mr. boehner: reclaiming my time. the gentleman has had his 30 years to put this bill together and the house is going to spend a whopping five hours debating the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in 100 years. and the chairman has the audacity to drop a 300-plus page amendment in the hopper at 3:09 a.m. this morning. so i would ask my colleagues, don't you think the american people expect to understand what's in this bill before we vote on it? so we get to page 34. not one year after august 8, 2005 -- wait a minute. one year later, one year after august of 2005. wasn't that three years ago? i'm just trying to understand what the gentleman has in his amendment. let me get to page 36. high efficiency gas turbine research and development. now -- i'm trying to figure out who inserted this broad new section of the bill that is covered nowhere in the underlying bill. then we get to page 39. $65 million for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2014. $65 million for three years, and who is going to get

mr. boehner: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: i move that the house now do adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: madam speaker, i demand the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will please rise. a sufficient number having the demonstrators themselves see the united states calling for regime change, a loaded term in that part of the world following the iraq war in becomes more complicated. it answers the united states into something that would complicate the demonstrators' cause. host: guest: let's go to the phones. -- host: but the to the phones. caller: i would like to talk about the history ofiran. we overthrew the government in 1973 by the cia and we install shah was a mass-murder. look at what we h

in discussions with mr. boehner and mr. cantor and mr. lewis, mr. obey and i have tried to come to an agreement. on time constraints. there was a discussion on the floor during the course of the rule between mr. obey and mr. lewis with respect to the time constraints and at that point in time, that was not possible. subsequent to that, there were further discussions between mr. obey and mr. lewis in which there seemed to be some progress, perhaps that was possible. as a result we proceeded with the preprinting requirement i know some people felt was an unnecessary constraint, but it is, after all, the opportunity to give notice to members what amendments can be anticipated. but i know i've discussed it on your side of the aisle you felt that was an imposition. we felt it was an open rule because the amendments were not specified. notwithstanding that disagreement, there were 127 total amendments. one amendment just now that mr. schock, my good friend, he and i have a good relationship, we've traveled together, i think he's a good member, he offered

boehner. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. boehner: mr. speaker and my colleagues, i said earlier this year that when the president does what we think is the right thing for the american people that he'll have no stronger allies than house republicans. we believe that the president has a responsible strategy in iraq and in afghanistan, and we in fact have supported him. when this troop funding bill left the house it left with a broad bipartisan majority. and as this bill is now considered after a conference with the senate there are a couple of very troubling parts of this bill. first and foremost, the addition of a $108 billion line of credit for the international monetary fund i think is unnecessary in this bill. and it's unnecessary because to ask our troops to carry money for a global bailout, frankly, i think it's unfair. this -- you know, there's only about $80 billion in this bill for our troops and here we're asking him to spend $30 billion more to carry this global bailout. i have to tell you what, we may have enough money in the

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, mr. boehner, is recognized. mr. boehner: madam speaker, republicans want to work with the president and our democrat colleagues here in the congress to make sure that every american has access to high-quality, affordable health coverage. on an issue like this we need to act, but we also need to get it right. frankly, the record of the democrats that have amassed this year so far shows us why we need to take our time. think about it. on every major issue addressed by congress and the white house this year the middle class has taken a big hit. middle-class americans are paying for a trillion dollar stimulus package that no one read. they're paying for a $400 billion omnibus appropriation bill with 9,000 earmarks in it. they're paying to bail out those who lied on their mortgage application. they're paying for the government takeover of general motors with no exit strategy. and they're paying for a budget that didn't include a tax cut that was promised for -- yes, you guessed it, the middle class in america. and if the

mr. boehner: let me thank my colleague for yielding. remind my colleagues that the constitution provides that the congress of the united states shall determine spending. the constitution of the united states also empowers our citizens to send their elected representative to washington to represent them. collectively we represent the american people. if you think about where we have been this year, we had the nearly $1 trillion stimulus plan when you look at the interest that's going to be paid on it. we had over $400 billion omnibus appropriation bill that had 9,000 earmarks in it. we had a budget that came through here that has trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see. we bailed out wall street. we have bailed out the auto companies. we are spending money and racking up debt at record levels. so here we are, we are starting the annual appropriations process. 12 appropriation bills that will spend nearly $1.5 trillion that we do not have. $1.5 trillion we are going to have to borrow from the american people and further imp

