the resolution is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table the chair will receive a message madam speaker a message from the senate madam speak in economic stimulus for the american people act stimulus through recovery rebates the end of the jewels incentives for business investment and an increase in conforming a fifth eight f h a loan limits with the senate amendment there to and to consider in the house without intervention of any point of order a motion offered by the chairman of the committee of ways and means or says the they that the house concur in the senate amendment the senate amendment in motion show be considered as without intervening motion without objection so order madam speaker preserve until the previous order of the house i call a base you are fifty one forty and the senate amendment there to the clinical report the title of the bill and doesn't make the senate amendment h r fifty one forty and provide economic similar to the recovery we pay an individual incentive for business investment and an increase in conforming rendell of new york moves that the house concur in the senate amendment to h r fifty one forty pursuant to the order of the house today the gentleman from new york mr wrangle and the gentleman from louisiana mr chairman is correct the house is not in order members will take their conversations off the floor members will take their seat gentlemen from new york is recognized thank you madam speaker about the nonpartizan joint committee on taxation to make available to the public a technical explanation of the tax the visions of age of fifty one forty the the nation expresses the committee understanding and the legislative intent behind this important legislation the sex explanation document j c x that sixteen zero eight is currently available on the joint committee's web site madam speaker first and foremost i want to expand my deep appreciation for speaker pelosi for leadership and commitment to a bipartisan spirit and to the minority leader m of this relief and finally getting to work to ensure its quick passage today enabling the house to pass the senate amendment and delivering it to the president's that i also would like to thank m who made it easy for us to work with our leadership in the house to cooperate with the ministration to make certainly that our mission to speedily pass the stimulus bill was done and said over to the to the senate i also want to point out that that should give us all in our country and indeed in a in this house an opportunity to see that we are not sending this hundreds of billions of dollars in rape eight dollars to the people that need it out of compassion we're not sending it to them because we think it's right that they should put a roof over their heads or clothing on their backs or provides food on the table we're doing it because once again we want to stimulate the economy and therefore it means that we want goods and services to be purchased while we doing this and we support this effort because economists say it's the right thing to do and we do it because these are  people middle class people low income people hardworking people disabled veterans we do it because it's the right thing to do that madam speaker and my colleagues in the house i hope when this recession is over and it will be over would take a good look at the people that we're talking in today and we should be able to they say that there's something wrong with this picture it is something wrong with when we can find millions of people unable to provide the basic goods and services they need and at the same time find that those of most of fluent and not even disturbed by the recession that we find ourselves in today and so we should be pleased that the congress is doing the right thing but we all should should also remember that it's not what a lot of dignity and pride that people receive this is the sense they receive it because that's the economy it's an elitist said they're going to spend this money because they have to this money and so madam speaker as we move forward i yield myself the reserve reserve the balance of my time as we move forward to pass this is spent you gentlemen  gentleman from louisiana boehner for their efforts on a bipartisan basis to respond in a very efficient and quick manner to the needs of the country needs of our economy  by putting together and supporting a stimulus package that we hope combined with the efforts of the fed will indeed avert a recession in this country and will contribute to a higher level of economic growth this year than we otherwise would have had their efforts surely should be taken note of every member of this house  congress and by people across this country it demonstrates that when we in this body want to work together and accomplish something for the country we can do it and we certainly have done it in this piece of it is a compromise no question about it there are things that we would have liked to have had in this bill that are not in there are things that the majority would have liked to have had and that are not in here but the fact that we were able to come together and get this done in this very short amount of time is clearly a victory for the american people and i believe a victory for this congress i also want to thank my colleague the chairman of the ways and means  has really reached out to the minority throughout his tenure as chairman and in this instance his staff worked very closely with the minority staff and with leadership staff to put this product together so i want to thank him for his continued gentlemanly conduct of the committee and cooperation with the minority when when it's possible madam speaker this bill before us today does have a few changes from the house bill that passed just a few days ago the changes basically allow  social security benefits and disabled veterans benefits to count as earned income for purposes of satisfying the three thousand dollars requirement for an income to get the the the  dates three hundred dollars per person six hundred dollars per couple and even the three hundred dollars child credit if applicable so i think certainly that is an improvement to the bill in the sense that we will get more money into the hands of people who will more than likely spend that money very quickly and get that money working in the economy we also the senate also made some changes with respect to making sure that illegal immigrants are not able to take advantage of this pre bait these checks that are being