to sign any and all papers and do all other act for the under the name of the clerk of the house which they will be authorized to do by virtue of this designation except such as are provided by statue in case my twelve as adopted body count three adopt such senate concurrent resolution as amended or insist on a senate and by request a conference with the senate there on resolution as con resonate with an amendment consisting of the house passed budget resolution age congress three twelve it also provides that the house requests a conference with the senate this role simply allows the house to move quickly and officially to a conference on the budget resolution let me be clear the minority still has the right to offer a motion to instruct of arrays and they still have the ability to defeat this rule denying the opportunity to begin a conference on the budget resolution it's a simple and straightforward rule that allows the house to do what the american people such as here to do legislate the american people don't want the partisan infighting that is being perpetrated by the minority in this chamber time after time the american people have spoken and their voices are being heard loud and clear they want and totally unnecessary the house doesn't need to pass this rule to go to conference with the senate democrats already have all the power they need to go to conference on the budget the budget committee chairman already has ability to make a motion to go to conference and a rule that this house passed two months ago also provides that authority we've already done this with the rule h where is ten thirty six which my very very very good friend mr mcgovern managed only a couple of months ago there is no reason for the house to be considering this rule except perhaps one mr speaker and that's so that the democrat majority can deny republicans their rights as a minority party democrats are going to get their way at the end of the day majorities always do that but in putting this rule on the floor democrats are saying that they needn't even bother with respecting minority rights this rule exists solely as an abuse of power mr speaker when democrats win control of the congress in two thousand and six they promised the american people that they would run the most often open and honest house in history they would seek generous continue thank you mrs speaker and so as i said because they promise that they'd work in a by pirates parters a manner instead of keeping that promise a democrat majority has stooped to dance and gone to extremes that no previous majority in the house has ever dared when it comes time to shutting down debate silence the night is restricting minority rights ignoring rules they themselves wrote and running the house in the top down shut up sit down manner this democrat majority has no fear the democrat plan a promise to run the most open honest house in history has been revealed as a hollow charade have passed more close rules that block all men in some debates than any house in history they will new rules to prevent votes from being held open to change the votes outcome and that violated that rule time after time they passed new rules to ensure house and senate conference committees are more open and public but instead they turn around or retreat even further behind closed doors they almost totally abandoned even the holding conference committee mr speaker why is this rule suddenly is on the house floor today why is that why the sudden interest of democrats in the house to go to conference with the senate on a budget the house passed their version of the budget on march thirteenth the senate passed their version on march fourteenth today is maybe fourteen why didn't we go to conference two months ago never mind of course that the law sets april fifteenth as a deadline for congress to pass a final budget resolution the facts are that this house could and should have gone to const since two months ago the democrats have instead hid behind closed doors to negotiate bargain and cut deals to write a final budget by reading media reports mr speaker it appears a democrat majority in the house and senate have reached a final agreement on the final budget for  year two thousand and nine that agreement will apparently increase spending by billions of dollars include the largest tax increase in history so now they apparently are going to go to a  conference after all the true tax and spend work has been done in secret with a speaker they aren't doing this to be more open and honest they are doing this to force through their plan to massively increase taxes and increase government spending and mr speaker the news media also reports that the democrat majority has abandoned another of their promises it made to the american people when they wrote the new law for the house that is known as this is a rule that was sought by the by the blue drug democrats this rule places a blanket requirement that any bill any bill that lowers taxes or increases spending must be correspondingly offset under the six secret budget agreement it appears at the democrat plague paygo rule was jettisoned blue dog democrats have given up on their rule in their pay go principle they traded on an  enforceable house rule for a meaningless promise from a senator it's meaningless because every now everyone knows that this one senator will in all likelihood be overridden by his senate colleagues this is speaker one can respect my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for standing on principle but this is a principle that's been abandoned this rule is unnecessary the democrats already have all the power they need to go to conference so the only reason we are here is because majority is trying to restrict the rights of minority to be heard for the republicans to have a fair opportunity to offer alternative proposals to legislation americans care about most taxing and