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Date: 2011-05-23
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Speaker. as we begin this week and look to the memorializing of our fallen soldiers. it is appropriate to always thank them and to be reminded of the historic actions that brought down Osama bin Laden. but the country where this incident occurred is a country that deserves peace for its people. Pakistan has had another incident of the Taliban going on one of the bases and killing soldiers. Our sympathy to the loss of the innocent. but we call upon the Pakistani military and the civilian government to begin to address the terror of the Taliban and to work to help the Pakistani people. As the KerryLugar money is being assessed as to how it is to be distributed for social needs. there must be an addressing of this violence. and so I call upon our friends in Pakistan to recognize that we in the United States are friends. but we must work together to eliminate al Qaeda and the terror that is terrorizing the people of Pakistan. Once and for all. there must be a unified effort to establish peace and tranquility and democracy in Pakistan for the people of Pakistan.
Date: 2011-05-23
Speaker: EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Speaker. I rise today to discuss Democratic initiatives for creating jobs and rebuilding the economy. While Republicans were busy voting to end Medicare in order to give more tax breaks to big oil. they forgot one important taskjob creation. With the fragile economy just beginning to recover. Americans cannot afford the Republicans reckless "So Be It" attitude toward job creation. Their failure to propose a single jobs bill after more than four months in the majority is alarming and is indicative of a general lack of concern for the needs of our constituents. Under the Obama administration. almost 2 million jobs have been created over the last 15 months. The 244.000 total jobs added last month is the largest in nearly a year. with broadbased gains in retail trade. manufacturing. health care. leisure and hospitality. and professional and business services. While this is an impressive feat. we need to dig deeper in order to replace the 8 million jobs that we lost during the Bush Administration. The African American community continues to bear the brunt of the unemployment crisis. close to 16 percent of African Americans are out of work and still looking for jobs. In some cities. African American unemployment rates have hit Depression levels. This is unacceptable. The American people have spoken and Democrats are listening. job creation is the key to economic recovery and growth. Democrats "Make It in America" agenda is a powerful initiative based on the conviction that when more products are made in America. more families will be able to make it in America. This comprehensive domestic manufacturing strategy is about investing in innovation and clean energy. helping our small businesses and workers compete. rebuilding America. and keeping jobs here at home. For example. the Make It in America Block Grant Act establishes a grant program at the Commerce Department to provide small to mediumsized businesses. in communities hardest hit by unemployment. with the resources and strategies they need to transition to the manufacturing of clean energy. high technology. and advanced products. Equally promising is the Job Opportunities Between Our Shores Act. which establishes a Workforce Investment Act pilot program to provide education and training programs in advanced manufacturing. These bills. along with other Democratic initiatives. prove that Democrats are listening to the American people as they continue to ask. "Where are the jobs?"
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield 2 minutes to my colleague from the Energy and Commerce Committee. the gentlewoman from California .
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I gladly yield 3 minutes to our ranking member of the full Energy and Commerce Committee. the gentleman from California .
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield 2 minutes to a classmate and also the vice chair of our Democratic Caucus. the gentleman from California .
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself 15 seconds. I will be glad to cosponsor the bill to make it mandatory funding for childrens hospitals. I think if health care is a priority. we ought to do that. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