boehner. they talked to mr. lewis, who's here on the floor. and they said, we would like to work out an agreement on these bills, how we can proceed. and they were rebuffed. and so we started out and we found that there was -- in the first bill, a huge number of amendments, going to be a long-term delay of getting the work done. and so we had no choice but to go to the rules committee and get a structured rule. and i would have preferred we had an open rule. but i support what our leadership has done. and i think until the leadership gets together and works out a different way, we will be doing it this way. and it takes both sides here to cooperate and to realize that we have to limit the number of amendments, either by an agreement or by a structured rule. now, this is a very good bill. i hope that the dispute about procedure doesn't get in the way of the fact that this is one of the best -- maybe the greatest interior appropriations bill that has ever been enacted. mr. polis: i yield an additional minute to the the gentleman from washington.

. >> mr. leader, i'm interested -- i haven't had a chance to hear your thoughts on the c.b.o. estimate. -- [indiscernible] focussing on that $3,000 per household estimate from boston university. c.b.o. announced it was $174 per household in terms of higher energy bills. -- [indiscernible] actually -- >> if you look at the c.b.o. score and you read it, it's only one title of the bill. but what is clear in the c.b.o. score is that every american household is going to pay more. listen. when you create this giant bureaucracy to impose this tax it's going to cost a lot of money. and at the end of the day when you look at everything that's happened this year from the stimulus to the omnibus to all the earmarks to the budget of the trillion dollar deficit, it's the american middle class that gets hit every single day. and this bill right here is going to hit the american middle class with higher costs and higher taxes. >> why would a member -- i know you don't answer for him but just in your wisdom a

mr. barton: could i -- would mr. waxman yield for a question then? i need to know if i need to reserve one minute for mr. boehner to speak or if the speaker and the majority leader are going to speak later and not in this part of the debate. mr. waxman: we're ready to conclude the general debate. we will then move onto the amendment. and in the course of the discussion of the amendment in the nature of a substitute, our leadership plans to speak. and they will close the debate for our side as we vote -- as we move to the passage on that, to vote on that amendment and then passage on the bill. mr. barton: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 5 1/4 minutes. mr. barton: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. barton: i want to compliment you on your speakership of this debate. as always you have been gracious, fair and wish you the very best in your new position at the department of state. the speaker pr

from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995

mr. chairman. >> mr. attorney general, with all due respect, where is the accountability for the crimes of the past administration? where is the accountability for the millions of people in this country -- we petition, we tell them in email, we have petitioned again and again. where is the accountability? there are millions of people in this country who are demanding accountability for the crimes of the bush administration. we demand accountability, mr. attorney general, with all due respect, there are people in this country who lived through the eight years of the bush administration. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2009] >> the house gaveled out subject to the call of the chair. they will be spending their day on the commerce and justice department spending bill for fiscal year 2010. we'll have live coverage when they gavel back in. just a quick note, too, about programming. president obama at this hour speaking o

mr. camp, mr. barton, mr. mckeon and jenny brown-waite and we will talk about elements of the plan. we will be working with the drafting folks on that and hopefully while we are almost always last in line with the resources available to congress these days, we are going to be working hard now to bring these concepts into legislative language as quickly as we can. >> thank you, roy. thank you for your leadership on the solutions group. i want to thank leader boehner and all of my colleagues here and those that are not here who helped really make it possible for us to come forward with an american solution to healthcare. the president said this should have a uniquely american solution. we have an american plan. one that we believe as has been said will really focus on affordability, accessibility and availability. the question is how do we do that? we think that it is very important that there be a robust waste fraud and abuse oversight of healthcare, not only in the government programs and

i hope that our democratic colleagues on the house side like mr. waxman, mr. rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of thank you for joining us. >> @ noon, the u.s. house devils in four legislative business. on the agenda, a bill that provides federal rebates for purchases of fuel-efficient vehicles. we spoke yesterday with the capital and reporter for the view of today's debate. >> joining us on the telephone is just aoshj. cash for clunkers, how would it work? >> it would offer americans up to $4.5000 to trade in a gas guzzler for new vehicle. there is a discrepancy on the threshold. the house proposal, which came out of the energy and commerce committee, was issued, the threshold for older vehicles would be 15 miles a gallon. to qualify for the credit, i think it is " 0.5 mile an hour for cars. one or two miles a gallon for trucks, depending on the size. >> the ho