sent out and certainly that is a positive development so all in all that one speaker i think the product before this evening is an excellent work of the two bodies on a bipartisan basis and of course with the support of the bush administration and i hope that all members in this body will tonight enthusiastically support this product and get this to the president for his signature to the i r s for their administration and get checks in the hands of people and allow businesses to begin to  get a bonus depreciation for investment we think that will help speed investment into this year and create jobs and that's the best way to find an economic downturn is to create jobs and get money circulating in the economy from paychecks so with that madam speaker i reserve the balance of my time the gentleman from louisiana reserve the gentleman from new york is right that was speaker like the three minutes two legged friend and a hardworking congressman from pennsylvania mystic enjoys ski the gentleman has produced timely targeted and temporary legislation to stimulate our nation's slowing economy i am also pleased that the legislation we are about to consider ensures that our nation's senior citizens and disabled veterans are not left out of this worthwhile package because of my concerns that the bill we considered last week did not include the low income seniors and the disabled i led the effort in the house to ensure that those who depend entirely on their social security checks were included in the final version of this legislation i am very pleased that senate agreed and expanded the economic stimulus package to provide these americans which with much needed relief  urge my colleagues in the house to do the same our nation's seniors and disabled veterans are facing difficult economic times for years these men and women have been forced to survive on less and less as their costs continue to increase and their incomes remain the same these americans need cash ben rebates just as much as the individuals are originally included in the stimulus package i am also pleased to see that the legislation we're about to vote on includes language that would ensure that illegal immigrants do not receive cash benefits that should only go to those who rightfully deserve it this language mirrors legislation that i introduced in the house today finally the bill before us today contains an important provision that i helped to craft as the chairman of the subcommittee of capital markets insurance and government sponsored enterprises this reform and temporarily increase the conforming loans limits of fannie mae and freddie mac to enhance the liquidity of our mortgage markets i support this short term change madam  matters speaker once again i wish to applaud the efforts of both the members of the house and the members of the senate in crafting legislation that will spur our economy provide rebates to those that need them most and for federal benefits do not receive them further madam speaker i have great pride today that the congress of the united states could bring this most important first of all i'd like to commend chairman rangle chairman frank the leadership of both the democratic and republican leadership ranking member  and my writing member frank i think that what we have here is good legislation i've supported it for three reasons one it passed the house most importantly how to repeat the words of ranking member mccrary we're getting money back in the hands of american citizens we're letting them make the decision on how to spend the money and not this congress it's a tax cut it's a tax cut for many low and middle income americans i particularly like the tax cuts we've given the same years to veterans and the disabled as the jen pennsylvania pointed out secondly and the financial services committee tried to address the much publicized and very important problems with our housing market by increasing liquidity and our housing market for mortgages there are people that are ready to buy houses there are institutions that are ready to loan but there is a lack of confidence and some of those mortgages and in that financing and i believe the new limits we've given the g s season f h a s will help that market we've done it short term w revisit it if it needs to be for a longer period of time third i believe what is lacking most of all in our condom in our country today is lack of confidence a lack of optimism there's been a lot of expressions of the importance of hope the importance of optimism and confidence and i believe it leash or term this package will at least s american people we have confidence in you there's room need for optimism and hopefully and some small way it will promote optimism and confidence i will say this as a close until and unless we balance the budget until government begins to spend what it brings in we're going to have problems until we address entitlement reform we're going recognize a chairman of the finance committee who and the leadership of the speaker provided guidance to all of us in the committee to be ready for this kasian if in fact we had to we do have to we were ready and i'm proud to be how many minutes does the gentleman yield three minutes gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for three minutes i begin appropriate to this bill on a note of bipartisanship my counterpart on the present subcommittee said we must reduce spending and i agree and we will have a chance this year to reduce the most wasteful drain on our economy imaginable the war in iraq one hundred billion dollars a year far more than the excess in any other program so i hope you american people here will heed his view and we will put in place a policy that will save us a trillion dollars over the next ten years if the wishes of some to stay in iraq are maintained suddenly going to be reinforced with the chairman said it was in late november of last year that speaker  pelosi urged us to begin thinking about the economy and called together a group of economists may believe is the business leaders and she took the lead and more than anyone else is responsible the fact that we are confounding the cynics by acting show quickly and responsibly today lastly on the housing piece what we have is a private housing market that has gotten itself into a terrible  and part of this bill is to use public and quasars a public entities entities created by the federal government to go to the aid of the public to the aid of the private market the private market and stop making