I yield myself such time as I may consume. When Congress dealt with The Affordable Care Act last year and the year before. our subcommittee on Energy and Commerce spent exhaustive hearings. latenight hearings. we had markups overnight. and so we knew what we were doing. We knew we were going to make a priority in providing primary care for our country. Thats why its mandatory spending. I would assume in 2003. when we passed the provision for the prescription drug act for Medicare. my Republican colleagues did the same thing at the time in the majority: they wanted to make sure that that was mandatory spending. And here we are today trying to take away mandatory spending from primary care physicians in communitybased settings. I have a great example of this in our own district. and I know the chairman knows this. We have a communitybased health center in Denver Harbor in east Harris County. They have had a partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine for a number of years. and what they have been able to do is provide those residencies to come out to a nonwealthy area of town so those doctors can learn that they can make a living serving folks that are not wealthy. Thats what this is all about. We found out that the statistics showed that if they do their residency through a communitybased health center. they will actually be more likely to come back and serve those communities. And thats why there needs to be mandatory spending. Mr. Chairman. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself as much time as I may consume. My colleague from California must have this bill confused with medical malpractice. In fact. the State of California and the State of Texas already have medical malpractice reform. Thats not what this bill is about. This bill is about training primary care physicians to be able to serve everyone. I want them to serve the military. I want them to serve our veterans. In fact. again. I have a VA hospital in Houston that has a cooperative arrangement with the Baylor College of Medicine for a residency program. Thats great. I want them also to be able to do that in their clinics. But I also want it for communitybased health centers. And our statistics show us that if we have that example and its mandatory spending that they make these agreements. that those folks will come back. They may go back to a military clinic. they may come back to a communitybased health center. or they may come back and open up their practice in an area thats not the wealthiest part of town. Thats why this mandatory legislation is so important. If you put a priority on making sure our constituents can go see a doctor. I cant imagine repealing thisvoting for this bill. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Again. this is not a medical malpractice bill. but I would be glad to offer you to be a cosponsor. We passed the bill out of this House twice and sent it to the Senate which would allow volunteers to go into communitybased health centers and be covered under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Congressman MURPHY from Pennsylvania is a lead sponsor of this Congress. Ive been the lead sponsor when Democrats have been in control because we need to do that. If I could do it under this bill. I would do it. But this came out of your conference that you want to repeal mandatory spending to try and train primary care doctors to serve in primary care clinics or whatever.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. my colleague from California again is confused. We have H.R. 5 that the majority has to federalize medical malpractice insurance in our country. Some States have taken care of it. The State of Texas has done it by constitutional amendment. And that debate may come up if the majority brings up their H.R. 5. With that. Mr. Chairman. I yield 2 minutes to my colleague from New York. Congressman TONKO.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I have no problem with including childrens hospitals . and I think we could probably pass it on the suspension calendar if we had legislation that would expand that mandatory funding for teaching hospitals. and particularly childrens hospitals. but that is not what this legislation does today. It takes away that help we are providing to train more primary care physicians in our country. That is what this bill does: It takes away the mandatory funding. Now there have been examples all through history of mandatory funding. We realized during the Affordable Care Act that we need more primary care physicians. We need a lot more health care providers. We need more nurses. We need everything. In fact. it is a great job growth area. But we know we need primary health care providers because we know when somebody needs a doctor. they will see that primary care doctor. They may need a specialist. but they still need to go to that primary care doctor. That is why this mandatory funding is so important. and that is why this bill is the wrong way to deal with it. That is why it shouldnt be considered today. I would hope everybody would realize that if you support health care and primary care physicians. you would want that mandatory training so we can get those physicians out in the community where they are really needed. Numbers show that if we have a program like this where primary care physicians will go into a community based health care center. they will go into that area as part of their residency program. they are more likely to come back to that community. That is why that was part of the Health Care Act. We have people who their primary care physicians now are the emergency rooms in hospitals in my district. I would much rather they be able to go see a doctor down the street for their sinus infection than showing up at midnight in an emergency room where we are going to end up having to pay for it. even at a public hospital. where the local taxpayers are paying for it. That is why this mandatory spending is so important. And that is why I think it is so the wrong way to go in health care. to take away mandatory spending for primary care physicians. That is something that is so important in our country. it should be mandatory. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me correct some of the statements that have been made. We have had mandatory hospital training residency programs since 1965. By taking away direct or mandatory spending for communitybased residency programs. it is a direct attack on communitybased programs. Let me list for you the teaching hospital programs that are under mandatory that was part of the Affordable Care Act. I joked on the floor one night to my colleague from Georgia. I wish they would name it the Green Act. GreenCare instead of ObamaCare. because I am so proud of that law. The teaching hospital program supports the training of individuals who practice in family medicine. internal medicine. pediatrics. internal medicine pediatrics. obstetrics. gynecology. psychiatry. general dentistry. pediatric dentistry. or geriatrics. These are disciplines where we are experiencing significant physician shortages. That is why we need the mandatory spending. It does cover children. [- 1530 Now. we have had mandatory spending for hospital training. again. since 1965. All this bill would do would be to take it away from communitybased health centers where we know there is a shortage. The statistics show. if you have doctors who do their residencies or residency programs through communitybased centers. they are more likely to go back there and practice. whether they be pediatricians. whether they be in family practice. whether they be in internal medicine. Thats where we need the growth and to have primary care physicians. This is a direct attack on health care in our own country. Why wouldnt we want it mandatory for communitybased facilities if its already mandatory for hospitaltrained physicians? We need physicians in the community. not just in the hospitals. Mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman and Members. I know there has been talk only about obligated money. I would like to introduce into the RECORD a press release issued on January 25 of this year from Health and Human Services announcing the new Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program. And of those programs. it lists the ones. and that money is obligated. but there will be no future funding for them. So you get a few months of funding. but you dont get any more funding. These centerssix of them are in Republican districts. five in Democratic districtswill get a very short 3 months worth of funding if this bill becomes law. And it doesnt do any good. The graduate medical education pays for the training of that physician. These community centers will only receive a short term funding. So it may only be talking about that obligated money. but they wont get any more after this year if this bill becomes law. Thats why it is so important that this bill be defeated or that we adopt an amendment similar to our colleague from California.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Madam Chair. I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR . The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: GENE GREEN (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

