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CSPAN House Session February 12, 2015

Representativ any use t csecaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercialurposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 279, the nays are 137. The bill is passed, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore members and staff, will you please take your conversations off the floor. Members and staff will take their conversations off the floor. Thank you very much. The house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the house floor. Thank you. The chair lays before the house the following personal requests. The house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the floor. Thank you. The clerk mr. Honda of california for the afternoon of thursday through friday, february 13. Mr. Pearce of new mexico for today and the balance of the week and mr. Swalwell of california, starting at 1 30 p. M. Today and the balance of the week. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The requested the requests are granted. Members and staff, take your conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . I seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. The house will come to order. Mr. Emmer thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor the 90th anniversary of one in minnesota, born on february 10 1925 walter is a world war ii veteran with a remarkable life of service, both to his community and to his country. Shortly after graduating from Delano High School in 1943, walter was drafted into the u. S. Army air force. When his plane was shot down over germany, he spent six months as a prisoner of war to the nazis. After surviving this brutal experience, walter came back to minnesota serving as delanos postmaster until his retirement 34 years later. Freedom is a very special thing, he reminds delano students through his scholarship essay contest. You take it for granted because its always been there and always will be. But will it . Thank you for your service walter. Happy birthday. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise . Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman fromaranis recognid r one minute. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker the congress has five legislative days left until february 27. We have five days in which were going to meet in order to send the president an appropriation bill that he can sign to keep the department of Homeland Security from shutting down. The republican leader in the senate says the house ought to act. The speaker says the senate ought to act. Somebody needs to act. Somebody needs to act like an adult. Somebody needs to fund the security and safety of the American People. Their own Senate Colleagues disagree with their strategy of Holding National security hostage to their Political Goals on immigration. We face, as all of us know very real threats which is why we cannot let the departments funding lapse. If the republicans want to debate immigration policy, then bring an immigration bill to the floor. Dont hold our security hostage. I ask my republican colleagues to end their games and instead work with us to keep america safe. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. This week Marks National marriage week. This is a time for americans to recognize, to celebrate, to honor this timehonored institution and the critical importance of a man and woman committing to each other and to the children of their loving union. Mr. Huelskamp marriage is vital to our economic success, cultural wellbeing and our children and sadly it is being trampled upon as we speak. Unelected judges across the country are foisting their personal feelings and bias against traditional marriage upon the American People. This judicial activism has thrown the social and legal status of marriage into chaos. Since the question of marriage is now before the u. S. Supreme court, Congress Must act now to right this wrong. That is why today im reintroducing the marriage protection amendment to affirm the true meaning of marriage between one man and one woman and to provide a clear policy for our nation, especially our children. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Higgins mr. Speaker, today marks the sixth anniversary of crash of the continental crash. Since that tragic day, the families and friends of those taken band together as a new family to give others a flight flight home. They descended in red on capitol hill turning pain into persistence, progress and purpose. They saw success in the passage of the Airline Safety and federal Aviation Administration extension act, which establishes one level of safety regardless of size and distance. Still there is no rest for the brave families. Last week i joined them on capitol hill to support reauthorization of the federal Aviation Administration bill and to speak out against recent industry pushback on safety qualifications. With heavy hearts, we remember the people of flight 3407 and their courageous families, the flying public is safer today because of their work and persistence. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore thank you. For what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition . Ms. Roslehtinen request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection gentlelady the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. Today i rise to remind everybody that february is heart month. According to the american heart association, Heart Disease is the most common form of mortality among both men and women. In fact, one out of every four deaths in this country is cardiac related, and yet many of these deaths are preventable. Small changes in diet and exercise can have an enormous and positive impact on your heart health and life span and we must not forget americas amazing medical researchers and practitioners who are doing their part by pioneering innovative treatments that save lives every day. So please remember to love your heart this valentines day and every day. Thank you, mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition . To address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Smith thank you. I rise in support of the president s decision to defer on deportations of some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants that are in this country. This is a decision that every president has made to one degree or another. We do not have the resources to deport everybody, so he makes a decision about which ones should go and shouldnt. There is nothing illegal about that and the house should not be holding up the department of Homeland Security appropriations bill because of that policy issue. First of all, it is a policy issue. Best addressed by a policy committee, not by holding hostage an appropriations bill. There is an authorizing process to go through to have that fight. But second and more importantly the president s decision was the right one. There are millions upon millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who are valuable members of our community. They are wives and husbands. They are fathers, they are working productively, they are paying taxes. Tearing apart families tearing apart communities is not something thats going to help this country. So i think the president made the right decision. We should support it and we certainly shouldnt be shutting down the department of Homeland Security in a misguided attempt to go after that policy. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks if necessary. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Fortenberry mr. Speaker, the house is not in order. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is correct. The house will come to order. Please take your conversations, members and staff, off the floor. Thank you. Mr. Fortenberry thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the International Campaign to defeat isil depends in great part on the strength and effectiveness of trusted partners in the middle east, trusted partners such as the kurds. The Kurdish People is a moderate and capable force. They are ensuring determined courage in fighting isil and there are winning a number of strategic victories. The kurds are also defending the values of tolerance, sheltering hundreds of thousands of christians, innocent muslim people who have fled isils onslaught. The kurds deserve robust support. Driven by a twisted form of islam, isils militants are acentury barbarians using 21st century weaponry. The recent videotape of a caged jordanian pilot shows their brutality. They are responsible for four american hostages, including kalea mueller, a 26yearold humanitarian who was assisting refugees in syria. Confronting such acts, key allies, including germany, france and britain, should enhance military support for the kurds. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from hawaii seek recognition . Ms. Gabbard i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Gabbard i come to the floor today to honor the life of al lewis a selfless and larger than Life Community leader who truly embodied the aloha spirit in my home state of hawaii. He was a husband, a father, a friend, an organizer, a mentor and so much more to so many. If you knew his hometown, you also knew uncle al. He found his passion helping those in need and led through servant leadership, never too busy or preoccupied with himself to take action to better the lives of those around him. He helped by seeking the teen project. In founding the friends, he helped create a literary program, purchase uniforms for schoolchildren and donate to a high school. Every single year, he brought the Community Together from all parts at the community carnival. A respected and Loyal Community advocate, al lewis, better known as uncle al, will be remembered and missed by his friends, family and hawaii. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, today once again we find ourselves on the verge of shutdown because congress cant do its job and pass funding for the department of Homeland Security. Mr. Aguilar mr. Speaker, over a year ago the Congress Passed a commonsense plan that the house failed to pass. The house has failed to pass anything to address immigration reform, forcing the president to act. And now congress is playing politics trying to roll back the president s reforms and threatening to force the American People to pay the price for congress inability to agree on funding, to protect our homeland. Mr. Speaker, we cannot risk american jobs, lives and the National Security of the United States. We need to pass Homeland Security appropriations. We face many threats around the world. We cannot play games here. To my colleagues, i ask you, is it more important to score political points or is it more important to safeguard our National Security . Mr. Speaker, im urging you today to bring a clean appropriations bill to the floor so we can fully fund the department of Homeland Security and i urge my colleagues to join this effort. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore are there any further requests for oneminute speeches . Under the speakers announced policy of january 6, 2015 the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Pocan, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. Pocan thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise on behalf of the congressional progressive caucus, which is having our special order hour today to talk about the nations needs for infrastructure. The fact that we need to keep serious investments in infrastructure, not only to keep our roads and bridges and other important parts of our country together but also to help the good family supporting jobs that come along with these important investments in our infrastructure. You know, i was i serve on the Budget Committee, and we were talking one day with dr. Elmendorf from the Congressional Budget Office our nonpartisan agency that we deal with to talk about budgetary matters. Specifically, i asked the question of dr. Elmendorf about the recovery act we passed in this congress a number of years ago and he said thanks to that recovery act over three million jobs were saved or created because of the investment we put into our nations infrastructure. In my state of wisconsin, i was at the state legislature at the time and we had a report from the road building industry and the vertical Construction Industry that said 54,000 jobs just in wisconsin were saved or created because of the recovery act that happened. And as much as that helped provide a boost to our economy and helped fulfill our infrastructure needs, we still have so many more to take care of. Weve been given a grade of dplus by the very Engineering Society that grades our nations infrastructure. Weve been told that we have 100,000 bridges in this country, 16 of the bridges in this country that are old enough they could qualify for medicare. And as we have known from recent disasters that weve seen in different parts of the country where bridges have fallen and people have literally been killed we need to reinvest in that infrastructure so that we have a country that operates, that businesses can function and also we need to help create those jobs now for people who are still out of work, as the economy is coming back, we know that wages have been stagnant and these are good, strong, familysupporting jobs that can provide it. So the congressional progressive caucus will soon be putting out our version of the budget, as we will among the democrats and the republicans but well put out a budget as the president had with a deep investment in our infrastructure needs because we know that investment is one of the pillars of a strong economy. Id like to yield making sure that america gets a raise and lift our nations infrastructure and why that investment is so important. I would like to yield some time to representative coleman from the great state of new jersey. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from is recognized for the remainder of the hour. Mrs. Coleman let me thank my colleague, mr. Poke ann in polk and to address the United States of america and im new around here and i like to listen and evaluate before i speak and only speak when i might have something to add of value. If you drive through my district, which is the 12th Congressional District of the state of new jersey and includes a lot of highways and byways and bridges, you will see this iconic sign in the capital of new jersey that says, trenton makes the world. It points out the legendary industrial past of our community. This industrial revolution, it has passed us by and reminder of the employment that the city used to have. Yes the city of trenton was once the place that you found employment. The Trenton Iron Company produced beams from the dome on this u. S. Capitol building where we stand today. And trentons company produced wire rope that was used to make the Brooklyn Bridge and George Washington bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in california. Trenton was known for its pot erie making and today trenton pot erie can be found on display in museums around of the world because of its superiority. Its industry involves oyster pork rolls bayer aspirin. Yet today, trepton new jersey has a 15 unemployment rate. The city of the citys industrial past does little for thousands of unemployed workers searching for work today. The city has had a turn for the worse since the Manufacturing Sector has left and took with it greatpaying jobs. Were not alone in that problem. The same could be said for Cleveland Ohio or detroit, michigan or gary, indiana or philadelphia pennsylvania. Towns that were once thriving centers of commerce where jobs were plentyful and unemployment was rare. Today these same towns face an Unemployment Crisis where securing work that enables a mother or a father to support a family is an elusive proposition. At the

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