loans for private fannie mae and freddie mac we here today send the public sector to the rescue of the mortgage market at the upper end that can't function on its own but let me say this there's been an argument that we should not have done that without further structural reform in those two entities i have agreed to those limits and in fact pushed for them being raised now because we're in an economic crisis and we need a short term response but i am committed and i know my friend from alabama joins me in th we will not agree to any further extension of those loan limits after the expiration date of december of this year unless we are able to accompany them with structural reform and let me say i see my friend nodding and that's our commitment so we are committed and the chairman of the senate banking union i and our members are now talking about the f h a bill we will not let me give this commitment we will not bring out of our committee an increase in the time at which the jumbo loans can be paid for until we have comprehensive reform given that we have a reasonable package we get money out thanks to the speaker's insistence in this bipartisan framework to precisely the people who will spend it would use what we need now and we freddie in a responsible way to the aid of the private market because private sector public sector cooperation is the foundation of our economy gentleman from louisiana putting more demand into a flagging economy more money back into the hands of america's hardworking middle class families through tax rebates and a bump in the child tax credit this agreement will quickly inject a cash infusion into the economy to assist families with skyrocketing food services and energy costs importantly this legislation will go a step further than the original compact and ensure that veterans and seniors receive additional financial support to boost their buying power all of that is positive and we've already heard the housing provisions to increase limits on loans backed by the f h a and g s a as well without a doubt give relief to families facing financial pressure from the subprime mortgage crisis finally and importantly by rewarding businesses for making critical capital investments here onshore will expand investment create  improve the competitiveness of the american economy and put an immediate infusion of liquidity into the economy mr speaker madam speaker in my view this is precisely the right tomic at the right time this should be a start not the last word we should be moving forward with regulatory reform and above all let me know to the people on the other side of the aisle a budget this year without a large tax increase looming in the future but short of that this is a good starting place and i urge my colleagues to vote for working families vote for jobs that vote above all for a growing economy i yield back the balance of my time the gentleman from new york thank you ma atmosphere in this house of representatives so that we all could respect the dignity and the differences that we have with the other body house that was our committee has worked together in such a way that at the end of the day we knew that we would be able to say that it was the house of representatives that set the below but the and so i like the one minute to our distinguished speaker nancy pelosi the gentleman from california t thank you very much madam speaker i thank the gentleman first kind words extraordinary leadership which made it possible for us to come to the floor with this bipartisan historic legislation tonight thank you mr wrangle for your leadership and thank you mr mccurry for yours it's quite an evening when we can come together in a bipartisan way for legislation that helps the middle class helps those aspire to the not class investment and gives incentives to businesses to create jobs just immolate our economy i thank you for that i think knowledge the leadership of chairman barney frank chairman of the financial services committee for his leadership along with the ranking member baucus for his because those who  who are concerned about and that is all of us as a sub prime crisis can see some relief in this legislation because of their leadership i want to acknowledge another member of the natural services committee mr  dropping the bill even before we took this up this evening for seniors and disabled veterans to be getting a recovery rebate as well as well as clarification of languages language regarding undocumented persons in our country view of our caucus we came with consensus to the table none of us got everything we wanted in the legislation but we did get a great deal for the american people we did so in a manner that was timely we are acting in record time targeted on the middle class and those who aspire to it targeted to businesses tax incentives to business is to create jobs and temporary so this these resources and these tax incentives will be used and spent in a way that will have an impact in the economy somebody very tall with you before me in any event i don't know who that was i also want to salute secretary paulson for his persistence and his leadership and his receptivity shall we say and responsiveness to some of the values that the democrats were putting on the table regarding those who have not participated in receiving a recovery rebate before but do so in this bil and another member of the house i want to acknowledge well let me let me first go across this is across the aisle there's also across the capitol we worked it out in record time again with leader reid and the republican leader mcconnell on the senate side so that tonight we could bring this bill to the floor it was only that which you and a half weeks ago the leadership was on the telephone with the president of the united states he had just returned from this trip to the middle east and we talked about what every homemaker in america has known for a long time that america our economy was in going into a downturn we wanted to prevent it from being more of a downturn and the stimulus was needed we had heard from remember nanki about the state of the autonomy and that a stimulus was needed and that it should have certain features of time being timely targeted and temporary and the president on that phone call agreed that we should go for the stimulus package in record time the house put it together and sent it over to the senate and i'm very very proud of that divide boast of it it's because it's highly unusual that we could respond in such record