As speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore now the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain the reverend orrin warder, from st. Pauls Episcopal Church from alexandria, virginia. The chaplain let us pray, god of the universe you have created us and given us life. Blessed are you god of this earth. You have set our world like a radiant jewel in the 111th and filled it with beauty and hope. Blessed are you god of these United States of america for all the lessons of our past, for all that remains for us to do. Blessed are you god of truth and justice, guide the men and women of this house of representatives. Grant them insight, courage, compassion, and imagination. Protect them from corruption and arrogance. And grant that we whom they seek to serve may give them the support that they need. Increase our trust in one another, strengthen our quest for justice, and bring us to unity and a common purpose. B
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. Paul taylor from st. Vincent arch abbey, letreau, pennsylvania. The chaplain let us pray. E stand before you, o holy god, conscious of our sinfulness but aware that we gather in your name. Come to us, remain with us, and enlighten our hearts. Give us light and strength to know your will, to make it our own, and to live it in our lives. Guide us by your wisdom, support us by your power, for you are god, our god, the holy god. You desire justice for all. Enable taos uphold the rights of others. O not allow us to be misled by ignorance or corrupted by fear or favor. Unite us to yourself in the bond of love and keep us faithful to all that is true as we gather in your name, may we temper justice with love, so that all our discussions and reflections may be pleasing to you and earn the reward promised to good and faithful servants. We ask this of you who live and reign forever
House, there was a meeting of the rules committee that night, democrats were in charge, i presented myself to that meeting with 18 amendments to senate bill h. R. 3590. House bill 3590 that had been passed by the senate. Every one of those was summarily rejected. The problem the democrats had that day was should we change a single word in h. R. 3590 as passed by the senate that the bill would have to go back to the senate and concur with the house amendment to 3590 . The majority leader in the senate having lost his 60th vote in a special election in massachusetts that year, felt he could not pass anything. He could not achieve cloture with only 59 democrats to vote in favor of that motion for cloture. Thats the reason why not one word was changed between Christmas Eve 2009 and the time this bill was actually passed. But if h. R. 3590, after it came back from the senate, came to the rules committee, did it come to the house under an open rule . No, it did no. It was a closed rule. We w
Get a deputy confirmed, hopefully soon, to take to heart what Jane Holl Lute used to be. Im sure Janet Napolitano who was secretary did as well. Without with that having been said let me ask you what you believe to be some of the Major Management challenges in the department. And what do you see your role as the secretary in adjusting addressing those management challenges . Ive read that gao report. I saw the 31 issues that gao identified. I was pleased to see that, according to gao, dhs is moving in the right direction with respect to these issues and resolving a number of them. In terms of management issues, vacancies, ensuring an efficient procurement process, getting an unqualified audited Financial Statement and dealing with some of the internal controls issues that lead to an unqualified opinion, i also think that with six different Accounting Systems we need to be sure we have what the financial people call this is intelligence so you can identify things like im obligated funds
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 226 and the nays are 189. The previous question is ordered. The question now is on the adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, on that i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is asked. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 238. The nays are 181. The resolution is ad