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S E N A T E
Vol. 158WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012No. 18
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Senate
The Senate was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, February 6, 2012, at 2 p.m.House of RepresentativesFriday, February 3, 2012 The House met at ...
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Prayer
Reverend Cal LeMon, First and Calvary Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Missouri, offered the following prayer: God, as You know, these walls have echoed with Your name for centuries. You see, God, ...
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National Wear Red Day
Mr. Speaker, today, February 3, is the American Heart Association's National Wear Red Day, which encourages people to help raise awareness and join the fight against heart disease, which is ...
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Speaking: McCotter
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National Wear Red Day
(Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
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Unemployment Benefits
(Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
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Honoring 100 Great Years Of Girl Scouts
Mr. Speaker, 100 years ago, Juliette ``Daisy'' Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout troop in Savannah, Georgia. Daisy began with 18 girls in one troop in Savannah, but her ...
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Speaking: Barrow
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Employment And Debt
Our newest national unemployment numbers are in, 8.3 percent. It's progress, but it's 37 months above 8 percent.
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Speaking: Lankford
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Lilly Ledbetter And Paycheck Fairness
Mr. Speaker, 3 years ago this week, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law. Named after a true hero who was shortchanged by her employer for decades ...
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Speaking: DeLauro
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Employment And Debt
(Mr. LANKFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
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Unemployment Benefits
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in complete disgust of the Republican conferees' attempt to include an education requirement as a condition of receiving unemployment benefits.
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Speaking: Butterfield
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Let Gulf Coast Get Back To Work
``The gulf oil spill has been terrible for the Gulf Coast. But as bad as it has been, the Federal Government's moratorium on deepwater drilling can be worse.''
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Speaking: Cassidy
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Unemployment Rate Is Down
Mr. Speaker, the reports have just come out a few minutes ago, and it's great news for America: 243,000 jobs were created in January, which is 150,000 more than were ...
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Speaking: Engel
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Honoring Centennial Of Girl Scouts
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate and honor the centennial of our Nation's Girl Scouts. For 100 years, the Girl Scout experience has enriched the lives of millions of ...
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Speaking: Tonko
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Unemployment Rate Is Down
(Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
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Cbo Reveals President’s Failed Policies
Mr. Speaker, throughout his campaign for the White House, the President made an empty promise to cut our deficit in half by the end of his first term. Earlier this ...
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Speaking: Wilson
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to this bill. It will not kill the bill, and it won't send it back to committee. If adopted, we will then vote ...
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Speaking: Tierney
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further consideration of the bill (H.R. 3578) to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reform the budget ...
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 32 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
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Speaking: Franks
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, this is another one of those commonsense reforms that I'm so proud that this Budget Committee has brought to the floor, time and time again, and will continue ...
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Speaking: Woodall
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
[Roll No. 32] YEAS--235 Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amash Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner ...
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
[Roll No. 31] YEAS--177 Ackerman Altmire Andrews Baca Baldwin Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano ...
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 32, I was away from the Capitol due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay.''
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Speaking: Filner
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall 31, I was away from the Capitol due to prior commitments to my constituents. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
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Speaking: Filner
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 32 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
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Speaking: Graves
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.
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Baseline Reform Act Of 2012
Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on passage of H.R. 3578, if ...
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Legislative Program
I say to the gentleman, first of all, I know the gentleman likes to talk about past Congresses. When he was House majority leader, he did not bring this STOCK ...
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
I thank the gentleman for his information and would ask him on the timing.
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
I thank the gentleman for his response, and he says the earliest day possible. I tell my friend that Tim Walz of Minnesota has had a bill, as the gentleman ...
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of inquiring about the schedule for the week to come, I am pleased to yield to my friend from Virginia (Mr. Cantor), the majority leader.
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
(Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
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Legislative Program
It has always been my intention to try and act with dispatch on this very important issue and to get the President a bill that he can sign as quickly ...
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
The gentleman knows that a number of those proposals had bipartisan support in this House, I think have bipartisan support over in the Senate. But they need to be paid ...
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
Absolutely, Mr. Speaker. I join the gentleman in thinking Secretary LaHood is a fine gentleman, but all I can say is actions speak louder than words.
