We now take you to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , september 21 hshgs 2022. 2022. I hooeb i hereby appoint the honorable appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the house of january 10, 2022, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from the virgin islands, ms. Plaskett, for five minutes. Ms. Plaskett thank you,
Looking at congressional leverage to pass a farm bill before the holiday recess. Lets begin where yang yang has more on the budget agreement. Good evening good evening, mark. Paul ryan and saadi murray unveiled their budget deal. Today was the day to sell to rank and file as they get ready to bring the bipartisan bill to the floor for a vote tomorrow. It sets federal spending at 1 trillion per year above the current level of 960 7 billion and replaces 63 billion in sequester cuts, reduces the does not address the bigticket items of taxes or entitlement. How did they replace the sequester . And mix of user fees and other revenues and savings and chris including an increase in Airport Security fees, a small deal that neither side is perfectly happy with them it does not have overwhelming support but it has outside conservative groups the most outspoken in their opposition asking republicans to vote no. Today, House Speaker john boehner came to the defense of the deal slamming its critics
Every single american in a very positive way. Some of the keys id lieblg to em fa sies in this bim,en hansed Crop Insurance. Ive heard from across my state that farmers and rampblers wanten hanszed com snurnsz. Thats absolute lip a priority. We need to continue the sugar program, the Livestock Indemnity Program for our producers. We need conservation rules that make sense in the house vergsz, you do tie i think that is the right approach, and, obviously, under the Current Program if enroll in the program, you are also tied to the compliance requirements. We need strong support for ag research. For all of you that live and work in farm country, look what ag research has done for genetics and production. Its unbelievable talking about productivity. We have to support the programs. The senator was nice enough to mention the work done on a bipartisan basis. Shes been an absolute leader in the conservation programs, particularly rural Water Management. The Regional Conservation Partnership
Production. And so there have been there are some things in the farm bill that would restrict Crop Insurance a little bit. Thats thats in the senate in the senate bill. But then there are other pressures to increase Crop Insurance for crops that dont have it. Its much harder to do Crop Insurance for the specialty crops, the fruits and vegetables, the nuts, et cetera, because theyre grown on smaller acreages and so its hard to develop the program in which you figure out what the what the rules would be. With the wheat and the corn, et cetera, you spread it over, you know, over large areas so the Program Works fairly well for those but not for some of the products yet. Host judy is up next who lives in a rural area. Good morning. Caller good morning. My problem is, okay, ive been a cashier for many years and i see a lot of Illegal Immigrants coming in that cannot speak english and theyve got a thousand dollars or more in food stamps. And i want to know why its so easy for these people to
Hill reporter to look at the week ahead on capitol hill. A look at the week ahead in congress. He is a conner responded for he is al journal correspondent for national journal. Reaction . E the reaction has been kind of quiet. The members are only trickling in here for the week. They will have a special election and a special time for those who want to run. Two or three people are expected to run. Including connie mack. This is unexpended, but in terms of right before the state, good to get the bad news out. Tomorrow, the state of the Union Address. You recently wrote about a memo that Republican Leaders in the house sent to members about the hetero federal health care law. What are its implications ahead of the speech . It was an interesting memo sent out today by Kevin Mccarthy of california. Clearly intended to remind and underscore that House Republicans have in the last session and the first part of this session focused on dismantling or undoing parts or all of the Affordable Care