or until the time of any reassembly pursuant to section three of this bigger resolution whichever occurs first section three the majority leader of the senate and the speaker of the house or their respective designee acting jointly after consultation with the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the house show notify members of the senate and the house respectively to resemble at such a place and time as they may designate if in their opinion the public interest show warranted out of an order reconsider is laid on consideration in the house the court a report that title of the the bill and designate the senate amendment it for twenty seven sixty four an act making appropriations for the department of state formulation for an operations and related programs for the fiscal y a motion motion offered by mr obey of wisconsin pursue the house resolution eight ninety three the gentleman from wisconsin mr obi and a gentleman from california mr lewis each will control thirty minutes the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin ago i would like to take special note of the fact that the appropriations committee in the house is losing a highly valuable member of our staff david morrison things and i know the gentleman from pennsylvania mr murtha and certainly heavily relied upon him is well i hesitate to point out that before he served the appropriations committee in the house he had an erran call up this senate amendment even though i intend to vote against it as the house i think understands yesterday the house considered to be considered an omnibus appropriation bill and what we did was to consider two amendments one amendment related to the domestic funding for the bill and the other memet related to funding for afghanistan and for certain force protection items we sent those two amendments over to the senate and the senate has amended the product in one respect they have substituted for these a thirty billion dollars that we sent to the senate for  afghanistan and for force protection items they have substituted seventy billion dollars and send it back to the house and i have an obligation to allow the house to all work its will on this matter even though i suspect i'm going to disagree with the with the result of this action in my view when we sent legislation over to the senate three weeks ago that legislation provided for fifty billion dollars for the purpose of helping to shut down the war by establishing a timeline by requiring that  agencies of the aisle of the federal government and here to the u s army manual with respect to torture and and we also require that every unit be militarily ready to perform its duties that is still sitting in the senate in my view all that we had to do to deal with the so called shortfall that does a white house has been talking about is for the president to sign that bill with those conditions the white house has blocked that legislation in the senate and so we'll we've come to this members will vote however they choose i intend to vote no but this is an individual vote of conscience and with that i reserve the balance of my time jump in senate side and because of that i'm going to give up my twenty minute speech i would like to take just a moment nonetheless at the members to join me in paying a very special tribute to one of the most beloved and respected staffers on capitol hill after three years as my staff director frank cushing is leaving the committee at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities with more than twenty five years of capital here he'll experience frank believes the i had a record of integrity and service that few can match i got to know frank in one thousand nine hundred five when we he served one of those rare staffers who not only loves and respects this institution but he in turn is respected and trusted by members on both sides of the aisle prior to his service in the house frank held numerous positions in the senate including staff director both majority and minority of the committee on energy and natural resources and kirk of the interior appropriations s than one professional on both sides of the aisle has said to me and i would quote them you are fortunate if you have been trained in this business by frank cushing frank we're going to miss you we want you to know that as we express our love for you and for amy and the entire body wishes you well and wishes your family god you and mr speaker we're going to take almost no more time except to recognize a couple of my colleagues for unanimous consent requests i first recognize the gentleman from florida my chairman of the appropriations committee bill young consent request and mr speaker i too was a strong supporter of the amendment thanking my subcommittee chairman mr edwards for his kind remarks about me two days ago and about the staff expressing regret that you know in california thank you let me thank the gentleman for his leadership and three yielding here we go again another payment on a war that should not have been fought and an occupation that keeps our young men and women in harm's way by force and congress to tie the fate of spending for critical domestic programs to iraq funding this president held these programs hostage just a prop of his failed policy this is not only shameful it is unacceptable the american people want our troops and our contractors home a recent c n n poll found that sixty nine percent of respondents favorite withdrawing all of our troops  nearly half believe that our troops should be home in under one year the only fund that we should be giving this president today should be to protect our troops and our contractors and to bring them home in a safe and timely and orderly fashion in other words what we tried to do several weeks ago and that is fully fund the redeployment of our troops and military contractors from iraq and we should be using this opportunity to show her a vital programs such as our poverty elimination efforts vital h i b and aids programs both domestic and international and providing health care for all which we tried to do in the appropriations committee under our chairman obey but which the president unfortunately threatened to veto now congress this body once again is complicit in the president's games and these are war games that he is playing why in the world are we going to put another payment down on this war that should have ended well actually it should have never started the let's vote no on this has and flexibility the president and flexibility of the house this bodies and flexibility two minutes to this day we're shown from california ms waters gentlemen california's wreck and i for two minutes thank you very much mr speakin members i'd like to commend those who have worked so hard for so long to try and right the wrongs of our occupation in iraq i'd like to thank the leadership for all the attempts to have made to try and engage people on the opposite side of the aisle and those who don't have enough courage to do the right thing we find ourselves here at a moment with an omnibus bill that with had to support and many people have many things in the bill that they would like to have back home i understand that but in the final analysis we're never going to end this war until we stop feeding this war with the taxpayers dollars after they have told us to bring our soldiers home i stand here today and support of our soldiers i support them coming home young men and women are dying in iraq the victims of i e d disease not even knowing how to protect themselves and they come home and we have to struggle to make sure that they are taken care of that their health care needs are met when are we going to come to our senses we're fighting a war that we never should have been in the first place we're fighting a war where we took we're told there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none we're fighting a war where we have contractors who are abusing civilians in iraq we have contractors who are stealing the taxpayers money in iraq and yet we continue to nuance of this debacle we continue to say i didn't understand i didn't know well let me make it perfectly clear that seventy billion dollars in this bill for iraq and afghanistan and it's  very distinguished chairman of the appropriations committee and a very distinguished chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee because over the last two years six times this body has passed responsible limits on the conduct of this war six times we've tried to make sense and pass legislation and what we are about to do now is to give the president a blank check to continue this war to the end of his term to continue what has gone down to history as the worst foreign policy fiasco and american history don't body in their right mind can argue that this war was thoughtfully planned or responsibly executed and yet we are going to give him a blank check we will look back on this day and people ask why well i want to thank mr albie i want to thank mr murtha the out of iraq caucus and say and the majority of my colleagues we did the right thing history will record that but this is a very sad day for us when you think that four thousand young men and women have given up their lives tens of thousands seriously wounded for what for a nation that will wind up far more loyal to iran that it will be to the united states to a nation that in fact is allowing young people to roam the streets with guns and forcing good school girls going to school having to wear their veils a repressive society what will become ashamed i think ocracy sure there's less violence but that's billions of dollars more berens of dollars to fund the war in iraq the best present the best we could give to our young men and women in a military during this season of peace and goodwill would be to brain just madness to an end and bring our young people home and bring them home now wallace that you can see from the beginning it is a wa before and i will say it again in good conscience i would not vote for one dollar a one time to continue to war the american people sick and tired of this war and i'm remaining speakers i have no additional speakers i just have some very short concluding remarks so if he wants sealed back i'll make those we can proceed to vote and the gentleman has been very coopting with the schedules of all the members who want to visit their families christmas  before us right now people often say there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two political parties my response at least on this occasion is you're absolutely right at least with respect to this legislation there is a forty billion dollars difference between the two parties because when you take into account what this congress did in january when it passed the  are the the continuing resolution in january and if you take into account