canton, ohio, as the ralph regula federal building and united states courthouse. the bill has strong bipartisan support. while i know congressman regula as my predecessor, many of you on both sides of the aisle were also fortunate enough to call him a colleague, a mentor and a friend. he was a true steward of his district and earned every accolade from his constituents who knew him only as ralph. he combined a unique blend of procedural accumen, hard work and collegial personality in rising to a leadership on the house appropriations committee. all the while he never forgot where he came from. consistently setting the standard and making sure that his constituents received the assistance they needed with their problems. as a former teacher and principal, ralph was a leader in pushing to improve our students' reading skills, develop teacher training, and incess pell grant funding. he also increased by millions of dollars the amount of federal money committed to research in fighting cancer, heart disease and birth defects. ralph was a leader in alternative energy, a

on after rescuing him from a burning home in canton. captain hall's peers called and said to him as they bid him farewell, if you needed to be rescued, captain hall and his crew would be the crew you wanted coming for you. captain hall was a hero in our community and in his home. being a father of four small children, it was exceptionally emotional to witness his three daughters stand up at his funeral and say, we're going to miss you, daddy. their words should remind each of us that our time on earth here is limited and that we must live freshly and fully each day. captain hall's passing shocked our community. he without a doubt will forever remain one of our community heroes. my prayers and deepest condolences go out to his family as they grieve this tragic loss. captain hall's family and our community reflect on his service both in the military and as a firefighter. today i take this moment to honor his life and his service to our country. we thank you, marty, for your service. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: mr.

i don't think the gentleman from california has any animosity towards canton. i thought he could find it. but the fact of the matter is, i think we have a difference of philosophy. the gentleman doesn't believe it's the opportunity of members of congress to do within the rules and regulations within the standards established by this house and if we want to expand them, i'm happy to do that, to provide a little bit of help, in this case $150,000 to bring a difference where the unemployment rate is pushing over 10%. this is a program that is not just an earmark. it's under the save america's treasures act. the gentleman spoke vessel eloquently about standards, good guidance, about benchmarks. there are nine benchmarks under the save america's treasures act. where it is in the timeline, this project meets every one of those standards. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. campbell: thank you, madam chair, again, i appreciate the gentleman's passion and his commitment. i wo

we worked well with commissioner north, and i just wanted to just say to you that we know the cpsc canton for several little fool all over the country, but we also know that the education efforts will be very important. ad you could take a look at that, we found in our state we have had no incidents. it hit people's hearts, the pool operators are making sure things are in better shape. if we can emulate that nationally we will be in better shape. >> i checked in south carolina about the implementation of the full standards and found the department of health and environmental control had written all of the public pool owners to inform them about the regulation and it is not that anyone was pushing back and saying we can't comply. the supply for the drain covers doesn't meet the demand. it is not the content of the law from what i understand. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you, miss tenenbaum for your willingness to surf. i wanted to focus on the chinese dry wall issue also. it has an enormous negative impact in louisiana. by my estimate, they are up to 7,000 louisiana ho

federal building and united states courthouse located at mckinley avenue and third street, southwest, canton, ohio, as the ralph regula federal building and united states courthouse. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from ohio, mr. boccieri, and the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on house resolution 1687. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i rise in strong support of the bill i introduced, house resolution 1687, as amended, and urge its quick passage. this bill designates the building located at mckinley and thirdee

the comments have been made a couple of times that we can -- cantons buy their way to safety and that may be true but rican not inspect our way to food danger which i think has been unfortunately the hallmark of what has happened in recent past and so this bill, it will put some as marcuses on monetary and an inspection on the front end which is going to make a tremendous difference. when you look at the provisions that are contained in this proposed legislation so many of them go under the heading of no-brainers. another risk these are things that the average citizen and would imagine are already in place and i think would be surprised to learn are not emplace so there is so much about this bill that represents the pent-up needs and concerns of the american public that we need to address. on the economics and there has been a fair amount of discussion about that already testing the opening statements, the battery to on the front end, of course, with monitoring and inspection of the less cost we're going to have on the back end a both in terms of fda meeting to scramble to deal with o

when the worker in a factory in canton, ohio, loses their job and gets hired by another factory with another set of health care opportunities and they were a diabetic, god forbid, it becomes a pre-existing condition for routine coverage. we need to end pre-existing conditions. and making sure that physicians and doctors are making and prescribing the types of health care that our patients should seek. those are the five p's that we have on this great dialogue here on capitol hill. i thank the gentlelady from maine on discussing this issue and hope we can have a spirited discussion. ms. pingree: you mentioned some of the cost issues and since we have a couple of charts, i thought i might put them up here right now. you talked about the expenses of health. and here's one that shows how our national health expenditures, as they say, gone off the chart. this is one of those charts, actual and projected that shows we can no longer afford this. people say how are you going to pay for health care? when i talk to businesses and individuals, i say how are we going to afford the system the way

we're actually going to reduce the costs of health care, because that diabetic that lost their job in canton, ohio, now can't get the vings that they need to give themselves insulin, they can't buy their medical equipment, they can't buy their prescriptions and all of a sudden they have a situation where they have to go to the emergency room because they have an ulcer on their foot and they're using the emergency room as their primary care physician and that's costing all of us in the system four, if not five, times more. by getting those costs under control we're going to save money in the long run. more choices, better accessibility to the doctors we want to see and making sure that we have the opportunity to keep and contain these costs, keep them under control and making sure that doctors and health care professionals are prying health care and not bean -- prescribing health care and not bean counters. this is why i'm so excited we're tackling this issue. this is a matter of our competitiveness of the country and having citizens that are healthy and the well-being of our nation's at stak

federal building and united states courthouse located at mckinley avenue and third street southwest, canton, ohio, as the ralph regula federal office building and courthouse. the speaker: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote.@ttoa