spending we are being blocked shut down and unfairly restricted in our rights and as a result our constituents our constituents will potentially be subjected to higher taxes and more government spending i really don't think americans want that when it comes to democrats plans for billions of dollars in new government spending republicans have the right to protest to demand votes in the house to have the voices of members representing almost half of this country to be heard we especially have the right to protest protest a democrat majority writing of a two hundred billion dollar appropriations bill that just completely skips over any hearing or mark up in the appropriations committee senate passing a bill to fund our troops who are fighting to protect america democrats are short circuiting the legislative process shutting out republicans enlarging the bill up with billions and billions of dollars of unrelated spending right now and this is speaker up stairs in a capsule on the third floor the house rules committee is meeting to consider this massive two hundred billion dollars supplemental spending bill the text of this bill was just released an hour before the committee it never went before the appropriations committee republicans have obviously just head minutes to read the bill this is wrong and abuse of power by the democrat majority the american people deserve to have a more open process on how their tax dollars are spent so mr speaker i repeat again that this rule is totally unnecessary barry democrats already have the power to go to conference there just two m two months late in doing so the democrats have broken their promise to the american people to operate the house in an open and honest manner they are conspiring in secret to write a budget that increases taxes by the largest in the history and time and i'm glad we're talking about the budget but i tell you the budget i want to talk about right now is the budget of the american family and small business is middle class across america and i was just in a lizabeth in tennessee over the weekend back within the barbershop and i can tell you the issue that on people's minds right now is not more taxes and more spending it's a need for a true energy policy in america an energy policy that actually uses american energy we need a policy  that will stop taxing and spending we need an energy policy that will which my car dependence on foreign oil and right now we're buying in our energy from people that hate us hate our freedoms and conference they had our religion we need to go back to the drawing board and have an energy plan that uses american energy i'm talking about clean coal technology i'm talking about drilling off the outer continental shelf i'm talking about drill talking about when technology i'm talking about building safe nuclear plants those are the things that will bring down the cost at the pumps we have moms and dads right now that are worried about how they're going to get their children to school in the mornings they're worried about how they're going to put food on their kitchen table that's the budget the american people are concerned about the american people are looking for solutions they're not looking for big government inside the beltway in washington the american people are looking for solutions to make sure that we keep government as small as possible and they're looking to make sure that we pass and the energy policy that actually uses american energy it's time for no more excuses it's time for us to pass an energy bill that will give some relief to the american family it's basic economics i talk to schools all across my district when i go home and it's basic economics you can talk to any high school student they will understand supply and demand if you have a lot of a supply and a little bit of manned cost will go down and converse lee if you have a lot of demand for a limited supply cost will go up right now we have  supplier for a lot of energy a lot of oil and right now we're dependent on the middle east on business while own russia other countries and we're actually over begging the middle east to increase their energy production and we have policies here in washington that want to allow us to use our own american natural resources and energy the american people want solutions they want solutions  of course which we already did on h r ten thirty six which my good friend managed on the floor here just a couple of months ago still with speaker let me talk about an issue that's been talked a great deal about here on the house floor by colleagues on both sides of the aisle and i certainly hear about it when i go home this is speaker cincy democrats to call control of congress in january of two thousand and seven the cost of gasoline has risen to record setting prices in fact the cost of gasoline has gone up more in sixteen months than is gone up in the prior six years according to a report from just two days ago by the  state of washington the price of a gallon of gasoline is at a record three dollars and eighty cents that's twenty six cents higher than just last month the average price of a gallon of diesel is four dollars and fifty three cents which is a dollar and forty six cents higher than a year ago speaker pelosi made a promise that the democrats had a quote commonsense plan to quote lower the price at the pump but this congress has done nothing that and has only seen fuel prices rise this speaker i really believe it's time for the house act it's time for the house to debate ideas for lowering prices and it's time for the democrats to reveal their promise plan defeating the previous question this house can finally consider solutions to rising energy costs when the previous question is defeated i will move to add a section to the rule not rewrite the entire rule just to add a section to the rule that would allow the house to consider h r fifty nine eighty four