House Proceeding on Jul 24th, 2009 :: 0:59:25 to 1:04:45
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0:59:21 to 0:59:46( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: can answer that where are the jobs. and my question is, why did they lose so many before they started asking the jobs where are the jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i particularly care to get into a

0:59:25 to 1:04:45( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: David R. Obey

0:59:47 to 1:00:09( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: partisan diatribe. i recognize the gentleman from texas is chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee and i can understand his position of why he would be willing to look anywhere he can to find the slightest issue which he thinks can restore his party to the majority status inhis house.

1:00:10 to 1:00:30( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: and i sympathesize with him because i think he will have to strain at nets often in order to accomplish that. and one such example is the objection that they're raising to the rule this morning with respect to amendments. i want to walk you through, mr. speaker, what the facts are on the amendments that were offered

1:00:31 to 1:00:51( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: to this bill. there were 35 amendments that were initially filed for the bill. on the democratic side, there were 21. seven of those amendments were not in order because they violated the rules of so they were set aside.

1:00:52 to 1:01:13( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: that left 14 left. of the 14 that were left, nine of them are now going to be wholly or partially incorporated into the manager's amendment. . with the agreement of the sponsors. with five left. two of those amendments in the

1:01:14 to 1:01:34( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: judgment of the rules committee were related to arguments that better belonged in the authorizing committees. another was, and i'm sure the gentleman from arizona will be shocked by this, another would have added an earmark which would not have been eligible for funding under the program to which the earmark wanted to be attached.

1:01:35 to 1:01:57( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: so the rules committee turned that down. and then two of those amendments, the remaing two were dropped with the understanding that we would try to sengthen funding for the programs involved when we moved to conference. so we've just -- so we dealt with all of the amendments on the democratic side.

1:01:58 to 1:02:19( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: on the republican side, there were 14 amendments that were initially, nine of them were out of order. they were worked with and that reduced the number to four amendments that were out of order under house rules and subject to point of order. that left 10 republican amendments. three of those issues, again,

1:02:20 to 1:02:41( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: in the judgment of the rules committee, were determined to be issues that more appropriately should be dealt with in the health care reform bill. example one sought to prevent us from creating a public plan in the health insurance bill. i did not know tt the appropriations committee was so

1:02:42 to 1:03:02( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: talented that in addition to handling the budget matters it's also supposed to interfere in jgments about health care reform. evidently some people think they should. i think the rules committee was right. another amendment dealt with an issue that had been disposed of in the authorizing committee,

1:03:03 to 1:03:23( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: the education and labor committee in the same week. and then there was one other amendment that simply rehashed an old campaign argument, a matter which relates to elections and more properly belongs in either the judiciary committee or the house administration committee which oversees elections.

1:03:24 to 1:03:45( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: that leaves five remaining republican amendents. four of them were made in order. four of them were made in order. four out of the five remaing amendments. and there was only one that was not made in order, a that one was an amendment that simply sought to stuff an additional $1 billion into a program that

1:03:46 to 1:04:07( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: had already been increased by $12 billion. so if someone nts to make a federal case out of the fact that one amendment was denied, be my guest. i've seen worse offenses around here. with respect to the budget, i'm not going to get into a partisan debate.

1:04:08 to 1:04:28( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: all i want to say is this. both presidents, bush and president obama, were faced with terrible problems when the economy collapsed late last year. we were losing 700,000 full-time jobs at a time when

1:04:29 to 1:04:46( Edit History Discussion )

David R. Obey: mr. obama was still waiting to take the oath to be sworn in. and so he inherited a terrible problem. both president bush and president obama wound up having to push a lot of money into the financial sector of the economy to solve our economic problems. this bill takes care of the