time but we did so because it was urgent for the american people so often they listen on the debate on the floor of the house which seems irrelevant to their lives this is very relevant to their lives but because there are many firsts in here for the first time those who don't make over a certain income are able to participate in the recovery rebate and the child tax credit in fact forty million americans forty million families will be more than americans forty million families will be receiving those rebates and tax credits who had never received a rebate or a tax refundable tax child tax credit before that's that just standing was different from the bill the president originally proposed because his proposal did not have a cap so some of the wealthiest people in america could get this rebate and stead we said god bless them for their success we need to put this money in the pockets of those who are living paycheck to paycheck who are finding it harder struggling to make ends meet with the price of gasoline the price of groceries the price of health care the price of education anything you can name the cost for going up and the purchasing power of their income was not and so we believe that the stimulus the way it is targeted will put h money in the hands of those who will spend it immediately injecting demand into the economy and therefore creating jobs the impact that we want the stimulus to have same thing with the small business incentives one of the reasons we were over to move so quickly is because we were ready we were ready the reason we were ready with a tax a child tax credit is cuz congresswoman's a warrior who has worked on this issue and her for her lifetime in congress and of course as chairman of the committee mr rangle has had this as a high priority so it wasn't something that we had to go create it's something that we had in our minds and in our hearts to do for a long time the tax credits the incentives for small businesses have been a part of the bipartisan support we have in the house for an innovation agenda so that small businesses and medium sized businesses can take advantage and short period of time of this and incentive that they have to invest in and to purchase equipment and the rest again for job creation good paying jobs here in america we're ready because the financial services committee under the leadership of mister mr barney frank and ranking member baucus has already passed these bills on the floor of the house not everything in the bills is included in the stimulus but these bills have passed the house and have been sent over to the senate certain features that are contained in this bill are so that there is some relief for the some sub prime crisis the list goes on and on but we had our priorities they've been our priorities for a while there particularly essential now in the time of the need of stimulus so when when the time came when the president said he would sign such a bill we were ready with our priorities we fought it out was an a z fight but we knew we had to do in the shortest period of time and it was an easy and there are some things that i said to the president on the phone when he congratulated them going forward that i would like to of seen in the bill like unemployment insurance and lie heaping food stamps the rest but we will take care of those issues in due course every bill cannot accomplish every goal that we have i want to add because in another piece of legislation for another day but we had been cautioned over and over and we've cautioned each other in whatever we did in stimulus even though it would not have to conform with pay go strictly speaking that it would not be so overloaded that it would be a deterrent to recovery because we were taking our country more deeply in debt of them was justified by a stimulus package for repair every so because of all of this cooperation hopefully it will serve as a model i again to commend secretary paulson for his perseverance and his leadership and we look forward to soon and few days perhaps the president the united states signing this bill but the secretary has assured us that with the passage of this bill tonight even before the presidential signature the word will go to the i r s to begin the process of getting these checks out to the families so i think every member of this body should take great pride in the bipartisanship of it in the focus of what the display discipline of it and what it means what it means that it is relevant to the lives of the american people a typical middle income family a mother a family of four with two children will get eighteen hundred dollars eighteen hundred dollars i think that that is impressive and families making less than that will other families depending on the number of their children will get a sizeable check in the mail this says to them we respect your contribution to our country to our economy to our society and even if you don't make a lot of money and pay income tax twenty eight billion dollars infused into our condo me through their hands this is a new direction i urge my colleagues to support it and i'm proud to be associated with it and  for their leadership for making it possible this evening thank you the gentleman from louisiana madam speaker i yield two minutes to the singer's gentleman from california mr campbell the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes i thank my friend from louisiana for i hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will vote against this bill tonight i hope you'll vote against it because it's too late the most important quarters or this quarter and next quarter in the vast majority this won't even take effect until after or at the end of the next quarter i hope you'll vote against it because it may be political stimulus but it is the wrong economic stimulus we are in this problem because of a credit crunch leading to a capital crunch because arguably americans bought borrowed and spent too much and were going to ask them to spend more i hope you will oppose it because it is wealth redistribution people who pay over fifty percent of the taxes in this country will get nothing and roughly thirty percent of the benefit of this will go to people who pay no taxes at all i hope you will vote against this and oppose it because illegal aliens will get this in spite of the new language put in the villiers see we have lots of laws that say it is illegal for people to be here and do what they do anyway the problem is we don't enforce those and we can't