Joe Wilson: mr. speaker, it seems like indiana jones is at it again. this time the search is on for the secret underground tunnels of egypt. the united states army in texas is trabing egyptian soldiers

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Rob Bishop: to lowity training egyptian soldiers to locate tunnels. our troops are out there teach digging techniques to the egyptians looking for the lost treasure tunnels of guns and rockets. we're

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Rob Bishop: doing this to help protect the borders of israel and egypt. meanwhile, the u.s.-mexican border is still porous for smuggling. tunnels have been discovered. last year the d.e.a. located a high tech

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Rob Bishop: sophisticated concrete tunnel 85 feet underground filled with two tons of drugs. law enforcement expects there to be more tunnels found. rather than just protecting the borders of other nations

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Rob Bishop: by training egyptian tunnel raiders, maybe we ought to send the military to protect our own southern border from the underground secret tunnel invasion of guns, drugs, and people coming into

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the united states without permission. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania

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rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. murphy: oil prices went to record highs, gasoline over $4, diesel prices nearly $5, family budgets

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Rosa L. DeLauro: stretched to the limits and how do we handle this? we beg opec to produce more oil. the saudis say they'll give us fund00,000 more -- give us 200,000 more barrels. what about american energy?

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Speech By: Rosa L. DeLauro

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Rosa L. DeLauro: 60% of americans support american-made energy. today, we'll introduce a resolution calling upon the president to reve a ban president clinton extended in 1998 that prohibits exploration of our outer

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Rosa L. DeLauro: continental shelf. the u.s. has the technology and regulatory framework to ensure these resources are developed in an environmentally sound manner. the president has the power to remove this ban

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Rosa L. DeLauro: today if he chooses. and i invite all my colleagues to co-sponsor my resolution and send a clear signal to the president and the american people that we will help. thank you. i yield back.

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Rosa L. DeLauro: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia -- from utah rise? mr. bishop: i ask to address the house for one

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Rosa L. DeLauro: minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. bishop: mr. speaker, during the second continental congress, john adams wrote a letter to his wife abigail. and he said, i have always

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Rosa L. DeLauro: felt dissatisfied, but apparently now i seem to reek of discontempt. he reeked of discontempt because he knew what the right thing to do was but he couldn't get the leaders of the continental

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Rosa L. DeLauro: congress to do which was to declare independencey. today with gasoline over $4, $1.75 higher when we started this congress and still no comprehensive energy plan, i, as well as the american

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Rosa L. DeLauro: people, seem to reek of discontempt. we know what the right thing to do is but can't get the leaders of the congress to do. i -- i had to fly four hours to come back here to vote on telling people

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Rosa L. DeLauro: how to spend their stimulus paycheck and saying that ngress approved of d-day and ending the revolutionary war. but still no effort to try and solve our energy problem. we need a comprehensive

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bill that will increase our conservation, increase our production and increase our ability to innovate how we deliver energy to the american people. and we need it now. otherwise we will continue