mr. speaker, it seems that our house committee on standards of official conduct, the ethics committee, it's been dysfunctional since the day i came here seven year ago. i'm in my fourth -- seven years ago. i'm in my fourth term, mr. speaker. and that body has been dysfunctional since the day i came here. it's supposed to be about -- to be a bipartisan, you have five members of each party, and yet we seem to be just sweeping things under the rug and not addressing problems like we should. and i'm going to yield back to the gentleman who controls the time here in just a second. but the point is, the just exactly what he said -- it's just exactly what he said at the outset, mr. speaker, i remember it so painfully well because back in 2006, when we republicans still were in the majority, i mean, every day, every evening during special order hours the then minority party, the democrats, just pounded, pounded over and over again of what they call a culture of corruption and we did on our side o

i hope that our democratic colleagues on the house side like mr. waxman, mr. rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans, especially those who, through no fault of their own, are out there with no health insurance coverage. host: congressman phil gingrey, thank you very much for joining us. joining us in just a few minutes, senator bernie sanders, independent from the state of vermont. we will also turn our attention to foreign policy, the situation in the middle east, the elections in lebanon, and also shibley telhami will join us from the year sever city of maryland -- from the university of maryland. it is tuesday morning. "washington journal" continues in just a moment. >> harvard law professor elizabeth warren heads to the congressional oversight panel which monitors the spending of the $700 billion troubled asset relief program. she will testify thi

waxman and mr. rangel and obviously speaker pelosi and will listen to our leader john boehner, the doctors caucus, the 15 of us of the republic and doctors caucus, the republican task force has worked diligently over the past months to come of with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans especially those few to no fault of their own air out there with no health insurance coverage. >> congressman mr. gingrey of virginia, thank you. >> we continue our discussion on health care system, vermonts center bernie sanders launched, join us on "washington journal" for 30 minutes. >> host: i want to introduce bernie sanders, thank you for being with us. your single payer plan, how what were? >> guest: it begins to do the major problems that exist in our current health care system and i think understands that the current system is disintegrating with 46 million without any health insurance, more who are underinsured and at the end of the day off we end up spending despite those r

one on the tarp in support of mr. obama, senator mccain also supported the tarp program as did the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the house republican leader, john boehner. the bush administration was the one who came up with the tarp program. it was supported strongly by the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke and bipartisan leadership. the rank and file never liked the program much. to the caller's other point, with the federal reserve -- one of the interesting questions is just how powerful the fed is. it has been very aggressively getting the financial system stabilized. most people think they have done a good job, but will have a difficult time removing programs to return to more normal operations. there are a lot of questions on the separation between the fed and treasury. mr. bernanke is asked that a lot when he testifies. he responds that it must be independent but during a serious financial crisis id must work with the treasury and government in power to keep the economy stabilized. host:

i am honored to yelled back to the rank the member, mr. bachus. >> i appreciate all of my drinking member comments, and i appreciate the leadership of being here. yesterday i met with leader boehner and several representatives from different groups to outline some of this program, and when i think there was a pretty unanimous agreement this was a comprehensive and a sound approach. at this time i want to take questions. this plan is not a plan of talking points. it is actually a plan several pages long single spaced typewritten. a lot of questions you probably ask now you probably have answered just by reading this plan. but at this time, we will take questions. >> [inaudible] -- what kind of response in the proposal? >> i will take those in reverse order. [laughter] for chairman frank called twice today asking for a copy of the plan, and we have just sent him a copy simultaneously with this conference so i have not heard from him. we have all along this process we wanted to put out a plan what we consider the solutions, what we consider o

it's my honor to yield back to the ranking member, mr. bachus. >> thank you, and i appreciate all my ranking member comments. i appreciate the leadership of being here. yesterday, i met with leader boehner and several representatives from different groups to outline some of those programs, and we -- i think there was a pretty unanimous agreement that this was a comprehensive and sound approach. at this time i want to take questions. now, we're going to pass out -- this plan is not a plan of talking points. it is actually a substantive plan several pages long, single-spaced type written. a lot of it -- the questions you'll probably ask now, you would probably have answered just by reading he0by this plan. but at this time, we will -- we'll take questions. >> when are you planning to introduce the legislation and what kind of response are you getting from the chairman on the proposal? >> i'll take those in reverse order. [laughter] >> chairman frank has called twice today asking for a copy of the plan. and we -- we have just sent him a copy