First of all. I have utmost respect for Congresswoman Foxx of North Carolina. But her amendment is a solution in search of a problem. Graduate medical education does not do abortions. The teaching hospital center program funds training for primary care residents. There is no payment for services in the law. Its about salaries. benefits. and paying faculty. Teaching health centers will pay for abortions no more than Medicare Graduate Medical Education has paid for abortions for the last 45 years. The President signed the executive order to make all the provisions subject to the Hyde amendment. all the provisions of the Affordable Care Act subject to the Hyde amendment. The executive order establishes a set of policies for all provisions of the Affordable Care Act to "ensure Federal funds are not used for abortion services" consistent with the Hyde amendment. The Presidential order reinforces what we all agree on. No one is here claiming that we should use Federal funds for abortion. except in very limited circumstances. whether they are under this program or elsewhere. There is another layer of protection codified in permanent law under section 245 of the Public Health Service Act. The Coats amendment clearly prohibits the Federal Government from discriminating against any physician. postgraduate physician training program. or participant in a program of training in the health care professions because the entity refuses to participate in abortion training. Thats not an appropriations vehicle. its not an executive order. Its the law of the land. Thats why I say this amendment is a solution in search of a problem. There is not a problem with Graduate Medical Education. whether they be teaching hospitals. whether they be communitybased centers that this bill is subject to. I yield back the balance of my time.
Date: 2011-05-24
Speaker: LORETTA SANCHEZ (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Cali

fornia. I would like to thank my ranking member and Chairman MCKEON for really a great bipartisan bill. I am feeling pretty good about this one. Actually. in my subcommittee with Chairman TURNER and all our subcommittee members. we were really able to come together and make a very good contribution. I thank Mr. TURNER for his leadership. It is pretty exciting to have a subcommittee like this in the new session of the Congress. Overall. we agree on so many of the provisions. encouraging fiscal responsibility and protecting national security. We have come together on a lot of issues on this subcommittee. including: improving satellite acquisition. encouraging efficiencies. ensuring efficient development. testing. production and sustainment schedules for missile defense and for our nuclear enterprise. for conducting oversight of very largescale construction sites that we have. building on good progress related to improving efficiencies at nuclear sites. and. of course. implementation of the New START nuclear reductions. I also want to highlight the work that our subcommittee did with respect to nonproliferation programs and working on this. This is so incredibly important to our security. It is not just about how many weapons people have. but really about what old weapons. what weapons need to be turned in. where weapons are. and how we safeguard weapons around the world. So we really came together on that. One of the areas where we disagree. and you will see some amendments along the way. is this whole area of our groundbased missile defense. Quite frankly. the Pentagons and the Presidents budget we feel was enough money to continue our work of research and development and testing in that arena. Unfortunately. the Republican side of the committee wants to put more unnecessary funding into that. And of course I oppose the provisions which restrict the Presidents authority over nuclear weapons. including implementing reductions in the number of nuclear weapons and restricting U.S. nuclear employment strategy. which I personally believe undermine our efforts to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons. The statement of administration policy has noted a potential veto threat because of those provisions that we could not agree upon. But again. I would like to reiterate my thank you to Chairman TURNER and to all of the members of our subcommittee. I look forward to this debate.
Date: 2011-05-25
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 417. after line 7. insert the following:
Date: 2011-05-25
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I hope my good friend from Pennsylvania listens to both the distinguished ranking member and myself. This is not an amendment that opposes outsourcing. In fact. it is an amendment that affirms that outsourcing occurs. and to ask that that playing field be even more even by attention being given to our small. minority- and womenowned businesses. It has been documented that small businesses have lost an estimated $13.8 billion in business opportunity because they cannot fairly compete for Federal contracts because larger companies are allowed to bundle the contracts. the practice of accepting megacontracts for large jobs that only they have the resources to handleunder the condition that they receive smaller contracts that could have been given out to small businesses. I want our small businesses and minorityowned businesses and womenowned businesses to be in the mix. have an outreach program. Theres nothing wrong with added leverage of outreach for all our small businesses. And let me say something else. Mr. Chairman. It is also to say that if a small business has a contract and its hauled back in. its pulled back in. let us assess how that is impacting the loss of jobs. Forty jobs. a constituent that came to our attention. Hallmark. lost by bringing in the business. So by no means is this an opportunity to block outsourcing. and I call it contracting out. It is the business of supporting our small businesses. Mr. Chairman. I ask my colleagues to support this very evenhanded. very vigorous amendment to support the hardworking Americanssmall. womenowned. and minorityowned businesses. I ask my colleagues to support the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas
Date: 2011-05-25
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Chairman. I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII. further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas will be postponed.
Date: 2011-05-25
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H

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Date: 2011-05-26
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

Mr. Speaker. I rise today to remind Americans that on Monday we will commemorate those men and women that have fallen in battle. This morning we are laying a wreath in the Arlington Cemetery in reflection and remembrance of women who have fallen on behalf of their country. We want to say to all those families. those mothers. fathers. and extended family members. we offer our deepest gratitude and sympathy. and as well to the Blue Star and Gold Star mothers who remain active in serving this country. As a member of the Military Families Caucus. Im delighted to be able to say that we will stand for our families. And our promise is to those who still live and still fight that we will fight for more resources for you. and we will fight for more opportunities that you will have when you return home: a good paying job. educational opportunities. and the ability to heal and mend and to provide for your families. We mourn those who have been lost. We pay tribute to them. But we say that the Nation will never stop being grateful for those who have fallen in battle and who. in fact. have sacrificed their life for us for freedom. democracy. and justice. We pay tribute on this Memorial Day.
Date: 2011-05-26
Speaker: JACKSON LEE (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: Texas

I thank the chairman very much for his kind words. Mr. Chairman. I am delighted to yield 1 minute to the ranking member. the gentleman from Washington .