enforce what is in here either it will be another unenforceable law i hope you will oppose it because the potential for fraud when you give money for nothing there isn't an ability to have fraud the o estimates the roughly one third of all the earned income tax credits paid out or fraudulent it will be the same here i hope you'll post it because it encourages spending when what we need is a society is more saving and investment but if none of that matter if none of that matter to you at all i hope you will pose it because it nearly doubles the deficit for this year after three years of declining deficits we're going to begin the other way and we're going to nearly double that deficit by a flat screen t v and save american it's not a good policy i urge you to vote no the gentleman from new york t asked revise and extend without objection so ordered the gentle lady is recognized thank you very much matter a speaker to this thing was chairman mr wrangle and to mr kanjorski the whole team and  most forthright and determined speaker and this bipartisan leadership that has responded to the pain and the hurt of so many americans some of it asked the question why are we moving so fast and why are we investing in people who are those who receive dollars who happen to be low income because people are hurting and so i'm glad that we have these values that have created this vehicle to help america and that we including help and rebates for the elderly we're including monies for thirty five million families who work but yet make too little to pay income tax in the way that you think of them saying but they do pay taxes they will get a rebate disabled veterans will get a rebate but i look forward to the time when we can extend the unemployment we can expand food stamps and medicaid only because people are hurting and why they're hurting because we are spending one hundred twenty billion dollars in iraq for the gentleman who just spoke if we stop doing that we'll be able to provide for the engine of the economy why do we need it because in this budget right here that the president is offered thirty nine million dollars will be taken away from social services block grant from texans and millions of dollars for the rest of the americans while we're hurting because forty seven million dollars will be taken away from texans as relates to community block grants two hundred communities will be impacted more people hurting this is the right direction this economic stimulus package is quick it gives back to families it gives back to hardworking families it gives back to moderate and low income families and it says that warren buffett is right give money to hardworking americans so that they can make a difference give money to invest in communities so we can build up the economic economy and lastly let me say thank you so very much for the increase in the f h a loans of seven hundred twenty nine thousand dollars people are hurting and we need to and means committee gentleman from california mr herder the gentleman from california to recognize for two minutes thank you madam speaker i wish i could share the enthusiasm of my colleagues about tonight's bill i truly do but right now americans need to know their jobs will be around tomorrow regrettably this evening's baled doesn't have much in the way of tax relief the spur job creation and should have gone much further what concerns to me more is the expanded redistribution of money through tax rebate that well i believe have next to zero positive effect on our economy in the short or long term and unfortunately at more than a hundred billion dollars it can hardly be called free money and congress is hurry to act in reaction to negative economic news we've truly m opportunity to enact lasting pro growth tax relief such a relief would benefit all americans create new jobs and drive economic prosperity i support tonight legislation but i believe we can and must do more as a congress the foster economic growth i yield back the gentleman from new york is recognized i'd like to eal to lis donnelly from indiana for two minutes unless we deduce the age of fifty one seventy two to assure that one hundred twenty seven million americans senior americans receive this relief like to yield to him for two minutes the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes thank you madam speaker and thank you mr chairman i rise tonight to commend the house and the senate for working together to put together this economic stimulus package and to do it so quickly this bipartisan package will spark our economy by providing millions of working families including seniors and disabled veterans with targeted tax relief i am especially proud that this broad based package also includes language from my bill h r five one seven to the immediate financial assistance for america's seniors act this provision ensures that nearly twenty million low income seniors many who rely heavily on social security will receive much needed tax relief these retired seniors have worked hard all of their lives they have paid taxes and they deserve this support again i commend the house in the senate for all this work and i yield back the balance of my time gentleman yield back the gentleman from louisiana is recognized  yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from illinois musburger the general at me from illinois is recognized for two minutes thank you and i thank the gentleman for yielding and madam speaker i rise in support of this bill which will boost economic activity and help strengthen the american housing market i'm pleased that the house and senate leaders from both sides of the aisle have been able to reach agreement on a well balanced compromise and i also applaud our colleagues in the senate for resisting pressure from would delay this package with inappropriate changes and unnecessary spending hardworking americans are finding more and more difficult to provide for their families in this bill will help to relieve some of the financial strain and because it is a clean and targeted package this bill will provide the greater economy with a much needed jolt of consumer activity as a member of the financial services committee i especially appreciate the senate preserve the house passed provisions of increasing the conforming loan limits for the and g s c back home mortgages this is a critical change that will help invigorate the housing market and enable perspective homeowners in and higher price markets like chicago to take advantage of these prime