mr. smith: madam speaker, the national media have given president obama a free pass on the economy. . earlier this year they said we needed to pass the president stimulus package to keep the unemployment rate below 8%. since they passed the president's nonstimulus stimulus the econo has lost more than 1.5 million jobs and unemployment has jumped to 9.4%. despite the massive layoffs, the president claimed this week that the stimulus has saved jobs. the national media have allowed the obama administration to get away with spending jobs lost as jobs saved. and -- spinning jobs lost as jobs saved. and they've ignored the congressional budget office conclusion that the stimulus bill actually would reduce output, reduce output. the media should scrutinize the president's words and actions, not give him a free pass. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to addre

mr. aderholt: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman. mr. aderholt: this is my first appropriations bill to help manage on the floor. i very much enjoyed the process and consider it a privilege. i do want to commend the chair, ms. wasserman schultz, for her ms. wasserman schultz, for her professional and courteous e way she conducted the process over the last several months for producing fiscal year 2010 legislative branch appropriations bill. we have worked closely and very much in the spirit of bipartisanship to meet the funding needs of the legislative branch agencies. in addition, the chair operated under an open process and was responsive to the concerns and input of all the members of this committee. madam speaker, i will say it is unfortunate that the bipartisan approach taken by our committee stopped at the doors of the rules committee. i understand that the rule accompanying this bill, the legislative branch appropri

mr. carter: reclaiming my time for a moment. i think most everybody understands that these bills that come before this congress have sometimes thousands -- well you saw the one john boehner dropped on the floor, it's about that thick. i mean, they got thousands of pages of things in them. so how you vote on a bill doesn't necessarily tell you what's in the weeds like a couple million dollars for missile defense or a couple of billion dollars for missile defense. it doesn't tell that you and if it's not discussed you don't know. and there's not any way we can tell you. that's why the openness of this house is so important. but its open rule, it's so important. mr. king i yield to you -- mr. king, i yield to you. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas and i'm watching the clock tick down here but -- i'll just conclude in a couple of minutes, but as i said, i just came from the rules committee and there's really not room in there for a tripod and camera and not really room for the press to operate the way they need to and not r

mr. boehner: mr. speaker, on that i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 177, the nays are 241, the motion is not agreed to. the clerk will designate the next amendment on which a separate vote is demanded. the clerk: amendment number 19 printed in the congressional record offered by mrs. bow dieow of guam. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. poe: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the

traditionally when mr. boehner gets up or mr. diaz-balart or ms. foxx would stand up here, we rise to make the case for members of the minority. we're republicans we make the republican case about how important it is for us to ensure the rights of the minority, something james madison talked about very eloquently 220 years ago. today, i rise in behalf of all of my colleagues, madam speaker, all of my colleagues, and i rise especially today for democrats because it's unprecedented that we would be in the circumstance that we are today. now i've seen an awful lot in this institution in the years i've been privileged to serve here. i have observed the way this house is run. in most instances, under both democrats and republican, i've been proud of the work product that has emerged. but in many of those instances, i have been less than proud of the way the greatest deliberative body known to man, or what has been described as by people like the distinguished chair of the committee on appropriations, mr. obey, is no longer the greatest deliberative body

boehner with respect to any option available to him available for time constraints. mr. obey had a colloquy with mr. lewis on the floor on the rule that was essentially an open rule. and the colloquy essentially asked by mr. obey, can we reach time agreements, and mr. lewis responded, i'm afraid my conference might very well have a revolution on its hands and you might have a new ranking member in which he indicated that time constraints were not possible. therefore, i say to my friend from california that we are considering a rule which will do as i said allow us to consider amendments on substance but allow us to do so in a time frame that may well be shorter than has been the case in the past. let me say to you that when we last considered the commerce, justice, science bill in 2006 when your side was in charge, you got a unanimous agreement from obey on time constraints. those time constraints provided for consideration of approximately 17 hours on the bill. in 2007 we got not time constraints but about the same amount of time. now, unfortunately, after we thought in