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Of the house of representatives. Pursuant to the order of the house january 3, 2013, the chair for now recognize members morning our debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party having one hour. With majority and minority Leaders Limited to five minutes each. Note debate should continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the german from oregon the gentleman from oregon for five minutes. Unfair and often counterproductive. Invites tax engineering and is hugely expensive for those just trying to meet their obligations. Invasions we and lose billions of do...

Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back i...

Information that you need and happy to continue the conversations. I know i dealt with council before, and attorneys, they have taken copious notes as the staff behind you is currently taking copious notes as well, rightfully so. Its the rights thing to do. Thats the challenge of this. We know the notes would have occurred because its important dealing with issues this large, and, obviously, 600 billionplus decision is going to have some sort of notetaking through the conversation how it occurred and a track with it, and wed like to have the opportunity to know how that functioned in the days ...

Considers itself an advanced nation generation as i head of us on railroad. We are two generations behind, for example, on high speed. And there is zero dollars in this bill for high speed railroad. Amtrak is very well managed. In the committee we had heard what they have done and how they have done it. But they cant manage without at least some recognition from the congress that we too have a role to play in a railroad. No railroad in the world is unsubsidized. This one is subsidized very little. It is still able to run most of its trains over 100 Miles Per Hour and we ought to understand who...

I rise to oppose the gentlemans amendment but i appreciate his persistence in trying to find an offset. I share the gentlemans support for Smart Investments in our nations Water Resources infrastructure. As i have said on a number of occasions, the corps of engineers was and really one of our primary priorities inputting our bill together. The total Program Level is 50 million above the budget request d 150 million above the postsequester level. The Flood Control and emergencies account specifically, its at the president s request. These funds will go primarily to training and response activit...