mortgage products and i think it's great that chairman frank has is committed to ranking member baucus that we will be working on a for f h a we form so we took the first step today by increasing the conforming loan limits but to truly restore the housing sector we need to give more consumers an alternative to subprime and predatory products the f h a can provide that alternative but not until the house and senate conference their respective f h a  reform bills so by sending this legislation to the president we can help hundreds of thousands of families face facing foreclosure qualify for a prime rate refinancing so they can keep their homes and i applaud the bill before us as a truly good step minnesota is recognized for one minute thank you madam speaker and thank you mr chairman and ranking member i thank you for your pragmatism i thank you for your vision and your willingness to get this done understanding that the situation in our economy is one as i heard speaker pelosi say most americans knew far before we did that this was trouble i keep hearing people say that the economy was fine saying it doesn't make it so we know that in the last seven years the policies we've seen have created the lowest job growth  r since a great depression we've seen real wages drop by twenty five hundred dollars the american people needed something and this is a good bipartisan piece of legislation bringing them together to try and address those facts that that they understood long before we did and i think it sets the stage and shows the american public we can get along we can move things and we can make a positive difference and this is a great first step and with that i urge my colleagues to support that this good timely piece of legislation with that i y georgia for one minute the gentleman for georgia is recognized for one minute thank you very much madam speaker and it is indeed a pleasure to stand before the house and to thank that's the sting was chairman of our ways and means committee for doing a yeoman's job and a very difficult issue and bringing both parties together and bringing both chambers together in responding in a timely way to help the american people who are struggling to make intimate there are some who say we're not in a rip and a recession but i can tell you this from my constituency and others all across this country a recession is upon us and in some areas with high unemployment  borders on a depression so this is much needed it comes at a timely manner we're putting money into the hands of those who will spend it the quickest and that means the moderate and lower income individuals and at the same time i'm proud as a member of the financial services committee to a played a small role in helping this move forward especially in expanding the limits of fannie mae and freddie mac and f h a loan extensions with that i thank the  week a gentleman from louisiana is recognized madam speaker it's a pleasure to recognize for closing on our side the distinguished minority leader gentleman from ohio  are who clearly was instrumental in getting this product developed through the floor and through the process and he has been lauded by a number of our colleagues here tonight and of the aisle who've worked diligently to get this bill passed this economic growth package is an important victory for middle class american families and small businesses and you know with the rising cost of energy health care college housing and taxes we put a real strain on the family budget but you know american people want us to work together to provide solutions to these problems and i think this bill as begins us begins to move us in the right direction and the bipartisan measure will help our economy get moving in the quick quickest and most effective way possible it puts money back in the hands of middle class american families it will give businesses incentives  to create new jobs and help grow our economy and i think the package that we have before us also clearly is a genuine compromise republicans gave a little democrats gave a little the house gave a little and the senate gave a little but perhaps most importantly is a simple and straightforward and it does not increase taxes or increase unrelated spending in other words it will empower individuals not the federal government think that the raising taxes in this environment would be the worst thing that we could do i think that we need to begin to focus on how we make the tax cuts that we put in place earlier this year earlier this decade how we make them permanent what do we do about the corporate tax rate is driving american businesses out of the us and we need to have a corporate tax rate that helps keep merican businesses here and there's one thing that we really can do to help ourselves and that's to really put our arms around that's especially wasteful spending and put a stop to it we've got to get our fiscal house in order you know many americans i think correctly believe that that washington is broken and i am here tonight to say that that washington does have its share of problems and i'm hopeful that this agreement we've been able to come to what helped us onto a path that shows the american people that we understand the problems that we have here in washington in that we can in fact work together to solve the problems the american people sent us here to solve i couldn't finish this without also saying something something very nice about our speaker over the course of the last year the speaker and i didn't have a policy conversation i can tell you that we've had about twenty five over the last several the last several weeks and and for the health of our institution i think that it's good to come together and find common ground where we can and i'm glad that we were able to find common ground on this economic growth package and i'm hopeful that we'll continue to try to find places where we can work together to solve problems that the american people expect us to solve  ask all time for debate has expired pursuant to the order of the house of today the previous question is ordered the question is on the motion by the gentleman from new york all those in favor say the asian names are requested those favoring a vote by they gaze a nasal rise a sufficient number having risen the gays in asia are ordered members will record their votes by electronic device this will be a fifteen minute vote so the house is now voting on the economic stimulus plan as revised and passed earlier today over in the senate we talked