[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, 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 each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Its difficult to focus on the task at hand in the aftermath of a shooting rampage in my district yesterday. With at least 10,000 people in a shopping mall, a young man allegedly and some eyewitnesses with body armor and semiautomatic weapon discharged 60 shots
New technology in better ways, even with the current regular tory environment. Some would say that the fact that you invest in these billions of dollars approves thats of dollars proves you dont mind or regulation. The way the markets are set up today, we will have by the end of this year three quarters of americans using either wireless only or voice providers as opposed to the circuits which provider. 214 millione have switch phone customers at at t, which is a small fraction of the numbers that any other provider has out there in these competitive markets. That would be the first point i would make. The second point is the investment that has occurred over the last few years in wireless and ip technology, of course, i think is related to the fact that these are the least regulated areas in technology. It is not accurate that the 96 is accuracy neutral. Extraoses a lot of requirements on them and that is one of the reasons why google has offered has decided not to offer wireless. Doe
After april 15. We didnt do any of them. We only considered one of the 12 bills on the floor, and that one was shut down because the First Amendment the majority leader didnt like. So he pulled it off of the floor, he never brought it up again, nor did he bring up any other spending bills. Is it any wonder that in january, 2009, the total federal debt stood at 10. 6 trillion and now its over 17 trillion . We dont budget, we dont appropriate. We just deal make. Its never risen so high so fast in our countrys history. Just like keeping legislation to one topic per bill, we should look at each spending bill individually. The committee should be able to look closely at each branch, each agency. Thats how it used to work before the power shift, but we can make some changes now to encourage more spending scrutiny. We could switch to a biennial appropriations process. That means once every two years for each agency. I have introduced s. 625, the biennial appropriations act, and i am also cosp
There still some lingering distrust left over from the housing crisis that hasnt been fully dealt with yet so i think that is what everybody is concerned about along with the somewhat anemic Economic Growth that people are concerned that this housing recovery is not for real or its not as good as it appears to be. So we look at home prices had a very big jump in many areas in and home prices in 2013 but we are starting to see those numbers come down in many markets across the country. Foreclosures which we track are down to nearly prerecession levels. Actually we came out with the april numbers yesterday. There were 115,000 properties with foreclosure filings in the month of april. Thats down from a peak of over 367,000 in march of 2010 and we are almost back before the recession we were seeing about 85,000 foreclosure filings a month so we are getting closer to that level. That negative piece is largely gone from the market. Housing prices are going up but there is what i call a hole
Daunting, but i dont think that they are insurmountable, nor is washington this function an excuse excuse for inaction. From a believe our state and cities, to pollen areas and a pilot to the private public civic institutions that lead them to have the talent and as we have seen dramatic creativity to move this country for in this area and in others. We absolutely believe now is the time deduces of the weakest are building for the next 100 years. Thank you for coming. Appreciated. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] on cs q a. Is a Dina Elboghdady the Washington Post who covers the housing industry. What is going on on capitol hill when it comes to the housing industry not just capital but washington as well . Guest there has been a lot going on the past couple of weeks. Basically there has been a big bill moving through the senate, it got through the Senate Banking committee overhaul fannie mae and freddie mac. Yesterday the Senate Banking committee had a vo