the clean energy tax stimulus act of two thousand and eight in urdu spy represented barletta maryland as well as quote any amendment which the proponents asserts if an acted would have the effect of lowering the national average price of gasoline of regular unleaded gasoline diesel fuel by increasing the domestic supply of oil by permitting the extraction of oil in the outer continental shelf unquote is speaking of the united states is the only developed nation a world that forbids safe energy production on its outer continental shelf this puts our country and economy at a disadvantage to other countries according to the u s minerals management service america's deep seas on the outer continental shelf contain hundred twenty trillion cubic feet of natural gas in eighty six billion barrels of oil let me repeat that mr speaker the outer continental shelf contains four hundred trillion four hundred  twenty trillion cubic feet of natural gas and eighty six bear billion barrels of oil that's eighty six billion barrels of american oil that sits waiting while we import little over four and a half  billion barrels from foreign countries each year so mr speaker if we are serious about addressing gas prices energy costs in america we need to get serious about accessing our country's energy resources some will declare that it's unsafe to produce energy from reserves beneath the ocean in the outer continental shelf but other countries do it safely all around the world as a matter of fact our country utilizes deep sea production in the gulf of mexico and it's a speaker this technology was severely tested severely tested and proven safe when two back to back category five storms hit the gulf of mexico in two thousand and five almost three thousand offshore platforms were in the direct path of hurricanes katrina and rita some experience five to six hours of sustained win one hundred seventy miles per hour and gusts over two hundred miles per hour now to be sure production was halted and platform workers were evacuated during these terrible hurricanes and so there was no life no loss of life that mrs speaker do you know how many of these rigs ruptured the answer is zero zero some top still law but no platforms rupture so i think we must make a distinction between concerns that production can be done safely and scare tactics as opposed efforts to make use of america's resources and reduce imports from foreign nations so mr speaker to defeat the previous question so that we can consider this vitally important issue for america's families workers truckers small businesses and for that matter i or entire economy   let's understand one thing the republicans have been in control of this congress for twelve years and the and the republicans who control the white house for nearly eight years when george bush went into office in january twenty second two thousand and one the cost of a gallon of gas was a dollar forty seven as of last week it was three dollars and sixty one cents has gone up since last week and part of that is because of the failed the failed policies of this administration and the republican congress yesterday thanks to the leadership of speaker pelosi we voted on a bill to instruct the president not to continue putting oil industry dziedzic petroleum reserve and guess what president bush said he's go veto it he's going to veto a measure that will bring down prices for that for oil and gas in the short term that's where their priorities are siding with big oil against the consumer so enough is enough highest deficits in our nation's history that is what he has left our children and our grandchildren the greatest amount of national debt in our nation's history future generations our kids and our grandchildren will be forced to pay the price for this unprecedented rise in debt and the republicans fiscally were reckless and irresponsible policies the budget resolution that chairman spread our leader here in the house his fashion and the one that he is going to conference with is a budget with a conscience that's something we hadn't we haven't had when the republicans were control of this congress it is a budget that doesn't cut medicare and doesn't cut medicaid it doesn't cut the community development block grant program it doesn't cut it is a budget that understands that average people have suffered under the twelve years the republicans control this congress and under the eight years the george bush has been in office is a budget that protects priorities like s chip infrastructure needs homeland security innovation energy education health care veterans of the environment it protects middle middle class tax relief including the alternative minimum tax the child tax credit and the marriage penalties and short what the democrats are trying to do is get a budget passed that chart a new direction for a stronger safer more compassionate america a direction very different from the one that this president and the previous republican congress has brought us down let me finally say mr speaker this will be the first budget resolution conference report to be considered in an election year since bill clinton was in office so for all the talk about you know process the fact of the matter is we have a congress a democratic congress that is actually committed to getting things done including a budget resolution and again when we bring the budget resolution to the floor it will be the first budget resolution conference report to be considered in an election in the election year since bill clinton was in office and that's something that i think we all can be proud of in the american people can be proud of the finished product which will be a budget that will reflect their priorities so mr speaker i would urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the role i yield back the balance of my time my time and i move the previous question on the rest lucia questions