House Proceeding on Jun 11th, 2009 :: 1:13:45 to 1:15:45
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Jerry Lewis: to get all of the first preferences that we would prefer. so with that if the gentleman's prepared to close i yield back t the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin yields back his time. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: madam speaker, i fore one am looking forward to a -- i for one alooking forward to a number of celebrations. one of the celebrations that i

1:13:45 to 1:15:45( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Jerry Lewis

1:14:04 to 1:14:24( Edit History Discussion )

Jerry Lewis: hope to participate in the near future involves who happens to be the speaker at the moment. we have sale bration when we reach the point would stop presuming that every problem in aside because it can blame the past president about this. as i rember, i think we had a

1:14:25 to 1:14:46( Edit History Discussion )

Jerry Lewis: vote in the house in which there was broadly base bipartisan support, for example, in suort of the then president for the war in iraq. and an in this bill today dealing with guantanamo, if i'm not mistaken, that issue would not

1:14:47 to 1:15:09( Edit History Discussion )

Jerry Lewis: be before us if the current president would commit to his closing guantanamo. that's creating this horrendous problem. setting all that aside, as i close, madam speaker, the bill before us or the item before us is an item that involves the conference that's about to take place between the senate and the house, having to do with the supplemeal funding that

1:15:10 to 1:15:31( Edit History Discussion )

Jerry Lewis: was designed originally to give support to our efforts in afghanistan and iraq. . my appears as though we have setaside that bipartisan support for the convenience of the leadership. indeed we'll have a conference with the senate that involves two things. a siificant reduction of about $5 million in the mon

1:15:32 to 1:15:45( Edit History Discussion )

Jerry Lewis: available to support our troops. and above and beyond that for all intents and purposes, about that sum of money is transferred for foreign aid, for funding for i.m.f. providing access to all kinds of countries who are not friendly