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Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before theef house a communication. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. october 2, 2008. i hereby appoint the honorable

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House Clerk: jose e. serrano to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives.ti the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain,

Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: reverend dr. berry c. black, chaplain, united states senate. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, guide our lawmakers through this day with your higher wisdom. we faith replace fear. trut

Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: h arise over falsehood. justice triumph over greed. love prevail over hate. and peace conquer strife. guide us, o god of power and strength, we are weak but you are mighty. lead us with your

Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: powerful hand , strong deliverer, intervene in these crisis circumstances and give us your peace. make the members of this body part of your answer for the problems of our time. show them what you want

Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: them to do, and may they leave the results to you. you are lord and savior. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the

Rear Adm. Barry Black

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Rear Adm. Barry Black: house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from ohio, congresswoman kaptur. ms. kaptur:

Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it ands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro

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House Clerk: tempore: the chair lays before the house three communications. the speaker pro tempore: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in

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Speech By: House Clerk


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House Clerk: clausee 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 30, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. that the senate

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House Clerk: passed without amendment h.r. 3511, h.r. 619, h.r. 6229, h.r. 6338, h.r 6681, h.r. 6847, h.r. 6874. that the senate agreed to without amendment house concurrent resolution 416. with best

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House Clerk: wishes i am signed sign searly, lorraine c. biller, clerk of the -- sincerely, lorraine c miller, clerk of house. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam. pursuant to the

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House Clerk: permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following messagewi from the secretary of the senate on october 1, 2008

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House Clerk: at 9:34 a.m. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 1594, h.r. 1714, h.r. 4544, h.r. 6045, h.r. 6073, h.r. 6083, h.r. 6353, h.r. 6524, h.r. 653 1, h.r. 7084. that the senate

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House Clerk: concurs in hous e amendments, senate 431, senate 1492. that the senate passe td senate 3197, senate 3658.65 appointments, advisory committee on student financial assistance. with best wishes

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House Clerk: i am signed sincerely, lorraine c. milr, clerk of the house. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules

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House Clerk: of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 2, 2008, at 9:45 a.m. that the senate passed with amendments

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House Clerk: h.r. 1424, that the senate agreed to house amendment to the senate amendment h.r. 2095. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 7081, h.r. 7177, h.r. 7198. that the senate passed, senate

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House Clerk: 602, senate 1703. senate 3013. senate 3073. that the senate agreed to senate concurrent resolution 105. appointments, commission on abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. with best wishes

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House Clerk: i am signed sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bills were signed by the speaker on monday,

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House Clerk: september 29, 2008. the clerk: h.r. 1157, h.r. 1777, h.r. 5057, h.r. 5571, h.r. 6460, h.r. 6946, senate 2162, senate 2840, senate 2982, senate 3596, and by the speaker pro tempore hoyer on wednesday,

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House Clerk: october 1, 2008, senate 3023. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 6 o 098 an act to amend the homeland security act of 2002 to improve

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House Clerk: the financial assistance provided to state, local, and tribal governments for information sharingsh activities, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain

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House Clerk: up to 10 requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. cohen: i request permission to address the house for one minute.

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. as we are involved in this crisis with the economy, the world goes on. and part of the world is theor

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: war in iraq. unfortunately when i returned home to memphis, i learned that one of our citizens, private first class christopher t. fox, united states army, became the 4,178th casualty in the

Stephen Cohen

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Speech By: Stephen Cohen

Tribute to 4,178th casualty in Iraq War

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: iraq war. he was the ninth casualty from my district. 21-year-old gentleman eawho went to hampleton high school, whose stepfather lives in memphis, and whose guardian is in knoxville, tennessee.

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: private first class fox served this country admirably. had he a great love for thehe army. he was due to get out in july. looking forward to going to t u.t. knoxville in the fall. he played football

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: at hamilton high school. he loved his country. the people of the ninthth district, the people of shelby county, people of tennessee, and all of us ind america appreciate his sacrifice

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: and his service. and join his family injo grieving his loss. thank you for your good deeds on earth, private first class fox. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the remainder of my time.

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina rise? ms. foxx: permission to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker.

Stephen Cohen

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Stephen Cohen: revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: wiout objection, so ordered. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. today i want to highlight some good news from the fifth district of north carolina. last

Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: month the state of north carolina recognized elkin city schools for having the best graduation rate in the entire state. . by graduating nine out of 10 seniors this year, they have high

Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: economic standards in northwest north carolina. elins efforts to make sure that students cross the finish lineni will pay real dividends for the elkon community in the future. it has not only

Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: a stabilizing effect on the social fabric of the community, but it also lays a foundation for young adults ready to take their place as ce community leaders and productive members of society.

Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: congratulations to elkon city schools, its many graduates, its parents, familiaruality and staff. you have set the standard for excellence. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time

Virginia Foxx

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Virginia Foxx: has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one fo minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: t without objection,

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: so ordered. >> mr. speaker, i rise to share ar the anger expressed by my constituents and constituents of many members of congress, anger over the financial mess that we're in, anger at wall

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: street for the greed that gotha us there, anger at the white house for the arrogance and asking congress to authorize $700 billion without any conditions. however, the public should not

Sam Farr

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Speech By: Sam Farr

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: be angry that congress has tried to respond. not to the president's request but to the public's need for checks and balances. we wrote an e wntirely new bill, the contents of which is on every

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: member's website. it provides relief with checks and balances, oversight for taxpayer safeguards. s. it addresses obscene salaries and golden parachutes. it's not a perfect bill but responsible

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: bill. the best thing that came out of the past 10 days is that government became responsible for governing the affairs of this nation in a bipartisan manner. now, let's hope that this

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: house follows the leadership of the senate last night in passing a responsible recovery plan. in the end, it's the institutions of government that have to regain confidence. let's hope that this

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: november election will elect leadership that can restore that confidence to the nation and the world. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise?

Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: mr. wilson: 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, so ordered. mr. wilson: mr. speaker,

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: the econom ic recovery bill we have before us does not include every free market idea i believe will improve it. but when the retirement savings of hard-working americans are threatened, when

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: businesses start to fail, jobs begin to dry up, or jobs of american taxpayers are in dapinger, it is clear that the price of doing -- danger, it is clear that the price of doing nothing far exceeds

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: the price of what we're considering. small businesses and families are the heart of this bill. they did not cook the books, so make bad financial decisions. they had faith in the free market and

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: worked hard for their success. this bill is an imperfect option and a tragic -- in a tragic situation but it protects jobs and taxpayers, it provides transparency and oversight to treasury,

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: it provides free market alternatives like insurance loans and an increase in the fdic cap. and it helps keep taxpayers from paying an even higher price for the misdeeds of wall street.

Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson: in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11. the speaker pro tempore: the time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio:

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: to address the es house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. defazio: the legislation the house will take up tomorrow that was jammed through the senate

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: last night will do nothing for the weakening fundamentals in the united states. it isn't going to help with declining housing prices, foreclosures, job loss, income disparity, lack of health

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: care. none of those will be addressed. crumbling infrastructure. it is not aimed at the real economy. it's aimed at the froth, the speculative activity and the bad bets made by wall street

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: executives. now, they report this is necessary to free up credit. some say i am voting for the bill because it lifts the fdic limit. the administration can do that without spending $700 billion.

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: they are going to say, i'm doing it because it changed the mark-to-market rules. those are critical to my banks in oregon, but you can do that without spending $700 billion with a stroke of the pen.

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: it leaves out one critical measure that would take legislation. it's not in here. we are going to spend $700 billion to solve a problem that t could perhaps be resolved for no cost to the

Peter A. DeFazio

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Peter A. DeFazio: american taxpayer. and then let's -- if we are going to borrow money, borrow it to invest in american's main street, not wall street. the speaker pro tempore: members should heed the sound

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: of the gavel. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.ou mr. poe: mr. speaker,

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: the bill to bail out the elite financial industry in new york that caused this mess failed this house but our senate colleagues are sending us a new bill. four times longer than the 100-page

Ted Poe

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Speech By: Ted Poe

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: bill rejected by us. the bill to stabilize the financial industry is now packed with squeaky pork. one would ask what does pork have to do with the financial industry? well, nothing, of course.

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: but the senate bill with the piglets will help these entities. new tax earmarks for film and il tv productions, litigants in the exxon incident. wooden arrows designed by schoolchildren.

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: there are more tax earmarks. auto racing tracks, indian tribes, rural research and get this one, virgin island and puerto rico rum. i'm not making this up, mr. speaker. there are more breaks

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: for the railroads and the mining industry. none of these breaks solve our banking and financial crisis. why are they in this bill? the house needs to deal with this financial situation to

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: make sure those respon ssible are held accountable and the american taxpayers are not going to go broke paying for this banking rescue and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore:

Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? capelinhos i rise to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. capelinhos mr. speaker, as the house approaches

Marcy Kaptur

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Speech By: Marcy Kaptur

Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: a vote on the senate's -- ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, as the hoaches approaches the vote -- approaches a vote on the senate's financial bill, there is a credit crunch facing our banks. we must use

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