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
We could make some progress if, frankly, the majority leader could get 60 votes to enact the legislation and transact business on the floor of the Senate. Unfortunately, as the ...
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
Right. So, again, the gentleman is correct in saying there is bipartisan support for these bills. The President supports them. Where's the problem? It's across the hallway here, and if ...
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
If the gentleman could yield just for a correction. There's no need for pay-fors on these bills. These bills are something that were cleared out of the House in a ...
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
I thank the gentleman from Maryland, the Democratic whip, for yielding.
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Speaking: Cantor
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Legislative Program
Mr. Speaker, I think that all of us, hopefully, agree with what the leader has just said. We clearly want to make sure the American public has confidence and trust ...
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
I thank the gentleman. And we all look forward to working together in a bipartisan way. We sure have found great difficulty doing it, however, because we have trouble having ...
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Speaking: Hoyer
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Legislative Program
Mr. Speaker, I would say to the gentleman, first of all, I do hope that we can act in an expeditious manner to accomplish the same goal that he's stated. ...
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Speaking: Cantor
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Message From The President
A message in writing from the President of the United States was communicated to the House by Mr. Brian E. Pate, one of his secretaries.
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Hour Of Meeting
Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Virginia?
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Hour Of Meeting
I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at noon on Monday next for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business.
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Speaking: Cantor
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Israel’s Right To Defend Itself
Mr. Speaker, Iran is rapidly building a nuclear weapon. Recent reports reveal that Israel may be preparing to attack Iran. Some critics, including the United States, say that Israel should ...
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Speaking: Poe
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Black History Month
(Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
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Black History Month
Mr. Speaker, Wednesday, the 1st of February, begins Black History Month; and on that day I introduced a proposal to have a Congressional Gold Medal issued to civil rights workers--not ...
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Speaking: Cohen
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Jobs Bill
Mr. Speaker, I rise this afternoon to talk about a jobs bill that just passed out of the Rules Committee and will be on the House floor next week. H.R. ...
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Speaking: Denham
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Jobs Bill
(Mr. DENHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
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President’s Prayer Breakfast
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 5, 2011, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
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President’s Prayer Breakfast
Mr. Speaker, well, this has been a good day legislatively in the United States House of Representatives, and there are a lot of good things to be said about what's ...
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Speaking: Gohmert
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Obamacare
Members are reminded to address their remarks to the Chair.
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Obamacare
I want to thank the gentleman from Texas who spoke so eloquently about the condition of the country and the condition it's left in. I want to remind the American ...
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Speaking: Harris
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Obamacare
May I inquire of the Chair how much time remains.
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Speaking: Harris
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Obamacare
The gentleman has approximately 7 minutes.
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Obamacare
The gentleman from Maryland has 16 minutes remaining.
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Obamacare
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 5, 2011, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Harris) is recognized for the remainder of the hour.
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Obamacare
So let's walk through some of this.
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Speaking: Harris
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Job Creation
Mr. Speaker, preliminarily, I'm here to discuss today's very encouraging jobs report.
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Speaking: Frank
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Job Creation
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 5, 2011, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.
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Leave Of Absence
By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to: Ms. Hahn (at the request of Ms. Pelosi) for today on account of a funeral in the district. Mr. Heinrich (at ...
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Adjournment
The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 4 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, February 6, 2012, at noon for morning-hour debate.
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Adjournment
Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn.
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Speaking: Frank
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Executive Communications, Etc.
Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: 4826. A letter from the Program Analyst, Department of Transportation, transmitting the ...
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Constitutional Authority Statement
Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution ...
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Private Bills And Resolutions
Under clause 3 of rule XII, Mr. ROHRABACHER introduced a bill (H.R. 3901) for the relief of Dr. Shakeel Afridi; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Public Bills And Resolutions
Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By Mr. JACKSON of Illinois: H.R. 3894. A bill ...
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Additional Sponsors
Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions as follows: H.R. 23: Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California. H.R. 32: Mr. Clay. H.R. 36: Mr. ...
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Discharge Petitions
Under clause 2 of rule XV, the following discharge petition was filed: Petition 3, February 1, 2012, by Mr. TIMOTHY WALZ on H.R. 1148, was signed by the following Members: ...
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